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On May 15th, once Diablo 3 launches, I could try and get it from a local store, or I could reserve a copy of the game in advance; then bring the physical copy home and install it on my computer. I could instead buy it right from blizzard via digital copy, with the risk that I wouldn't be able to get onto the servers due to everyone else trying to download the game at the same time. What is the better choice?
You can pre-download Diablo 3 once you've purchased it online. As @dlanod mentioned, you can generally pre-download Blizzard games.
However, to more directly address the question you have proposed you need to remember/be-aware that Blizzards downloader is a Peer to Peer downloading scheme. They use small feeders to populate different sections of the game to different people and then all of those people are offered up as hosts to everyone else to get those parts.
So the situation is not really a few hundred thousand people all hitting one or two servers for the game, but a few hundred thous and people all getting a small piece pretty quickly from the server like normal web browsing or MMO traffic or whatever, and then sharing that with everyone else as long as they are downloading.
There should not really be any release day concerns with access the server to download the client to your system.
If you purchase it from Blizzard I believe you can pre-download the game client. For example I have the WoW Annual Pass and have already downloaded the game client. You will then only need to download the release patch (assuming there is one). However it is likely that this is only going to be relatively small. Overall I would suggest getting a digital copy unless you really want the artifacts of the hard copy (DVD, etc).
I find that i prefer a hard copy of a Blizzard game. They package their games in a really cool way (fold out panorama cover) and it always comes with some cool little bonus goodies.
Also, technically when you buy the 'hard copy' you also get the digital copy as well, as you can download the client for free as many times as you want. Pros of the hard copy include:
Go for the hard copy guys, it's worth it.
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Pros of digital copy:
When you purchase the game in box, you get the... box. You also get to avoid downloading it.
This can be good or bad depending on whether or not you intend to collect the box or throw it out.
When you buy something online off of Blizzard, that purchase is automatically tied to your account, so you can always play Diablo III. This is even a bit better than buying the game itself, since (and I know this is very unlikely) if the game is lost or stolen before you tie the CD key to your account, it won't work.
So, unless you want the box, you can buy online.
For people who are already very close to their max bandwidth, the box can be a good option!
If you pre download the client you can start as soon as the servers are up. I guess you can order it at a store but most of the stores deliver the game the day the game goes live. Means you have to wait until you receive your box (you might be lucky and you get your copy a day earlier so you are ready when the game launches) - also you could be unlucky and your game comes a day late. If you go pick up the game yourself you again have just to wait until the store's open and you have to travel there and back.
If you buy the disc. You can redeem the activation code and download it digitally on battle.net. There are no drawbacks from a 'hard' copy. Except in some cases the price is higher. Go for the hard copy if you like your retailer. Cause they have a hard time with steam and digitally downloads in general. Support them :-)
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The National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planning body, called on energy companies last week to ensure supplies and maximum output to cope with winter demand. China imports LNG primarily from Qatar, Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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BEIJING -- China National Petroleum Corp. will import an
additional 400 million cubic meters of liquefied natural gas
via the spot market in the first quarter of 2013, to meet
winter heating demand, a company spokesperson said in a
Xinhua news agency report this week.
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Xinhua didn't say how much LNG the company planned to import
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of 2012, it imported 3.25 million metric tons, or 4.5 billion
cubic meters, customs data showed.
The National Development and Reform Commission, China's top
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China imports LNG primarily from Qatar, Australia, Indonesia
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CNPC's gas fields are operating at maximum capacity, the
spokesperson said in the Xinhua report. It has
increased daily output at fields in Changqing, Tarim and
Qinghai by 8 million cubic meters, the person said, without
specifying whether this was for each field or a combined
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planned to import from Turkmenistan in 2012 by 550 million
cubic meters to 23.55 billion cubic meters, the spokesperson
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We have lately seen photos and reports from the U.S.-Mexico border, eyewitness reports from sheriffs and border patrol agents and their union spokesmen and the humanitarian crises that have been caused by an overwhelming and coordinated assault on America.
We have learned in major press reports that the Department of Homeland Security solicited bids in January for the housing and care of 65,000 unaccompanied minor illegal immigrants. This plan has been in the works for some time.
It seems incredible to me, but a major broadcast television station in Boston confirmed in June that the United States Air Force Base at Hanscom Field received five plane loads of illegal immigrants, women and children, who had been collected in federal facilities in our southern border states for the purpose of dumping them here in the commonwealth. An additional planeload was diverted to Logan Airport.
This aiding and abetting of criminal lawbreakers makes us less safe and subverts the rule of law for all of us. It further erodes our trust in government. It costs money; we already spend an estimated $1.8 billion annually on social programs for illegal aliens here in the Bay State.
And it spits in the face of legal immigrants like my beautiful wife of 38 years, Zita Pestana Rosa, from Madeira, Portugal.
Who is speaking out for Americans? Not the Democrats. My opponent, Marc Pacheco, has been silent about this invasion.
So I now challenge Pacheco: Do you support this illegal invasion of our country and our state? If not, why have you been silent? If so, what are you doing to fight it?
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STEUBENVILLE - Sheila Milic wasn't planning on a second career as a shop owner.
A registered nurse, she'd worked for years with her ophthamologist husband, Dr. Milorad Milic, at his Steubenville office. In her spare time she volunteered with the women's advisory board at a local hospital, helping buy items to sell in the hospital gift shop. Not only did she like doing the buying, she discovered she had a definite knack for it. With encouragement from her husband and her father, she did a sort of trial run: She made up a dozen gift baskets in 1988, then invited friends over to gauge their response. To say her efforts were well-received would be an understatement.
"I did 132 baskets in two weeks," she said. "At that point I knew I'd hit on something, so I went to the Atlanta gift market the next year and got some baby stuff, some home and giftware, personal items and gourmet foods. That's what I started with and it kind of snowballed from there. Eventually people started asking if they could buy the items that were in the baskets."
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SPREADING CHEER — Helping spread holiday cheer at Something Special By Sheila in Steubenville are, from left, Linda Sperlazza, Barb Lease and owner Sheila Milic. In business since 1988, Milic's shop features a range of one-of-a-kind gift items. - Linda Harris
Though she didn't know it at the time, it was the start of an entrepreneurial odyssey that would take her from home-based business to a full-fledged storefront, Something Special By Sheila located at 132 Linduff Ave. next to Target Sports.
"I've been really blessed," she said. "It's been so much fun. Everybody should wake up in the morning and be happy to go to work, and to be able to please so many people."
Milic moved into the Linduff location in 2001 and promptly set about filling it with one-of-a-kind gift items from brands like Mariposa, Cypress, Lady Primrose, PJ Harlow, PurseN, Mud Pie, Vitabath, Do Not Disturb and Cloud B, to name just a few. Displays run the gamut from holiday, home decor and everyday items to baby clothes, toys and books, pajamas and lounge wear, designer purses and gourmet foods.
"I think when I started in 1988, people were used to shopping at the Hub and the attention, the individual care, they'd always given their customers," she said. "I've strived so hard to give our customers that same personal touch. We try very hard to meet the needs of everyone we work with as an individual. Everything is customized to the individual, we work with everybody who comes in as though they are the most important person (we've met). We try to pick the brain of the individual buying the gift. We try to find out as much as we can about who they're giving it to so we can customize it."
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Watson brings more than 40 years of golf experience to the program along with a passion for player development.
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"My goal as golf coach is to make sure our student-athletes have an athletic experience that is comparable to the academic experience they have as students at Stetson University. I want them to look back on their days at Stetson with fondness, both athletically and academically.
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Hi, i'm reading the proof of the fact that $C^{\infty}(M,N)$ is dense in the sobolev space $W^{1,m}(M,N)$, where $M,N$ are compact riemannian manifolds of dimension respectively $m,n$. I recall quickly the definition of $W^{1,m}(M,N)$. Embedding $N$ isometrically in a $\mathbb{R}^J$ we define $$W^{1,m}(M,N)= \left\{ f \in W^{1,m}(M,\mathbb{R}^J)\quad \mid \quad f(x)\in N\quad \textrm{for a.e.}\quad x\in M \right\} $$ The proof goes as follows: embed $M$ isometrically in $\mathbb{R}^K$, consider a tubular neighborhood $T_M$ sufficiently small to have a smooth "nearest point" projection $\pi_M:T_M\to M$. Let $f\in W^{1,m}(M,N)$ consider $F=f\circ\pi_M$ and then its mollifications $F_{\epsilon} = F \ast \phi_{\epsilon}$ . We want that values of $ F_{\epsilon}$ stay in a tubular neighborhood of $N$ sufficiently small to have a smooth "nearest point" projection $\pi_N:T_N\to N$. To do this we want to estimate $dist(F_{\epsilon}(x),N)$ and show that it goes to zero as $\epsilon$ goes to zero.
Now comes the part that i don't understand, the author says that follows from poincare inequality that $$\frac{1}{\mu(B(x,\epsilon))}\int_{B(x,\epsilon)}|F(y)-F_{\epsilon}(x)|^m dy\leq \frac{C\epsilon^m}{\mu(B(x,\epsilon))}\int_{B(x,\epsilon)}|\nabla F(y)|^m dy$$ With C a positive constant. But to have an inequality like this don't i need that the mean of $F(y)-F_{\epsilon}(x)$ is zero on $B(x,\epsilon)$?
This is the crucial estimate because then it is enough to consider $\pi_N\circ F_{\epsilon}$ and i get a sequence of smooth maps converging to $f$ in the sobolev norm. Please can anyone help? Or anyone does know another proof or reference to a proof of the density of $C^{\infty}(M,N)$ in $W^{1,m}(M,N)$?
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Alex Jones Admits CIA Family Connections
Alex the Judas Goat Jones has now fully admitted that half his family are retired CIA! It was long suspected that Alex was working for Stratfor, a Texas CIA front company, then MollyGate broke that his editor-in-chief at Infowars indeed worked for the CIA and Stratfor. Now in an interview with Opie and Anthony Alex openly admits that about 50% of his family works for the CIA! Alex himself has said "once you are CIA you are always CIA," so for him to admit on air "whenever I go to a family reunion, half the people in the room are former retired CIA" is literally saying "half my family is CIA." If half of AJ's family works for the CIA and so does his editor-in-chief, what does that say for his credibility and integrity? How can you rail on about CIA atrocities, false-flags, assassinations, secret wars, name them as part of the shadow government that you're against, convince people to donate millions of dollars to your "Infowar Moneybomb" a.k.a. yearly personal salary bonus, and all the while secretly employ CIA staff members and have a family full of them? One of the CIA's main MO's: Controlled Opposition.
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regardless of who the man works for, he is still 80% better than anything out there.
His info has woken up countless amounts of people and has made people see the world in a different view that has broken the hypnosis of the NWO.
yes, he doesn't elaborate on a lot of things and misdirects people. but in the end, the majority of his stuff is fact... you just have to sift through the bullshit.
- April 26, 2013 at 12:56 PM
- Andriulli said...
Let's go through the evidence with no conjecture:
-Employs low level CIA/Stratfor asset
(I believe she was involved in websites, was it development/grafix?)
-claims half of his family is CIA
-ignores Zionists role in globalism
-uses real information to inform the masses
-uses unsupported material and inside sources, not to decieve but to enrich his real reports.
What else?
- April 26, 2013 at 1:45 PM
- Gary Man said...
the sad thing is he has woken up so many people. That's the only bad thing, and so many people look up to him. I never could listen to Alex in the past cause it made me so angry and i don't like walking around all day with this anger in my system. I notice this is a bad habit with people I know that listen to him, they are always enraged and full of vulgar hatred.
When he got on Piers Morgan most people cheered but I am telling you man, that was bait. They put Alex on there because they knew he was going to flip and go berserk and that was going to give the average asleep Americans just the picture they wanted to give them of this "crazy lunatic" and why they should ban guns.
As for gun control, this is just my opinion; if you took a look at the recent death videos from Mexico where a cartel killed a girl and her four friends, it would change the entire argument on it. The media never shows anything going on in Mexico, but if they did show those death tapes the cartels keep releasing, it would shift the tide on the border problems, immigration and the 2nd amendment. Look at Mexico, they have no guns. Only the bad guys and the police have them (and the government is just as bad as the worst cartels) so if you live there, you have to hope luck is in your way just to survive.
Instead of looking at other countries, we get Piers Mogran and Bill Maher telling us we don't need guns, and we get the perfect posterboy in Alex Jones for them to make us all look crazy. Make no mistake, they are using Alex to bait conspiracy theorists and round them up.
- April 26, 2013 at 4:19 PM
- Eric Dubay said...
We get the perfect posterboy in Alex Jones for them to make us all look crazy. Make no mistake, they are using Alex to bait conspiracy theorists and round them up.
Very well said. Disinfo 101: mix 90% truth with 10% lies for a perfect propaganda package. In a way he's done a lot of good disseminating valuable information, but when done from a stance of controlled opposition, mixing facts with lies, and fear-mongering it makes a mockery of what he's supposed to stand for. It's despicable.
"The best way to control the opposition is to lead it" -Vladimir Lenin
- April 26, 2013 at 6:55 PM
- Andriulli said...
I feel like Jones is an agent of the gnostic serpent. His manipulation awakens us to see even beyond his power. He introduces a lot of us to this conspiracy's scale, and then he sharpens our skills so much that we even surpass him. He represents a fixed master, sort of a Malkuth personification.
- April 26, 2013 at 7:20 PM
- Gary Man said...
Right on Eric, there is some truth there, 10% of it, but he goes out of his way to enrage people. it's really scary when you think about it. I fear one day he's going to get his following pissed off and they will actually snap and go berserk.
"The answer to 1984 is 1776!" so a full fledged war is the answer to this? Not exactly. Make no mistake, I want people to wake up, but I don't think violence is the answer. That would make us no better than the evil ones.
- April 26, 2013 at 9:26 PM
- secseanz said...
So Hes CIA and Bill Hicks? Make up your mind. There is no way he is Bill. The voice is totally different.
Alex has an abrasive harsh voice. do you really think they altered his vocal chords? Lets both go to the north pole and see for ourdelf id the earth is hollow. I will pay for the trip.
- April 27, 2013 at 3:57 AM
- Andriulli said...
Lmao. None of the information presented is claimed to be facts. They are merely opinions and potential truths. As truth can only be experientially produced, and is self evident.
- April 27, 2013 at 9:52 AM
- Ian Evans said...
How the New World Order are MEDICALLY KILLING & POISONING US
- April 28, 2013 at 10:43 AM
- Ron Wordwelder said...
"what does that say for his credibility and integrity?" Don't rely on ANYone's credibility and integrity, look at the evidence.
- April 30, 2013 at 3:47 PM
- John Anthony said...
- May 2, 2013 at 5:13 AM
Plus that would give the nwo just enough reason to set up marshal law and start the mass killings for thier population control..
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I am teaching a graduate "classical" course on modular forms. I try to achieve the most elementary level for presenting modular polynomials. Serge Lang's "Elliptic functions" cover the topic quite well, except for some inconsistence (from my point of view) in using left/right cosets for actions of the modular group on the set of matrices of determinant $n$. I overcome this trouble by using one more simple arithmetic lemma which relates left and right cosets. I wonder whether there exist another version of the Kronecker--Weber approach for modular polynomials, or maybe even another elementary proof.
I'm not quite sure what exactly you're asking for, but you might find the third part of David Cox's Primes of the form x^2 + n y^2 useful for an elementary approach to modular polynomials.
I find Silverman's exposition in his "Advanced Topics in the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves" very clear, and concise. Look at the section on the integrality of the j-invariant, in particular Theorem 6.1 of Chapter II, Section 6, pages 140-151. You can find three proofs of the integrality of the j-invariant and, more concretely, you should have a look at the "Analytic proof of Theorem 6.1", starting in page 143, which is the "classical" one I believe you are interested in (it is also a proof using matrices of determinant n, but the exposition is great).


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Popes and Dirty Wars
I'm going to take a break from my Lenten "fast" from blogging to just note that it seems likely to me that picking a man as Pope who held a position of authority in the Church in Buenos Aires during Argentina's dirty war seems likely to dredge up some bad memories, and perhaps even a few inconvenient truths. The Church has a lot of ugly secrets in Latin America. Liberation Theology, whatever its flaws, represented -- as a cultural matter -- an historic break with shameful tradition in which church, army and oligarchy stood together to defend an unjust status quo, by any means necessary. Keeping silent or perhaps even working quietly behind the scenes in a few caseswhile thousands were tortured, raped and killed for the crime of demanding political freedom and economic dignity was -- for those in a position to do more -- often a form of complicity. Even that limited intercession raises questions, since it would not have been possible without ties to the murderous regime. To their credit, some in the Argentine hierarchy refused to stay quiet. Our new Pope was not among them. I think we can probably look forward to a steady stream of articles on this issue in the coming weeks and months.
About the Author
Eduardo Moisés Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the subjects of property and land use law.
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I think it's a relevant concern. Many Jesuit priests died in Latin America at the hands of right-wing dictatorships, including the Jesuits in El Salvador, so to have a Jesuit pope who perhaps sided with the government is disturbing.
Eduardo, I hesitated to click on one of the links but went with it and found this disturbing paragraph that demonstrates your concerns:"What one did not hear from any senior member of the Argentinian hierarchy was any expression of regret for the church's collaboration and in these crimes. The extent of the church's complicity in the dark deeds was excellently set out by Horacio Verbitsky, one of Argentina's most notable journalists, in his book El Silencio (Silence). He recounts how the Argentinian navy with the connivance of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now the Jesuit archbishop of Buenos Aires, hid from a visiting delegation of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission the dictatorship's political prisoners. Bergoglio was hiding them in nothing less than his holiday home in an island called El Silencio in the River Plate. The most shaming thing for the church is that in such circumstances Bergoglio's name was allowed to go forward in the ballot to chose the successor of John Paul II. What scandal would not have ensued if the first pope ever to be elected from the continent of America had been revealed as an accessory to murder and false imprisonment"
Is keeping silent always a form of complicity? I'd say that at times there is more harm done than good by speaking out. Supposing an armed robber enters your house, steals your money, then takes your child from its crib and says, "If you scream for help I'll kill your child." Would you call for help?? The wise thing to do would depend on the circumstances, wouldn't it? (Yes, sometimes wise choices aren't entirely attractive.) I have read that Amnesty International investigated the accusations and that Bergolio was cleared. Should we look more carefully into that terrible history? Of course. I just wonder if the cardinals looked into it before they voted, or did they do the usual -- just turn a bling eye.
I'm less than impressed with Mr O'Shaughnessy's journalism. The only date he mentions is 1976. Fr Bergoglio was a priest seven years out from ordination. He had a summer home? A man in a religious order? Really?I think people citing this article have a bit of a burden on the proof side of things.That said, practically any non-liberation theology bishop from Latin America probably has explaining to do. I hope Pope Francis is forthcoming about this. As the traditionalists were banging the drum a few days ago for a hardliner, I'd sure like to see a Latin American pope address the corruption of his hemisphere and offer some way out for our sisters and brothers there.
In 1976 he was the Jesuit Provincial for Argentina.
Oh, plus the Jesuits have a fair amount of real estate, often donated, used as retreat houses, etc., and a Provincial would have access to those.
I think that, before conjecturing the man might have some shameful past, one have some credible evidence that he did something to be ashamed of. National Enquirer type exposes don't cut it. I guess those kinds of character attacks go with the job, though.
The important thing is who he is today. As for yesterday, let he or she who is without sin cast the first stone. As for me, I am doing some doodling in the sand. I'll start with myself, if you don't mind.
@Greg Metzger (3/13, 11:21 pm) Just for the record, the article you cited has been updated/changed slightly, with the following note added at the end of the column:"This article was amended on 14 March 2013. The original article, published in 2011, suggested that Argentinian journalist Horacio Verbitsky claimed that Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio connived with the Argentinian navy to hide political prisoners on an island called El Silencio during an inspection by human rights monitors. Although Verbitsky makes other allegations about Bergoglio's complicity in human right abuses, he does not make this claim. The original article also wrongly described El Silencio as Bergoglio's "holiday home"."http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jan/04/argenitina-vi...
Thank you, Luke. And doesn't this teach us that we're too inclined to think the worst of other people? Mea culpa, mea culpa.
Would anyone know the URL of a Catholic forum or magazine or blog in Argentina? I would like to read something like ours here at Commonweal or something else en castellano based in Argentina.Many thanks.Joe
Eduardo, Posts here show that you apparently did not do your homework before writing this. Especially when Amnesty International has not criticized Bergoglio. No doubt this will be discussed in the coming months. But we should not imply what is not yet clear.
Tom Quigley wrote an article for us in 2011 about the Vatican diplomatic corps and the Argentinian guerra sucia. Bergoglio's name does not come up, but it may still be interesting background now: "Tennis with Tyrants."
Tom and Ann - agreedIt is clear that failing to be responsible in ones judgments of responsibility can itself be a very serious moral lapse: To judge another guilty of wrongdoing on the basis of partial evidence, for example, or because I dislike that person for independent reasons, is unreasonable, and involves an injustice done to the one unreasonably accused.More herehttp://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/03/8072/
A bit more in this article from Reuters ... http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/us-pope-succession-bergoglio-i...
"The important thing is who he is today. As for yesterday, let he or she who is without sin cast the first stone. "Still, we need to know about yesterday.The incident that ended my interest in Pope Benedict was when he did not address questions on his role as archbishop of Munich in the case of Fr Hullermann. That gave the lie to his statement encouraging Irish bishops to transparency. It's not that I thought it would have been terrible if he had made the wrong decision in 1980 - it's that his counsel is not credible when he does not apply it to himself even in painful cases.I hope that Pope Francis will make the effort to clarify what comes up, at least if it comes from a reputable source such as Amnesty International. It's not about us judging him but about him modeling honesty and transparency.
The important thing is who he is today. As for yesterday, let he or she who is without sin cast the first stone. This is insane. A statement like this, in any context, is just absolutely batty.
A statement like this, in any context, is just absolutely battyWorth pondering given this is Lent and Good Friday is coming up quickly.
Claire -Right -- it's not about casting stones but about whether or not he is a trustworthy person. I see that he is having a press conference with the journalists on Saturday. Does that mean he will take questions from the floor? If so, then it will speak well for him. If not, not.
Abe --'No, it's not an insane statement. There is forgiveness when there is repentance. And that means we have to forgive popes when they are repentant too. I would rather deal with someone who sinned but repented than with someone who tries to project virtue when there is reason to think its a lie.
The statement said nothing about forgiveness or repentance. I understand being reflexively defensive about "the new guy," but I do not think that this "ignore the past" attitude would be too readily embraced if it were generalized and applied in different contexts."Meet your daughter's new kindergarten teacher!""Isn't he the guy who dressed up like a chicken 10 years ago and threatened to immolate himself in front of City Hall?""The important thing is who he is today!"
This CBS story covers the most Ive seen on the dirty war. Repeating in this thread, because it is focused on his record.http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57574147/jorge-bergoglio-who-is-the-... least two cases directly involved Bergoglio. One examined the torture of two of his Jesuit priests Orlando Yorio and Francisco Jalics who were kidnapped in 1976 from the slums where they advocated liberation theology. Yorio accused Bergoglio of effectively handing them over to the death squads by declining to tell the regime that he endorsed their work. Jalics refused to discuss it after moving into seclusion in a German monastery.Both men were freed after Bergoglio took extraordinary, behind-the-scenes action to save them including persuading dictator Jorge Videlas family priest to call in sick so that he could say Mass in the junta leaders home, where he privately appealed for mercy. His intervention likely saved their lives, but Bergoglio never shared the details until Rubin interviewed him for the 2010 biography.Bergoglio who ran Argentinas Jesuit order during the dictatorship told Rubin that he regularly hid people on church property during the dictatorship, and once gave his identity papers to a man with similar features, enabling him to escape across the border. But all this was done in secret, at a time when church leaders publicly endorsed the junta and called on Catholics to restore their love for country despite the terror in the streets. Rubin said failing to challenge the dictators was simply pragmatic at a time when so many people were getting killed, and attributed Bergoglios later reluctance to share his side of the story as a reflection of his humility. But Bregman (the human rights attorney) said Bergoglios own statements proved church officials knew from early on that the junta was torturing and killing its citizens, and yet publicly endorsed the dictators. The dictatorship could not have operated this way without this key support, she said.Bergoglio also was accused of turning his back on a family that lost five relatives to state terror, including a young woman who was 5-months pregnant before she was kidnapped and killed in 1977. The De la Cuadra family appealed to the leader of the Jesuits in Rome, who urged Bergoglio to help them; Bergoglio then assigned a monsignor to the case.Months passed before the monsignor came back with a written note from a colonel: It revealed that the woman had given birth in captivity to a girl who was given to a family too important for the adoption to be reversed.Despite this written evidence in a case he was personally involved with, Bergoglio testified in 2010 that he didnt know about any stolen babies until well after the dictatorship was over. (italics added) Like Todd Flowerday, "I hope Pope Francis is forthcoming about this ... Id sure like to see a Latin American pope address the corruption of his hemisphere and offer some way out for our sisters and brothers there."
Ann,Christ calls us to forgive regardless of repentance. JPII forgave his shooter before any repentance.
Bruce: if that is the case, then why is one expected to repent in the Sacrament of Reconciliation prior to the words of absolution being spoken?(At least I guess that's how it still works; that's what used to be the case)
persuading dictator Jorge Videlas family priest to call in sick so that he could say Mass in the junta leaders home, where he privately appealed for mercy.Does this mean we can stop worrying about bishops denying communion to politicians?
I'd like to know more about what Jesus said about the relationship between repentance and forgiveness.If one has not repented, but has been forgiven, is one guilty still? I would think so. Or: what is the difference between guilt and responsibility?(I never did teach ethics, so I've never gone into these questions in detail.)
Jesus prayed "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." He felt he had to teach us to forgive those who ignorantly hurt us. But, what about those who know that what they are doing is wrong, but do it anyway, most especially those who enjoy hurting others, aka sadists? Are we suppose to forgive them or wait for them to repent first? We cannot even know if their repentence is real. We, therefore, let God take revenge ("Vengeance is mine saith the Lord, I will repay.") for only He knows who is really penitent. Sinners casting stones at sinners makes the stone casters into self righteous thugs. Jesus was right to hold a mirror up to those would be thugs.
I think Francis has the potential to be the most outspoken advocate for the poor I've seen in a pope in my lifetime at least. I hope he doesn't get swift-boated by those hostile to that kind of advocacy. Best way to discredit the message is by discrediting the messenger.
As per Bill Mazzella's early comments, from CNN, re: complicity with the military:"The best evidence that I know of that this was all a lie and a series of salacious attacks was that Amnesty International who investigated that said that was all untrue," said Jim Nicholson, former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. "These were unfair accusations of this fine priest."http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/14/world/pope-5-things/?hpt=hp_t1
The CNN link says that Amnesty never commented on Bergoglio. It's all beginning to sound like the cycles of denial we had about Heidegger and about he sex scandals. I'm afraid that a cloud of controversy will hang over this pontificate however the issue is addressed or not addressed. But that might be a good learning experience for a Vatican that turned its back on Vatican II and indulged a rightist phobia of Marxism.


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Took the team to see Matrix3:Revulsions on Friday. I'm happy we went – now I have closure, and know that buying the mega-DVD set of the LOTR trilogy instead of this mess will be an ok thing. I've never seen a really good acid trip captured on screen till I saw Matrix I, and I never saw a really bad crash at the end of an acid trip till I saw Matrix 3. You could almost see the Wachowski brothers wander off into the desert to throw up all that peyote they ate… Yeah, it's that bad.
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ANTINONE, Edward David "Eddie," 39, of Toronto, OH, passed away Tuesday, December 24, 2012, at his home.
Ed was born May 23, 1973, in Steubenville, OH, son of David W. and Rena E. Arthurs Antinone of Toronto.
Ed worked out of Labor local 809 in Steubenville, OH.
He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Eddie and Ethel Arthurs and by his paternal grandparents, Francis and Cecile Antinone.
Surviving in addition to his parents, Dave and Rena Antinone of Toronto are his two sons, Sage of Toronto and Anthony of Steubenville; two sisters, Rachel Antinone and her husband, Justin Hoagland of Toronto and Sarah Antinone of Chicago, IL; his nephew, Tyler of Toronto and his aunts, uncles, cousins and many friends.
Visitation and Services will be held on Thursday from 1:30 p.m. til time of Ed's Service at 2:30 p.m. at the J.E. Foster Funeral Home in Toronto, OH. Rev. Michael Bongart will provide his Service and burial will follow in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Steubenville, OH.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to The City Rescue Mission Inc. of Steubenville, 142 N. 6th St., Steubenville, OH 43964 or the local Salvation Army Unit in your area.
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When a stripper at a bachelor party attaches on her nipples & vagina, a lit birthday candle, where then the bachelor has to blow them out.
A stripper at our hotel room had a bachelor blow out a birthday cake.
by Charlie Frown September 02, 2012
In insider jargon among fireworks professionals a "birthday cake" or more briefly just a "cake" is a firework technically referred to as a "multi-shot tube device." These are fireworks that consist of multiple, usually small mortar tubes bundled together designed to fire a series of low-level aerial effects. The effects might be stars, comets, whistles, salutes, etc.
"Let's set those birthday cakes up over on the left of the firing line."
by Joe Curwen July 07, 2012
A girl or woman's pussy.
When we got back to Wendy's place, she stripped to her birthday suit and I put some whipped cream on her birthday cake and ate it. Tasty, too. :)
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Hey, do you guys want to come over to celebrate my "birthday" We can make a "Birthday Cake"
by Kenny Baker22222 January 31, 2011
Like a cream pie, except the woman is not on any birth control, so the cream pie turns into a birthday cake, ie: she gets pregnant.
Man: Oh man, i came in my girlfriend last night, and shes not on the pill!
Friend: Oh Dude! You gave her a birthday cake!
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Fix It Right - Avoiding Substandard RepairsWritten by on February 1, 2013 The worst scenario for a team racing on a budget is to wreck a car and pay to have it repaired—only to discover that they paid good money for shoddy work. Here's what you need to know to avoid that.
Your mother was right: Accidents happen.
That is a simple fact of life, and racing is no exception. We won't get into the blame game of who is at fault when sheetmetal and chassis get bent, we're more interested in getting your car fixed and back out on the track. Actually, the goal isn't simply to get back onto the track, but to get there with a car that is just as good, or better than it was before the big hit.
One of the big problems with repairing a car that's taken a big hit is that it somehow is just never the same as it was before. Many racing teams working on a limited budget (and let's face it, that's most of us) are forced to just live with it. A new chassis is out of the question and there's no guarantee that the person who did the repair work would get it right if you took it back to have the "repair" repaired. As a result they wind up having to change their setups as a crutch to mask the problems caused by a chassis whose geometry is off.
The truth of the matter is this should never be a problem. A quality chassis builder should be capable of repairing practically any wreck damage and ensuring that all the suspension pickup points are right where they should be so that the car handles just as it did before. It does require an investment in a level plate and jigs, and definitely quality fabrication skills, but it can be done.
04. Notice how the firewall has been wrinkled around the lower support tube. That's a sign that the tube was bent inward during the wreck. And the gap around the hole on the lefthand side shows that the tube didn't completely return to position once the bent clip was cut away. Cornet noted all this and determined that the tubing that remains hasn't lost its structural integrity. He'll wait to see how the new clip fits up before deciding whether more should be cut away.
08. This is obviously not the same car, but it is easier to see with this chassis that's still under construction. Before he can weld anything up, Cornet and Byrd set the ride heights on the level fabrication table. But, like with this new chassis under construction, it works opposite the way most people think. The car is set on a baseline level and then adjusted according to height changes. For example, the baseline number for the ride height may be six inches with the left-rear an inch higher. But for chassis repair and fabrication, the heights work opposite. The car is set up 6 inches off the plate, but the left-rear is at minus an inch (or 5 inches). This way the chassis can still be built on a level surface for accuracy, but once the suspension is installed the left-rear corner will sit 1 inch higher like it should.
We know that most race shops don't have the time or the hardware to make serious chassis repairs, but every race team should be able to identify when a chassis builder is capable of performing quality repair work.
Hess Race Cars in Mooresville, North Carolina, is a shop exactly like that when it comes to asphalt racing chassis. They regularly build everything from Late Model Stocks to NASCAR touring cars. To show you how it's done right, we documented one of the toughest repair tests any chassis builder faces. This is an asphalt touring car that took a pretty hard lick to the right front corner and requires a new front clip. Making matters more difficult is the fact that the car was originally fabricated by a different builder. The owner had already noticed the success that the Hess-built cars were having in the series and after the wreck, brought the car to the Hess shops for one of their front clips. Putting a new clip on one of your own cars is one thing, but the task gets much more difficult when trying to fabricate a new clip to a car with different attachment points between the clip and the framerails.
Other top-quality chassis builders may vary their methods slightly, but for the most part it all works the same. And we know this works because we've seen cars both built and repaired by the craftsmen at Hess Race Cars many times at many different racetracks.
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 01.  This was a different car that was in the shop, but it makes an interesting illustration. The team that owned the car installed the engine and suspension in the car as soon as repairs were done in order to hit the track that weekend. They felt they didn't have time to paint the new steel, so it is easy to see here how the repairs the Hess crew had completed integrated in with the original remaining chassis. 02. Here's the original front clip that had already been cut away when we arrived. The car had taken a hit on the right-front wheel hard enough to collapse the lower control arm and move the entire front clip to the left. Instead of trying to pull everything back into position, it's easier (and cheaper) to simply cut away everything forward of the damage and weld up a new clip. Plus, the new clip will utilize Hess' front suspension that has been very successful on the track lately. 03. Cornet used a cutting torch to separate the damaged front clip from the rest of the car. A torch leaves a bit of a ragged edge, but Cornet says it is preferable to using a saw because it is faster and cheaper when you consider the cost of all the blades you will go through. 06.  Here's an interesting trick: To make life easier and cut down the amount of times he has to change discs, Cornet puts a rough sanding disc both in the standard position and on top of the backing plate. This allows him to sand from both sides, reducing the amount of twisting and "fabricator's yoga" he has to do to clean up all sides inside that framework of tubing. 05. After finishing with the torch, Cornet uses a disc sander to clean up the rough edges. A grinding disc can be too aggressive and requires a very gentle touch. When doing this you have to be careful only to sand or grind away only the rough edges left by the melting action of the cutting torch. Make sure you do not thin the walls of the tubing that will remain. 07.  Cornet and Tommy Byrd (foreground) place a portion of the new clip into its approximate position on the fabrication table. Normally, the clips are fabricated ahead of time all the way back to the point where they connect to the framerails. But since this clip is being fitted to a chassis from another fabricator, this clip ends at the spring buckets. Everything from there back will be fabricated specifically for this chassis. 09.  The correct height for the front clip is set with fixtures that bolt to the table on one end and the sway bar tubes and front pivot for the lower control arms on the other. Remember, the car has already had its centerline established on the fabrication table.10. The downtubes have been left long on purpose. After the correct height is set for the clip, the tubes can be marked and cut to the right height.
 12. With the downtubes at the proper height, Cornet can slide the clip into place. The fixtures bolt into position on the work table ensuring that the clip stays in line with the car, which—as previously mentioned—has been centered and locked down on the table as well. 13. Finally, the clip is now properly positioned so that the front suspension pickup points are properly aligned, the wheelbase is correct and the ride heights are right. Now all that's left is to get it connected to the car.14.  Cornet uses lengths of 2x4-inch square tubing to join the clip to the framerail connectors.16. Cornet is still slowing cutting down the tubing to get the best fit, but you can still see how it is routed to connect the clip to the framerails.17. To help straighten the bent down tube, Cornet heats the area with a rosebud tip on the blow torch at the opposite side of the bend then allows it to cool slowly. The heating and cooling process helps pull the tube back into shape. 18.Byrd handled the most finicky job of the day. The rear pivot for the lower control arm attached to the tubing that had to be fabricated to attach the clip to the framerails. Here, Byrd is making templates for the lower control arm brackets. The fixture bolted to the fabrication table located the center point of the pivot, so the brackets only need to connect those points to the clip rigidly.19.  After getting the template to fit like he wants it, Byrd traces the pattern onto 3/16-inch steel plate and cuts it out. 20. You can't simply butt-weld two pieces of tubing together—it won't be strong enough for racing. Instead, insert a sleeve—a piece of tubing that will just barely fit inside the original—and tack that in place.
22. When welding tubing, Cornet recommends always welding from the bottom up. This keeps the melted steel from the bead from dripping into the area you are welding.23. Here's a completed weld. Cornet also drilled holes into the outer tubes to allow extra surface area to weld the tubes to the sleeve for additional strength. He also says it's important to set your welder with enough wire speed so that the weld is convex, to extend beyond the surface of the tube. Not only does this help guarantee a strong weld, but it also allows you to grind off the excess for a nice, smooth surface. After the chassis is repainted you won't be able to tell where the repair was made.24. This vertical brace stitches all the separate tubes together to the clip. Whenever you can, always place braces so that they join in one spot and support each other. In other words, create on "X" instead of two "T"'s in separate places. It can make for a tougher job, but your race car will be stronger.25. Here, you can see how the brackets for the lower control arm's rear pickup is welded to the clip and braced with narrow steel tubing from below. Once it cools, the fixture can be unbolted.26. Cornet only uses tack welds until he is confident that everything is positioned perfectly, then he begins the laborious process of welding all the joints together solidly. During this process, he constantly moves from one area of the chassis to another to keep heat buildup from warping the clip he's worked so hard to position exactly.


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5 'Rare' Things That Are Way More Common Than You Think
Because so many of us live in cities, we think of the Earth as a crowded place. In a world where every nook and cranny has been squeezed for resources and every untamed jungle has been turned into an IKEA, what's really left to discover?
A whole lot, as it turns out. You actually don't have to look terribly hard to stumble across ...
#5. Sunken Treasure
Even before The Goonies came about, the whole "searching for buried/sunken pirate treasure" thing was the plot of dozens of movies, books, and TV episodes. So where the hell did Hollywood get the idea that the world is just littered with lost pirate gold? It really is ridiculous -- if you had a galleon laden with the king's treasure, you wouldn't just leave it laying around.
It's a disease.
In reality, there was probably, like, one ship full of gold that sank, and Hollywood just ran with the idea.
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An astonishing 3 million shipwrecks remain on the ocean floor, waiting to be found by some adventurer. That's because early explorers were all about finding precious metals, and early colonies were all about mining it and shipping it back home. The trade routes were thus continually packed with ships bearing gold, silver, and other shiny things -- rickety, wooden ships that were continually sinking every time they ran into rough seas. And this was before anybody invented submarines or scuba gear that could go down and retrieve it -- what sank belonged forever to the singing crabs of the deep.
Pictured here with the hookers he later blew it all on.
So while you spend your paid vacation days sipping pina coladas on a Caribbean beach, at any given moment you're actually not far from some of the over $60 billion worth of undiscovered treasure lurking down among the fishes, hidden in boxes surrounded by pirate skeletons. Just over a year ago, a World War II-era British ship was discovered with 240 tons of silver still on board, worth $200 million. And people were laughing at the Tampa-based company Odyssey Marine Exploration for posting several years of losses, but in 2007, they found a $500 million wreck off of England. Who's laughing now? (Them. They are laughing.)
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"Actually, now we're so rich that we pay others to laugh at you for us."
So the next time you meet a drunk in a bar who offers to sell you a crudely drawn map with a big red "X" on it, perhaps you should at least give it a moment's thought.
#4. Deserted Islands
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With the exploration age behind us and the human population growing out of control, it's difficult to believe that there's anywhere left unsettled in this world. That's why stories like Cast Away are somewhat ridiculous -- where can you possibly go on Earth that isn't either A) near routes traveled by international flights, ocean freighters, and fishing boats or B) already home to a native village or corporate oil-drilling operation? Between tourists, rich people buying private islands, and supervillains building hideouts, there can't possibly be any "deserted" islands left that are any bigger than your average driveway.
"Fuck it, as long as I don't have to shovel the island, I'm in."
But Actually ...
Don't give up your dreams of living like Gilligan and having your own monkey butler just yet -- there are actually a lot of uninhabited islands out there just waiting for some crackpot with a raft to lay a claim. You could be that crackpot!
Just to give some idea of how plentiful deserted islands really are, the Maldives alone has 1,000 uninhabited islands, and that's just one island chain. Indonesia is planning to rent some of its 10,000 uninhabited islands to folks whose low-lying islands are being affected by rising seas and storm surges. Greece is leasing 40 of its numerous hunks of remote paradise in order to reduce its debt. And that's not some far-off, remote country in a frozen corner of the globe -- it's Greece.
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"That's the word."
Hell, the largest uninhabited island in the world is Devon Island, off the coast of Canada. It's 21,000 square miles of not even a single crazy, ranting hermit. If you're one of the millions of Americans who complain daily about the congestion of modern society, just imagine if your family of four could move to Devon Island and each have 5,000 square miles to yourself. As long as you were willing to build your own house.
"Doesn't this count as child labor?"
"As Dadtator of Dadsontia ... I'll allow it."
#3. Uncontacted Tribes
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So even if there are lots of uninhabited islands, there can't still be all sorts of native tribes hanging out in the jungles. Aren't we hearing about how the rain forests are being cut down at an alarming rate? Where could primitive people possibly live where there isn't already a Starbucks within walking distance?
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"Never forget the ways of our people. Two pumps vanilla, light foam."
But Actually ...
We've already written about six such tribes who only recently discovered that there was a modern world outside of their patch of jungle, and in fact there are a lot of insanely secluded people on this planet who have only very recently made contact with the outside world. And that's just scratching the surface -- there are over 100 uncontacted tribes still living on this planet that we know about. These are people who have never even seen a wristwatch, to say nothing of "Gangnam Style."
These isolated communities are mostly concentrated in three regions: the Amazon forest, Papua New Guinea, and the Andaman Islands. Unfortunately for them, most people don't even realize that they still exist, and some deny their existence out of convenience. Such is the case with the Peruvian government, whose refusal to acknowledge such tribes serves as an excuse to continue deforestation, encroaching on their land.
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The sad reality is that when a remote tribe is discovered, Westerners tend to regard them more as zoo animals than human beings, giving them money and tossing food in return for photo opportunities. We only know they exist mostly from other extremely isolated tribes who have limited contact with them. Most of them seem perfectly happy not being a part of our world, which they would undoubtedly regard as a dystopian, disease-ridden wasteland.
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Let $A$ be the set of all quadruples $(a_0,a_1,a_2,a_3) \in {\mathbb Q}^4$ such that the polynomial $P=X^4+a_3X^3+a_2X^2+a_1X+a_0$ is irreducible and if $z$ is any root of $P$, then ${\mathbb Q}(z)$ contains $\sqrt{2}$. Is there a nontrivial polynomial relation $R(a_0,a_1,a_2,a_3)=0$ satisified by all $(a_0,a_1,a_2,a_3) \in A$ ?
If there was a nontrivial polynomial relation between the coefficients, it would be true for a dense subset (
This may ramble a bit much, but I hope it provides some help in how to think about the problem.
Let's see what your extension of fields looks like. We have 4 possible extensions (perhaps the same) So that any of them is
$\mathbb Q(z_i)$
$\mathbb Q\left(\sqrt2\right)$
$\mathbb Q$
Where $z_i$ ranges of the 4 possible roots $z_1,...,z_4.$ Then $\mathbb Q(z_1)$ is degree 4 (since the polynomial is irreducible), but this polynomial factors into a product of quadratics over $\mathbb Q\left(\sqrt2\right).$ So indeed we've reduced to having only two possible extensions, in that the two roots of the same quadratic generate the same extension over $\mathbb Q(\sqrt2).$
However, except for this restriction, I don't see anything else to lead to a relation on the coefficients. Hopefully this will help you or someone else get a start on the problem.
One further thought:
Since the roots appear in pairs (say $z_1$ and $z_2$ are conjugate over $\mathbb Q\left(\sqrt 2\right)$) then one can generate $\sqrt 2$ with either pair, and subtract them. However, I don't immediately see a way to gather that information from the symmetric polynomials of the roots (a.k.a. the coefficients $a_1, \ldots, a_4.$)
So, equivalently, suppose we have a symmetric function $S( , , , )$ such that $S(z_1,z_2,z_3,z_4)=0$ whenever $z_1,z_2,z_3,z_4$ are conjugates over $\mathbb{Q}$ and such that $\mathbb{Q}(z_i)\supset\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{2})$ for each $i$. As described above, we can show that (WLOG) $z_1,z_2$ are roots of some $x^2+b_1x_1+b_0\in\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{2})[x]$ and $z_3,z_4$ are roots of some $x^2+c_1x+c_0\in\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{2})[x]$. I'm wondering, can we then say that $S(z_1,z_2,z_3,z_4)=T(b_0,b_1)(c_0,c_1)=0$ for a function $T$ (which would clearly not be symmetric, but would always be a function of things in $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{2})$?


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The Cabinet reviewed reports on the latest regional and international developments and reaffirmed the Kingdom's positions on global issues – as laid out in the official Saudi address to the opening of the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The Cabinet condemned the continuation of Israeli settlement-building, citing the construction of 1,100 new housing units in Gilo in occupied Eastern Al-Quds [Jerusalem]. The ministers agreed that such practices reflect the absence of good will on the part of the Israeli government and undermine the prospects for creating a contiguous and viable Palestinian state.
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My wife and I have decided to expand our marketing services to include google style panorama tours of small to medium sized businesses. As well, I really love this new hobby skill I am learning and I want to map out my city with attractions, malls, parks etc.
I am using a Sony A57 complimented with lens: 18-55 kit, 70-210 beercan and Samyany 8mm fisheye. I am pretty sure I will purchase a NN4 starter kit with a nadir adapter. Where I am stuck is with the publishing software.
Our market consists of iPhones/iPads, Android devices and PC/Macs
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I checked Japanese Wikipedia and お天道様 is an early Edo period word for the sun, as used in some kind of early modern popular religion that is not really described well at all. Anyway, I've never seen a word like this in any children's book, so how do kids know what their grandparents are talking about? It seems like if it's a word nobody understands, the grandparents should just say お日様 instead.
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This is an interesting question but I don't think it's really Japan-specific. Japanese kids learn the word お天道様 the same way kids everywhere learn words.
I mean, how do kids in the US know who "God" is? If anything, it should be easier to figure out お天道様 -- at least Japanese grandmas can point to a concrete placeholder... I'm sure there are many Japanese kids who grow up with idiosyncratic understandings of what お天道様 means, but again, the same could be said of "God".
It seems like if it's a word nobody understands, the grandparents should just say お日様 instead.
But it isn't a word nobody understands -- it's a word (almost) everybody understands, even if they can't put their understanding in simple words. Plus, if grandmas said お日様 it wouldn't really make sense. There is obviously some overlap, but watching over people and disapproving of naughtiness is just not something that お日様 does.


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BEECH BOTTOM — A paint line idled with the bankruptcy of RG Steel is being restarted under its new owner, Jupiter Aluminum....
First - great news that an Aluminum company will be adding 20+jobs. However, the other 500 is BS - they are temporary, not union, and not valuable for the region. These jobs are building pipelines to remove natural resources with no revenue or jobs to the state. Where is the infrastructure to support any new industries? This piecemeal approach is what our problem is, no strategy, no planning, etc. The News Agencies need to begin asking the hard questions. What is the long term opportunity? 20jobs. Still good, but not 500. Long Term Plan? WVDOH is now stating and accepting that the new industry trucking is damaging the infrastructure/roads/bridges, etc. further. What are these agencies doing for this situation? Let's go Press start asking the hard questions.
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If I want to reduce the amount of sugar (to reduce sweetness) in a cookie recipe, how would that affect the end result (mainly with respect to texture) and what can be done to negate it?
Sugar isn't added to baked goods just to sweeten them: it also does things to the fats and starches to help create the texture. This is related to why some recipes require castor sugar (i.e. very fine crystals) and others do not.
One solution you could experiment with is changing the sugar. Dextrose is noticeably less sweet than cane sugar, for instance, for the same quantity.
Sugar works as a tenderizing agent in baked goods. Since water loves sugar, they bind together, adding a bit of moisture. It's probably ok to reduce the sugar by 1/3 without seriously affecting the end product. You may need to add a little more fat (as a tenderizer). I suggest experimenting with your recipe, reducing the sugar a little at a time until you come up with an acceptable end product.
Sugar will make your cookies more crunchy. If you add less sugar, they will be more crumbly and dry.
they will be softer (less hard) cutting the sugar. i prefer them this way.


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I have a function Load() in a js file which I added to the GWT module.
I am trying to call it using
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Q: My 11-year-old daughter has problems spelling. At age six she was reading at a third-grade level. She's very creative and has won awards in writing. She's in fifth grade now and makes straight A's. This is a family problem. My mother can speak three languages and is a wonderful speaker, but can't write. Writing this brief note at age 40 is a major effort for me, because I can't write the way I speak. One day I can spell; the next I can't. I don't understand why we can't remember what is learned in spelling.
A: There is often a genetic component to learning disabilities, and that similar difficulties are seen from one generation to the next, or show up in close relatives in the same generation. It sounds to me as if the women in your family share a form of learning disability that rather selectively affects spelling.
Spelling problems can be caused by several factors, one of which is poor visual memory. Some people can't remember the sequence of the letters in a word. The letters seem to "jump around," making it hard for the visual centers in the brain to "take a picture" of the way they were organized. When you try to write a word, you may spell it the way it sounds. If you make a misteak, er mistake...the brain doesn't say, "Hey, that's not the way it looks!" since it has a distorted picture of the word in it's visual memory. Some kids study their spelling words all week long, and because they've practiced them so much, they do pretty well on the end of the week test. But ask them to use those words later on in writing (an e-mail, for example) the memory has faded and it's back to spellcheck.
For some folks, the attempt at a word is so far off the mark that even a spellcheck's "brain" can't recognize it. This is especially true for people who have what's called poor sound/symbol association. Their brains don't "hear" the sound that comes into the ears in the correct way, so the sound isn't stored correctly. Then the next time someone is asked to spell a word, the brain can't match the correct sound to the correct letter. So, "pit" becomes "pet" or "nature" becomes "natcher". And you can forget about those double vowels like "ou" or "ie"!
Adults with these kinds of spelling errors can rely on spellcheck features. Writers who can dictate stories or letters can be helped by speech-to-text software that type what you say. It's very good at spelling, too! (Try Dragon NaturallySpeaking.) Some kids with these kinds of spelling (and related reading) difficulties, which are called phonemic awareness problems, are helped by a program called Fast ForWord from ScientificLearning, which purports to "retrain" the auditory centers of the brain to process the subtle differences between similar sounding letters.
Know that you are not alone, and there is help available. And whatever you do, don't let this spelling problem hold you back.
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Skrying wrote:The HP... not even close in my opinion.
Krogoth wrote:Care to enlightenment me?
grantmeaname wrote:PVA panels have horrid response times compared to TN; keep that in mind as the trade off (along with price) for the color reproduction you don't necessarily need but could definitely appreciate.
Airmantharp and I (and one other person, IIRC) have 28" hanns-G panels. I'm extremely happy with mine.
Vaughn wrote:But the sheep keep buying it up so they keep making!
Dashak wrote:+1 vote for a TN panel. I've tried gaming on a Dell 2408WFP (sPVA panel) and there was between 60-70ms of lag, which I measured by cloning it to a CRT monitor, running a millisecond timer, and photographing them side by side to compare times. So I'm not imagining the problem. I'd also suggest you get a monitor without speakers - they won't be any good. Pick up a Klipsch 2.1 Promedia speaker set at BestBuy when they go on sale around $100 - I got mine for $80-ish thanks to knowing someone who works there.
gohan wrote:How long have you had that monitor ? I read a lot of reviews on newegg saying the monitor bricked after a year or so.
Vaughn wrote:It saddens me what is currently on the market for monitors tho all 16:9 Tn's monitors.
I hate the fact everything is 16:9 ....
Vaughn wrote:I don't care to watch movies on my monitor that is what I have an HDTV for.
Vaughn wrote:But the sheep keep buying it up so they keep making!
Dieter wrote:Samsung T260HD ... I think the viewing angles are pretty good for TN (not nearly as bad as some of the reviews would leave you to believe).
Dieter wrote:It's also plenty bright. I think we have brightness set to 40%.
Dieter wrote:The stand is really basic and only has a little tilting ability. Also, there's no portrait mode. It does have all of the inputs you're looking for (VGA, DVI, and 2xHDMI).
Krogoth wrote:Care to enlightenment me?
grantmeaname wrote:TN viewing angles are identical on every TN monitor, because the panels are all the same technology. You can't have good viewing angles for a TN monitor or bad viewing angles for a TN monitor.
Dieter wrote:I respectfully disagree. Even looking at specifications, different TN panels will often list 160 or 170 degrees for horizontal or vertical viewing angles.
Dieter wrote:Subjectively, TN panels look better today than they did a few years ago, with regards to viewing angles. My T260HD looks different at different angles than my Dell Ultrasharps (TN). So, I disagree that viewing angles on all TN panels are the same.
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30 Jan 2013 5:04 AM #1
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This is my first posting.
How to run a video in the same scene in full screen and when you pressed the "done" button (default Ipad2) closed this video back to the same scene?
This video would run only when pressed any button on the scene.
Thank you
30 Jan 2013 5:16 AM #2
I can open the video (without player) in the same scene by pressing a button but the video is full screen (like I wanted) but I can not go back to the scene.
30 Jan 2013 7:08 AM #3
Hi djgabriell, and welcome to the forums.
Anyway, to switch scene when you press 'Done' when viewing videos on an iOS device do the following:
In the scene that contains the video, under Actions -> Start -> Custom JavaScipt
enter following code:
//get the reference for the video var video = document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0]; //listen to when the user presses 'Done', and then execute onVideoEndsFullScreen video.addEventListener('webkitendfullscreen', onVideoEndsFullScreen, false); function onVideoEndsFullScreen() { //go to next scene when that happens controller.goToNextScene(); //or alternatively, you can call controller.replayScene(); to restart current scene }
Hope it helps!
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function part. Rather than go back to previous scene he simply pause the video and leave full screen.


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If this is not the place to ask this, please forgive this Ubuntu cub, I want to ask, what do people do with Ubuntu?
As an Ask Ubuntu user I can see that most of the users (including myself) are asking questions about entertainment related problems. Is that all? No commercial use with it? Do people make fun of Ubuntu or just pretending to be Ubuntu users and use Windows secretly?
Please don't hate me or make fun of me, I know lots of people trying to make Ubuntu even better, and I know it's better than Windows (if Adobe software just work on Ubuntu, I won't see Windows logo on my monitor anymore).
What hinders Ubuntu from getting traction in the professional field?