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Europe's Banks to Repay Aid Early
Hundreds of European banks are rushing to repay cheap loans they borrowed from the European Central Bank a year ago, in a show of confidence that financial markets are returning to health three years into the region's debt crisis.
The ECB will get back €137 billion ($182.2 billion) from 278 banks on Jan. 30, the first day that the three-year loans can be repaid—and nearly two years before they are due—the European Central Bank said Friday.
That represents more than one-quarter of the €489 billion that banks tapped from the ECB in December 2011. Banks borrowed an additional €530 billion in a second installment of three-year loans last February, bringing the total to more than €1 trillion.
The ECB didn't provide a breakdown in loan repayment by bank or country. Roughly one third of the money that was repaid came from Spanish banks, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The data provide one of the clearest illustrations to date of the surprisingly swift healing of large swaths of the European banking system. It removes a major impediment to a gradual recovery of the broader European economy, which hinges on the health of its banks.
The repayments hark back to when U.S. banks, after receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer aid under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, in 2008, repaid those funds faster than many public and industry officials had expected. That moment later came to be viewed as a turning point in the U.S. banking crisis.
"It's a very good sign that the trust in the euro has come back," said Francisco Gonzalez, chairman and chief executive of Spanish giant Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA. The bank is repaying a substantial chunk of the roughly €22 billion it borrowed, and intends to repay more next month, Mr. Gonzalez said in an interview on Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "The message is that the market is opening again," he said.
Europe's banks continue to face a number of problems, ranging from perceived capital deficiencies to ailing economies. But Italy's economy minister called repayment of the three-year loans, known as the long-term refinancing operations, or LTROs, a good sign.
"The LTRO was an emergency measure. Now [the repayment] is a sign that financial markets are more confident of getting access to liquidity in a normal market way," Vittorio Grilli said in an interview Friday.
The euro hit a 10-month high against the U.S. dollar after the ECB published the loan-repayment data, which exceeded analyst expectations of banks repaying between €50 billion and €100 billion.
At the time that the ECB launched the loan program, many European banks were locked out of normal funding markets because of a crisis of confidence sweeping the euro zone.
ECB President Mario Draghi on Friday credited the three-year loans with helping banks avoid "a major funding problem which could have had unexpected and dramatic consequences on the financial system." Now, he added, markets "are experiencing a renewed sense of relative tranquillity."
An ECB research paper released on Thursday estimated that the three-year loans will add between 0.7% and 0.8% to euro-zone gross domestic product by the middle of this year, in part by allowing banks to lend the money out into the economy.
The insurance that ECB funds provided to banks came at a cost. The interest rate on the three-year loans is tied to the ECB's main policy rate—currently 0.75%. But many banks simply deposited the borrowed funds back at the ECB, which pays no interest on such funds.
Martin Blessing, chief executive of Commerzbank CRZBY 3.61 % in Germany, said in November that his bank was losing €75 million a year by depositing much of what it borrowed from the ECB back at Germany's central bank. He said Commerzbank, Germany's No. 2 lender, would in January repay around €10 billion of the €16 billion it borrowed from the ECB.
Belgium's KBC and Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International AG RAIFY 0.38 % said on Friday they would repay all of their loans in the first quarter. Spain's Banco de Sabadell SA, SAB 2.51 % which borrowed €24 billion, said on Thursday it would repay about €1.5 billion this week and more over the coming months. In Britain, Lloyds Banking Group LYG 1.42 % PLC said it would repay around two-thirds of its LTRO money—some €9.5 billion—next week and the remainder in February, when banks can start to repay the second LTRO.
Friday's announcement suggests it isn't just banks in healthier Northern European countries that are returning the ECB funding. The data suggest that banks in financially stressed parts of the euro zone also used this option, "probably partly in order to demonstrate to the market that they are in a healthier position," said analysts at Citigroup. C -0.61 %
The ECB report comes amid signs that the euro zone's economy is starting to find its footing after more than a year of stagnation and recession that has been particularly pronounced in Southern Europe.
Though the euro zone's economy continued to shrink in January, it did so at a slower pace than in recent months, the Eurocoin indicator of activity indicated. German business sentiment rose to a seven-month high in January, the Ifo institute said on Friday.
The euro-zone purchasing managers' index rose to a 10-month high in January, though it still points to a slight contraction in business activity.
—Christopher Lawton and Alessandra Galloni contributed to this article.
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Who is vying to replace NYC's Bloomberg in 2013?
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's 2013 mayoral race doesn't fully kick off until after voters are done picking a president. But some of the city's top political players are already jockeying for position, preparing to introduce themselves to voters who haven't paid much attention to who, exactly, will succeed Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor who has defined City Hall for more than a decade.


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Is there any result about the time complexity of finding a cycle of fixed length k in a general graph? All I know is that Noga Alon et al. use the techinique called "color-coding", which has a running time O(M(n)), where M(n) is the time of multiplying two n times n matrices.
Is there any better result?


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We are pleased to announce the release of our new Nodal Ninja "Android" Application. We hope this added channel of support gives the end user greater and more convenient access to obtaining information on our products.
If you are running an android mobile device this "free" app will allow user access to downloadable manuals, tutorials and quick reference guides. You'll also have links to support, forum, website and e-store right from the app itself. Through time we'll be adding new stuff so make sure you keep your app updated.
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The Freedom Trail Foundation continues to work to preserve this perfect introduction to Colonial Revolutionary Boston. The Trail takes the visitor to 16 historical sites in the course of two or three hours and covers two and a half centuries of America's most significant past. A red brick or painted line connects the sites on the Trail and serves as a guide.
Since the past and the present live alongside the Trail, its visitors have the opportunity to see the City as it truly is. Many visitors prefer to linger and study the many exhibits, thus a full day or more can be devoted to browsing along the Trail.
One can take a self-guided tour or one of the many tours available through the Boston Common Visitors Center at 148 Tremont Street or the Bostix Booth located at Faneuil Hall. If you prefer to ride, you can pay for one of the trolley tours, which are unofficial guided tours, but do take the rider to many of the sites along the Trail and allow one to disembark at selected stops. To find out more about guided tours contact the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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Montana INBRE
The Montana INBRE Program (IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence) is a five-year award (2014-2019) by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that builds on the previous successes of the first two five-year MT INBRE programs (2004-2014) and the three-year BRIN (Biomedical Research Infrastructure Networks) program (2001-2004) awarded to Montana State University. Montana INBRE continues to focus on increasing the biomedical research capacity of Montana by building research infrastructure, supporting faculty and student research, and fostering a state-wide collaborative network. The pathogenesis of infectious disease and health issues related to the environment are two of Montana INBRE's research foci, areas in which the state is strategically positioned to excel. In addition, MT INBRE is expanding its research into the field of health disparities, an area of great relevance to the state. INBRE positions Montana as a leader in biomedical research and significantly increases education, research, and, ultimately, employment opportunities in the state.
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By Errol Castens
Daily Journal
PONTOTOC – Less than six months after its official opening, the Tanglefoot Trail is slated to host several athletic events this spring.
The 44-mile paved trail that succeeds the historic GM&O Railroad will host the Altis Endurance Marathon and Half-Marathon on March 30. The event will begin and end in Houston, at the trail's crossing with Industrial Drive.
"This is a privately run race," said Trail Manager Don Locke. "They charge a fee, and we charge $5 for everybody that registers, which is our policy for every event that charges its participants."
Participants can register online at altisendurance.com. If advance registrants do not fill the roster, on-site registrations will be available on race day.
"All finishers will receive a finishers' award," states the Altis website. "There are no age group awards or first finisher awards."
On April 19, the Trail will furnish part of the route for the Clint Frazier Memorial 5K and Fun Run.
Frazier was a Union County deputy sheriff killed in a line-of-duty car crash on Dec. 18, 2013, and the event will raise funds to benefit his wife and three daughters with runs through downtown New Albany.
The Frazier Memorial Run requires a $20 entry fee in advance or $30 on race day, and virtual runners will pay $15. Applications are available at Baptist Healthplex, Anytime Fitness, Trails and Treads (New Albany and Tupelo locations), or at racesonline.com.
On Saturday, May 3, the Itawamba Community College Foundation will hold its inaugural "Riding the Tanglefoot Trail" event.
"This will be a ride, not a race," said ICC Foundation director Jim Ingram. "Our foundation president, Jim Mounce, had the idea."
"Riding on the Tanglefoot" will be a free event, but participants are urged to raise donations per mile ridden. Registration will be available soon at racesonline.com, iccms.edu or in person.
"We think this will be good for the community, for our students and for the families that get out and ride," Ingram said.
For more information about the Tanglefoot Trail, visit www.tanglefoottrailms.com.


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I am from India and we speak English there as well, albeit not as culturally refined as I see in the US. In India, and perhaps in the UK, English is spoken in a straight and 'as it is' manner. For example, I found in the US, people would say "You might want to do this..." when they actually mean "You should/have to do this." For once, this kind of sentence with its tacit meaning in American culture has got me into a problem.
Can you give more examples here which would help me to understand more of these cultural connotations in American English?


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The Hilbert nullstellsatz tells us that for a complete field $K$, there is a bijective correspondence between K-varieties and finitely generated algegras over $K$.
When the field is not complete, eg $K=R$, what goes wrong here? We still have a map from the set of varieties over $K$ to finitely generated algebras over $K$. So it not to give us a bijection it must fail to be bijective or injective. Which of these happens? Does it fail to be surjective or injective or both?


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Cartoons Prompt French Closures
PARIS—France will close embassies and French schools in 20 countries on Friday, its Foreign Ministry said, amid fears of a backlash after a French magazine published a series of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
French authorities said they feared the cartoons published Wednesday in satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo could cause more outrage in the Muslim world, days after a video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad helped to fuel violent protests at U.S. and other Western embassies in several Muslim countries.
Paris's move to pre-emptively close its embassies highlights how Western governments are grappling to respond to a wave of protests whose flash points lie largely out of their control.
The French government said that although freedom of speech rules applied in France, the magazine's publication of the cartoons was ill-timed. "It is dangerous, even irresponsible, when we know the general climate, to pour oil on fire," Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters in Paris on Wednesday.
French authorities didn't disclose the list of embassies subject to closure. But government officials said they had decided to close buildings on Friday because it is the main day of prayer for Muslims, suggesting the order would apply mainly to Muslim countries. Ambassadors could choose to keep their embassies closed beyond Friday for security reasons, a spokesman at the Foreign Ministry said.
French interests overseas have so far been spared by recent protests in Muslim countries that began in Egypt and Libya and have since erupted elsewhere in the Middle East and South Asia.
In Paris, about 150 protesters were arrested Saturday during what police described as an unauthorized rally near the U.S. Embassy.
Charlie Hebdo defended its decision to publish the prophet cartoons. "If we start to wonder whether we have the right to draw Muhammad or not, or if it is dangerous to do it, we will have to start to wonder whether we can draw Muslims or human beings in the paper," the weekly magazine's editor in chief, known only as Charb, told French radio RTL. "Eventually, we won't be drawing anything, and a bunch of extremists in the world and in France will have won."
The magazine's headquarters in Paris were put under heightened police protection, police said.
Charlie Hebdo's offices were struck by arson last year after the paper published a special issue with Muslim cartoons called "Sharia Hebdo."
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Charles Neelly of Mullinville is at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita after his vehicle struck a guardrail last week.
According to Kansas Highway Patrol Neelly was traveling southbound on Hwy. 61 north of Arlington at aprox. 5 p.m. on Tues. Jan. 15 when his 2004 Ford Expedition struck a right side guard rail. After striking the guard rail the car traveled across the northbound lane crashing through a bridge railing and landing in a river.
Neelly was taken to the Hutchinson Regional Medical Center before he was transported to Wesley.
Earlier in the week a member of the family said Neelly was "better, but not great" and was listed as being in critical condition on Tuesday morning.
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Byron G. Spencer
June 26, 1960 - October 11, 2012
Bryon led a full life. He was honored to be a United States Marine, a skilled carpenter, a fire fighter and was a proud husband and father. Byron enjoyed life. He loved to hunt, fish, snow mobile and jet ski; most of all he loved to spend time with family.
Bryon lived a blessed life. He was a devoted to his faith, had many friends and gave to others in abundance.
Byron inspired us with his trust in God, his zest for life, his skills, his ability to move forward in the face of great challenge and his loving heart. We will greatly miss his smile, his wit, his charm and his graciousness.
Memorial Service will be at Life Worship Center, located at 901 VFW Hall Road in Cheboygan, at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27.
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a saying usedvwhen shits about to go down. pronounced:
(ho my dick)
(ho my dick)
guy 1:dude, u gonna jump?
guy 2: yep.
guy1: i dunno man...seems sketchy
guy2 : hey..hey erik?
guy1: what?
guy2: hold my dick *jump*
guy 2: yep.
guy1: i dunno man...seems sketchy
guy2 : hey..hey erik?
guy1: what?
guy2: hold my dick *jump*
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A term used when someone does something seemingly impossible or just plain awesome. The witnesses should then proceed to hold the persons dick.
Just smoked a bowl during my graduation ceremony!.....HOLD MY DICK!!!!
by Hoss_Meat June 02, 2011
an experssion used to experss when shit hits the fan or goes wrong
Hold my Dick dude my mom is coming home and my house is trashed
by lazyboy5000 April 03, 2010
similar to suck my dick in that it is used as an insult. Mainly used to express discontent towards another. Correct usage includes an extended pronunciation of 'hold'
Teacher: "Ok children, do the worksheet I gave you"
Disgruntled Student: "Hold my dick."
Disgruntled Student: "Hold my dick."
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Mother Church
In his Wednesday audiences, Pope Francis has been engaged in a catechesis on the Church. Yesterday he turned to the image of the Church as "Mother": much used in the early Church, it still has its usefulness, the Pope suggests. As usual Francis had three points to make.
The Church is a mother, first, because she gives birth to us in faith and in baptism. In faith because it is from the Church that we receive the knowledge of God and of Christ, a point that he made personal in his letter yesterday to Scalfari: "Believe me, without the Church I would not have been able to encounter Christ." Taking up the ancient symbol of the baptismal font as the womb of the Church, he speaks of baptism as "the moment in which we are given the life of God." As usual, the Pope adds a challenge:
Let us ask ourselves: how do I see the Church? If I am grateful to my parents because they gave me life, am I grateful to the Church because she has generated me in the faith through Baptism? ... Do we love the Church as we love our own mother, knowing and also understanding her defects? All mothers have defects, we all have defects, but when there is talk of our mother's defects we cover them, we love her so. And the Church also has her defects: do we love her as we do our mother; do we help to make her more beautiful, more authentic, more according to the Lord?" To urge his point about baptism, he asks the people to find out and to mark the date of their baptism.
Secondly, the Church is a mother by nourishing her children, instructing and correcting them, accompanying them as they grow, and doing all this by transmitting the Word of God and by the sacraments. Which poses the questions:
What relation do I have with the Church? Do I see her as a Mother that helps me grow as a Christian? Do I take part in the life of the Church, do I feel a part of her? Is my relation formal or vital?"
But where many a reflection on the Church as Mother would leave things there, with perhaps an injunction always to remember that "Mother knows best," the Pope's third point brings this Mother-language down to earth. He begins again with the early Church:
In the first centuries of the Church, a reality was very clear: while the Church is Mother of Christians, while she "makes" Christians, she is also "made" by them. The Church isn't something different from ourselves, but is seen as the totality of believers, as the "we" of Christians: I, you, all of us are part of the Church. Saint Jerome wrote: "The Church of Christ is nothing other than the souls of those who believe in Christ" (Tract. Ps 86: PL 26, 1084). So, all of us, pastors and faithful, live the maternity of the Church. Sometimes I hear: "I believe in God but not in the Church … I have heard that the Church says … the priests say …" The priests are one thing, but the Church is not made up of priests only, all of us are the Church! And if you say that you believe in God and do not believe in the Church, you are saying that you don't believe in yourself, and this is a contradiction. All of us are the Church: from the recently baptized baby to the Bishops, the Pope; we are all the Church and we are all equal in the eyes of God! We are all called to collaborate in the birth of faith of new Christians; we are all called to be educators in the faith, to proclaim the Gospel. Each one of us must ask him/herself: what do I do so that others can share the Christian faith? Am I fruitful in my faith or closed? When I say that I love a Church that isn't shut up in her enclosure, but is able to go out, to move, even with some risks, to bring Christ to all, I think of all, of myself, of you, of every Christian. We all participate in the Church's maternity, so that the light of Christ reaches the ends of the earth. Long live Holy Mother Church!
This whole brief catechesis has so many themes and points found in an essay by Yves Congar (a short version of which can be found here) that one wonders whether it was not one of the Pope's sources for this talk–e.g., the quote from St. Jerome, the Church as the "we" of Christians, etc. Other sources might have been cited. For example, for the Pope's first two themes, St. Gregory the Great explains how Christ could refer to a believer as not only his sister or brother but also as his mother: "The answer is that one who is Christ's brother or sister by believing becomes his mother by preaching. He gives birth to the Lord as it were when he imparts him to the heart of someone who hears him. And he becomes his mother when by his word love for the Lord is begotten in his neighbor's mind."
And for his third point, St. Augustine: "The Church is to herself both a mother and her children; for all of those of whom the Church consists, taken together, are called a mother, while those same individuals, taken singly, are called her children." "We are called children of that mother," he wrote in another place, "even though she consists of us."
I don't think enough attention is given to this dialectical relationship: the Church makes believers but is made up of believers; the children of the Church are mother Church; individual Christians enter a building of which they themselves are the living stones. Too much of our language and discourse about the Church is in the third person–as if it were something apart from ourselves. If, as Congar and now the Pope say, you can study the existential ecclesiology of the early centuries by studying what Christians were saying when they used the first-person-plural ("we," "us"), then perhaps we ought to do the same: think and talk about the Church as involving ourselves. And in this catechesis, then, the question with which the Pope ends is quite pertinent: "How do we participate in the motherhood of the Church?"
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Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
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When Balthazar Fischer (the chair of the post-conciliar commission on baptism, which produced the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) came to the United States in 1988, he said in an interview with The Chicago Catechumenate that those who worked on shaping these rites had given a lot of thought to the goal of reviving an understanding of Church as mater ecclesia, "mother church," through the reform of Christian Initiation.
His own expectation was that this revival would take several generations to accomplish. But after seeing and speaking with those people who had vigorously implemented the RCIA in the US, on his tour here, he was amazed to find that it was already happening. In his words, those communities "know they are the Church."
This observation of his confirms my own experience. A true grasp of the dynamics of the catechumenate and the restored rites of Christian Initiation of Adults is enormously fruitful for realizing a fuller, better understanding of Church. Conversely, if we don't "get it" about Baptism, chances are we won't "get it" about Mother Church at all. (There, Fischer's comment about it taking generations to accomplish is a comfort; we may see it better over time.)
To put it another way, we Catholics think, sometimes, that all can be accomplished through addressing the questions that are focused upon Sunday Eucharist. Without a robust initiation polity, however, one misses the launching pad for Eucharist, so to speak. How we baptize, and what we think we are doing when we baptize, are of critical importance. Aidan Kavanagh understood this and tried to convey it through his teaching and writing.
For this reason, I am so pleased that Pope Francis brought up baptism explicitly, and even encouraged the wonderful practice of finding out and marking the day of one's baptism. I would add: revisit the font, if you can! Baptism is something real. We need concrete reminders of it. Others were Mother Church to us in that event, not only the priest or deacon, but our godparents, our parents, and others as well. We might remember them too, as part of our heritage of faith!
"Mother" Church, acting through "her" agents in the adoption racket, was complicit for generations in concealing from adoptees their true baptismal records.
Adoptees were not told the names their real mothers chose for them, which meant they did not know the names of their patron saints.
They cannot mark the day or visit the font.
They were not told the names of their real godmothers, often nurses at maternity homes, who held them and spoke for them at the sacrament of baptism.
Their records were falsified and kept from them. The sacrament was shrouded in lies.
Now, in many cases, in many dioceses, as parishes and maternity hospitals have closed, those baptismal records are lost.
A simple way to "participate in the motherhood of the Church" would be to end the secrecy, open the sealed records, tell the truth. A mother does not lie to her children and keep hidden from them the true facts of their origins, the true identity of their ancestors. The pope could accomplish all that with a simple command.
Gerelyn, your complaint is a valid one. But you miss the point of the concept of church. Neither the pope nor any on this thread denies or approves of its faults. Despite many scoundrel who have led the Church, many have been brought to God through its portals. We cannot deny the good that has been done while working to make the Church better. As Dorothy Day wrote: "the church is a whore, but she is our mother."
Dorothy Day's comment--"As to the Church, where else shall we go, except to the Bride of Christ, one flesh with Christ? Though she is a harlot at times, she is our Mother."–appeared in a column she wrote during the Vietnam War which you can find at: http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/daytext.cfm?TextID=250
(Can't stand Dorothy Day or that revolting quotation.)
(But I think her desire NOT to be canonized should be honored.)
Your anger colors a lot of your thinking. You should be half the person Dorothy Day was.
Do we love the Church as we love our own mother...? ... when there is talk of our mother's defects we cover them...
This comes too close for comfort to justifying the sexual abuse cover-ups. Did he really use the same word that is used for "cover-up"?
Mothers give birth to their children and then watch them grow up, cut the apron strings and move on. Ultimately the mothers die and the children repeat the process.
But the mothers die nonetheless and in a good cases, live on in their children. If the mother has been abusive then the children make a definite point of ensuring that their mothers do NOT live on in them nor their children.
Dorothy Day's "though she is a harlot at times, she is our Mother" is true as far as it goes, but it doesn't change what she is or has become.
I don't think that "mother church" is a good image for the RCC these days. Repenting sinner would be more realistic.
In old family records, we realized not long ago that what we thought were records of dates of birth were actually records of dates of baptisms. Often the two were off by a couple of days. Baptism was considered more important than physical birth, I guess! That makes me think that even in the 19t century, people must have been well aware that baptism was "the moment in which we are given the life of God."
Claire, that was the case in my mother's family as well. For almost all her adult life, my aunt Agnes thought she was born on St Agnes day. She was not. She was born the day before, but baptized on St Agnes day, hence her name. For a first-born child, you'd think her parents would have reported all this with better accuracy, but I think their spirituality entered in. What was more important, after all? To my grandparents it was undoubtedly baptism that was the more important event. It was the beginning of the life that mattered most of all, the life that would not end. It took an international investigation to turn up the biological facts; no one in the family remembered them.
Rita - from my grandmother came stories about how the mothers often, if not most of the time, did not even attend the baptisms because they were not considered by the church do be cleansed yet. Thus, my grandmother's complaint that she could only sit in the back of the church while her children were baptized. (talk about a stunted sexual theology impacting even baptism).
Couple that with the overwhemingly need to baptize quickly for fear that an infant might die and not get to heaven.
Lots of things impacted notations in family bibles, family histories, records, etc.
My Mother did not attend the baptism of any of her eleven children, even though in the case of the first two of us the parish church was a block away from where my parents were then living. Yes, she hadn't been "churched," and so it wasn't seemly to go out. But also, if I recall correctly, new mothers didn't go out for two or three weeks after giving birth because they were "recovering."
So what was my Mother doing while her new child and a large gathering of family members were at the church at one or two on a Sunday afternoon? I'm sure she got in a few prayers, but mainly she was preparing the meal for the family's return from church.
In 1960, Congregational theologian Paul S. Minear published a book entitled Images of the Church in the New Testament. He found ninety-six of them! The Fathers of the Church and medieval theologians found many more. In fact, there is hardly a female figure in the Bible, including the prostitutes, who was not viewed as a symbol of the Church. The point is that there are many, many images of the Church, and the many are needed precisely because no one of them exhaustively expresses all there is to say about the Church. So to propose that there are senses in which we ought to think of the Church as a mother is not to preclude that it may be thought or imaged in other ways, e.g., as a field, or a ship in stormy waters, or a sheepfold, or as a prostitute, a widow, a virgin, etc., etc. Only the prose-bound would think that we have to choose among them all.
One of my favorite images is the "elect lady" from the second letter of John. I think I got that from Paul Minear... but from one of his articles, not this book which you mentioned, Joe.
"The point is that there are many, many images of the Church, and the many are needed precisely because no one of them exhaustively expresses all there is to say about the Church."Right. Neither wholly pure nor wholly corrupt. Sinners working out salvation with fear and trembling. "Only in dying do we live." The Spring of Resurrection outdoes all the trials and tribulations.
Why is it that you can't stand Dorothy Day?
Adrian Nocent once wrote that the immersion font is a symbol of the community.
One often encounters the expression that the font is "the womb of the church" but Nocent's point is a good one, I think. A relatively large font, one in which an adult can be immersed, carries this community dimension of the sign further. Its very size is a symbol of the community that gives birth to the new Christian. Even in practical terms, immersion requires more people (carrying towels, helping the baptizans in and out of the font, and so on) than pouring a few drops of water does.
We are so enamored of efficiency. No mess, no fuss. But also, it means we need very few people for these "efficient" sacraments, and there is how the role of the community is downplayed.
This is a concrete example of how the renewal of initiation polity plays on the imaginative resources of the people, through the liturgy. One can't "get inside" a tiny font. It is a water vessel, but hardly a place of immersion, something one "enters" in order to be transformed, as one enters the Church.
Just as an aside (I am not a psychologist by any means) -- some of my Jungian-inclined friends have also commented to me on how quite a few churches have very big paschal candles, but tiny little fonts -- this suggests to them an overemphasis on the masculine and underemphasis on the feminine.
I think that this passage in the original post is very important and well-said:
I don't think enough attention is given to this dialectical relationship: the Church makes believers but is made up of believers; the children of the Church are mother Church; individual Christians enter a building of which they themselves are the living stones. Too much of our language and discourse about the Church is in the third person–as if it were something apart from ourselves.
If my own experience is any indication (and it may not be), getting to this point involves a conversion in the perspective from which you view things. For me, that conversion was experienced in discovering and appropriating the meaning of baptism. Kavanagh once said it to me, when he was kindly reviewing my manuscript for a book on Christian initiation: "It's about identity. It's ALL about identity."
The dialectic -- so needed, as Joe rightly points out -- is slowed to a standstill if one pole of that dialectic is missing.
One point I would like to see accented more is that the believers who "make up the Church" include those who are feasting in the heavenly Jerusalem. The Litany of the Saints in the baptismal rite is a small (insufficient?) reminder of this. We do need to do more justice to chapter seven of Lumen gentium.
getting to this point involves a conversion in the perspective from which you view things
As an aside, when last year I asked my catechism class: "What is the Church?", the ones who did have an answer were quick to reply: "The Church is all of us", but they don't see that it implies that they have a role to play in the Church.
Bob: Yes, we could place more emphasis on the last words of the Preface: "And so with all the angels and saints...", a useful reminder that the communion enjoyed here on earth extends beyond time and space. But I don't think I would call those in the heavenly Jerusalem "believers" any more.
Bob, could you say more about this in the context of this particular discussion?
Specifically, how does one avoid the pitfall of putting the Church at a distance by accenting those who are feasting in the heavenly Jerusalem? I'm not against this, but I don't think it gets at the problem of the church as "them." The problematic is not between heaven and earth, as I understood it.
In other words, if we emphasize the heavenly communion the church could still be "them" couldn't it -- the canonized saints, the martyrs, who are the real Church, which doesn't include us (at least not yet).
Rite of Baptism, Presentation of Lighted Candle:
Parents and godparents, this light is entrusted to you to be kept burning brightly. This child of yours has been enlightened by Christ. He/She is to walk always as a child of the light. May N. keep the flame of faith alive in his/her heart. When the Lord comes, may N. go out to meet him with all the saints in the heavenly kingdom.
I'm not seeking to reinstate the "they" (at least in the sense you are reacting against), but to enrich the "we." After all the title of chapter seven of Lumen gentium is "The eschatological character of the pilgrim church and its union with the heavenly church." I would stress "eschatological" and "union." The believers' "we" is identified by their membership in the eschatological community whose head is Christ; and their union, as Joe affirms in his comment, "extends beyond time and space."
I think some of that "eschatological" character and that time-transcending communion is hinted at in the injunction that John Page provides – but how well is it appreciated by us? How rich is our catechesis in this regard?
When Communism was big in Italy a prominent Communist was asked why he baptized his children since Communism was atheistic. He replied: "I may be a Communist but I am not crazy." By and large this is the practise of many Catholics. People are then called lapsed Catholics who never made a commitment or covenant to begin with. RCIA does give full expression to what Baptism is all about. But very few examine the practice of Infant Baptism. People are conscious of the danger of the child not going to heaven without Baptism. Aside from the apparel and party, very little is celebrated about the other more substantial aspects of the rite. Is Infant Baptsim really justified?
Have others been able to click on the link? In my case it took me to gmail yesterday, and again today.
Claire: I hope I've fixed the link.
Yes, it works now, thanks.
Jim Pauwels:
Did you happen to notice that one of the other contributors to the booklet in which Congar's article on "Mother Church" appeared was a certain Carolus Fr. Pauwels, O.P.? His essay is entitled "The Church as Sign of the Future." The only information is his address which is given as: "Nijmegen - Rome." I did find this website with a long article on him, in Dutch, which identifies him as a Dutch Dominican, 1903-1965. If my faulty grasp of Dutch is not incorrect, he occupied the first chair devoted to ecumenism at any Roman university. Here are two sites, both in Dutch, with more information about him:
A possible relative?
Gerelyn's comment reminded how much I have enjoyed reading over the years the compelling and thoughtful prose of the fair-minded and talented Patrick Jordan, former managing editor of Commonweal.
I can always stand to read (or re-read) his work:
I believe it was Roberto Benigni, when receiving the Academy Award for his performance in the movie "Life is Beautiful" thanked his parents for "the gift of poverty". I believe it is reasonable to assume from that remark his childhood was both remarkable and unremarkable. Nonetheless he felt loved. Perhaps that's what the Church does for us in its imperfect way. After all, it has a rather challenging task. To be us and no us at the same moment.
Anyone who has done extensive genealogical research, as I have for the last 6 years, particularly on ancestry.com (which I will grant is the most extensive and likely most accurate of the sites) has learned to take dates with a grain of salt. Key dates really need to be verified to the extent possible in more than one source.
One very often has to live with a sense of ambiguity about so many things one is researching.
More about the Mother Church today, and this time I don't care much for it. http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/09/17/pope_francis_at_tuesday_mass:...
From the report Pope Francis seems to have been wandering all over the place. Here's a post I sent in from Augustine on the Church as widow: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/church-widow
For St. Augusting here -- and the Pope today-- "widow" seems to mean "poor, single mother". Hmmm. That's a real stretch. Also it wouldn't be theologically sound to say the Church has "lost" her husband (Jesus). He died, yes, but He is risen. The metaphor doesn't work.
Not their best sermons.
Ann: Why is it a stretch to think of a widow as a "poor, single mother'? Because not all widows are poor, or mothers? When the Bible in many places asks for special care for widows and orphans, it is thnking of the poor and defenceless.
Obviously not all aspects of widowhood apply to the Church, but is that to say that none of them do? Are there no aspects of our Christian condition that resemble widowhood? If the Church--we--can be compared to a bride, a mother, a virgin, why not also to a widow?
Well, I found Augustine's bit rather boring. The image of a widow does not speak to me, and except for the first sentence or two, he's mostly paraphrasing a gospel reading.
The pope's homily seemed, yes, all over the place. He said at one point that those were just random thoughts suggested to him by the reading, and that's exactly how it sounded. One might see it as giving us a peek of his stream-of-consciousness musings.


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While there are many health-related reasons to avoid alcohol consumption, breast cancer risk cannot be fully validated as being increased. There have been as many studies disproving the theory as supporting it. As with everything, moderation is the important step.


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I would like to approximate the following sum when $n \rightarrow \infty$ and $n \gg k$,
$\sum_{x = k}^n \sum_{y > x}^n \frac{\sum_{m = 0}^{k - 1} {y - 2 \choose m}}{\sum_{m = 0}^k {y - 1 \choose m}}$.
The catch is that there is no closed form for partial sum of binomial coefficients. I wonder if there is a good way to approximate $\frac{\sum_{m = 0}^{k - 1} {y - 2 \choose m}}{\sum_{m = 0}^k {y - 1 \choose m}}$ so that the approximation converges to a value given that $n \rightarrow \infty$ and $n \gg k$. Any help is greatly appreciate.
I re-thought about my original problem, I believe solving the following problem would make more sense. However it is still unclear to me how to approximate the formula.
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One thing that is important to remember is that the pronunciation of
Welsh varies widely between dialects. Therefore the student should
remember that the pronunciations (and even the words) are guidelines,
and regional varations are myriad.
Since the system of accents used in Welsh is not supported universally
by the computers comprising the Internet and connected networks, a set
of substitute characters has been devised by speakers of the Celtic
languages who participate in network discussions. These will be used
in this series of lessons. They are:
Thus, we have "ty+" for "house", "gweddi%o" for "to pray", "nesa/u"
for "to approach", etc.
A simple vowel, i.e., a vowel that is not a diphthong, may be either
long or short depending on its context and on whether or not there is
a circumflex accent. There is a difference of duration and also of
pronunciation between corresponding long and short vowels. Here are
the rules for when vowels are short, and when they are long:
As in English, it is often the case in Welsh that two vowels combine
to form a diphthong.
The rule in Welsh is that the accent, or stress, goes on the penult
(the next-to-last syllable). There are a few exceptions to this
general rule, to be noted in the lessons. A regular exception to this
rule is that words ending in "-hau" are accented on the last syllable.
Because of this rule, stress often shifts when a word adds an ending.
For instance, "AFal", (apple), with stress on the first syllable, has
a plural "afALau", (apples), with stress on the second syllable.
One slight trickiness is knowing when two adjacent vowels actually
form separate syllables. For example, the letters "i" and "w" are
often consonants rather than vowels. A common case is the ending
"-io", as in "peidio" (to cease). The letter "i" is a consonant in
this ending unless there is a diaeresis over is (as in "si%o"). The
treatment of "ia", "iau, "ie" in a final syllable is identical; e.g.,
"tincian" (to tinkle) and "smotiau" (spots) are both two-syllable
Stress is sometimes a tricky thing to hear in Welsh, since the last
syllable, especially in the last word of a clause or sentence, is
uttered with a rising tone. So it sometimes sounds like the last
syllable is stressed, to the ears of an English speaker. Hearing the
accent correctly comes with practice, and it is a good idea to use
tapes if you have no access to a native speaker. Example: "tystio".
For further details, see Section E.1.
As mentioned in Section 1.2, there are four different kinds of
accents that can occur in Welsh. An accent can only occur over a
vowel, and in theory any accent can occur over any vowel. All of the
accents are relatively rare. The following descriptions are in
increasing order of rarity of occurrence.
There are a number of words of which the learner should be wary, since
they look like English words, but are pronounced very differently--and
often mean very different things. (Incidentally, there are only a few
words that I have found that are spelled the same in English and
Welsh, are pronounced the same, and have the same meaning: "anthem",
"helm", and "mat".) Not all of these words are common, but watch out
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PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
This a recursive loop, if I'm not mistaken. Did the creator of PHP have this in mind when he named PHP?
Is this the only language where the name has some sort of spurious grammar, spelling or phonetic?
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This a recursive loop, if I'm not mistaken. Did the creator of PHP have this in mind when he named PHP?
Is this the only language where the name has some sort of spurious grammar, spelling or phonetic?
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Recursive acronyms are fairly common. Probably the most famous is GNU is Not Unix
Of the top of my head Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator), Jini (Jini Is Not Initials) and Lame (Lame Ain't an Mp3 Encoder) are all good candidates. However the winner for spurious grammar, spelling or phonetic must be the fact XML should begin with an E. The fact of all the Xs that this has spawned (XSLT, XHTML, XFL) are like death by a thousand paper cuts for pedants like me.
@Paul Butcher has already linked to Wikipedia's list of recursive acronyms, so I won't repeat any of them here. But there are still a couple of languages, libraries, frameworks, platforms and other software artifacts with funny or interesting origins.
My personal favorite is Linda, a tuple-space based distributed computing environment for Java. Explaining that name is a bit more complicated … There is a programming language called Ada, which is widely believed to be highly complicated and hard to use due to over-design by (government) committee. The designers of Linda wanted the system to be the opposite of that: very simple to use. Well, Ada is named after Lady Ada Lovelace, widely believed to be the first programmer ever. So, the designers of Linda decided to name it after Linda Lovelace, lead "actress" of Deep Throat, widely believed to be the first porn star ever.
Plus, there is a distributed computing environment for Ruby based on the ideas from Linda, which was written by a Japanese programmer, who decided to call this Ruby-Linda Rinda, making fun of the stereotypical speech impediment we Westerners typically ascribe to Asians.
And there is of course the Parrot VM, which is named after an April Fool's joke, which in turn was named after a Monty Python sketch.


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Dec. 13, 2012 -- We watch the Olympic Games with awe and marvel at the athletes' power and grace.
But are Olympic athletes really any healthier than the rest of us? Do they live longer? And if they do, what does it mean for the rest of us mere mortals?
These are some of the questions that two new studies in the BMJ set out to answer.
The first study showed Olympic medalists do live close to three years longer than the rest of us, regardless of their country, medal won, or type of sport played.
A second study involving Olympic athletes, however, found that athletes who participated in high- or moderate-intensity sports don't live any longer than athletes who excel in low-intensity sports such as golf. But boxers and rugby and ice hockey players are at greater risk of dying due to the physical contact associated with their sports.
In the first study, researchers compared life expectancy among 15,174 Olympic athletes who won medals between 1896 and 2010 to that of people in the general population. Winners lived about 2.8 years longer than non-Olympic medalists in eight of the nine country groups studied. It didn't matter if they took home the gold, silver, or bronze, either.
"We were a little surprised that survival advantage among Olympians was so pervasive," says researcher Philip M. Clarke. He is a professor of health economics at the University of Melbourne in Australia. "It can be observed across almost all countries, sports, and medal type. Olympians are much more like each other when they are compared with the general population."
The study wasn't designed to figure out why Olympic athletes live longer, but the researchers do have some theories.
"There are a range of explanations including genetic factors, physical activity, healthy lifestyle, and the wealth and status that comes from international sporting glory," Clarke says. "While it is hard to disentangle these effects, what we do show is winning a gold medal does not confer any additional survival advantage. So maybe any wealth and fame that can flow from winning is playing less of a role, but we really need another study to examine this issue in detail."
You don't have to be a Gabby Douglas to reap these benefits. "For those of us who are unable to win an Olympic medal, the one thing we can do to improve our life expectancy is to engage in regular exercise, which has been shown to protect against major diseases like type 2 diabetes," he says.


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I would like to turn off the option that allows invited people to post on a Facebook event's wall. I want to restrict it so that only hosts can post. How can that be done?
As of now there doesn't seem to be any way of restricting users posting on the events wall. I faced this problem a while back too.. But as a host you can always delete unwanted post/comments.
Here's a possible work-around - why not create a FB group instead which offers better control. Then invite all members to an event but you will have to request them to not post anything there.
Take a look at Events - Facebook help center, for more details. You could drop in a suggestion to FB too :)
Events created by Pages have an option to allow only the page admins to post to the event wall. When you create the event, just check the box next to "Only admins can post to the Event wall." If you've already created the event, you can click the Edit button at the top right and you'll find the checkbox at the bottom of the edit window.
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In cryptography one needs finite groups $G$ in which the discrete logarithm problem is infeasible. Often they use the multiplicative group $\mathbb{G}_m(\mathbb{F}_p)$ where $p$ is a prime number of bit length $500$, say.
Rubin and Silverberg suggested (cf. [1]) to use certain tori instead, if the goal is to minimize the key size. In the easiest case, this comes down to using the group $$T_2(p)=ker(Norm: \mathbb{F}_{p^2}^\times\to \mathbb{F}_p^\times).$$
If I understood correctly, then the underlying philosopy seems to be: The group $T_2(p)$ should be as secure as $\mathbb{F}_{p^2}^\times$, but its size is only $p+1$. (So, if you use groups of type $T_2(p)$ instead of groups of type $\mathbb{G}_m(\mathbb{F}_p)$, then you can achive the same security with half the key size.)
Question. What are the reasons, be they heurisical or strictly provable, to believe in this philosopy?
Denote by $\mathbb{G}'_m$ the quadratic twist of the algebraic group $\mathbb{G}_m$. It is easy to see that $T_2(p)$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb{G}'_m(\mathbb{F}_p)$. (This isomorphism is easy to compute). The philosophy predicts: The quadratic twist of the multiplicative group should be better than the multiplicative group itself.
(Compare with elliptic curves: If $E/\mathbb{F}_p$ is an elliptic curve, then I would certainly not expect its quadratic twist to be better than $E$ itself.)
Remark: I concentrated on the simplest case above. One also considers certain groups $T_n(p)$ which are expected to be as secure as $\mathbb{F}_{p^n}^\times$, while their size is only $\approx\varphi(n)p$. Lemma 7 in [1] is meant to explain this. However, I would be keen on a more detailed explanation.
[1] Lect. Notes in Comp. Sci. 2729 (2003) 349-365. (available at http://math.stanford.edu/~rubin/)


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I can't understand why on SO questions like "which framework should I use" are being closed.
For example here: Recommendations for a Java backend framework for HTML5 mobile applications?
Someone quite precisely defines requirements about framework but the question is still closed as "not constructive". For me it's constructive and I'd like to find answer for that question :/
Anyway, if that current policy is to close questions where someone can state own opinion I found whole tag of questions that can be closed: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/web-frameworks
Update: So it seems to me that I asked wrong questions. Instead of asking why such question is closed, I should have asked "why FAQ says those questions should be closed". Number of issues with keyword closed-question clearly states that casual users do need and want such questions to be on SO. For me it seems moderators try to do something good but what they actually do in such cases only annoys people. That's especially annoying when a question, which is being closed could be easily rephrased so it would follow the rules and still "ask" same question. For instance let's say I ask "which framework is best for (...)" which is bad, but instead of this question I might write: "I am developing something, it takes me very long time, is there a tool to make it faster and easier"? and that I guess would be ok :/


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Which MSc to choose?
Hey guys,
i've bumped a lot of times into this community whilst doing some research on the game industry, regarding jobs and their qualifications. So I decided to register here and ask you a few questions, as you all seem quite competent and friendly.
So first off - I'm 20 years old and currently I'm taking classes in Computer Science at a german University. I'm in the 2nd year of this 3 year bachelor. I've been playing with the idea of doing something game-related later on (best case: graphics/engine/gameplay programmer) - to transform my dream into reality, so to speak :). So I started to look around eventually.
In Great Britain, I found a MSc in 'Computer Games Technology' at a few universities. (for example here). The duration made me wonder though - it's only 2 semesters (From my understading, a master degree is obtained after at least 4 semesters).
Also I did not find any profound statistics on beginners salary in the game industry other than GB, there it's estimated around 18000-25000 pounds (22-30k ), which seems quite low to me, compared to other programming / development jobs in the IT sector (about 35-45k here in Germany).
So here are my questions now:
Which graduation do I need to get a good start into the games industry, actually does graduation weigh that much in this sector at all?
Am I better off specializing to game technology or is a common MSc in Computer Science better / enough?
Are the salaries I listed realisitic? What about carreer advancement oppertunities? (I'd like to know facts about Western Europe, USA is not that relevant for me at the moment)
In conclusion here's what I have to decide with and I'm all happy about your help with this dicision:
Graduate in Computer Science BSc. then
You're welcome to comment anything, and I'd be very pleased, if someone helped me by answering my question,
Thanks all,
PS: Sorry if my english sounds funny...
Re: Which MSc to choose?
Game salaries are lower than salaries in other tech industries. I don't have any links for you to game salaries in Europe in particular - you can take a look at http://www.gamecareerguide.com/featu...urvey_2011.php and you can make some adjustments.
Game employers don't typically require a Masters degree. A bachelors degree and a portfolio are usual. If you get the Masters, you'll still need a portfolio of games you've made.
When you have a decision to make, I recommend that you make a decision grid: http://sloperama.com/advice/m70.htm
Re: Which MSc to choose?
Okay, thank you for your answer.
As for the decision grid: I'm at points 2 & 3 - gathering information ;) But thank you for your advice anyways :)
In the survey I could not find any comparison to other industries but gaming, yet 48000$ for an average across all levels of expirience in Europe is significantly low ... (in USA, the figure is 85000$...)
So if I chose the way of a game programmer, my personal experience with creating games (my skills, some game I eventually programmed) is far more important than my degree?
Thank you,
Re: Which MSc to choose?
The degree is important - it doesn't have to be a Masters.
The portfolio is important.
In other words, both are important.
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This is less of a question aimed at developing a game and more about the technology behind it. A number of gaming journalists and pro gamers (both on the tournament and the home entertainment sector) often hammer on the matter that any first or 3rd person game should have a way to change FoV, and I agree with them. The main reason they mention this is because a pretty large number of players get motion-sickness related headaches and eyestrain if they play with an overly constrained FoV.
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The Download button seems to link to the wrong video. It lets you download a different 11-minute interview with Mike Hall.
TommyCarlier wrote:Great first video, Rory. The topic is very interesting, your style is the right combination of professional, relaxed and funny.
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I'm looking forward to more videos about Windows Mobile, and XP Embedded. A few months ago, I ported my calculator 'Calctor' to Windows Mobile in about 2 hours, and I was surprised how easy it was. Keep the good stuff coming!
TomZ wrote:
The Download button seems to link to the wrong video. It lets you download a different 11-minute interview with Mike Hall.
Ion Todirel wrote:Nice gadget, i like the way you interview people Rory, cool!
Greg K wrote:Great interview. I liked the fact that, unlike some of the other videos I have seen on Channel 9, the focus was on the technology itself. The interviewer stayed more or less in the background. Well done.
Good Show. Keep shooting and shipping the videos.
Going to see Microsoft's Scott Guthrie in North Dallas after work today.
Robert and Charles did two interviews with Scott that were excellent over a year ago.
You need to get him on Channel 9 again to go over AJAX ASP.NET, LINQ, CSS Control Adapter, and ASP.NET 2.0.
staceyw - yes, you can build and deploy Windows XP Embedded onto PC hardware such as a shuttle box - Windows XP Embedded can be thought of as a componentized version of Windows XP Professional - 9000 drivers, 3000 o/s components, and some embedded specific technologies such as File Based Write Filter, USB Boot and others.
We have some Virtual Labs over on MSDN that will walk you through the process of building and booting a custom Windows XP Embedded operating system image - here's a link -
Since Windows XP Embedded is based on Windows XP Pro this means that any existing XP application/driver should work, unmodified on Windows XP Embedded.
- Mike
hholtmann wrote:Hey Charles..
Your Going Deep series has been my favourite part of C9.. but I gotta say.. Rory Rocks!!! Charles, you better keep tabs on Rory, because he is going to give you a run for your money with the excitement he brings with his interest in Windows Embedded.
Welcome to the world of C9 Rory.. looking forward to your future WCE videos.
mihich wrote:Great video, thanks! I would like to hear more about the types of processors that exist for Windows CE, their characteristics and what types of devices use them today.
cool vid. I think windows mobile is heading in the right direction. I like the going deep style interviews, more tech the better.
One of the best videos I have ever seen on C9. Thanks to Mike Hall, Derek Snyder and Rory ... very well explained !!! Especialy for somebody who needs an overview of the embedded systems without the detalis. (at the moment)
I thought CE was absoluted by Mobile. Now I know Mobile is build on CE, Thanks
It would be nice if there's document out there that is also explaining this subject with same layout as in the video. Just an overview of the differences and the relations between the systems. Maybe there is already one?
Rory maybe just one tip: Zoming in a little more would be nice when somebody showing these gizmo's or other objects
Keep up the good work.
i want dealer for windows embedded xp software.Also we need ur guidance for selecting OS installable flash ROM. we need minimum of 5gb ROM. so only we need embedded xp.
Thank u in advance,
I would really like to watch this video. It's getting good reviews. It will not run for me.
kallzz wrote:how to download the file for offline viewing?
I love the CE. My mom bakes it all nice an warm in the oven. XP ate my sister and 3.54 gig hertz was way washing any other standard. Thanks for the vid; i will put it with my Jurassic Park collection.
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I have just installed Ubuntu 10.10 (dual booted with Windows 7) on a laptop which will connect to the internet through a wireless internet connection and I want to ensure that this is secure. I have installed GUFW and enabled the UFW firewall and set incoming to deny. What else can I do to secure this laptop?
That's pretty much all you need. By default, no "server" services run on Ubuntu, so technically even starting ufw (using gufw) is overkill. Obviously if you later configure services, then these should be ideally firewall protected so that only your desired clients can see them.
Having said that, you still want to ensure that your wireless connection is properly protected (which isn't really Ubuntu specific but I'll add it here for completeness) :
Go to the network manager applet, right click and choose "Connection Information". Highlight your wireless network, then check the "Security" :
That should say either "WPA/WPA2" or "WEP". If it's "Open", then you have to reconfigure your router, then reconnect your laptop with the proper key.
The problem is not the security of the laptop (incoming ports etc) you've taken care of those. The problem is that wifi is inherently insecure by the nature of you broadcasting all your information for a 30 foot radius.
Always use ssl/https, always ensure you're using an encrypted WPA2 network (not WEP) and plug in via ethernet if you really want to make sure.
Get rid of Windows 7?
More seriously, always use SSL websites (https://) where possible and install some security/privacy-related extensions in Firefox, e.g. NoScript, Adblock Plus, Better Privacy, Cookie Monster, Ghostery, HTTPS-Anywhere, Passwordmaker.
As mentioned previously, go with protected wireless, using WPA/WPA2, avoiding WEP or open wireless. Also, avoid unknown applications, or those that have not been reviewed first. Anything you do on the internet today should all be encrypted using SSH/HTTPS. Although Ubuntu is not installing services by default, this is something that a local Linux guru should check to make sure nothing that you don't know is running. There also may be services for things such as Bluetooth, Eudora or other end-user services that you don't need. The less programs you run, the better/safer you are. For example, Ubuntu is known to run an email agent of some kind for checking your email, regardless of the email software you use. I usually disable half a dozen of such services on my installation, before starting to really use it.