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Unanswered: combobox from markup is sending displayed value instead of key value
I'm made several comboboxes from markup with the transform config. But when sending the form the displayed value is sent instead of the key value. I can't figure out how to configure the combobox correctly:
<select name="Wert_Id2" size="4" multiple="multiple" id="Wert_Id2"> <option value="11317">Br....</option> <option value="11311">FSued</option> <option value="11315">GWest</option> </select> <script type='text/javascript'> Ext.onReady(function(){ var Wert_Id2 = Ext.create('Ext.form.field.ComboBox', { typeAhead: true, transform: 'Wert_Id2', width: 300, multiSelect: true, forceSelection: true }); }); </script>
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21 Sep 2011 11:27 PM #2
unresolved is a bug
Found a similar post http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...not-right-data. Seems to be a bug :-(
22 Sep 2011 10:19 AM #3
Did you try using the name for your combo?
I had the same problem and fixed ti but I'm not sure if that was the problem.
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The 5 Most Hilariously Insane Rulers of All Time
#2. The Zhengde Emperor of China Liked to Play Make-Believe
The Zhengde Emperor was emperor of China in the beginning of the 16th century, having taken the throne at the age of 14, and as far as anyone could tell, he remained 14 for the next decade and a half of his rule.
For instance, Zhengde liked to play games of make-believe instead of, you know, running a giant empire like he was supposed to be doing. In fact, he built a whole fake city block on the imperial grounds where he would pretend to be a shopkeeper, to the puzzlement of his subjects, who were forced to go along with it.
"Make-believe or not, these prices are bullshit."
Occasionally, he pretended he was a general and went on raiding parties (almost getting captured) with an army dressed all in silk, for some reason. Weirder still, he invented for himself an alter ego he named Zhu Shou, whom he would "order" on pointless raiding parties, to the exasperation of his government, who had to pretend they weren't just talking to the emperor in a wig. There might be a powerful lesson here in the fact that the dude was king, but still preferred fantasy to reality. Then again, maybe he just found being king way more boring than he imagined.
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"Mel Brooks lied."
Eventually Zhengde died in predictable fashion: after getting really drunk and falling off a boat during a fishing trip.
#1. Farouk of Egypt, the Pickpocket King
The last ruling king of Egypt, King Farouk, was as nutty as most of the world's leaders seemed to be during World War II, and was ultimately the reason Egypt decided to pack it all in with this whole monarchy thing. Known early in his reign for his excessive partying and gambling, Farouk was once described as a "stomach with a head" after he grew to over 300 pounds. According to his sister, he would drink 30 bottles of soda a day and eat caviar straight from the can. But gluttony is pretty much expected, if not mandatory, for a despot. That alone certainly would not qualify him for this list.
But more bizarre for someone with infinite money, Farouk was a complete kleptomaniac, once stealing a watch from Winston Churchill. He later claimed to have simply found it lying around, but neglected to mention that he'd "found" it in Churchill's pocket.
"You're also about to 'find' my foot in your ass."
Another time, after having nightmares about lions attacking him, Farouk decided to take a trip to the Cairo Zoo to see the lions. And by see them, we mean shoot them while they were in their cages, because that's a perfectly reasonable reaction to night terrors if you are insane.
Finally, when Hitler's army was preparing to invade Egypt, it's safe to say that Farouk was the only world leader to send Hitler a telegram thanking him for coming to kick his country's ass. He didn't like the British forces occupying his country, and apparently he figured Nazis were somehow a step up.
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"Our mutual love of terrible facial hair really sealed the deal."
As you might have guessed, Farouk wasn't too popular with the people, who supported the British and were pretty anti-Nazi. In 1952, he was overthrown, and upon raiding his treasures, an interesting discovery was made: Farouk had tons of coins, magic tricks, stamps ... and the world's largest porn collection.
For more world leaders that were certifiable, check out 7 Modern Dictators Way Crazier Than You Thought Possible and The 5 Most Shockingly Insane Modern Dictators.


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Reb Moshe Feinstein was once interviewed by the New York Times where he answered questions like how does Klal Yisroel know who is a Gadol? Does anyone know when it was, and does anyone know where I can get an archived version online if someone can link it It would be a greatly appreciated or even how i could go about getting it?
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Many library systems have access to PDFs of the historical New York Times. The 1975 interview is an article from May 5, 1975, entitled: "Responsa: The Law as Seen By Rabbis for 1,000 Years", by Israel L. Shenker; pages 33 and 61.
I can see the PDF but as it's owned by ProQuest, I don't think I'm allowed to repost it. There's a picture of Rav Moshe answering a phone call in his study.
The article starts with some material about Rav Moshe, noting the old refrain that a new rabbi would get an ordination certificate and Rabbi Feinstein's number; it also mentions a volume published opposing him (ma'aneh le'igeret) and "handbills of defiance" in Satmar for one of his rulings. The article then goes into describing what responsa literature is and some of its history, then some description of Rabbi Ephraim Oshry's Holocaust responsa; then has some quotations with Conservative and Reform responsa experts on their views.
The only direct quotes from Rav Moshe in the article are, as you'd indicated:
His obituary is March 25, 1986. He is described as:
Here is a quote from the 1986 obituary in NYT -
Typical of his modesty was this answer he gave in a 1975 interview as to how he had acquired his standing as a posek.
''You don't wake up in the morning and decide you're an expert on answers,'' he said. ''If people see that one answer is good and another answer is good, gradually you will be accepted.''
I do not not know what the '75 interview is.
The original article is available online: http://docslide.us/documents/ny-times-1975-article-about-r-moshe-feinstein.html


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I made a great vegetable soup in which I also put noodles and beans. Fresh, it was perfect. I froze most of it in small containers to thaw as I needed them. The problem is that when I thaw them, the noodles seem to get overcooked (they were "just-right") when the batch was fresh. I thaw the soup in a pot on the stove. I don't cook it exceptionally high, just hot enough to melt and warm the soup. Is there a better way to do it, so that the noodles (and to a lesser extent, the beans) won't get mushy when cooking to thaw?
Pasta will get softer and mushier with every heating and cooling cycle. Try a grain or rice instead.
I think the answer to this question: How can I stop the cooking in my chicken and noodle soup? will help me as well.
One thing you can try is freezing the noodles and the soup or beans separately.
Instead of thawing the mix together, thaw separately. Use a frying pan with a bit of some oil on low heat to thaw the noodle. And just thaw the soup or beans in pot as you do usually.
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I just taught the classical impossible constructions for the first time, and in finding my class a reference for the transcendence of pi, I found a dearth of distinct proofs. In particular, those that I read all require the existence of infinitely many primes, which strikes me as extraneous. Is there a known proof that requires only knowledge that I would "expect", namely, integral calculus to get your hands on the actual constant and algebraic properties of polynomials in connection with the assumption that the constant is algebraic?
The infinitude of primes (more precisely, the existence of arbitrarily large primes) might actually be necessary to prove the transcendence of $\pi$. As I explained in an earlier answer, there are structures which satisfy many axioms of arithmetic but fail to prove the unboundedness of primes or the existence of irrational numbers. Shepherdson presented a simple method for constructing such models, I will present such a model where $\pi$ is rational!
The Shepherdson integers $S$ consist of all Puiseux polynomials of the form $$a = a_0 + a_1T^{q_1} + \cdots + a_kT^{q_k}$$ where $0 < q_1 < \cdots < q_k$ are rationals, $a_0 \in \mathbb{Z}$, and $a_1,\dots,a_k \in \mathbb{R}$. This is a discrete ordered domain, where $a < b$ iff the most significant term of $b-a$ is positive; this corresponds to making $T$ infinitely large. This ring $S$ satisfies open induction axioms $$\phi(0) \land \forall x(\phi(x) \to \phi(x+1)) \to \forall x(x \geq 0 \to \phi(x))$$ where $\phi(x)$ is a quantifier free formula (possibly with parameters). So the ring $S$ satisfies the same basic axioms as $\mathbb{Z}$, but only a very limited amount of induction. In the field of fractions of $S$, $\pi$ is equal to the ratio $\pi T/T$. In other words, $\pi$ is a rational number!
Is $\pi T/T$ really $\pi$? The integers form a subring of $S$, and if $p,q \in \mathbb{Z}$ then $p/q < \pi T/T$ in $S$ if and only if $p/q < \pi$ in $\mathbb{R}$. So $\pi T/T$ defines the same Dedekind cut as $\pi$ does, which is a very accurate description of $\pi$. Indeed, any proof of the transcendence of $\pi$ must ultimately be based on the comparison of $\pi$ and its powers with certain rational numbers, which $\pi T/T$ will accomplish just as well as the real number $\pi$. However, the usual definitions of $\pi$ are not easily formalizable in this basic theory, so there is much room for debate here and I wouldn't claim that $\pi T/T$ satisfies all reasonable definitions of $\pi$. Shepherdson only presented this argument for real algebraic numbers like $\sqrt{2}$, which have a finitary description in this theory and leave little room for debate. In any case, the conclusion to draw from this is that basic arithmetic with open induction does not suffice to prove that $\pi$, or any other real number, is irrational (never mind transcendental).
What about primes? In the ring $S$, the only primes are the ones from $\mathbb{Z}$. Although there are infinitely many primes in $S$, it is not true that there are arbitrarily large primes. For example, there are no primes larger than $T$. Thus $S$ is a model where the unboundedness of primes fails and so does the irrationality of $\pi$. This only shows that basic arithmetic with open induction does not suffice to prove either result. A possible line of attack to show that the unboundedness of primes is necessary to prove the transcendence of $\pi$ would be to show that the minimum amount of induction necessary to prove that $\pi$ is transcendental also suffices to prove the unboundedness of primes. Unfortunately, I do not know how much induction is necessary to prove the transcendence of $\pi$. (And the minimum amount of induction necessary to prove the unboundedness of primes is still an open problem.)
Well, here is a partial answer, which is a bit of a bummer. There is another Shepherdson domain $S_0$ similar to the above where $\pi$ is transcendental over $S_0$ and $S_0$ does not have arbitrarily large primes. This shows that the transcendence of $\pi$ does not imply the unboundedness of primes over basic arithmetic with open induction. The ring $S_0$ is the subring of $S$ where the coefficients of the Puiseux polynomial are restricted to be algebraic numbers. The unboundedness of primes fails in $S_0$ because the real algebraic numbers form a real closed field just like $\mathbb{R}$. The number $\pi$ is transcendental over $S_0$ because it is transcendental over the field of real algebraic numbers.
This is not entirely surprising since open induction is a very weak base theory and the Shepherdson type rings are very pathological. To constrain such pathologies Van Den Dries suggested requiring that the domain is integrally closed in its field of fractions; he called such domains normal but I don't know if this is standard terminology. Neither $S$ nor $S_0$ are normal. More convincing examples would be normal discrete ordered domains. The methods of Macintyre and Marker (Primes and their residue rings in models of open induction, MR1001418) suggest that normal analogues of $S$ and $S_0$ might exist.
The conclusion that I draw from this is that open induction is probably too weak a base theory to study this question. Stronger base theories run into the difficulty that it is still not known just how little induction is necessary to prove the unboundedness of primes. The next reasonable candidate is bounded-quantifier induction (IΔ0), which is not known to imply the unboundedness of primes. Using the Euler product $\pi^2/6 = \prod_p (1-p^{-2})^{-1}$ looks promising, but so far I can only make sense of this product in IΔ0 + Exp which is known to prove the unboundedness of primes.
I recommend the book Irrational Numbers by Ivan Niven, one of the M.A.A. Carus Monographs and available as a paperback. He proves irrationality of $\pi$ and $\pi^2$ much earlier, then shows that $\pi$ is also transcendental with the Lindemann theorem, chapter 9. I really like this book.
As you know from teaching your class, impossibility of the compass and straightedge constructions does not need anywhere near the full weight of transcendence, merely that the associated constant not lie in a tower of fields that expresses the idea of taking square roots, see
On using field extensions to prove the impossiblity of a straightedge and compass construction
or Appendix C in Galois Theory by Joseph Rotman, where he uses "only elementary field theory; no Galois theory is required." However, in line with your complaint, I should admit that I do not personally know of any proof that shows $\pi$ is not among the "constructible numbers" except for proofs of transcendence.
My feeling is similar to Barry's: the infinitude of primes may not be necessary. For example, in Chapter 2 of Niven's Irrational Numbers, he also used the infinitude of primes to prove that cos(r) is irrational for nonzero rational r. But our recent proof (Monthly, April/2010, 360-362, mentioned by Will Jagy earlier) does not need this at all. By the way, our proof (half-page long) can replace more or less the entire Chapter 2 of Niven's book (except the transcendence of e).


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I'm currently taking a machine learning course for fun, and the course heavily focuses on Matlab/Octave to write the code. One thing mentioned in the course is that, while Matlab/Octave are great for prototyping, they're very rarely used for production algorithms. Instead, those algorithms are typically rewritten in C++/Python/etc., using appropriate libraries, before reaching customers.
Fair enough; I get that. But here's my question: is that done for cultural reasons, for technical reasons, or because there is really no language that provides Matlab/Octave-like fluidity, but in a compiled form that can be linked from C/C++/
$MainstreamLanguage? The game industry uses Lua for game logic because it's easy to embed, and vastly superior for expressing things like AI. Likewise, there are Prolog variants for rules-heavy applications, Scheme variants for compilers, and so on.
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I've been told all dotCommonweal bloggers are expected to post something about Ken Langone's recent remarks on the "hurdle" to fundraising Pope Francis may have unwittingly created by admonishing the rich. I have little to add to what others—especially Mollie and Peter Nixon—have already written, but I do want to highlight one part of Langone's widely criticized comments that still hasn't received enough criticism: his suggestion that the pope's words about wealth (and, presumably, the gospel's) don't really apply to wealthy Americans.
"You want to be careful about generalities," Langone said. "Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country." Taken literally, this observation is unexceptionable. Generally speaking, we would all probably agree that one should "be careful" about generalities, as long as that doesn't just mean forbidding them. (Generalities are among the things one should avoid generalizing about.) But then, who said Pope Francis wasn't being careful? Not Langone—or not exactly. Here's something else you should be careful about: passive-agressive vagueness.
Again, taken literally, it's generally (and obviously) true that rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country, it being even more generally true that people in one country, rich or poor, don't act the same as people in another. That hardly seems worth pointing out. Langone must have meant more than that. He may have meant that rich people in this country are generally more virtuous than rich people in other countries—or at least more virtuous than rich people in the country the pope comes from, Argentina. It has been suggested by other critics of the pope's exhortation that he doesn't understand how rich people come by their money here in the United States, that he associates wealth with corruption only because he comes from what they consider to be a backward Latin American country.
In fact, the pope says relatively little about corruption in Evangelii Gaudium, whereas he has quite a bit to say about exploiting workers. The pope's critics may disagree with his definition of "exploitation," but it would be hard for anyone to disagree that there's at least as much of what Pope Francis means by exploitation here in the U.S. as there is in Argentina. Here, as much as there, people maximize profits by paying workers as little as the labor market or minimum-wage laws will allow, whether or not that's enough to meet the workers' material needs.
But maybe Langone was only trying to say that rich people in this country are more generous with their money than rich people in other countries. And maybe there's some evidence for that claim. If so, I'd like to see it. Does the average millionaire in the United States give away more of his or her money than the average Italian or Argentinean millionaire? It's quite possible, just as it's quite possible that the average lower-middle-class American gives more money to charity than the average lower-middle-class Italian or Argentinean does. If so, this could have something to do with a national culture that values personal generosity more than most cultures do, or it could have something to do with the fact that in this country the state promises less material security than it does in many other countries. Where public welfare programs are less robust, there will be a greater need—and opportunity—for private charity. It may be true that rich Americans donate a greater portion of their wealth than the rich in, say, France; it is certainly true that they're taxed less.
If I may offer one final generalization: Successful businessmen often have trouble imagining that other people don't admire them as much as they admire themselves. Confronted with this baffling phenomenon, they usually fall back on one of two explanations: either the insufficiently admiring are simply jealous, or they haven't really gotten to know successful businessmen personally. It would be hard to accuse Pope Francis of jealousy. That leaves ignorance. Let him go to the next Davos Forum or meet a few Acton Institute donors. He'll be surprised at what nice people he finds—not at all like the vile misers Christ was always castigating. Anyway, he and other churchmen had bettter like the rich, because being liked is one of the things many successful people seem to expect in exchange for their generosity. So please, Your Holiness, more honey, less vinegar, and no generalities. If you read carefully, you will notice that Dives wasn't an American.
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Perhaps only people who have been to both the Langone Medical Center and Saint Patrick's Cathedral should comment.
Matt -- I guess I won't be needing to post anything after this bravura performance. Especially the last paragraph, which only reinforces my contention that we have the touchiest, whiniest ruling class in history.
Jesus said; "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle then for a rich man...". Let the rich argue it out. Unlike Jacob Marley, the American rich don't forge out chains, link by link. So they don't need a camel to carry it. We make our wealth fulfilling wonderfully good needs. Never mind that we don't pay our workers more then minimum wage.
Jesus said; "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle then for a rich man...". Let the rich argue it out. Unlike Jacob Marley, the American rich don't forge out chains, link by link. So they don't need a camel to carry it. We make our wealth fulfilling wonderfully good needs. Never mind that we don't pay our workers more then minimum wage.
If I may offer one final generalization: successful businessmen often have trouble imagining that other people don't admire them as much as they admire themselves...
What is your basis for that contention? People you know well personally?
Boudway's armchair sociology should not be narrowly focused: "Successful businessmen often have trouble imagining that other people don't admire them as much as they admire themselves;" it can be usefully extended: "Intellectuals often have trouble imagining that other people don't admire them as much as they admire themselves."
And comparisons between the ethics of businessmen and intellectuals are revealing. "Competition in scholarship is in some ways more violent than in business: the law sets limits on the disparagement of a rival's product, unless it is done in a book review in a learned journal."
George Stigler, Intellectuals and the Marketplace
Examples on request.
Matthew seems to displaying humor. Poor wealthy. Bill Maher, former Catholic turned atheist and anti-all religion, noted that what Francis is preaching is all over the Bible. Basically what we are looking at is a history of false preaching and catering to the rich. Catholic bishops have historically not only courted and flattered the wealthy, they have competed with each other over them. Augustine and his fellow bishops did it and the bishops continued the tradition. Apostolic succession? Thus Cardinal Hayes clearly resented the auxiliary Spellman who was competing with Hayes for the favor of the rich. I did not need to specifically hear about Langone to know that the very wealthy were giving the money to St. Patrick's Cathedral. Middle Class Catholics neither have the means nor the motivation to support that endeavor. Nor should they when people are going without and not making a living wage.
Francis in directing us to the true Gospel message is having this difficulty because the bishops forgot the poor. Sure it is in the literature. But not on the priority (preferential?) list. Bishops and other leaders in the church measure their success by what they have built rather 'having compassion on the multitude. "
In Catholic chanceries as well as Catholic universities, the rich are wined and dined. And "the poor go away empty." Too many local parishes talk charity but their aid goes mainly to the upkeep of the church and the schools. Most who can't afford Catholic schools are left to go to Public schools. One example of many. A woman approached a parish priest asking for help feeding and sheltering her family. The priest answered. "If I had any money I would help my family in Italy before I would help you." This is where many are. They will give mainly to their families even if there is no need over needy people. (Who was his neighbor?) Is this what the faith teaches?
If we look closely enough we should see that Francis is talking to the clergy and ao called practiicing Catholics. We have to re-examine our priorities and get back to the mission of Jesus.
"Too many parishes talk charity but their aid goes mainly to the upkeep of the Church and the school".
I agree, I have been part of a couple of middle class parishes at different times where that has been my experience. Those parishes saw themselves as struggling and I imagine they were, but if middle class parishes are that unstable and can't do much to help the poor as a parish comunity, I think there is something wrong with the parish system and maybe we really should see more consolidations.
Whether its a parish church or a cathedral, why are we putting all of our money into buildings to the neglect of people? God would hear us just as well if we worship together in a simple meeting place rather than a costly church, even if that church was built to his glory and honor. I'm thinkng He would understand.
A few years ago there was an analysis of giving int he US. As I recall, the poor generally gave a higher percentage of their wealth. But what was even more revealing was that the rich give generally more to causes that support their type of people than the poor. They generally gave to symphonies, prestigious universities, etc. This may have changed recently with some of the rich in the US who have decided to make a difference for the poor. But whose agenda is being served by their donations.
Now, I am generalizing but I have visited Saint Patrick's Cathedral.
I was under the impression that Americans were particularly charitable compared to other nationals, but had a couple of interesting experiences in the last few years. I lived in a wealthy town.
Once I went to the local charity to donate some old clothes and toys. I gave them my bag, they took a receipt out and said: "How much should we write?" - I replied: "Oh, nothing, I don't need those any more." -"But it's for tax deductions. How much would you say it's worth?" -"Oh, let's say, $30 for example." -"Really?... well, it's up to you." I realized then that one can actually make a profit by donating old stuff and declaring that they are valuable enough to get a significant tax rebate.
Another time, I was moving and was looking to get rid of my piano. The first coupe of places I called told me that they already had what they needed. The third one - a retirement community - answered: "Oh, we'd love to have a piano, but we can't because, you see, you're not recognizes as a charity." To which I answered: "It doesn't matter. I have a piano that I no longer need, you need a piano that you don't have: why don't you take my piano." -"But then you won't be able to claim a tax deduction." -"It doesn't matter." -"Really??? Well, in that case, yes, of course we'll take it. It's very generous of you!" And the piano was given away. I learned then that the rich do not give *unless* they get something out of it, in the form of tax deductions.
I suspect that some unknown number of rich people end up making a profit from "donations" that are well compensated by tax deductions.
Hi, Clare, people can declare what they want for their donations, but the IRS requires a good faith effort to give its value. I use my tax prep software or the going rates online or at Goodwill to make an estimate. If people take a tax deduction, then people can donate more.
Soon after the Council there was a monthly (I think) Catholic magazine that occasionally printed cartoons illustrating various post-conciliar or general Catholic aspects of life. (I remember one printed when there was talk about popular election of bishops. It showed a priest at the altar, facing the people, and behind him on the wall a large banner that read: "Vote for Fr. Fred!")
Another was of a stained-glass window donated to the church by a very wealthy donor. It showed a camel leaping gaily and easily through the eye of a needle.
In a January 6 New Yorker cartoon, a businessman muses, "We need either bigger needles or smaller camels."
"Another was of a stained-glass window donated to the church by a very wealthy donor. It showed a camel leaping gaily and easily through the eye of a needle."
Whether that statement depicts fact or fiction does not matter, it is hilarious. I'm reminded of Flip Wilson's Rev LeRoy. When asked why he appeared to be personally well off while preaching the joys of the simple life the Rev. responded with something like "Well, clearly you've never had any of this stuff!"
Fine post, and some great comments.
Matthew - since we're generalizing and supposing, here is my supposition: I suppose that Langone and confreres believe there is this difference between the economic systems of the US and Argentina: that Argentina's is riven with injustice and corruption, for which the rich and powerful of that country are morally culpable; but that the US's is fundamentally just and fair. I'm sure Langone would say, if anyone asked him (hey, journalists, have any of you asked him?) that his fortune was amassed by playing by the rules, and the rules are fundamentally fair; and that Langone didn't do anything corrupt to make his money.
Please note that I'm not claiming that Langone is right about this. Beyond the possibility that Langone is cynically lying about these things, It's also quite possible that there are all sorts of systemic and structural injustices and corruptions that allow him to rise to the top, to which he and his ilk are blind. I'm describing what I would take his point of view to be in all this. I think it's one that many 'self-made' or self-improved success stories in the US would share.
The invaluable Conversable Economist cites a recent report on charitable giving across nations.
"I am congenitally suspicious of surveys in which people are asked about whether they have acted in charitable ways. But nonetheless, the World Giving Index 2013, which is published by the Charities Aid Foundation based on survey data collected around the world by Gallup, offers all sorts of room for rumination."
The U.S. ranks as # 1, Argentina # 78 (out of 135 countries). There are no breakdowns by income or wealth level.
The full report here:
Jim P -- Yours is the best comment so far. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for journalists to ask him about structural injustices.
Just to embellish and expand the point -- along with many other "self-made" and "successful" people, Langone appears to think of himself as "doing well by" his workers. (Many have remarked on the various benefits that Home Depot workers receive.) This is the contemporary form of paternalism, in which capitalists justify their position, in part, by contending that they "provide" jobs, benefits, training, etc., for their employees that otherwise wouldn't exist. The epitome (or the nadir) of this paternalist ideology is a show such as "Undercover Boss," where the CEO -- who apparently had no idea that his employees had it this hard, etc., ad nauseum -- deigns to mingle with the help and Get His Hands Dirty. (Smiles, tears, and handshakes all around at the conclusion. Cue the studio orchestra.)
Post-industrial paternalism is so pervasive and deeply embedded that when Langone and other CEOs encounter even the most tepid criticism, they take great umbrage at what they consider impertinence and ingratitude. Jane Addams explained it quite well when she wrote about the Pullman strike of 1894 in "A Modern Lear." These lines might be worth pondering:
The president of the Pullman company doubtless began to build his town from an honest desire to give his employes the best surroundings. As it developed it became a source of pride and an exponent of power, that he cared most for when it gave him a glow of benevolence. Gradually, what the outside world thought of it became of importance to him and he ceased to measure its usefulness by the standard of the men's needs. The theater was complete in equipment and beautiful in design, but too costly for a troupe who depended upon the patronage of mechanics, as the church was too expensive to be rented continuously. We can imagine the founder of the town slowly darkening his glints of memory and forgetting the common stock of experience which he held with his men. He cultivated the great and noble impulses of the benefactor, until the power of attaining a simple human relationship with his employes, that of frank equality with them, was gone from him. He, too, lost the faculty of affectionate interpretation, and demanded a sign. He and his employes had no mutual interest in a common cause.
Was not the grotesque situation of the royal father and the philanthropic employer to perform so many good deeds that they lost the power of recognizing good in beneficiaries? Were not both so absorbed in carrying out a personal plan of improvement that they failed to catch the great moral lesson which their times offered them?
Surely there must be some kind of third way between capitalism and state control or socialism. And shouldn't the Church contribute to a kind of via media.
Langone and the neo-cons are right about one thing. There really is an entrepeneurial spirit that can and does elevate the community in terms of prosperity. I know of one aboriginal man who had a forestry business. Eventually, he ran and became chief of his community and wanted to bring some of that entrepeneuiral spirit to the community. Yet. aboriginal people have been so systematically opressed, not by capitalists, but by a racist, colonially inspired government that has them so dependent that they cannot even yet break the yoke of the Indian Act. It was really hard to transfer that business acumen to a community accustomed to unhealthy dependency on a federal government that really does not care for their interests in the first place.
And when you compare the aboriginal people from say northern communities with the aboriginal people of say BC, the difference is like third world and New York City, all shiny and bustling.
I have seen forestry jobs and paper mills close and the impact of the community is nothing short of devestating. Desponent, hopleless, and broken. Yet, some people have drive to create and build businesses, and while I am not in the business world I admire the grit and determination it takes to get there. And I can appreciate the challenges they face with government regulation, delays in even small things like building permits, zoning changes, and they myriad of other things that they require to prosper.
I listen to the exchanges and it just seems rather cartoonish to frame people like Langone and what he represents as being necessarily oppressive. I am sure that the system is not as pure as he claims nor is it as corrupt as others suggest.
In fact, we have one of his franchises here and while it is an American company, it is pretty popular. I just hope they purchase Canadian lumber. And it would be good if somehow there was an arrangement where the plywood would have to be purchased locally, where possible. It would support local industry and plywood mills that have been shut down. But I don't think that happens and I am not sure where they get their lumber from but these are important questions that we should be asking.
I'm not sure what McCarraher thinks is a viable alternative to the system we have. I take it he objects to the Walton family having such wealth from Walmart. OK, I could imagine a wealth tax or something like that.
But in attacking the very notion of capitalism and "owning the means of production," whatever that means, what is McCarraher suggesting? When Sam Walton took a huge risk by starting his very first store in Arkansas in 1962, does McCarraher think he should have been blocked from owning even that one small store and having even one employee (who might be, gasp, paid some wages)?
George - I couldn't agree more with your buy-local instincts. If we could figure out a way to motivate consumers on a massive scale to buy locally, large multi-national retailers like Home Depot and Wal-Mart would respond by stocking those items.
FWIW, one of my own quixotic little personal things is to buy local, and to support local small businesses for things like dining out and purchasing hardware supplies. Our local family-owned hardware store isn't quite as cheap as Home Depot, but it's not so darned big that I have to wander through it for 15 or 20 minutes looking for the one item I need, and for little necessary things like making keys it's far better.
Surely there must be some kind of third way between capitalism and state control or socialism. And shouldn't the Church contribute to a kind of via media.
George I agree. What I think is best would not please the purity inspectors from either side of the ideology spectrum: free-market enterprise that is prudently regulated and taxed.
I don't think the church authorities like the pope or a bishop's conference would (or, arguably, should) propose a specific alternative. It's their place to critique the excesses and abuses that are in place, as the church has done both to capitalism and communism during our lifetimes. At the same time, perhaps it is up to the church - meaning the people of God as a whole - to figure out how to evolve something better than what we have now.
Also, it certainly is the part of the church to help form the Ken Langones of the world to be individually virtuous when they go out into the marketplace. Just because the marketplace and the culture countenances rapacious exploitation doesn't mean that each of us must engage in deplorable behavior.
Another incident I was involved with in the US: a conversation with the pastor when he said that they "paid particular attention" to generous donors and "listened" to them. As, by exception, I happened to be a generous donor on that particular day, I could not very well complain, but I was unpleasantly surprised. A Franciscan priest, to boot!
Money buys "attention", i.e. power and influence, even in the church.
I once read that 1 to 2% of charitable donations in the US are anonymous. For the rest, the generous donors already have their reward in the influence they gain from their donations.
In a way it's not that different from other ways to use money. The super-rich cannot use their money just on themselves, so once they're done acquiring mansions, race horses, and other sailboats, they use the rest for power and influence on society. Charitable donations is one venue to gain influence, like any other. Whats the difference, really? Why is it morally good to give money to a hospital whose attitude you like and not morally good to provide seed monay to a start-up whose ideas you think may be promising? What's so special about charitable giving?
Why is it morally good to give money to a hospital whose attitude you like and not morally good to provide seed monay to a start-up whose ideas you think may be promising? What's so special about charitable giving?
It's more of a gift, in a way, to give the money to the hospital, as control of the money is relinquished when the gift is made. As you note, the free-gift aspect can be attenuated in several ways (at least): the donor does get a tax deduction that somewhat offsets the amount given; and the donor may 'leverage' the donation to exert influence over the hospital's operation (e.g. it may earn her a nomination to join the board of directors) and so the gift may become more of a trade; and if a wing of the hospital is named for the donor, or a shiny plaque is put up in the lobby to commemorate his gift, then he earns fame and public goodwill. Despite all these possibilities, it is still, on the whole, a gift. I'd think that most donors don't do it from a primary motivation of profiting in some way.
Seed money to a startup is usually an investment. It may fail (most startups do within a few years) but if it succeeds, the investor is expected to profit.
I'm suggesting that gifts are less self-interested than investments. I suppose that it's possible to make a gift to a cause that isn't universally regarded as virtuous (e.g. folks who support same sex marriage may not approve of a gift to the Family Research Council). But it seems difficult to criticize a gift to a hospital on moral grounds.
@ Wasting Time
Have you heard of Sam Walton's granddaughter, the academic fraud?
The founding fathers wrote into the Constitution a ban on inherited titles. They should have outlawed inherited fortunes as well, because I think they'd be shocked at fortunes so large that trust-fund babies could pay someone else to earn college degrees for them instead of attending college themselves.
Where's all that braying about "the dignity of work"? You know, the pieties we heard when Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, and so many Tea Partiers announced that the poor need to work for their food stamps--and no age limit; ten-year-olds should be required to sweep floors before they can eat.
Yes, Sam Walton took a risk when he opened his first store. But he worked for his success. I think he'd be appalled at his granddaughter and his other descendants who pour more and more money into trust funds instead of paying Walmart employees enough so they don't need food stamps and Medicaid.
I just mentioned this in a comment on my own post, but it's relevant here too -- I liked Michael Hiltzik's take on all this for the L.A. Times today. He reminds readers that this isn't the first time Langone has expressed his bafflement, and hurt feelings, at not being universally admired (and deferred to) on account of his wealth. He concludes:
Cardinal Dolan told CNBC that he'll strive to mollify his reluctant donor by assuring him that the pope didn't mean to be nasty. "The pope loves poor people, he also loves rich people--he loves people, all right?" If these honeyed words get that donor and others to unbelt for St. Patrick's, fine. But do they really need honeyed words so much? After all, they already have almost all the money.
Alas, more bitterness and envy. It permeates their being.
Btw, while we're thinking about responsible consumer behavior and worker exploitation: during the holiday shopping season, my wife mentioned to me that a retailer of women's fashions, H&M, whose stores seem to pop up in shopping malls in my area, has made a commitment to pay workers a living wage. Here is a Wall Street Journal article that gives details: apparently it isn't the H&M retail workers themselves, but the garment workers in Asia who make the clothing that is sold in the stores. There are a number of details in this article that are ripe for consideration from a Catholic social justice point of view.
Here's my point of view: while this commitment falls short of perfection, it seems a noteworthy step in the right direction. I'm going to tell my daughters that I will support / subsidize their shopping at H&M.
In a thread on "Exceptionalism", I am surprised no one has referred to Jesus' parable about the two men who went up to the temple to pray (Luke18:10-14).


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WINTERSVILLE - Lou Holtz is one person who lives by the mantra, "never forget where you came from." For 16 years, he has made a point to give back to the people of the Ohio Valley.
"The Lou Holtz/Upper Ohio Valley Hall of Fame is not about me," he said Monday. "It is about the people of this valley. I just got back from visiting the troops in Afghanistan and realized that the most important thing with all of us is attitude and how we approach things. I saw a soldier in the mountains of Afghanistan who's been over there 11 months. I asked him how he was doing and he responded 'just living the dream.'
"I doubt that was true but it's the attitude that you have about life. This Ohio Valley has been amazing in my life, the Ohio Valley is really my home."
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CLASS OF 2013 — Members of the Class of 2013 and honorees of the Lou Holtz Upper Ohio Valley Hall of Fame surround Holtz following Monday's induction banquet at St. Florian Hall in Wintersville. -- Michael D. McElwain
He relayed this message to more than 500 guests during the annual Lou Holtz/Upper Ohio Valley Hall of Fame induction banquet at St. Florian Hall.
According to Robin Webster, director of the hall, this year's event was the biggest in its 16-year span.
"Coach Holtz was presented proclamations from the states of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania as well as federal government for the work he has done for education," she mentioned. "In 15 years, he has raised more than a half a million dollars to give to graduating seniors who choose to attend a trade school. In the six years that we have been honoring teachers, he has given more than $78,000 through the 'I Believe in YOUth' grant to help motivate students.
"We saw that a lot of teachers were paying out of pocket for supplies for students who didn't have them or couldn't afford them. The schools come to the hall of fame for a field trip and then write an essay on how they would use the money if they were to win the scholarship."
Webster noted that you don't have to be a sports fan to have respect for Holtz.
"No matter how you feel about his sports views, you have to respect Holtz for his dedication to the area," she said. "He cares so much about the Ohio Valley and about education here."
The hall's Class of 2013 inductees were Bridgeport native and baseball great Phil Neikro, who now lives in Georgia, and Marianna Milajecki of Wellsville, a longtime teacher at St. Aloysius School in East Liverpool.
Neikro, who is known as the "grandfather of the knuckleball," joined the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997. His 318 career victories are the most by a knuckleball pitcher. Neikro's longtime friend, Tony Figeretti, introduced him Monday.
"What makes Phil great is that he never forgot where he came from," Figeretti began. "The whole Tri-State Area respects him more now because he is one hell of a great guy. He always comes back to see his friends and does things to raise money for organizations, but he never hides from anyone. No matter where he's at or what he's doing, when someone asks him for an autograph, he never turns them down. He always asks the person their name, signs the ball and then thanks them for asking him for his autograph."
Neikro said that his memories of the Ohio Valley played a big part of his career.
"When I think of the Ohio Valley, I think of Lansing," he stated. "I am extremely honored and proud to receive this award. When I come home, I stay in the house I was raised in. I sit on the front porch and watch the cars go by, look at the trees and smell the air and it gives me a feeling like no other place."
He told the crowd one of the most important lessons he's learned over the years is that there are no guarantees in life.
"My late brother, Joe, was my best friend," he said. "We laughed and cried together. The greatest gift he gave me was that he always told me 'I love you.' And I always said it back to him. I don't think we say that enough to our loved ones. We take them for granted and we don't say it when we feel it. It takes one second to say 'I love you,' so next time you go on a road trip, make sure to tell the people in your life you love them. Life is too short."
Milajecki, a Polish immigrant, endured and overcame hardships to follow her dream of teaching and practicing her devotion to her religious faith, according to organizers.
"It is an honor to be standing here today," she began. "Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine my journey would bring me here. I had many challenges growing up in Poland, especially regarding my faith. Communism was in full swing in Poland during the time I was living there and it was hard to get to church. But I went and I prayed.
"When I became an American citizen, I learned the language and my friends took my children under their wing. My good friends helped me through school and taught me the language. Here I could come and learn and teach about God and that was a great privilege for me."
Milajecki has been a recipient of the "I believe in YOUth" grant six times and believes her students have really benefited from the funds.
"Thank you for the immeasurable kindness that you bestowed on us, Mr. Holtz," she said. "I hope my students remember their math and English but I want them also to remember what they learned in my religion class, that anything can be accomplished through faith."
The 2013 lifetime achievement award was presented to Jim Render, who was an East Liverpool High School assistant football coach from 1965-67. He currently coaches at Upper St. Clair High School in Pittsburgh, where he has won five WPIAL championships and reached the state finals four times, winning twice. He has won more games than any high school football coach in Western Pennsylvania history, has a record of 364-113-5 and five WPIAL titles and two state championships in 42 years of coaching.
"I am very humbled to receive this award," Render began. "Last year, Holtz indicated that they might honor me at this event and I thought to myself, 'he won't remember me.' But he did and I feel really blessed to be here. I have has a lot of people packing my parachute over the year, including family, friends, players and associates. I am very lucky."
The Six Family of Chester and Newell was then presented the family heritage award.
"Seven years ago, we decided we wanted to honor families, because family is important," Holtz noted.
Brothers Norm, Wayne, Leonard and Lester, now deceased, and their families were awarded a special recognition for their education, religion and athletics throughout the Tri-State Area. From construction and real estate holdings to recycling, hospitality and riverfront operations, the name Six surfaces in virtually every aspect of the region's daily life, organizers said.
"This is such an honor to receive this great award," Norm Six stated. "One addition to the Six family was implemented 56 years ago, when I married my wife. She plays an important part to this family as well. Last week we just had our 20th grandchild. Most of our children and grandchildren live close so we see most of them each week. It is great to be close to family."
The "Do Right" award, which recognizes a person or organization for "exemplary conduct," was presented to West Liberty, Ohio. native Meghan Vogel.
According to organizers, with about 100 meters left in the 3,200 meter race at the 2012 Ohio State Track Meet, Vogel found herself in an unusual position of bringing up the rear. She saw competitor Arden McMath of Findlay's Arlington High School stagger and fall about 50 meters ahead of her. Following her instincts, Vogel picked up McMath and helped her across the finish line, making sure to have McMath cross ahead of her, just as she was ahead of her when she fell. Her compassion brought the crowd at Jesse Owens Stadium in Columbus to a standing ovation.
Urban Meyer, head football coach at Ohio State University, served as guest speaker for the event. He is a three-time national coach of the year and was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a Distinguished American in 2009.
The hall of fame, which opened in 1998 in the former Bank One building in East Liverpool, is a museum of "sports, history, motivation and more." The idea originally was conceived as a facility to celebrate the achievements of East Liverpool's favorite son, legendary football coach Holtz. When approached, Holtz, who was born in Follansbee, initially declined and later relented, providing that the concept be expanded to also recognize residents and natives of the Upper Ohio Valley in all fields of endeavor who serve as inspirations for the area's young people. Holtz also expressed his desire for the hall to help preserve the rich cultural heritage of the communities that make up the valley.
The hall is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays. There is no admission fee, however donations are welcome. Those interested in information may view the website atwww.louholtzhalloffame.com or call (330) 386-5443.


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I'm trying to find a function. And although it seems to be very simple at first I can't figure it out. Maybe I just need some sleep, and maybe someone could help me out.
given an Integer x between 0 and 100:
if x is between 0-10 then f(x)=0
if x is between 11-20 then f(x)=11
if x is between 21-30 then f(x)=21
if x is between 31-40 then f(x)=31
if x is between 91-100 f(x)=91
I'm trying to find the simplest f possible.
The best I could do is:
f(x) = x / 10 * 10
But it's not right.
What function is f?
I'm accepting @Didier's solution but I'm going with this one instead.
$$f(x) = \begin{cases} 1+10\lfloor (x-1)/10 \rfloor & \mbox{if } x >10; \\ 0 & \mbox{if } x \leq 10 \end{cases}$$


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24 Jan 2012 12:16 PM #1
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I am trying to move from Ext JS 2.0 Beta to Ext JS 3.4 Library. I was under the impression that this should be an easy migration. However, after installing the new library, my menu bar (that was at the top of every page on my site) has disappeared. Any ideas on why this happening and how to fix it?
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There are no errors. I will check the DOM...
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I checked the DOM and it is there. Visible is set to true as well.
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Unanswered: GXT 2.2.5 TreeStore DragNDrop activity not reflected in TreeStore
I have a simple DragNDrop editor to modify a tree to be persisted in my db. (Using GXT 2.2.5 can't upgrade) I have a TreePanel constructed with a TreeStore. The TreePanel is both a TreePanelDragSource and TreePanelDropTarget.
The drag/drop works fine; As a test, I used the TreeStore from an existing, open Dialog window. As I drag/drop in the editor, the other window immediately shows the changes.
However, when I fetch the TreeStore to save it as a flat tree in the database, the nodes are not rearranged in the Store. How do I get the reorganized tree structure?
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My solution
Apparently there is no way to directly get at the Tree structure altered by Drag and Drop.
I reasoned that TreePanelView = TreePanel.getView() might have the Drag and Drop chaanges.
By examining TreePanelView in the debugger after a drag and drop I devise this solution:
* These 'My' classes are used to access the internal tree within TreePanelView.
* The internal tree reflects Drag and Drop activity,
* which is NOT reflected in the TreeStore.
private class MyTreePanel<M extends ModelData> extends TreePanel<M> {
public MyTreePanel(TreeStore<M> ts) {
view = new MyView<M>();
view.bind(this, store);
public MyView<M> getMyView() {
return (MyView<M>) getView();
private class MyView<M extends ModelData> extends TreePanelView<M> {
public MyTreeStore<M> getTreeStore() {
return (MyTreeStore<M>) this.treeStore;
private class MyTreeStore<M extends ModelData> extends TreeStore<M> {
public MyTreeStore() {
public Map<M, TreeModel> getModelMap() {
return modelMap;
To extract the tree altered by Drag and Drop:
MyTreePanel<ModelData> myTree; //Initialize the TreeStore appropriately
// After Drag and Drop activity, get the altered three thusly:
Map<ModelData, TreeModel> viewMap =
The TreeModel in viewMap is actually a BaseTreeModel.
The ModelData are the objects I originally loaded into TreeStore.
I had to:
1 - Iterate over viewMap, extract the "id" for each BaseTreeModel and create a reverse map,
indexed by the "id" and containing my ModelData objects.
2 - Fetch the root BaseTreeModel node from viewMap using the root ModelData of my original tree,
3 - Walk the BaseTreeModel tree.
At each node, fetched my ModelData objects by "id" from the reverse map.
In this way I reconstructed the tree altered by Drag and Drop, which I then persisted to my DB.
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Here are some easy steps to help you keep your cool and cultivate confidence during the holidays, no matter how much fatty fruitcake Aunt Edna puts on your plate!
1. Prepare for pushed buttons. Parents know how to push our buttons best because they installed them. If you're heading home to see your family, odds are Mom and Dad won't treat you as the capable woman you are today - in their eyes, you're still 12. So be prepared for the family label game: Are you the fat one, the baby, the divorcée? Guard yourself against ruffled feathers and hurt feelings by doing some emotional prepping before your visit. And put your best friend's number on speed dial, just in case!
2. Eat! Restriction is a common coping tool during the holidays - and a surefire way to put you in a bad mood. No one likes a starving holiday grump, so don't be one! Make sure to eat frequent, regular-size meals every day. You'll not only feel nourished and energized, but you'll also be happier and more fun to be around.
3. Don't stuff your feelings with food. Is your mother-in-law getting on your nerves? Shoveling mashed potatoes down your throat won't get her to shut up; it'll just give you a stomachache. There are emotional and physical triggers all around us this time of year, and they can cause us to chow down on comfort foods even when we're not hungry. Don't get caught up in the holiday emotional-eating trap. Listen to your hunger and give yourself a resting point when you feel full.
4. No "fat talk" at the table. We've all spoken the "language of fat" at some point or another. Whether it's the number of calories in your holiday soufflé or the size of Aunt Edna's expanding thighs, fat talk is self-defeating and full of guilt, blame and shame. Instead of focusing on fat grams, calories and carbs and debasing your body in front of others, talk about how delicious the spread looks or how great it is to have some downtime with your folks. Face it:
No one wants to hear about how fat you'll be after you polish off the dessert plate.
5. Go on a media diet. This is one extreme diet I actually recommend! The media bombard us with holiday diet angst and mixed messages and make us think our body is inevitably doomed to balloon out and bulk up.
So be careful about the information you consume during this time of year. It has yet to be put to the test, but I have a hunch that prolonged exposure to airbrushed photos of celebrities in bathing suits touting weight loss tips is cause for mass anxiety and depression during the holiday season.
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ELMORE, Doris L., 85, of Wintersville, Ohio, died September 7, 2013, in Steubenville.
She was born October 28, 1927, in Steubenville to Albert and Lowena Ford Fletcher.
She was also preceded in death by her husband, Joseph C. Elmore; son, Jerry Crossland; four brothers, Cecil, Herbert, Richard and Gordon Fletcher; and one great-grandchild, Cierra Tapp.
She is survived by two sons, Herbert (Gloria) Crossland of Steubenville, and Lionel Young of Phoenix, Ariz.; two daughters, Lynda (Jerry) Tapp of Steubenville, and Rhonda McCrimon of Wintersville; one daughter- in-law, Juanita Crossland of Steubenville; one sister, Esther Baker; eight grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and a host of relatives and friends.
She was educated in the Steubenville public school system.
She was a member of the Quinn Memorial A.M.E. church, where she enjoyed membership in the Mellinda Guy Missionary Society and the senior choir.
Calling hours Wednesday from 10 a.m. until services at 11 a.m. at the Quinn A.M.E. Church with Rev. Charles Simpson as the presiding officer.
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Mom 4 Real shares how to make these gorgeous glitter filled glass ornaments. She uses a super cool method that I've never seen before… but I'm thinking that some of those blue ones might make their way here.
What do you do when you need to change your Christmas style? Redo your tree skirt! Lindsey did a beautiful job – and she shares how to take your old skirt from outdated to absolutely adorable.
Of course, there's more than just holiday ideas around these parts, too. Betsy Speert painted this beautiful cabinet – and you won't believe the before.
As for me? This week I finally shared how to install bead board – a post that's been a long time coming.
Now… on with the show!
Sooooooo……. whatcha got? I wanna see – and so does everybody else! Please put your PERMALINK into the linky – and link back here so everyone can find all the great ideas. Please, please, PLEASE – pretty please DO NOT LINK TO A SHOP!!! Be sure to visit your neighbors and have fun – it is a party after all. *Please note: If you link up you are giving me permission to use your photos on my blog without contacting you (don't worry, it's only to show off your beautiful stuff!)*
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Welcome to the Math Lab
The Student Success Center Math Lab offers FREE help in math, physics and statistic courses to currently enrolled UT Dallas students. Students can:
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- Contact the Math Lab with questions or comments: email@example.com .
The Math Lab serves as a student-centered resource for the UT Dallas community. We offer tutoring at no charge. Whether you are striving to turn a B into an A or needing to refresh your math skills, the Student Success Center Math Lab can help with most undergraduate math courses from pre-algebra through differential equations - essentially the 1000 and 2000 level courses which include but are not limited to the courses listed below.
Occasional help with Mathematical Analysis, Abstract Algebra, Complex Variables, Engineering Math, and Statistics is also available.
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Courses we mainly support are listed below. We also help with other math, stats, and physics related courses.
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South Africa's Johannesburg's airport has a reputation for stolen and rifled baggage and a quick Google search returns many travelers reporting similar stories. My question, is how bad is the situation now. I noticed that many of these reports are older--from around 2006--and that the airport authority started a campaign to resolve the problem. Has the situation improved in 2011?
I can't find the reference now, but there was a great story that an organisation was testing security at airports around the world, by taking a suitcase to the airport and leaving it there, timing how long before it got stolen or identified.
The exception was Johannesburg, where the car was hijacked enroute, and the suitcase never made it to the airport ;)
Apparently in the last year, luggage theft has been reduced by 60%:
which bodes well. Baggage pilfering is down to 0.6% of all bags that pass through the airport, which when you think about it is still bad, but if you lock your bags and use the bag wrapping machines available, it'll deter the opportunistic thief.
Last night we had a story on Carte Blanche (a South African investigative reporting program) where they said that there are about 140 000 incidents of theft at OR Tambo per year, so the situation is still really bad despite lots of measures put in place. They showed CCTV camera footage of how the thieves know exactly where the cameras are and grab bags off the conveyor belts in such a way that nothing can be seen in the cameras. The bottom line is just that you should never ever put anything valuable in your luggage if flying anywhere in SA - just keep valuables in your hand luggage. Period.
See the following link about the mentioned show with interviews with the head of security and with the Police.
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Box Score | Game Notes
SAN ANTONIO (March 15, 2013) – Rampage forward Greg Rallo scored two goals and added two assists as the San Antonio Rampage (27-26-1-5) defeated the Houston Aeros (31-22-4-4), 4-2, on Friday night in front of 8,817 fans at the AT&T Center.
The victory tied the season-series against Houston at four games apiece and pulled the Rampage to within six points of the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
The Rampage power play converted twice in the victory, marking the second-straight game San Antonio has recorded multiple power-play goals in one game. The Silver and Black have tallied a power-play goal in nine of their last 11 games, going 13-for-51 in that span.
Rallo factored in every Rampage goal on the night and has now recorded five goals and four assists in his last six games. The Rampage forward's first goal of the night was his 20th of the season – marking the third time in the last four seasons he has eclipsed the 20-goal plateau.
Rampage netminder Dov Grumet-Morris stopped 37-of-39 shots on the night to earn his third win in his last five starts. Grumet-Morris has manned the crease for eight straight starts dating back to Feb. 22.
The Rampage were outshot, 13-2, in the opening frame, but neither team was able to light the lamp in the opening 20 minutes. Houston was 0-for-2 on the power play in the opening frame, while San Antonio was 0-for-1 on the man advantage.
Rallo opened the scoring with his 20th goal of the season at 4:37 of the second period while on the power play. Defenseman Brian O'Hanley fired a shot from the point and Rallo pounced on the rebound with a one-timer from the left faceoff dot.
Houston tied the game at 6:01 of the second period when Dan DaSilva capitalized off a Rampage turnover and beat Grumet-Morris. Carson McMillan gave the Aeros the lead when he batted the puck out of the air from the bottom of the left faceoff circle at 9:56.
Rampage rookie Quinton Howden tied the game at 2-2 with a highlight-reel goal with six seconds remaining in the second period. Howden charged up the right wing past an Aeros defenseman and deked Aeros goaltender Darcy Kuemper before sliding the puck into the net on his backhand. Rallo collected an assist on the play, marking his 100th career AHL helper.
The two teams went into the second intermission tied, 2-2. Entering the game, the Rampage were an impressive 12-2-0-1 when tied after two periods.
Grumet-Morris kept it a 2-2 game with a tremendous sprawling blocker save two minutes into the period. He followed up that effort with another acrobatic save two minutes later. A deflection snuck through his legs, but he kicked back his right skate at the last second and was able to get enough of the puck to send it wide of the net.
Evan Barlow cashed in his first goal in a Rampage sweater this season when he lit the lamp at 6:32 while San Antonio had a 5-on-3 power play. His goal came in his fourth game with the club since signing a professional tryout contact with San Antonio on March 7. Last season, Barlow recorded 30 points (10 goals, 20 assists) in 57 games for the Rampage.
Rallo iced the victory with an empty-net goal at 19:28 of the third period. Rallo leads the Rampage with 21 goals on the season is five goals short of an AHL career high with 17 games left to play this season.
The Rampage finished the game 2-for-5 on the power play, while Houston was 0-for-4 on the man advantage. Houston won the shots battle on the night, outshooting the Rampage, 39-26.
The Rampage will wrap-up their four-game homestand on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. against the Abbotsford Heat. The Rampage will wear custom St. Patrick's Day jerseys which will be auctioned off during the game. Tickets for all remaining Rampage home games can be purchased at the AT&T Center Southeast Box Office, by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554 or online at sarampage.com.


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2013 Forty Under 40 Class Announced
(Editor's Note: JPEC Alumni Board Member John Mickelson (BBA & Entrepreneurial Certificate '03; JD '07; MBA '07) has been named to the Business Record's 2013 Forty Under 40 list.)
After an exhaustive review process by a number of our past Forty Under 40 honorees, the nominated candidates were whittled down, and we are proud to announce this year's distinguished list of Forty Under 40 honorees.
These 40 local business leaders under the age of 40 have demonstrated impressive career achievements and unparalleled community involvement. They join a list of more than 560 past Business Record Forty Under 40 honorees.
Each of the honorees will be profiled in the March 1 edition of the Business Record and be recognized at an event on March 12. Congratulations again to all of this year's honorees.
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Desmund Adams—Talent Acquisition Group LLC
Lindsay Alderman—LightEdge Solutions Inc.
Erica Axiotis—Mercy Foundation
Kate Banasiak—Diversified Management Services Inc.
Erin Bemis—Iron Works Ltd
Jonathan Brendemuehl—Bankers Trust Co.
Curtis Brown—City of Ankeny
Matt Connolly—Generation Green Builders Co.
Lawrence Cunningham—Catchfire Media LLC
Angela Dethlefs-Trettin—Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines
Josh Fleming—Lessing-Flynn Advertising Co.
Felix Gallagher—PharmServ Staffing
Lori Gelhaar—Kaplan University
Tina Gray Carstensen—Shive-Hattery Inc.
Shane Greenleaf—First American Bank
Danielle Haindfield—Ahlers & Cooney P.C.
Emily Harris—Davis Brown Law Firm
Matt Harris—Iowa Arts Council
Angela Hilbert—Deerfield Community
Joey Hinke—Miller, Fidler & Hinke Insurance Agency Inc.
Hannah Inman—Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation
Keegan Kautzky—World Food Prize Foundation
John Lozier—Pediatric Cardiologist
Dennis McDaniel—City of Windsor Heights
Rachel McLean—Ruan Cos.
John Mickelson—The Private Bank
Keith Olson—NAI Ruhl & Ruhl Commercial Co.
Matt Ostanik—Submittal Exchange LLC
Benjamin Page—Des Moines Park and Recreation Department
Dustin Petersen—McGladrey LLP
Nick Renkoski—Des Moines Metro Opera
Rachel Rowley—BrownWinick law firm
John Ruan IV—Bankers Trust Co.
Jennifer Soma—Principal Financial Group Inc.
Heather Starr—RE/MAX Real Estate Concepts
Aimee Staudt—Knapp Properties Inc.
Courtney Strutt Todd—Davis Brown Law Firm
Nikki Syverson—Des Moines Wine Festival Foundation
Howard Tempero—Spindustry Systems Inc.
Tony Timm—Central Iowa Shelter & Services


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Other Facebook pages have a row of little pictures across the top. How can I make that happen on my page?
The example page in the question is a page as opposed to a profile. So, strictly speaking, it is the page layout upgrade that is required to show the pictures, rather than the earlier profile layout upgrade. The page layout upgrade is scheduled to occur for all pages on 10 March 2011, according to Facebook.
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I've been writing lyrics for quite sometime now (at-least five years). Although there have been several of those moments when I've thought I'd have an act for music making.. I'm just not sure I'll ever get around to it, or be good enough.. I'd like to know how I could share my lyrics I've written, and whether I should give them away, or try to sell them?
Regarding selling your lyrics, this is apparently not how the music industry works.
I came across this interesting article written by an Emmy-nominated song writer, which warns against the idea of selling your lyrics: http://www.songmd.com/selling-songs-selling-lyrics.shtml
As for sharing your lyrics, there seem to be a number of forums on-line geared towards this purpose. An example would be something like http://deepundergroundpoetry.com/ There are probably many others out there (just Google for something like "share lyrics poetry" or something similar).
I personally wouldn't recommend giving your lyrics away, as they're yours. You never know when you may want to use something you've written down, and you also never know what someone may do with your lyrics. If you're thinking of sharing, and want other people to use your work, but to still control it to a degree, consider attaching some "copyleft" to it, perhaps something like a Creative Commons license: http://www.creativecommons.org
Whether to give away or sell your work depends on your resources and the goals you have for your work. Here is how I would approach the situation were I in your place:
I'd release my best work under a Creative Commons by-sa or by-sa-nc license.
This helps your work gain exposure, and gives something to the community, without sacrificing ownership of your work. With a by-sa (attribution, share-alike) license, others may use your work in any way that they like but if they use it to create another work (say, they record a performance that uses your lyrics), they must release it under the same terms you did -- AND give you credit in a manner you have specified. This way, every use of your work gains you exposure, and you can in turn use, for example, the melody someone else wrote to go with your lyrics (just give them credit).
Additionally, you still own your work, so if someone would like to use it on different terms (like a company wishing to use it in a product they will not release under Creative Commons) they must receive specific permission from you (and, if you like, payment of some kind that you negotiate).
If you are against any use of your work for profit without specific permission/payment, you can instead opt for the by-sa-nc (attribution, share-alike, non-commercial) license. This is similar to the by-sa license above, except that any for-profit use requires specific permission from you.
Once it's released, I'd promote the heck out of it.
The Creative Commons site and your friends here at writers.SE can offer great tips on specifics. Just do whatever you can to become more visible. This can lead to paid licensing of your existing work, commissions to do new work, opportunities to market non-cc-licensed work, or just a beer from an appreciative user of your stuff every now and again. Either way, in my humble opinion, getting it out there is better than keeping it in a drawer.
If you're looking for a place to share lyrics, I've created a platform that's just for that.
It also helps you in the creative process of writing lyrics online - it's a pretty neat tool that has a great community behind it.


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Urethral Stricture
Siamak N. Nabili, MD, MPH
Dr. Nabili received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), majoring in chemistry and biochemistry. He then completed his graduate degree at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His graduate training included a specialized fellowship in public health where his research focused on environmental health and health-care delivery and management.
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.
- Urethral stricture facts
- What is the urethra?
- What is urethral stricture?
- What are the causes of urethral stricture?
- What are the symptoms and signs of urethral stricture?
- What type of doctor treats urethral obstruction?
- How is urethral stricture diagnosed?
- Are there any special tests for diagnosing urethral stricture?
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- What surgical options are available for urethral stricture?
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Urethral stricture facts
- Urethral stricture is much more common in men than in women. In fact, urethral stricture is rare in women.
- Congenital urethral strictures (present at birth) are also considered rare.
- Any inflammation of the urethra resulting from injury, trauma, previous surgery, or infection can cause urethral stricture.
- Symptoms of urethral stricture can range from no symptoms at all to complete urinary retention.
- Imaging studies and endoscopic evaluations are important tools in the diagnosis of urethral stricture.
- Medications generally play no role, and surgical procedures remain the mainstay of treatment for symptomatic urethral stricture.
- The overall prognosis for urethral stricture is good.
What is the urethra?
The urethra is the opening that allows urine to leave the bladder. In men, the urethra is a thin tube-like structure that starts from the lower opening of the bladder and traverses the entire length of the penis. In women, it is a shorter opening coming off the lower opening of bladder and is between 2.5 to 4 centimeters (cm) in length.
The urethra has a sphincter that is normally closed to keep urine inside the bladder. When the bladder fills with urine, there are both voluntary and involuntary controls to open the urethral sphincter to allow urine to come out.
What is urethral stricture?
Urethral stricture refers to any narrowing of the urethra for any reason whether or not it actually impacts the flow of urine out of the bladder.
Any inflammation of urethra can result in scarring, which then can lead to a stricture or a narrowing of the urethra. Trauma, infection, tumors, surgeries, or any other cause of scarring may lead to urethral narrowing or stricture. Mechanical narrowing of the urethra without scar formation (developmental causes or prostate enlargement) can also narrow the urethra.
Urethral stricture is significantly more common in men and boys compared to women and girls. This condition is considered rare in females.
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Suppose I have a finite set say $C=\{c_0,c_1,\ldots,c_R\}$ which are some disjoint subsets of the space say $\{0,1\}^m$. The cardinality of the union of these subsets is much less than $2^m$ say.
If I start randomly from any subset of this class $C$ (say draw uniformly according to its size) then I move to the next state according to a matrix $P$ which describes probabilities of moving from any class to any other class inside $C$ or going to $\{0,1\}^m\setminus C$. If the probability of going from $\{0,1\}^m\setminus C$ to $C$ is zero is there any chance of having an invariant distribution for this model?
I find that reccurence and irreducibility of the graph ensure the existence of an invariant distribution. However, is there any chance of having an invariant distribution under this scenario?


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Even with the discount they seem overpriced imo
@eeekdageek: agreed seen way better deals on Oakleys vault. Although they did take there time and make a very professional website........
No problems with dealer, very satisfied with my timberland shades + fast shipping.
Living in fla. you always need sunglasses.. At $50 for the cheapest pair, it' still overpriced for something that's just gonna get scratched or left at the beach.
Nice selection. I'm in for 2 pairs.
@cms1776: I also bought Timberland glasses from them a couple weeks ago and wore them yesterday. It was a very smooth transaction
always skeptical with Famous sunglasses and No name web sites
wait,are the $50 fendi shades for real??? if so $400 off,thats a great deal. someone please look at these and seller comments and tell me if for real.
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@eeekdageek: That's because they are, even at 75% off they are still marked up big time. Sunglasses are one of the single biggest scams in retail next to bottled water. People are willing to pay for "designer" glasses that are all made in the same factory, right along with gas station glasses.
@wendywc1: That sounds about right for glasses worth around 10 bucks. That 400 dollar price was for a brand name and speaks nothing for the actual quality of the product.
Amazon has the Oakley Jurys for $90. Oakleys are the preferred glasses for many sportsmen and I'm an Oakley fanboy with 2 pair, one Sunglass and one clear.
I've tried the rest and now I wear the best!