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Was reading encouraged in your school?
Posted 07 March 2007 - 09:53 PM
Posted 08 March 2007 - 04:22 PM
Thank you, Paul, for that lovely post. I agree with you about the value of committing poetry to memory in school - I have no idea if it is the custom in classes nowadays, but if not, it's a pity.
Posted 08 March 2007 - 05:12 PM
Mrs. Sullivan's great loves were Shakespeare, Browning, Tennyson, Whitman, and Gerard Manley Hopkins (that was the unexpected one).
Like you, we regularly memorized and recited Shakespeare and other verse. I got assigned stuff like Polonius ("And these few precepts in thy memory look thou character...") or Benedick ("I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love ... ") or Browning's Duke ("That's my last Duchess painted on the wall"). Not the big heroic or glamour pieces. I much resented her approach to casting at the time. But now I suspect she knew my emotional range better than I did myself.
I think about her classes often, and I can remember a surprisiing amount of the poetry she taught (at an age when I often find myself standing in the middle of the room having forgotten what I came into it for). I'll always be deeply grateful for what Mrs. Sullivan brought into our lives.
Posted 08 March 2007 - 05:23 PM
I feel as if it's like we're sitting on a bus, just traveling slowly from course to course.
But it would be best if we could delve right into, for ex., literature. Get our hands dirty with some poetry or immerse ourselves in classics. This would also reflect on how to get right into life and not wait around for others or people to teach us.
I found Wordsworth's magnificent poem: http://books.google....o#PRA1-PA170,M1
Posted 09 March 2007 - 08:49 PM
Like the Odyssey. I'd start there. SO good!
I realize from reading Bart that Miss Person was like the Lilac Fairy -- she was local aristocracy, and embodied the very best of the old ways: she stood for them and she stood up for them and when she said "No," bad things didn't happen. She had strength of character on a scale I have never seen since -- partly because the way of life in the old south put character on the line all the time, so you had to show it.
Posted 09 March 2007 - 09:20 PM
The great thing about reading in school was poetry. My old-fashioned teachers, especially miss Person, who had ALL the kids from 9th grade on (it was a small school) believed in memory-work, and from 7th grade on, probably, we had to memorize a poem a week and recite it on Friday. "Stars," by Sarah Teasdale. And "Trees," of course. But by 9th grade, also some great poems, Wordsworth, especially, Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, Blake. I memorized "Ozymandias" for my own satisfaction, just because I thought it was so beautiful, and I hated tyranny and so did Shelley and that poem makes you stop being afraid, and "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments,' and "The Tyger."
A bit .
Paul, Miss Person and Mrs. Sullivan were sister souls.
Mrs. Sullivan's great loves were Shakespeare, Browning, Tennyson, Whitman, and Gerard Manley Hopkins (that was the unexpected one).
I had C-SPAN on the other night (don't ask) -- Bill Gates testifying to a Senate committee, probably the Education Committee. After various exchanges on how poorly or well our nation's educational system is providing qualified workers for the workforce, Sen. Kennedy asked, "Who were your best teachers? Were they the ones with lots of degrees? What kind of qualifications did they have?" After a pause, Gates gave the answer Kennedy was undoubtedly hoping for. His best teachers were those who had a real love for their subject, who pursued their interests outside of the classroom as well as in, and who communicated their passion to the students. Well, isn't that the answer any of us would give?
Where I would differ with Gates, however, was in citing first a math teacher, although Mr. Esposito did make Algebra fun.
The guiding principle behind my public school experience (K-12) was that school was our job. We shouldn't be expected to enjoy it. It wasn't until I was well out of school that learning for its own sake felt rewarding, as a generality. I really feel cheated.
Posted 12 March 2007 - 06:19 PM
Homeschool: both parents strongly encouraged reading; we went to the library every week, went to "story hour" @ library, participated in library summer reading program (when I was too young to read my mother read to me so that I could participate), we also participated in "Book It!"-I think that's the name, you read books, and Pizza Hut would give you a certificate for the individual sized pizza for free. I learned to read from another homeschool mother who taught phonics. I was the oldest, my siblings learned to read from my mother teaching them with Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Engelmann, Haddox & Bruner. I am impressed enough with this easy to use book that I have bought my own copy and one of my life goals is to teach a child to read. My mother would assign for me to read those "We were there at the ____" books for history; they gave a fictional first hand account of the Boston Tea party and other historical events and were much more interesting than the average history text book. While being homeschooled my mother had us take achievement tests (not sure of the actual name) and I was always ahead of my grade level in reading.
High school: assigned to read short stories during the school year and one book over summer; test on book first week of fall semester. Books we read: To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride & Prejudice, The Scarlett Letter, none my 9th grade year. We read Animal Farm in 9th grade english. We kept a journal in one class. My mother required us to keep a journal and I still keep one; it helps me sort through what is troubling me if I write it down. One of our assignments in junior's literature was to bring in our favorite song on CD/tape which the teacher called "modern poetry". We also had to write papers all through high school but I don't really remember what the topics were. We had to write a group research paper-that was awful because my group did not share equally in the work.
College: I have a psychology and a nursing bachelor's degrees, same english requirements for both; had to take 2 english composition (some reading not much) and 2 literatures (general then choice of american/british/world). I hated American literature as we read Ethan Frome, As I Lay Dying by Faulkner and other books I can't remember--not my favorites.
I love to read and I think it is because my parents read to me and I had an easy time with it-no learning disability. :rolleyes: I recently moved and I got my library card before I managed to get my new driver's license!!
Posted 13 March 2007 - 05:11 AM
A miraculous teacher indeed! (In my experience.) Although Arnie Arons did try to explain differential equations in a physics course by waving around a symbolic device made out of a wire clothes hanger and calling it "the tool of calculus." (I hope I'm remembering this right.) Fun .. but I never was able to use it consistently. "In one ear...." etc.. At least where high math is concerned.
[ ... ]Mr. Esposito did make Algebra fun.
I wonder how many people with predominantly artistic interests or gifts have had equal interests (and/or abilities) in math?
Tiffany, thanks for your post. Home schooling seems like such a monumental task, but so worth doing in the hands of sensitive parents. Down here it's become a tendentious political issue, since it's often associated with the drive to isolate children from all sorts of diverse cultural experiences. I'm glad yours was an introduction to what sounds like a rich educational experience in schools (both private and public) later on.
Posted 25 August 2007 - 10:42 PM
Posted 26 August 2007 - 06:42 PM
Frankly, I have collected over 400 books over the past 4 years. Not one of them has been suggested by a teacher. When books were assigned, we had to "skim" and write an essay. Essay writing is very very predominant compared to reading, even in literature classes. I really despise it, and going back to our general lack of knowledge about culture or anything any more, I wish it were different.
Maybe I'm pessimistic, but I'm so jealous when I see people of my parents generation here talking about how they learned so much in high school and out, but we are told to "make your career as fast as you can".
By the way: I have made it a point to read a book a week, regardless of whether I end up on a deserted island, or if I need to sacrifice sleep.
just a little bit more than my 2 cents
Posted 26 August 2007 - 08:04 PM
I'm one who has a great deal of gratitude to my high school for exposing me a world of books, ideas, and art -- and especially for making me aware that the past, its achievements and disasters equally, cannot be forgotten if we want to live full lives in the present.
[ ... ] I'm so jealous when I see people of my parents generation here talking about how they learned so much in high school and out, but we are told to "make your career as fast as you can".
There are plenty of careers which seek and reward people who can ask important questions, think clearly, express themselves well, and who know how to learn and benefit from past experience. By the same token, there are plenty of people who care about such things, even if they keep a low profile in certain parts of the world today.
One of the pleasures of college is finding such people and getting to know them. Decades later, some of them are still among my closest friends and the biggest influences on my life. What an adventure you're embarking upon!
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Do I do as many as possible to failure?
Or do I stick to a weekly plan or multiple sets with low reps?
Do I do as many as possible to failure?
Or do I stick to a weekly plan or multiple sets with low reps?
While there is little disagreement that weight should be added after a certain amount of reps is reached (commonly 15), actually getting there is a different matter. One approach, initially popularized by Pavel Tsatsouline (see this article for more info), is called "greasing the groove". Pavel claims that "specificity + frequent practice = success", meaning, one should train "as often as possible while being as fresh as possible". While this can be interpreted in multiple ways, it boils down to not going to failure on every set and doing several sets daily. Of course, you need to have an easily accessible pull-up bar for this to work.
I've personally followed this approach to work from my 2 pull-ups to ~12 quite fast - I had a bar on my way to the bathroom and my rule was to jump and do a few pull-ups everytime I went under it. Sure, at the start I cheated, jumping more, not going all the way down, but I improved quite fast. Later on, I tried to vary my grip and do them more strictly. Most importantly, I never went completely to failure, just doing however many I could while I felt "strong".
The article I linked to above goes on to mention that this can be applied for other exercises, although it's probably not a good idea (for fear of over-training), though it concludes that doing it with dips might be a good match (which is in-line with my own thoughts and experiences, except I don't have parallel bars handy so I couldn't test it).
Well the best way to increase reps would be to increase absolute strength than cycle back to strength endurance which would carry over to more repetitions.
Example of this method
NFL combine test
One of the tests they have the potential players do is bench press 225 pounds for as many reps as possible to see how much strength they have. So how do those guys manage to do up to 50 repetitions with 225 pounds? First they build absolute strength which is maximum force an athlete can generate. They have to build there one rep maximum so 225 pounds is considered light than 2-3 weeks from the combine test they work on carrying it over to strength endurance which is maximum repetitions.
So to increase reps you need to increase absolute strength on the pull-up.
This article is pretty good. It makes four basic points, including increased frequency, negatives, and assisted pull-ups:
Basically, keep doing them - try different hand positions, add weight and make it a game, such as doing a set prior to every meal and when you wake up or when you pass by the pull up bar (get one in your house on a door frame). There are some basic body weight exercises that you can (and should) do when you can: pull ups, push ups, sit ups......
Do three sets to failure, using some assistance if necessary. Do chin-ups one day, take a day rest, then do pull-ups the next day, and then rest. That should be your cycle.
That may mean your first day looks like this:
That's okay. The next time you do it (4 days later), you may get:
And so on... Your pull-ups will be weaker than your chin-ups, probably.
Eventually, when you get up to 15 reps, you should add weight by hanging plates from a lifting belt and chain.


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Is there a way to take a screenshot of an Android device and save it as an image file?
If you have Android 4.0 or higher:
You can press the Power button + the Volume Down button at the same time to take a screenshot. It will be saved to your gallery.
Note: You need to keep the buttons pressed for around a second for this to work. This is to avoid the screenshot when this combination is accidentally pressed.
If you have an Android lower than 4.0:
If you're rooted: you can install an app called drocap2. This will let you shake your phone, wait on a timer, or click on a notification in your notification bar to take a screenshot and it'll save it to your phone.
If you're not rooted: you can not run a screenshot app on your phone, period. You'll have to install the Android SDK on your computer, connect you phone via USB, and run a program called DDMS. This program is mainly used for developer debugging, but it has a screenshot utility under one of its menus. For a tutorial, see this page. Also, some constructor like Samsung have implemented this function on their phones (the buttons combination change from phone to phone, so search for yours).
Starting with Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich there is finally a possibility to create a screen-shot without 3rd party app or connected computer:
Press the following two keys at the same time: Volume-Down + Power
Note that it is crucial to press both keys nearly the same time. If your press and hold Volume-Down and afterwards press Power it will not work. (tested on Galaxy nexus 4.1.2)
However some screens are protected and therefore can not be captured, e.g. some system settings dialogs.
In most Samsung phones with Android 2.2+ you can take screenshots by holding the back key and tapping the home button.
Install the Android SDK on your computer, connect the phone and run DDMS from the terminal and then select
On a Samsung Galaxy S II, it's simultaneously pressing the Power+Home button. It's tricky though; 9 out of 10 times I can't get it. Obviously that's specific to that model of phone and not the Android OS.
As far as I know, there isn't any native app built-in to the OS for all phones, it's too bad really.
This is also applicable for the:
On the HTC EVO3D, you may press lock button and home button at same time to capture a screenshot.
FYI the "lock button" is the same thing as the power button
Once rooted, I've liked working with Screenshot (Cyrket link).
Set the timer, go to your application and wait; or set it to "Shake" mode, go to your application and shake it. Hard. And files show up in a screenshot folder. Happy day.
I mean it. SHAKE IT HARD. Unless there's some trick to shaking and I'm doing it in the wrong direction, this is NOT a sensitive shaker.
UPDATE: yeah, I'm using the timer option. Either the Incredible has a lousy shake sensor, the app is implementing it weirdly, or something else -- but shaking was just ridiculous. Would have been a nice interface, if that worked.
(Variable) Timer to take screenshots works just fine!
The following method also requires root, but may be better and easier if you need the screenshots while writing articles, app reviews or documentation.
You do not need complex instructions or the Android SDK, and this works on all rooted devices.
A one line script should do this on a root 'ed handset, be aware that this is for Linux and hard-coded for 800x480 screen resolution and also, if your Android's Linux Kernel has framebuffer support compiled in:
And save it as for example,
End result, is a PNG file called
Caveat Emptor:
This requires
ShootMe does work for me on the Galaxy Tab (2.2), even if I did not root it and the ShootMe page says, that it works only for rooted devices.
Your phone has to be rooted. If it is just search "screenshot" in the market for many options. For an unrooted phone you can use dolphin browser hd with an addon to get screen captures of a website.
On the optimus black you can also use the lock+home button
On the Samsung Galaxy Pocket GT-S53001, you can do it without any third party software.
Follow these instructions:
1: It's possible that this works on all Android phones running Gingerbread, but I didn't try personally.
On the Galaxy Note 2 you can also use the S Pen:
What happens next is, a screenshot will be taken. Then you will be able to adjust it before either accepting or discarding the screenshot.
Some phones have the functionality built in, such as the previous mentioned Galaxy S. On the Droid Charge, hold the back button and press home. On most new LG Android phones, hold home and press power.
Unfortunately, the only universal method is using the Android SDK to take screenshots with a computer. Rooting and using a screenshot app works on many devices, but sometimes not, and it's not the easiest way to take a screenshot.
When I got the 2.3.4 Upgrade on my Sony Ericsson Arc (from 2.3.3) holding down the power button brings up the "airplane mode/power off/silent" menu, and new to 2.3.4 is the presence of a "take screenshot" button as well.
Old question , posting to add alternative using Google Now on Tap on Marshmallow, which does away with failed attempts in getting the right combo of keys correctly pressed (at times I ended up rebooting :-)
This has the advantage of better organising screenshots or sharing directly with contacts using Direct Share, which pops up when you wish to share
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On Moto X Play Power + Vol Dn works
on the xperia z5, you simply hold lock button and are gave the option.
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No. 11/13 Kansas State (15-3, 4-1 Big 12) returns to the road on Saturday afternoon, as the Wildcats travel to Ames, Iowa to face Iowa State (13-5, 3-2 Big 12) at Hilton Coliseum at 12:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on the Big 12 Network with Mitch Holthus (play-by-play) and Chris Piper (analyst) on the call. The team will attempt to rebound in one of the Big 12's most hostile environments after seeing its season-long eight-game winning streak and 4-0 start to Big 12 play end in a 59-55 loss to No. 3/2 Kansas at home on Tuesday. The setback not only ended the school's longest winning streak since winning 10 in a row from Nov. 21, 2009 to Jan. 3, 2010, but also halted the Wildcats' 12-game home winning streak and perfect 11-0 mark at Bramlage Coliseum this season. The Wildcats return to the road, where they have won six consecutive games, including five in a row in Big 12 play, dating back to last season. The road winning streak is the longest since K-State rattled off six straight road wins (all in Big 12 play) from Jan. 16 to Feb. 23, 2010. Saturday's contest will be the team's fourth true road game of the season after winning contests at George Washington (65-62) on Dec. 8, West Virginia (65-64) on Jan. 12 and TCU (67-54) on Jan. 16. K-State has improved its play on the road in the Big 12, posting a 26-24 record over the past seven seasons (which began in 2006-07) after winning just 10 of 80 road games in the league's first 10 years (1997-2006). Iowa State heads into Saturday's game as the Big 12 leader in scoring offense (78.9 ppg.), 3-point field goals (9.0 per game), assists (16.4) and rebounding (41.2 rpg.), while K-State is second in scoring defense (57.4 ppg.) and 3-point field goal percentage defense (27.6) and fourth in field goal percentage defense (39.9).
Saturday's contest will be the fifth of eight games on the Big 12 Network. The league television package can be seen locally on KSHB-TV in Kansas City, KSAS-TV in Wichita and KSNT-TV in Topeka. The game can also seen in the Big 12 region on KTXA-TV in Dallas, KTVI-TV in St. Louis, KOCB-TV in Oklahoma City, WOI-TV in Des Moines, KMYT-TV in Tulsa, KXVO-TV in Omaha, KUBE-TV in Houston and KCWX-TV in San Antonio. All games on the Big 12 Network can be found on ESPN Full Court as well as ESPN3.com.
K-State is ranked in both major polls, jumping five spots in The Associated Press Top 25 poll to No. 11 and moving five spots in the USA Today Coaches poll to No. 13 on Monday. It marks the fifth straight week that the Wildcats have been ranked in the AP poll, while the No. 11 ranking is the highest in the AP poll since also placing 11th on Dec. 20, 2010.
Iowa State (13-5, 3-2 Big 12) saw its three-game winning streak come to an end on Wednesday, as the Cyclones dropped a road contest at Texas Tech, 56-51. The squad is a perfect 10-0 at home this season, including victories over BYU, Texas and West Virginia, while just 2-4 away from Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones are averaging a Big 12-best 78.9 points on 44.9 percent shooting, including 35.3 percent from 3-point range, while holding foes to 66.8 points on 40.4 percent shooting, including 30 percent from beyond the arc. One of the more balanced teams in the country, Iowa State has five players averaging in double figures led by senior transfer Will Clyburn (13.9 ppg.). Senior Tyrus McGee is one of the Big 12's top reserves at 12.7 points per game and 2.7 treys per outing, while junior Melvin Ejim is the league's best rebounder at 9.5 per games to go with 10.8 points per game. Head coach Fred Hoiberg has a 52-32 (.619) mark since returning to his alma mater in 2010 and is 2-2 all-time against K-State.
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Birmingham really is a great place to live and work, a city full of energy and enthusiasm.
Based in the centre of the UK we are very accessible by road, rail and air. But when the redevelopment of New Street train station and the new rapid transport systems are completed travelling to and around the city will be even easier
We are the youngest city in Europe, with under 25s accounting for nearly 40% of our population. We have over 400 schools, 15 universities and three university colleges within one hour's drive of the city.
Our youthfulness provides relentless spirit and ambition which ensures the city has always got a new achievement, breakthrough, creative adventure or something awe-inspiring up its sleeve.
Our appetite for progression is boundless. We have been a champion of innovation since the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution. Today we focus our almighty research and development resources on developing the next generation of everything from greener transport to genetics, from regeneration to faster broadband speeds.
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Is it true that every smooth rational variety X is simply connected? How is the proof? Would it be still true if X has mild (for example orbifold) singularities?
Yes! (I assume it was implicit in your question that the variety be projective?)
More generally: any smooth, complex, rationally connected projective variety is simply connected. See Debarre's book ("Higher dimensional algebraic geometry").
Alternatively, take a look at Debarre's Bourbaki talk ("Varietes rationnellement connexes"). The idea is that a rationally connected variety has no holomorphic forms, so by Hodge theory the structure sheaf $\mathcal{O}_X$ is acyclic, implying $\chi(X,\mathcal{O}_X) = 1$. If $f : Y \to X$ is a connected etale cover, then $Y$ is again rationally connected, so by the same argument $\chi(Y,\mathcal{O}_Y) = 1$, so $\deg{f} = 1$. So $X$ is simply connected.
In positive characteristic the Hodge theory fails, so the argument as such doesn't stand, but you may still get the simple connectedness as a consequence of the fibration theorem of Graber-Harris-Starr-de Jong. See the mentioned Bourbaki expose.
In positive characteristic, the (étale) fundamental group of a rationally connected variety is finite (Kollár, Inventiones Math., 1993).
And this happens: Let us assume that the base field has characteristic $p$, where $p\neq 5$ and $p\not\equiv 1\pmod 5$. Then, the hypersurface with equation $X_0^5+\dots+X_3^5=0$ in $\mathbf P^3$ is unirational; so is its quotient by the obvious action of $\mu_5$ (a surface of general type known as the Godeaux surface), which is therefore an unirational variety with fundamental group $\mathbf Z/5$.
However, Ekedahl has proved that this group is prime to the characteristic. I discussed that in my Bourbaki Seminar talk, « Points rationnels et groupes fondamentaux, applications de la cohomologie $p$-adique », Astérisque 294, p. 125-146.
Every proper, normal, rational variety over an algebraically closed field is simply connected. Dmitri explains this via the smooth case and resolution of singularities, but this is true in any characteristic: see SGA 1, XI, Cor. 1.2.
EDIT: As Dmitri and Vesselin observe, the "proof" in SGA1 is sketchy, to say the least. One can argue as follows: if $X$ is our variety, there is a birational morphism $U\to X$ where $U=\mathbb{P}^n\smallsetminus Z$ and $Z$ has codimension $\geq2$ in $\mathbb{P}^n$. By the purity theorem, $U$ is simply connected. So any étale covering of $X$ is generically trivial (because its pullback on $U$ is trivial), hence trivial since $X$ is normal.
In fact, this proves that if $X$ and $Y$ (both proper and normal) are birationally equivalent, and $Y$ is regular and simply connected, then $X$ is simply connected. But this does not answer Vesselin's final question.
I decided to rewrite the answer so it is more clear.
Smooth complex rational projective varieties are indeed simply-connected as is explained in the first answer to the question. My point is that from this fact it follows immediately that normal complex rational projective varieties are always simply-connected. Here is a proof.
Proof. Let $X$ be an normal complex projective variety and $X'\to X$ be a resolution of singularities. Then we have a homomorphism $\pi_1(X')\to \pi_1(X)$. I claim that is is surjective. In order to see this one just needs to know that every loop on $X$ can be lifted to $X'$ and this is true since all the fibres of $X'\to X$ are connected since $X$ is normal.
So if $X$ is rational then $X'$ is smooth rational and $\pi_1(X)=\pi_1(X')=0$
In characteristic zero you do not neen rational. It is enough rationally connected.
Let $X$ be a smooth, projective, rationally connected variety over a field of characteristic zero. Then
You can find this, for instance, in O. Debarre "Higher-Dimensional Algebraic Geometry", Corollary 4.18.


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Watch Dogs sales on day one set new records for UbisoftWritten by: / / 6 Comments
If you needed any indication of the success of Ubisoft's latest open-world action game, then the company has provided a clue by announcing that Watch Dogs sales on day one of launch have gone on to break records set by the publisher's previous games.
Announcing the news on the official Ubisoft blog, communications manager Gary Steinman wrote:
"In its first 24 hours of availability, Watch Dogs sold more copies than any previous title in Ubisoft's history!"
Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot chimed in, writing:
"Watch Dogs is an amazing achievement and our teams should be proud that the creativity, innovation and long hours they invested in making this game are paying off.
"It's great to see so many customers enjoy playing the game, and it shows that Watch Dogs has cracked the code for developing a new blockbuster [intellectual property] and a thoroughly new-gen experience."
Why is this achievement so momentous? Bear in mind that Ubisoft publishes some of the most popular games on the planet, including Assassin's Creed, and for a new game in an all-new franchise to be able to outpace the day one sales of any of the publisher's well established franchises means the game was very, very highly anticipated. With some help from the marketing team, of course.
Have you played Watch Dogs yet?
Read El33tonline's full Watch Dogs review and see if you agree with Tom's assessment of the paranoia-inducing open-world action adventure game.
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Grothendieck called "schemes" schémas in French. I find it strange we call them schemes. In fact, Grothendieck called them (pre-) schemas(this is an English word) in his talk(in English) at Proceeding of the international congress of mathematicians at Edinburgh in 1958. There is an English word schema which means almost the same as French schéma. I think English words schema and scheme have different meanings and nuances although they are similar. So who first called Grothendieck's schéma scheme in English? And why he did not call it schema?
Let's see whether I can get my memory working right on this. It tells me that I was in the seminar that G gave at Harvard in 1958-59(*), I was a second-year grad student then. He talked about schemes, of course, and he did so in English. He certainly must not have called them "schémas" (pronounced shayma in French), because none of us called them that in discussions. So I hope I'm right in saying that G himself called them "schemes" from the get-go. And he would have made this decision, I'm fairly confident, on the advice of Tate.
(*)Maybe it could have been 1959-60; but those are the only two possibilities.
Interesting etymology question. Although this is not a proper answer, maybe "scheme" was preferred to avoid overlapping with schema/schemata of axioms in logic? In fact, as Zhen Lin remarks in his comment, the use of scheme/schema in logic is done without distinction so the same should be possible in algebraic geometry. In French, Italian and Spanish I have always seen "schéma/schema/esquema", in books, classes, lectures... which are closest to its Greek origin σχῆμα / skhễma (« manière d'être », « forme », « figure », « extérieur », « apparence », « faux-semblant »). For example in the classic Grothendieck's EGA and SGA, or Perrin's modern French book (and many other references), they use "schéma/schémas". In German they also say "schema, schemata". But in French there is also "schème", so maybe in the original works and translations, one was more favored than the other. The differences are subtle just as their English equivalents:
Since in most of the other languages, at least in Europe, "schéma/schema-schémas/schemata" are the most used, I think there should be no problem to do the same in English as synonymous without changing meaning.
Nevertheless "schème" has a particular specific meaning in Philosophy since old times: Immanuel Kant's defined schèmes as processes or means by which a pure concept becomes effective by the implication of an intuition. In French, it has been used since then in philosophy and psychology in the form "schème" instead of "schéma", and is still used so nowadays.
Finally, from a purely linguistic and etymological point of view, the most natural correspondence between English-French would be "schème $\rightarrow$ scheme" and "schéma $\rightarrow$ schema". As I commented in the other answer by Lubin, maybe the phonetics of pronouncing [skiːm] seemed more natural to English speakers than ['skiːmə]. Despite being pronouced "sh" in French, in German, Spanish and Italian the sound is the same as in English [sk] and we nevertheless stuck to the [-a] ending.
My personal opinion, given all the above remarks, would be that "schema/-s-ta" are the best suited form even in English for being Grothendieck's original choice in French (despite having "schème" at his disposal! and despite the sociological evolution in conferences as Lubin recalls in his answer), and because it would then coincide with the uses in other languages and avoid other meanings of "scheme" (see the funny commentary of Asaf below). I personally always use "schéma/-s" in the same way as people use "étale topology/cohomology" and "étalé space" instead of the possible translations "calmed topology/cohomology" and "spread-out space" (which would sound to me as weird as other perverse names, like "perverse sheaf"). But maybe there are deeper reasons, for example, in Romance languages we use "valeur propre/valore proprio/valor propio" where the English speaking world took mainly the Germanic analogues "eigenwert/egenwerd", but I have seen both uses in English also "proper values = eigenvalues".


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Storms did their share of damage at the Muhlenberg County 911 Dispatch Center.
Kristi Sparks is the director for the Muhlenberg County 911 Dispatch Center. Sparks says, "Our tower, up at the base station, at Kentucky Utilities had a line get hit."
That caused two fuses to blow.
Sparks says, "We lost power to the base site. That controls two of our frequencies. All the fire channels. We have eight fire departments and our ambulance service."
It did not effect their phone lines.
Sparks says, "We still received all incoming calls."
When the transformer blew out at the Muhlenberg County Dispatch Center the backup radio sent all the emergency calls directly to the Central City Fire Department.
Sparks says, "They are the ones, when we are down with those frequencies, to take over and dispatch all the fire departments and the ambulance crews for us."
They are also the backup for when the phone lines do go down.
Sparks says, "So we call Bell South and they have all of our lines routed directed to the fire department."
She says there shouldn't be any delay if the calls are transferred to the fire department.
Sparks says, "They are our backup. So they're trained to the manner where we can page them out in enough time. I don't think there's much delay."
But she says in an emergency situation Muhlenberg County is always prepared.
Sparks says, "So we're never completely down. We always have a backup."


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I'm trying to make a simple field calculation with ArcGIS 9.3:
New field = Old field - Old field(first value)
which in Calculate Field with python code should be
Expression: !Old field! - first
Code Block: list= [AngOriz] first = list[0]
The error is ERROR 000539: Runtime error : name 'AngOriz' is not defined Failed to execute (Calculate Field).
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I am planning a bike to move heavy things, separate question here, and sixtyfootersdude is doing a cargo trailer that converges to some extent with my goal to move cargo here. I am not sure whether mounting a trailer wheel is the same as mounting a normal tire but bear with it I am trying to organize sixtyfootersdude's question at the same time as solving my own problem, just answer the question in the title thank you.
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lantius is almost right IMO.
You will need to use small wheels on a two wheel trailer (or build your own hubs) because the side forces in corners are more than a 26" or bigger wheel can cope with. With a solid build and care when cornering a 24" wheel can work, but a 16" or 20" wheel will just work. If you build your own hubs with 100mm or more between flanges you could use bigger wheels, but you end up with a very wide wheel (you just added 100mm to the width of the trailer without adding to the load space).
Finally, you must look at Richard Guy Briggs' organ trailer. It's a bike trailer that carries a Hammond organ and player.
The wheel is a pretty simple mechanism. You've got two main options:
1) Through-axle. In this case, the trailer has structural pieces on either side of the wheel. For example, this design is seen on the Bob Yak and Ibex and the Haulin' Colin trailers. The main advantage here is that you can use a normal bicycle hub and you have good structural support. The disadvantage is primarily that the wheel well increases the width of two-wheeled trailers.
2) Wheelchair hub. (See: Phil Wood) This is the design used by the Blue Sky Cycle Cart. A wheelchair hub has an axle you bolt down from only one side. This allows for a narrower body on a two-wheeled trailer, but you must design the axle fastening system carefully or risk having precession loosen it up. There is little reason to use this on a single-wheel trailer, unless for compactness when folding or using some kind of mono-suspension.
Both types of hubs can be built up with any rim. Smaller BMX-sized wheels (ERTRO 406mm) have the advantage of taking up less space, light weight, and strength, but the normal disadvantages of smaller wheels when it comes to rolling over obstacles. 24" (520mm) and 26" (559mm) wheels are larger, but you should design your trailer bed to hang below the axle for maximum stability. Larger wheels are typically only suitable for special applications or in an Extrawheel-type design.
You can now buy the Surly trailer wheels. They are beautiful! The hubs are only about 35mm wide! Retail for $170 per wheel.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- Topeka Police say they've developed a strategic plan to stop violent crimes. The numbers are up in Topeka compared to this time last year.
Topeka Police Chief Ron Miller says 10 percent of crime in Topeka happens in and 11 block area in Central Topeka, what he calls "the box," an area he says the force will focus on to reduce rising violent crime numbers.
"The Box" is in Councilwoman Karen Hiller's district, from SW 6th to 17th Streets, and from Topeka Boulevard to Washburn Avenue.
Miller says much of the crime there involves gang affiliation, criminal enterprise, street crimes and break ins. He says the force will target known offenders and problem houses in the area, and work with community groups to fight crime.
Overall in Topeka, violent crimes are up 89 occurrences from this time last year. Aggravated assaults and batteries are up 88.
The good news is that property crime has dropped 117 occurrences from this time last year. Miller says the downward trend is thanks to citizens securing their property, which is just one of many efforts he says Topeka must deploy for a safer Capital City.
"It's gonna take more police personnel, more strategies, community involvement, reporting crime, preventing crime, not to be a victim, being aware of your surroundings," Miller said.
Miller says it takes more to do more. The Topeka City Council provided funding to hire 20 more officers, that will enable the force to start their strategies in "the box." He says he'll keep pushing for more funding.


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WELLSBURG - Sixth-grader Emily Donley of Wellsburg Middle School certainly had reason to be jubilant after winning the Brooke County Spelling Bee Wednesday at Follansbee Middle School.
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BROOKE BEE FINISHERS — Pupils in fourth to eighth grades from nine schools participated in the Brooke County Spelling Bee Wednesday at Follansbee Middle School. In addition to overall winner Emily Donley of Wellsburg Middle School, first, second and third place awards were presented for each grade based upon the number of rounds they endured or by lottery in the event of a tie. The awarded students were, from left, front: first place winners Donley, sixth grade; Alana Scott, fourth grade; Kohl Ellis, fifth grade; Haydon Heiserman, eighth grade; and Max Weekley, who finished second behind Donley and placed first for seventh grade; middle: second place recipients Connor Combs, sixth grade; Griffin Smith, eighth grade; Gage Keener, fifth grade; Margaret Camilletti, seventh grade; and Ethan Robey, fourth grade; and back: third place awardees Chris Heinen, fifth grade; Mikayla Wood, seventh grade; Mykenzie Findling, fourth grade; Lexie Roden, sixth grade; and Tori Sexton-Smith, eighth grade. -- Warren Scott
And jubilant and accrued were the two words she spelled correctly to win the competition, which involved 48 pupils from grades 4-8 at nine Brooke County schools.
The daughter of Henry and Yvonne Donley, she faced Max Weekley, a seventh-grader from Wellsburg Middle School, in the contest's eighth and final round.
In a change from previous years, first- second- and third- place finishers were named for each grade based on the number of rounds they endured or, in the event that two or more students shared the same number of rounds, by randomly drawing from their contestant numbers.
Top finishers for each grade level were:
Fourth: Alana Scott of Jefferson Primary School, first; Ethan Robey of Colliers Primary School, second; and Mykenzie Fielding of Wellsburg Primary School, third.
Fifth: Kohl Ellis of Wellsburg Middle School, first; Gage Keener of Wellsburg Middle School, second; and Chris Heinen of Follansbee Middle School, third.
Sixth: Donley, first; and Connor Combs and Lexie Roden, both of Follansbee Middle School, second and third, respectively.
Seventh: Weekley, first; and Margaret Camilletti and Mikayla Wood, both of Wellsburg Middle School, second and third, respectively.
Eighth: Haydon Heiserman of Follansbee Middle School, first; Griffin Smith of Follansbee Middle School, second; and Tori Smith-Sexton of Wellsburg Middle School, third.
During the course of the contest, pupils correctly spelled such diverse words as whiskery, factoid, transfixed, amigo, snarky, toilsome, widget, covetous and implicit.
The number of participants was narrowed gradually, with 11 in the sixth round and five in the seventh.
All of the participants advanced to the county bee after winning bees at their schools and were presented certificates and T-shirts commemorating the event.
The Brooke County Spelling Bee returned after a five-year hiatus through the efforts of Dolly Kidder, reading specialist for the school district.
The bee is not part of the Scripps National Spelling Bee this year.
Among the many assisting Kidder were Dwight McUmar, a teacher at Wellsburg Middle School, who served as pronouncer; school board member Chad Haught and retired teachers Carol Churchman, Sharon Cuomo and Sandy Baldauf, who served as judges; and teachers Yolanda Elliott, Brandi Reinacher, Holly Kisner, Erin Ankrum and John Zumpetta.
The Brooke County Council PTA provided refreshments.
The other participants were: Lance Elliott of Beech Bottom Primary School, Ryan Bennett of Colliers Primary School, Ryan Aston of Lauretta B. Millsop Primary School, Alexis Spensky and Shawn Younciak of Hooverson Heights Primary School, Max Camilletti, Noah Wilson, Riley McAllister, Corey Kins, Alyssa Garretson, Dante Johnson, A.J. Mitchell, Braxton Bone, Tony Apesos, Rebecca Conaway, John Hall, Chaz Bryan, Kevin Burdine, Alexis Jordan-McClarty and Garrett Finsley, all of Wellsburg Middle School; and Lacey Keith, Paige Williams, Brennan Secrist, Rachel Kazmirski, Dalton Walnoha, Adam Bauldin, Matthew Reed, Jaycee Mitchell, Gloria Prosser, Brandon Layton, DeLora Burdine, Kaitlyn Jenkins, Amanda Zonker, Alexia Murdock, Zack Barnhart, A.J. Marzullo, Emily Bernardini, Lydia Betancart, Devon Barnhart and Skylar English, all of Follansbee Middle School.


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Several Rotary clubs in southwest Minnesota hosted a wheelchair drive, completed on May 31st. The wheelchairs and other assistive devices such as walkers, crutches and canes will be refurbished by Hope Haven of Sioux Falls, SD and shipped to countries such as Romania and Guatemala for use by those in need who have never been fortunate enough to have one. Redwood Area Hospital partnered with the Redwood Falls Rotary Club to provide 7 wheelchairs, 4 sets of crutches, 14 walkers and 2 pediatric walkers, 6 quad canes and 1 single arm crutch. "We are proud to be a part of this event and help get wheelchairs and walkers to people around the world who are in need," said Bryan Lydick, Redwood Area Hospital CEO and Redwood Falls Rotary Club member.
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The NN5L + NN5 upgrade = $399, while the NN5 complete is $429. What am I missing?
The NN5L + NN5 upgrade = $399, while the NN5 complete is $429. What am I missing?
Do you already own an NN5L?
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We are happy to announce our trade-up program for all customers that have purchased a NN5L stand alone or NN5L package prior to August 1st 2008. "
The Upgrade path was in effect discounted for those who made the commitment to purchase the NN5 prior to 1st Aug 2008.
It got the benefits of the NN5 out to owners of larger cameras sooner than would otherwise have been the case, had they had to wait for the full system to be available.
I think there are many users who would thank Nick and Bill for coming up with such a neat solution.
So there is no upgrade path form the NN5L to the NN5 ? What would be the scenarios where NN5 would be a better choice?
Ok, so its overkill when used very wide or fisheye lenses generally?
Thanks guys for assisting in answering this gentleman's questions. I'll expand a bit more here.
This upgrade was exclusive to customers purchasing NN5L prior to Aug 1st 2008 and came at a great sacrifice to the manufacturer in efforts to not only keep earlier promises but followed through with providing more than the original promise. The earlier NN5L's were built a bit differently than the current NN5L's and at that time we only had a very limited amount of NN5's available for purchase.
Later down the road you can always upgrade your Nodal Ninja with a more advanced rotator should the need arise. And, as we still have plans of continuing our trade-in program allowing existing customers greater flexibility in buy newer products.
These two programs (as well as others) stand testament to our commitment in providing the best service possible to our customers both old and new :-)
I have 450D and a 40D and I haven't decided on a lens yet. I use the 40D generally but I may use the rebel as a dedicate panoramic camera if I hire someone to shoot some jobs. Also, what are the tripod attachment issues with your product? I haven't decided between the Tokina fisheye or the sigma 8mm. I like the versatility of the Tokina while the sigma would be pretty useless for much else to me.
NN3 MKII mounts using 1/4 and 3/8 thread mounts so will fit all photo tripods.
Tokina is superior to 8mm but the 8mm results in a slightly lesser and easier work flow.
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What they're hearing from the pulpit--updated
Perhaps another Pew study will contextualize recent discussions here of clergy and the election. It's on what Protestant and Catholic church-goers say they're hearing from the pulpit.The AP has a story that the IRS since 2009 has not been pursuing cases involving political involvement on the part of religious groups:http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IRS_CHURCH_POLITICS?SITE=NHPOR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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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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It seems to me that data obtained about Catholics when the questions are phrased:- Is what youre HEARING from your clergy more supportive of Obama, Romney, or neither?- Has the clergy in your place of worship SPOKEN ABOUT the Presidential candidates? may be interpreted as including only homilies from the pulpit and include inserts in parish bulletins or letters from highly visible bishops in dioceses. Also, I think that some people may trust the words of a cleric, who says I am not trying to tell you how to vote but is really building a case for voting for a particular party.I am not at all surprised by the statement in the article:Among white Catholic churchgoers, 21% say their clergys messages have been more supportive of Romney, compared with 4% who say the messages have been more supportive of Obama.(Fr. Komonchak, I am trying not to Bishop Bash.)
My inbox had an e-mail from Sojourners which opens with "Jesus didnt say What you have done for the middle class, you have done for me.I'm glad most Church-goers hear about our obligation to the poor from the pulpit. I think we need to hear it a lot more often and a lot more strongly.
JAK --How did your chickens do in the storm?
In two Catholic churches I attended over a two-week period in Florida, statements were read from the pulpit that clearly implied a vote for Obama (without mentioning his name, of course) would be a mortal sin. The statements said that in making their decision, Catholics must consider (in this order) 1. which candidate upholds the right to life of of all humans, from conception to natural death, 2. which candidate upholds "religious freedom" and 3. which supports policies that aid the poor. At the first church, with a large population of elderly "snowbirds," the pastor added, in case anybody missed it, that voting for a pro-choice candidate would be a grave sin, for which he received a round of applause. At the second church, populated by more Hispanics and families than elderly, the statement was greeted mostly by non-committal stares.
If your experience, Ms Bailey, in Florida can be generalized, the Pew findings would be incorrect. On the other hand, if their findings are correct, your experience should not be generalized. It's a puzzlement.
Is there any kind of rule that the homily have some kind of demonstrable connection to the readings? That's the kind of homily I always hope to hear and I sometimes get a little resentful when the homily is replaced with a political speech.
Irene: Yes. From the GIRM (which I found via Todd Flowerday's useful blog):
The Homily is part of the Liturgy and is highly recommended, for it is necessary for the nurturing of the Christian life. It should be an explanation of some aspect of the readings from Sacred Scripture or of another text from the Ordinary or the Proper of the Mass of the day and should take into account both the mystery being celebrated and the particular needs of the listeners.
I'm afraid that's very much the exception at my parish. On All Saints Day the celebrant did go into a little tirade about how the New York Times is "our biggest enemy," which I suppose he might have connected to the beatitude about being persecuted if he'd thought to. But I've never yet seen him so much as mention the day's scriptures in a homily, so I think it was a coincidence.
Beverly Bailey: People who talk and think that way are religious zealots. Their religious zealotry usually includes severe scrupulosity, which they also try to induce in others.
Thank you, Molly; I figured there had to be some kind of guidance re: homilies. The kind of celebrant you describe would really take the enjoyment out of the Mass for me. We had a lovely All Saints Mass (the homily was about how we can all of us be Saints, its not limited to the top 144,000, which I think is helpful to hear) And then after the Mass was over, the priest shared a message from his bishop in Nigeria that the people of NYC were in his prayers post-hurricane. I think the end of the Mass is a good place for talks unrelated to the readings. This way, if you don't really want to listen, you can just leave gracefully.
The political tirade does not have to be in the homily. It is enough to have it in the prayers of the Faithful (which, here are usually prepared by some of the parishioners), in the announcements at the end of Mass, or in the bulletin, to give the parish a political color and make it uncomfortable for those who are from the other side of the political spectrum. Here in France I have the impression that the parishioners active in the parish often are more conservative than the priest, and those are the venues through which they sometimes exhibit a certain political zeal.
I wonder how long after the election it will take for the super-secularists to sue for the cancellation of the religious tax exemption of the Catholic Church, whether of the Church in the whole U. S. or of the particular dioceses such as Bishop Jenky's. Since the law prohibits the exempted organizations from politicking, and some of the bishops have clearly politicked, I don't see how it can be avoided.
Joseph A. Komonchak: "If your experience, Ms Bailey, in Florida can be generalized, the Pew findings would be incorrect. On the other hand, if their findings are correct, your experience should not be generalized. Its a puzzlement."I can't generalize from my own experience, of course, but I've heard similar stories from acquaintances across the country. Still, I do suspect there are many Catholics, such as the parishioners who applauded, who prefer their pastors take (their) sides politically, and who get more than a little annoyed when they hear concern for the poor take what appears to them priority over the abortion issue.
I believe many Catholics would be surprised at the extent to which President Obama has advanced a pro-abortion agenda through a long list of "bill signings, speeches, appointments, and other actions" since his election in November, 2008.His many pro-abortion actions are documented at the link below. The list is shockingly long and extensive.I am you to help spread the word about President Obama's pro-abortion activities.For the sake of America's future children, please forward the link below to all the people on your email list, so that as many people as possible can learn the shocking truth about our pro-abortion President as we head into Tuesday's critical election. You can include the text of this message if you like.A posting of the link on your Facebook page would be helpful as well.The link:http://www.lifenews.com/2010/11/07/obamaabortionrecord/Above all, in this battle we are fighting, let us not forget the power of prayer.
Speaking of what is being heard from the pulpit, below I have linked to an inspirational election homily by Fr. Sammie Maletta.Fr. Maletta delivers a powerful and thought-provoking homily on the moral truths that we as Catholics are called to defend as citizens in in a free society.He argues that Catholic teaching is neither Democrat or Republican -- but, that does not mean we are free to vote as we wish. There is a hierarchy of moral truth that must inform our vote.Fr. Maletta's homily is a stirring call-to-action in the face of a world increasingly dominated by secularization and a world in which our religious freedom is increasingly threatened.THIS INSPIRATIONAL HOMILY IS WORTH YOUR TIME -- IT IS THAT GOOD!http://allhands-ondeck.blogspot.com/2012/10/inspirational-election-homil...
So,what do people do when they hear an inappropriate homily? I once heard one that made me so angry, I really wanted to get up and leave. But I had my children with me, so I stayed. But all through the Liturgy of the Eucharist, I stewed and simmered over that Homily. And when it was time for Communion, I was furiously pissed off, and I thought I really shouldn't receive in this really angry state, but, again, my kids were with me, and I didn't want them to see me NOT receive.So what do you do in that situation? Leave? Start reading the paper? Hang onto your collection envelope in protest? Talk to the priest after? Or suck it up?
Tell the presider after Mass what you thought was wrong with the homily!
Happened to me once, with an assistant pastor. The worst thing was the approving attitude of the congregation towards the priest's homily. That was alienating! During the Eucharistic prayer I forced my mind away from what I had just heard and focused with intense determination on the words and rituals in a kind of tunnel vision, as though they existed all by themselves in a stand-alone fashion, outside the context of that particular place, time, presider, and company. Amazingly, they still brought me some peace.I didn't have my mind together enough to articulate the extent of my disapproval when I saw the priest after Mass, but afterwards Jim Pauwels advised me to nark on him, so I did, and wrote a letter to the pastor, who then had a talk with him. I also could have written a letter directly to him instead, and now I think that that would have been better even if less effective.
As I prepare for the Last Sunday in Election Time, I take consolation in knowing that the fervor of the homilist's denunciation of the president will be directly related to the homilist's desire for a mitre. It will have nothing to do with me.
A married deacon once told me that his homilies were substantially improved at breakfast after Mass when his wife and children laughed, jeered, and generally told him what was wrong with what he had just said. Probably not politics in this case.
Sunday morning Mass in a large suburban Long Island church illumined by ten candles and two propane torches:Homily: the priest read clearly his well-prepared homily on today's Gospel, with other Scriptural references to today's text: the need to love God, one's neighbor, and love (or appreciate) ourselves. Nothing about the election.Entrance hymn: a plodding Amazing Grace.Communion hymn: a melodious The King of Love My Shepherd Is. Recessional hymn: O Beautiful for Spacious Skies. Followed by applause from some, as regularly happens here with any song that includes the word America.----Pastor's Column in Bulletin: "This column replaces a column which was to be about the presidential election. ... People are now worried about saving their homes or helping a neighbor, and not about tax rates or social issues."In addition to many concerns in the Parish Social Ministry page, "We ask your help in driving some of our Senior Citizens to the polling places."The Bulletin includes a wordy prayer for religious freedom that has been seen in quite a few places.
What to do when you hear a totally 'off the wall' homily?. Find another parish because there will be another one delivered soon.
""Tell the presider after Mass what you thought was wrong with the homily!Absolutely. Or, if you're not comfortable with that, or if what you want to say is difficult to organize and communicate verbally, send him an email or a letter, in a respectful tone, that contains the substance of the feedback, and offer to meet him over a cup of coffee is he'd like to discuss it further.
What to do when you hear a totally off the wall homily?. Find another parish because there will be another one delivered soon.Not without putting up some resistance. If dialogue is not possible, then, how about having a plan for the next time it happens? For example, sit close to the ambo and surreptitiously pinch your baby hard enough to make her wail and drown the sound of the homily. Then go to confession with that same priest, bring it up, and see what happens.
Claire, that's devious. Our homilist today didn't want to be a bishop. Talked about the Gospel instead.
Tom, I wasn't serious. I never would follow my own advice. I couldn't even if I wanted to.
Even more off-putting than the inclusion of political comments in a homily is the inclusion of politically loaded petitions in the Prayer of the Faithful, after which the congregation is blandly asked to respond: "Lord, hear our prayer." The general intercessions ought to be petitions to which the whole congregation can sincerely offer that response.
Our diocesan paper had an insert today from the USCCB about elections. It was pretty measured, and didn't tell anybody whom to vote for. Archbishop Aymond had an article about 5 steps for discerning whom to vote vote. The unborn were mentioned only once as a topic of interest, and at the end he pointed out that we must consider many issues before making up our minds, not just one or two issues. We're lucky to have him, I think.
/Users/johnpage/Desktop/350x.jpgBishop David O'Connell, CM, bishop of Trenton and former president of CUA, greets Governor Romney as the governor lands for a campaign stop in Philadelphia this evening. The bishop is wearing his purple skull cap and what appears to be a cassock.After many years of watching presidential campaigns, I have never seen anything as blatant (and imprudent?) as this. And little more than twenty-four hours before the election.Thanks to Whispers in the Loggia.
P. S. I liked the way he put this. Speaking about the goals of the society, he said we must "vote for the person we believe has the greater possibility or probability of moving us towards those goals".:So it is not our duty to throw away our vote on someone who cannot yet effect the needed changes.
The IRS, if it were a person, would be wise to avoid prosecuting churches because their clergy advocated publicly against a politician because of his or her immoral acts and policies.Politics is part of the real world. So is religion. Part of religion's duty is to speak truth to powerful politicians.
Here is Archbishop Aymond's column about Catholic responsibilities in voting:http://clarionherald.org/clarion/index.php/archbishop-aymond/1658-how-wo...
John Page:Bishop O'Connell wears his purple skull cap to all sorts of events. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oLA7WHb6P9Y#!I prefer the bishops involvement in this event, called the Polar Plunge that raises money for Catholic schools, much more than his bear hug, plunge into the politics that you have posted.
The list of all US dioceses and archdioceses is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_Catholic_dioceses_of_the_United... are only about 35 archdioceses. If someone's up for it, in principle it should be easy to get information for each (blogs, statements, or letters from the archbishop) and obtain a more objective view of what is being communicated by the church arch-episcopal hierarchy in the US. (For dioceses, there are hundreds, too numerous to go through them one by one).
Claire, here's a more direct link if it works:http://usccb.org/about/bishops_and_dioceses/Alternatively, go to http://usccb.org , and click "About USCCB" and follow the links.
I suspect the folks at IRS would *love* to get out of this election complaint business foisted upon them more than 50 years ago by LBJ. I suspect tears of joy would ensue.
Here are the links to voting statements in my next comment, if it doesn't get thrown out and marked as spam because of all the links.


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That leaves Marcelo, Angel, David Hallberg, Herman and Max to carry the company forward. Certainly, Roberto Bolle made a very nice impression on the ABT audience who took to him immediately. His is tall and a good partner and would take some of the pressure off of Marcelo.
The City Center season is always a better opportunity for corps dancers to do more and might prove a testing ground for new talent which will be needed desperately at ABT in five years.
And like Julio Bocca and Vladimir Malakhov before him, Angel Corella will now have his own company (and school) to attend to, and so will probably be less able to commit to a full season at ABT in the future. So yes, Mr. McKenzie et.al. need to consider the talent present in ABT's soloists and corps, (or imported from elsewhere) and the next generation of stars they want to promote.


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I just got back to China the second time around. After our helicopter was shot down, Malik tells me to run while the guards are distracted by the chopper. On my way out, I tried killing as many guards as possible, but she was still killed along with the helicopter. If I was able to take down all the guards (and the robot) fast enough, could I have saved her?
Yes you can. I managed to do it on Deus Ex mode. Here are a few things that may help out:
You can still save her on a pacifist playthrough, but its much harder.
Here's a video walkthrough on how to do it.
The reward for saving Malik is:
Here's a little walkthrough if you're on Pacifist (so no exploding barrels etc.)
It took me about 10 reloads before I tried this and it worked the first time. Keep in mind however that I'd learned the layout in those 10 tries so it might not work for you the first time.
I saved her on Deus Ex difficulty while maintaining the pacifist achievement. It was actually pretty easy if you had the right equipment.
On Normal difficulty, with the PC version, I was able to save her by rather messily taking down the heavies, EMPing the robots, and then pistol sniping everyone else. Managed to do it fast enough.. I was just lucky I suppose.
If you have the right augmentations and enough bars, it's easy. Just take a right, everyone will be focused on the chopper so you can use take-out on all the enemies on the right, without even being shot at. When you reach the bot, go invisible, use typhoon as far away from the human mobs as possible and you can take down the bot without anyone dying.
Then, climb up the stairs, take down the second floor on the right wing, then on the top floor make sure to hit that sniper from the side or the front. Otherwise you will punch him off and he dies. Then jump down, take down the remaining mobs on the ground, then use the container to jump onto the last sniper and take him down as well.
For this, you'll need:
I managed it pretty easily using the revolver. I was only on Normal mode, and not aiming for pacifist, but never the less, revolver with laser sight and exploding rounds clears them out in no time. Also had an EMP mine which I chucked at the robot =)
Rooster Teeth did a guide on this because saving her is an achievement
Yes, but it is obviously harder. My weapons used: tranquilizers: 12 darts Stun gun: 2 clips PEPS: not used EMP grenades: 2 Add ons needed:cloaking (at least basic), and the aim tracking on tranquilizer gun really helps.
Basically, take out the three guys (by my count) with heavy rifles with the tranq darts. As the guys move closer, use your cloak and stun gun to take out the ground troops. Stand back, cloak and take out the sniper (tranquilizers). At some point the robot will appear. Toss two emps two solve that problem. Then shoot the two guys on the roof with tranquilizers and you're done. Took me 5 tries. mostly to get the layout and order right.
I did it in a 'Pacifist' way. Maxed out health. Four energy cells. Invisibility, running, takedowns on the base floor, EMP mine for the mech, takedowns on the first roof & tranq rifle for the snipers. One HypoStim & two CyberBoost ProEnergy Jar. Very cool. It is just like a Ninja. I believe that with the Typhoon, among with the upgraded revolver, it should be a piece of cake.
I came into this fight completely unprepared. It took me about seven or eight tries, but I saved her.
I ran up the right side and cloaked, then repeatedly ran back and forth across the elevator, looking straight at the ground, laying a couple of mines in front of the elevator each time - first frag mines, then EMPs on the second pass to kill the bot.
I got lucky on one of these runs and there were few enough enemies left after the frag mines and robot explosion that I was able to kill them all by gunfire before Malik died.
As goofy as it was to use proximity mines to win this fight, they were all I really had - no sniper rifle, no tranquilizer gun, and I wasn't fast enough for headshots to make headway.
If I had had the Typhoon at level 2 at that point, I probably just would have used it three or four times with very similar effects.
Personally, I went in with no ammo period -- I wasn't prepared for this mission at all so I ended up getting up close and personal.
If you pick up a green barrel and charge the heavies you're essentially carrying a shield; you can then take them down melee style and pick up their weapons. Then you can shoot at the bot to make it attack you, and then it's a matter of going up the building and taking out all the other guys until you get to the sniper.
After taking him out you can use his rifle to take out the remaining soldiers left; there is some heavy rifle ammo by the building on the right that you can pick up and finish off the robot with it. If you do not have heavy rifle you can get one from the heavies you took down earlier. Also there are a lot of combat rifles dropped if that's more your style.
All you need is one Sniper-rifle. From where the level begins give each Heavytrooper one headshot and they both focus on you... after the 2nd headshot (if you didnt pimp your sniper) they are fish food. This triggers the Robot to be dropped, but before they drop it shoot the Barrel too the left, first floor. Then shoot the sniper to the right (2nd floor), meanwhile the Robot should be there. Kill it with your RPG, EMP's, or regular weaponry. The remaining Troopers are no problem for the Malik, and Jenson ^^
I went pacifist and it was far easier than trying to shoot everyone. Work from the right hand side and take down the heavy rifles quickly, them EMP grenade for the bot. Then just mop up the rest - job done!
It's actually pretty easy to do when not on pacifist.
Start out by jumping down and taking cover. The helicopter will be right in front of you. To the right, there's a load of them, so take out as many as you can from here. Stay behind this cover until the guys with the heavy rifles come. Kill them both (shots to the head using armor-piercing guns).
Around about now the robot will drop in. The best way to kill it is using the typhoon (make sure you have the killing robots augmentation). Take cover as soon as you do since the robot self-destructs.
Take out the last of the men, including the two snipers on the third floors.
As soon as they are all dead, Malik flys away :)
You have to remove the guys that do the most damage first. With the sniper rifle I took out the heavy rifle guys first since they cause the most damage before the giant mech gets dropped. It takes two shots to the head. Then I sniped the snipers and as many of the other guys as I could until the mech is dropped. You have to take it out right away because it causes damage to the helicopter quickly. One EMP grenade does the trick. shooting red barrels takes out a bunch of soldiers. The exploding mech takes out some too. It took me tens of tries to get this. here's a play.tv clip


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If I setup
cron jobs incorrectly they appear to silently fail. Where should I look for an error log to understand what went wrong?
If I setup
As others have pointed out,
Case 1. is very unlikely, but something should have been written in the cron logs. Cron has an own reserved syslog facility, so you should have a look into
In case 2., you should inspect the mailer daemon logs: messages from the Cron daemon usually appear as from
In case 3., you can test if the program was actually run by appending another command whose effect you can easily check: for instance,
so you can check if
If you aren't seeing the mails, you might be spamming root@yourcompany with the errors which can be quite annoying to the people who use that account for monitoring. Try sending the output to Syslog instead:
Then, wait for the cronjob to run and look for the error in /var/log/messages (or /var/log/user.log on some systems).
This works great for errors messages which are only 1-2 lines long, such as "yourcronjob: command not found". It also makes use of your existing syslog infrastructure (Logrotation, central syslogging, Splunk, etc.) It also reduces email spam to root.
It may not be a good solution if your cronjob generates hundreds of lines of output.
You can always explicitly send the job output to a log file:
Keep in mind that this will supercede the mail behaviour that has been mentioned before, because crond iself won't receive any output from the job. If you want to keep that behaviour you should look into tee(1).
The default cron configuration will send you a mail with the output of your program. If this fails, you could try wrapping your failing program in a shell script that ensures that the program does not fail, and you could further log the output.
This is a configurable setting on some cron implementations.
You should get email from
at the command prompt.
Note that unless you have configured your system as an Internet email server, this mail subsystem is used only within the machine. You can send email to and receive from other users on the machine, but you may not be able to send email out to the world, and email from the outer world certainly won't be able to come to your machine.
Cron logs basic info to
I stumbled across this thread a few years ago experiencing the same problems and just recently came across a solution to the above mentioned cases by Ricardo. The lack of an email is hard to detect (as you mentioned) and you certainly don't want to spam your root@yourcompany email. If interested check out deadmanssnitch.com.. This tool seems to solve the aforementioned cases. Seems pretty simple to use— just add the bit of code the tool gives you to your cronjob. If your job fails to run at a specified internal, you will be alerted. If you job starts running again you'll also be alerted.
I use
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Let $p$ be prime (of size roughly $100$, say). Suppose that $M$ is a matrix with coefficients in $\mathbf{F}_p$ with roughly $An$ rows and $n$ columns, where $A>1$ is some fixed small constant. Suppose, moreover, that
- Every row of $M$ has at most $B$ non-zero entries, which are all $\pm 1$, for some small $B$.
- The rank of this matrix is small, say, of order $O(\sqrt{n})$ (this may or may not be relevant.)
I am interested in computing the rank of $M$. Does the fact that $M$ is sparse imply that there are relatively efficient ways of computing this rank? How large should I expect to be able to take $n$ and still be able to compute the rank? The current program I am running (which was kindly written [very quickly without a view to optimization] for me by someone else) chokes up with $n \sim 5000$ or so, and for $n \sim 4000$ seems to take around $20$ minutes.