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Told with deceptive simplicity, this is the provocative story of a boy who experiences something incredible and undertakes something impossible. In the telling it questions every value we have taken for granted and reexamines our most deeply held beliefs.
©1993 Lois Lowry; (P)1993 Random House, Inc., Listening Library, An Imprint Of Random House Audio Publishing Group
"A powerful and provocative novel." (The New York Times)
"Lowry is once again in top form...unwinding a tale fit for the most adventurous readers." (Publishers Weekly)
"The author makes real abstract concepts, such as the meaning of a life in which there are virtually no choices to be made and no experiences with deep feelings. This tightly plotted story and its believable characters will stay with readers for a long time." (School Library Journal)
"This is a compelling prospect for family listening...[Ron] Rifkin's juxtaposition of the young boy and the old Giver has tremendous effect." (AudioFile)
"This guy's mouth makes some serious noises..."
I would recommend they read the actual book and skip the audio version. The story is okay, but the quality of the audiobook is not.
Rosemary. She was very brave and noble and I like the mystery behind her past.
Many of the sentences trailed off rather than ending strong and clear. He also made noises with his mouth. I assume this happens often with actors, but that stuff is usually edited out.
I guess I could see it. I am not invested enough to guess the cast though.
The background music was HORRIBLE! They blasted you out with tacky synth music for EVERY SINGLE significant moment! It took me out of the moment because I was rolling my eyes.
"Annoying music"
I'm not planning to listen to this again. I've read the book before and like the story very much, but it was interrupted by strange music at inopportune moments. A great book, but not a very good listening experience.
"Great Story but..."
I had read this book as a teenager. I thought I would enjoy it on audio. However, the narration is poor. The whiny voice of Jonas was totally grating and the the narrator did not even bother to read with the inflection when the tone of voice was described with adjectives. Even more annoying, possibly, was the music. I don't even know how I got through this one...if it weren't for my nostalgia, I wouldn't have.
Although this is a young adult book, I think it will appeal to any age group and it has lots of layers of thought-provoking debate entwined in a simple story. This reminded me of Orwell's "1984" as it takes place in the future in a watchful society. It is a strange society in which diversity and individualism are not tolerated and everyone lives according to their function in society - perhaps happy - but blissfully unaware of pain and love. You follow the story of Jonas who is a remarkable 11 year-old boy who carries much weight and insight of the community on his shoulders. I definitely recommend this book as it left me haunted and yearning to discuss it with someone else.
"Listen as a family"
The Giver is a great introduction to utopian novels. It was very interesting listening to the book with my 10 and 11 year olds. Their innocence saw the ending in a completly different way then I did. We had some wonderful family discussions about what a perfect world is or should be. As a family we highly recommend this book for its entertainment value and the discussions it will prompt.
Say something about yourself!
"High Hopes Left Me Disappointed"
I had really high hopes for this book. I am a big fan of YA Dystopian novels, and I'd heard this book was really one of the important ones in the genre.
I felt like the beginning of this book was really good, I liked where it was going, it had an interesting setting...but about 3/4 through it felt like the author gave up and just wanted it to end. It left way too many loose ends, and just sort of ended.
I wasn't a huge fan of the narrator, but he did not bother me.
"Going to extremes"
This is a great book about going to extremes on many different levels. Like Ender's game and Snow Crash, the youth of today have much to teach us about how to live. This book is simply written with observations about society and the implications of our choices and desires for a perfection. Any age will love this book. My 5th grade little sister recommeded this to me, and I have completed graduate school. I have recommeded this book to my friends of all ages.
"Awesome story, suspenseful, lots to think about!"
My fifth grader and I both loved this story. I couldn't wait until bedtime to listen--we listened in the car on errands, while cooking and folding laundry. Many times we paused it to talk about what we thought would happen next. There is so much to think about and talk about.
Spoiler alert:
Essentially, the story is about a dystopian community in the Earth's future. The lives of the people in the community are strictly controlled in every aspect. This makes everyone equal to each other, makes life stress-free, and gives all an important role. The story is told from the point of view of an eleven-year-old boy. When he turns twelve he is given the role of "receiver", or keeper of the community's memories. He gradually realizes what the community has given up in order to create such an ordered, peaceful, and equal society. It becomes too much to bear, and he has to take individual action.
"Wonderful theme, hard to swallow resolution"
I love this book. From it, we can better understand why it is so important that we know and remember even the simplest things in life.
Characters: Jonas, the main character, is wonderfully developed. His mother was probably the least interesting. Good cast overall.
Scene: Lowry creates a seemingly normal scene that gets more intriguing and more central to the story as the story unfolds. As the story continues, the scene becomes anything but normal.
Plot: A bit unsteady throughout the first half of the book, the plot strengthens in the second half. Still, the plots climax and ultimate resolution are just a little too ideal. For a book that goes to such great lengths to expose such an important lesson, I wanted to see the incarnation and resolution of that lesson be much, much more.
Theme: The theme single-handedly carries this book. The lesson to be learned from Lowry is the basis of this story's renown, and I am sure this book will be used for this lesson many more times to come.
Overall: The weakness of the plot is carries by every other aspect of this book. Unless you need books with incredibly strong plots, I'd highly recommend this book.
"The Best Book I Ever Read"
Nobel Prize winner "The Giver", was like that book they make you read in high school that you dread to actually read. It was my english class read. I flipped through it and did my homework trying to skip as much as could and still pass the class; but towards the end of the class I got hooked into it. There are ideas, questions, and answers in this book that just fascinated me as a teenager. Things I sorta flew by trying to do my homework that made me think everytime.
Now, I am a pretty intuitive, highly artistic mind, and once I discovered the real heart behind "The Giver" I swear it was like a door opened to me. I loved every second of it. I remember finishing a chapter and walking around school looking at the other students, teachers, and their responsibilites in a total different light. It was almost as if I was part of a society much like the one in this book where we all wait to know what we are supposed to do, and if you don't keep up you're "released" ... But as the book suggests, and I found out as I grew, being released from the machine might not be all that terrible in the end.
I alarmingly recommend this amazing read for kids and adults alike. I have wondered for ages why are there film versions of "Spiderman", "Jerry Springer", and "The Devil Wears Prada" and not one of this book... Makes one wonder where priorities and film industry goals lie. Anyhow! Listen to this! Will make feel free!
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By Francis Anthony Govia
Without the bailout money
the country will fall
because America's elites
need incentives to employ
more people in these
troubled times.
Yet, after years of excess,
the life has been bled
out of the system,
and the people have
nothing more
to give to the rich man —
so maybe the rich are
really trying to save
values and the ideology
they propagated,
and are now working
to stem a real possibility,
that this century's first revolution
may begin on American soil,
and to our embarrassment,
the decline of our Nation's power
is happening in our time.
On the television,
the pundits employ guile
to put the blame for the housing crisis
on the have nots.
It is as if, we the people
truly govern this country,
and dictate the terms
for loans we took
that we cannot afford.
But few pundits are giving voice to the fact
that we are the have nots
of power and influence; that we
devote a high percent
of our income towards staples,
rents, and mortgage payments,
and at often higher interest rates
than that of those who have.
So how can the have nots
escape the squeeze
that those who have
impose on him?
And is it really possible
that anyone in America
can be whatever he
hopes to become
(despite of our
current President
being black and
attune to our
current predicament)
when Americans are losing jobs,
and everything we have of value
is disappearing into a dark hole
faster than our creditors can attach it?
And now it becomes so surreal,
that a congress woman is telling
her constituents to stay
in their foreclosed homes
and fight the banks
who are receiving bailout money,
and are major recipients of
Government credit.
But who is giving credit to the have nots?
Can you please tell me who?
Is it not true that the gatekeepers
of power and influence in our country
are the gravest offenders and
mishandlers of an economy
that is fostered by greed and exploitation
of the common man? And that system is bust! Isn't it so?
And if you dare to think otherwise, tell me,
which one of you is a brother of
Charles Darwin or Adam Smith,
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clothe yourself and your children, nor keep
a shelter over your head? And I dare to ask, further,
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I'm a Ubuntu 10.04 user who is looking for a way to, for example, make my computer type a "+" character when I hold down the Windows Key (I think it's called Super in Linux world) and press the K key. I need this to work in all applications. (I'm a person with a typing disability, and I need to adapt Ubuntu to my needs.) Thanks!
Since you want to remap the keys for all applications the best option is to use xmodmap. It is flexible and very powerful but involves typing in a few commands into a terminal.
Step 0 - The approach
The X-server manages the keyboard and all key events and translates that into keycodes for all applications.
The approach would be to map a modifier key (like Super or Right Alt key) as the "mode switch" key and tell the X-server to generate different codes depending on whether a key is pressed with Mode key being held down or not.
By default there is no mode switch key defined and also all keys are configured to generate the same code when they are pressed with or without mode switch. This is good since this means except for the keys you override explicitly no other keys will behave differently or need additional configuration.
However, I would like you to consider using Right Alt key as mode switch especially if you are also using compiz since some compiz plugins map super key shortcuts (e.g., window picker, shift switcher etc). If you are not keen on controlling compiz via the keyboard then Super is just fine.
To xmodmap, the super keys are identified as Super_L or Super_R. You need to pick one to use as the mode switch key. Alternatively, the right alt key is Alt_R. You can confirm these by running xev and pressing the necessary keys on your keyboard. See this post for the steps.
Step 1 - Setting up the modifier map
Step 3 - Adding / revising the map
Once the modified map is installed it is easy to add new keys.
Note:1: Modifications made in Keyboard Shortcuts (via e.g.,
Note:2: I sometimes get error messages like this while using this method. I don't know what this means, however, these are generally harmless.
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With an equal amount of fanfare and gravitas I would like to announce that I will be shopping at Boscov's on Friday night from 7:30 to 7:45 PM. I don't expect anyone to join me but I may say something about the economy.
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How can I get my chocolate chip cookies to come out thick and soft? I always use real butter; is this a problem?
I've found the key to be chilling the dough. If you can get it really cold, put it on room temperature baking sheets, and put it in a well preheated oven, you get a lot less spread and therefore a considerably thicker, cakier cookie, which I also prefer. If I mix the batch in my KitchenAid, I'll put the metal bowl in the coldest part of the refrigerator for 30 minutes to an hour before portioning and baking, with great results.
In the Good Eats episode, "Three Chips for Sister Martha", he referred to what I think you're asking for as the 'puffy' cookie. See the transcript for how he varied a basic recipe to get more puffy / chewy / crispy variations.
For the puffy ones, he recommended shortening, as it'd melt later, giving more rise. So yes, the butter might be a problem. There is on the market butter flavored shortening, if you want the taste. (and it comes in sticks, making it easy to measure ... I use it for my christmas cookie baking, as I've got a few vegan friends).
He also recommended more brown sugar for tenderness, baking powder instead of baking soda to reduce the amount it spreads, cake flour instead of all purpose flour, and chilling the batter so it spread less. See the transcript for more details.
For a cookie with a texture more like cake, make sure to use soft room temperature butter, but don't melt it. It should be around 70 degrees. Cream the butter with white sugar. Make sure to use whole eggs - even extra whites, as foamy whites will add to the bubble network needed for a cake-y texture.
This is the opposite of the Cook's Illustrated cookie, which is designed to be chewier.
In Cook's Illustrated Chewy Chocolate Cookies (different recipe than the one above), the tricks include only using an egg white, and replacing some of the sugar with dark brown corn syrup because the yolk surprisingly dries it out. They also suggest using softened butter that's around 70 degrees, and chilling for thirty minutes before doling out.
There's so much science in baking cookies. Yolk vs. white vs. whole egg is only one part of the equation. Changing the egg won't necessarily make or break the spread of the cookie.
I know it's not a recipe request... but find Cook's Illustrated 's Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, it's amazing and stays thick and chewy and delicious for days.
Their tricks include melting the butter, a lot of brown sugar, and using an extra yolk in addition to a whole egg.
To make chocolate chip cookies thick and soft in taste you need to cool down the dough before baking.Add melted butter in your recipe and use brown sugar instead of white sugar.
Do not overmix dough and you will get nice cookies :)


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A couple of recently published papers have provided insights into the cell physiology of DISC1. Although DISC1 is one of the most extensively studied susceptibility genes for psychiatric illness, the promoter of DISC1 has not been characterized so far. In a systematic approach based on luciferase reporter genes, Walker et al. (Walker et al., 2012) describe a repressive and an enhancing promoter region upstream of the transcription start. The DISC1 promoter is negatively regulated by FOXP2; hence, affected FOXP2 mutation carriers might show a higher DISC1 expression. Therefore, it would be interesting to know if these FOXP2 mutation carriers also display a higher level of insoluble DISC1, since increased expression leads to an increase of insoluble DISC1 (Leliveld et al., 2008). As a result, and possibly through aggregation, DISC1 loses its ability to bind to specific interaction partners, thereby disrupting some cellular pathways (Atkin et al., 2012) and potentially leading to other gain-of-function effects. In this context, Malavasi et al. (Malavasi et al., 2012) report in detail on the control of DISC1 over the transcriptional activity of ATF4. ATF4 itself acts as a key protein in emotional learning and memory via its ability to repress CREB activity. The authors provide intriguing results on how full-length DISC1 protein and its non-synonymous polymorphisms 37W and 607F differentially inhibit ATF4 activity by distinct mechanisms. Both genetic variants—the rare, putatively causal substitution 37W and the common variant 607F—exclude the protein from the nucleus, thereby reducing ATF4 inhibition.
Eykelenboom et al. (Eykelenboom et al., 2012) also report on an abnormal subcellular distribution of mutated DISC1 by elegantly expanding the concept of DISC1 translocation-derived fusion proteins proposed previously (Zhou et al., 2008; Zhou et al., 2010). This is the first paper to confirm the existence of three different transcripts from the translocated DISC1 gene, potentially giving rise to DISC1 proteins adding 1, 60 or 69 amino acids to the N-terminus (1-597). Upon biophysical characterization, the two larger proteins termed CP60 and CP69 exhibit a higher helical amount and larger protein assemblies. When the recombinant fusion proteins were expressed in cells, they mediated abnormal mitochondrial localization and altered mitochondrial membrane potential.
The last two publications show that altered DISC1 protein structure, ranging from single amino acid changes to large, chimeric fusion proteins, can culminate in changes of the protein cellular distribution, oligomerization status, and abnormal cellular function. Increasing evidence suggests that defined DISC1 protein species have particular local functions within the neuron or glia cells, and that at least a part of the DISC1-mediated pathology is dependent on abnormal cellular distribution of the protein.
Atkin TA, Brandon NJ, Kittler JT. Disrupted in Schizophrenia 1 forms pathological aggresomes that disrupt its function in intracellular transport. Hum Mol Genet . 2012 May 1 ; 21(9):2017-28. Abstract
Eykelenboom JE, Briggs GJ, Bradshaw NJ, Soares DC, Ogawa F, Christie S, Malavasi EL, Makedonopoulou P, Mackie S, Malloy MP, Wear MA, Blackburn EA, Bramham J, McIntosh AM, Blackwood DH, Muir WJ, Porteous DJ, Millar JK. A t(1;11) translocation linked to schizophrenia and affective disorders gives rise to aberrant chimeric DISC1 transcripts that encode structurally altered, deleterious mitochondrial proteins. Hum Mol Genet . 2012 May 16. Abstract
Leliveld SR, Bader V, Hendriks P, Prikulis I, Sajnani G, Requena JR, Korth C. Insolubility of disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 disrupts oligomer-dependent interactions with nuclear distribution element 1 and is associated with sporadic mental disease. J Neurosci . 2008 Apr 9 ; 28(15):3839-45. Abstract
Malavasi EL, Ogawa F, Porteous DJ, Millar JK. DISC1 variants 37W and 607F disrupt its nuclear targeting and regulatory role in ATF4-mediated transcription. Hum Mol Genet . 2012 Jun 15 ; 21(12):2779-92. Abstract
Walker RM, Hill AE, Newman AC, Hamilton G, Torrance HS, Anderson SM, Ogawa F, Derizioti P, Nicod J, Vernes SC, Fisher SE, Thomson PA, Porteous DJ, Evans KL. The DISC1 promoter: characterization and regulation by FOXP2. Hum Mol Genet . 2012 Apr 4. Abstract
Zhou X, Geyer MA, Kelsoe JR. Does disrupted-in-schizophrenia (DISC1) generate fusion transcripts? Mol Psychiatry . 2008 Apr ; 13(4):361-3. Abstract
Zhou X, Chen Q, Schaukowitch K, Kelsoe JR, Geyer MA. Insoluble DISC1-Boymaw fusion proteins generated by DISC1 translocation. Mol Psychiatry . 2010 Jul 1 ; 15(7):669-72. Abstract
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I'll often find myself writing out long commands in the bash shell - things with many arguments, web addresses, routes, etc and so on. Every so often I will realize I forgot to, say, put my "bundle exec" at the beginning of the command, or misspelled something, or forgot quotes. Or something as simply as putting "cd" instead of "vim".
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So, I'm looking ordering myself a new development desktop soon and setting up a PROPER office environment by the end of this year.
To boost productivity, I'm going to purchase three new monitors. I find that two just isn't enough when I'm debugging or doing something intensive.
That said, I had something pointed out to me the other day that I never really noticed nor cared about before - is the difference between a 16:10 and a 16:9 monitor noticeable when programming? Do you really miss those few extra lines, or is it something that you don't notice at all.
I notice HP only seems to sell 16:9 monitors (as far as I have found). Is this becoming something of a new standard with the recent growth and cleaver marketing of of "HD 16:9"?
To summarize: Has anybody made the switch from 16:10 to 16:9 (or vise-versa) and actually noticed the difference while programming?


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Doesn't "quint" mean "five"? What does that have to do with the meaning of "quintessential"?
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"Essence" in this context is a synonym for "element", and "essential" for "elemental". In pre-atomic theory, there were four "known" elements or essences — Earth, Air, Fire and Water — and a putative fifth element (quinta essentia). The fifth element was believed to be superior to the others, and so, "quintessential" has come to mean something that is superior.
Somewhat missed in the answers thus far: the "fifth essence" is in fact identical to the "æther" of yore; said to be the stuff the stars and other heavenly bodies are made of. Thus, anything composed of the "fifth essence" had to be exceptional.
It's the fifth element after earth, air, fire, and water, so it is presumably superior to those or completing those.
"quint" means fifth. The "quintessence" is the fifth essence.
The fifth element was the one supposed to come after air, fire, earth, and water in the Medieval Age.
The origin of the word quint is the late 17th century; it derives from French, which took the word from Latin quintus (fifth) from quinque (five). In Italian, quinto means fifth, and has the same origin.
Quintessential derives from quintessence (from Latin quinta essentia), which was considered thought to fill the Universe beyond Earth. In modern physics, quintessence is a hypothetical form of dark energy.
"Essence" means "element". It was believed in the Medieval Age to be the fifth element behind Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.
Sorry, I don't agree with the previous answers.
In alchemy, "essence" was the result of the distillation in an alambic (still used for perfumes) ; the process leads to a fairly purified product, but it can't be perfect ; you still have some impurities. Thus, you repeat it again and again. On the fifth time, it was considered that you could not do any better.
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Here's my cat Toby. She's 5 years old. Her mother was some sort of Savannah mix. Father unknown
As a kitten:
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All grown up:
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Teh fluff!
"Whatcha doin'?"
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Our new dog, Penny. She's a whippet. Getting her in January
I shall get pics of our fish as soon as they stay still for long enough. Soon we'll be having bearded dragons too.
Looking forward to seeing the bearded dragons! We've got 5 leopard geckos. I'll post some of them later when the lights are on in their terrariums
D'AWWWW, that is adorable.
Your cat's adorable too UC!
Cheers guys!
Only one of the leopard geckos were in the mood for a photoshoot tonight. Gex (yes, as in Enter The Gecko on PSX/N64)
Gex has cool eyelids.
Nice gecko, got a pose out of him too.
That game was awesome too. Ding dooong
This cat was a tiny wee kitten who appeared randomly in the field behind our house. We would leave food out for it and it would take it eventually, but for weeks it would not let a human come near it. Over time it eventually would at least not run away from you if you got close, then got closer and close. It would let you pet it and come beside you as you put food out.
It eventually came in to the house but only for short bursts and was still very cautious. Month and a bit later the cat basically comes in and out of the house as it pleases, likes to sit on a chair near the fire (and give us looks if we sit on it) and can be lifted, petted and alike. It's looking a lot healthier than it use to as well, but my folks feed it like it was their other child
I think it and grumpy cat could get along
This is the father of her kittens, who sadly vanished and are probably dead
Such a cutie ^^^^
New terrarium complete. Got 4 terrariums in our livingroom now...
Here's my cat Biscuit
And here's Biscuit hanging its head in shame, for some reason:
Biscuic is super cute! So much da'w factor in both those pics ^_^
We picked up our puppy today. She was a bit shaky in the car, but as soon as we got indoors she settled down and fell to sleep
just after having a nibble at my ear
In ma' bed, dreamin' ma' dreams...
That is the cutest puppy I have ever seen!
That puppy is ultra cute, I miss having a dog.
So much better than cats, you can walk a dog around the neighbourhood without looking like a weirdo.
Thank you for the kind words. I act like an idiot whenever I'm around puppies. I'm like a hysterical woman with an option to grow a beard.
Also, Mr. Angel is an awesome name for a bad kitty. A friend of mine had a cat called Kittyman, still the coolest name for a cat I've heard.
This is my dog Loki. She's a beautiful full-bred Pitbull with a heart of gold and a tail that wags a mile a minute. She also enjoys video games.


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What's the relationship between Kahler differentials and ordinary differential forms?
Let $M$ be a differentiable manifold, $A=C^\infty (M)$ its ring of global differentiable functions and $\Omega^1 (M)$ the A-module of global differential forms of class $C^\infty$. The A-module of Kähler differentials $\Omega_k(A)$ is the free A-module over the symbols $adb$ ($a,b \in A$) divided out by the relations
$d(a+b)=da+db,\quad d(ab)= adb+bda,\quad d\lambda=0 \quad(a,b\in A, \quad \lambda \in k)$
There is an obvious surjective map $\quad \Omega_k(A) \to \Omega^1 (M)$ because the relations displayed above are valid in the classical interpretation of the calculus (Leibniz rule). However, I do not believe at all that it is injective.
For example, if $\: M=\mathbb R$ , I see absolutely no reason why dsin(x)=cos(x)dx should be true in $\Omega_k(A) $ (Beware the sirens of calculus).Things would be worse if we considered $C^\infty$ functions which, contrary to the sinus, are not analytic . The same sort of reasoning applies to holomorphic manifolds and also to local rings of differentiable or holomorphic functions on manifolds.
To sum up: the differentials used in differentiable or holomorphic manifold theory are a quotient of the corresponding Kähler differentials but are not isomorphic to them. (And I think David's claim that they are isomorphic is mistaken)
There is a discussion of this issue at the $n$-category cafe. I'd encourage people who were interested in this question to head over there and see if they can lend some insight.
Here is a sketch of a proof that $d (e^x) \neq e^x dx$ in the Kahler differentials of $C^{\infty}(\mathbb{R})$. More generally, we should be able to show that, if $f$ and $g$ are $C^{\infty}$ functions with no polynomial relation between them, then $df$ and $dg$ are algebraically independent, but I haven't thought through every detail.
Choose any sequence of points $x_1$, $x_2$, in $\mathbb{R}$, tending to $\infty$. Inside the ring $\prod_{i=0}^{\infty} \mathbb{R}$, let $X$ and $e^X$ be the sequences $(x_i)$ and $(e^{x_i})$. Choose a nonprincipal ultrafilter on the $x_i$ and let $K$ be the corresponding quotient of $\prod_{i=0}^{\infty} \mathbb{R}$.
$K$ is a field. Within $K$, the elements $X$ and $e^X$ do not obey any polynomial relation with real coefficients. (Because, for any nonzero polynomial $f$, $f(x,e^x)$ only has finitely many zeroes.) Choose a transcendence basis, $\{ z_a \}$, for $K$ over $\mathbb{R}$ and let $L$ be the field $\mathbb{R}(z_a)$.
Any function $\{ z_a \} \to L$ extends to a unique derivation $L \to L$, trivial on $\mathbb{R}$. In particular, we can find $D:L \to L$ so that $D(X)=0$ and $D(e^X) =1$. Since $K/L$ is algebraic and characteristic zero, $D$ extends to a unique derivation $K \to K$. Taking the composition $C^{\infty} \to K \to K$, we have a derivation $C^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}) \to K$ with $D(X)=0$ and $D(e^X)=1$. By the universal property of the Kahler differentials, this derivation factors through the Kahler differentials. So there is a quotient of the Kahler differentials where $dx$ becomes $0$, and $d(e^x)$ does not, so $dx$ does not divide $d(e^x)$.
I'm traveling and can't provide references for most of the facts I am using aobut derivations of fields, but I think this is all in the appendix to Eisenbud's Commutative Algebra.
UPDATE: My answer essentially just gives the definition of Kahler differentials and differential forms and misses the point of the question. Georges' answer addresses the relationship between the two. As David before me, I also encourage you to vote Georges' answer up and mine down.
Let $M$ be a smooth manifold and $p$ a point in $M$. The usual definition of the tangent space to $M$ at $p$ is as the vector space of linear maps $D: C^{\infty}(M) \to \mathbb{R}$ satisfying the Leibniz rule $$D(fg) = D(f)g(p) + f(p)D(g)$$ Equivalently, let $I$ be the ideal of $C^{\infty}(M)$ consisting of all functions vanishing at $p$. Then $T_p M$ is the dual of the vector space $I/I^2$ (which you hence call the cotangent space to $M$ at $p$). Indeed, $D(f) = 0$ for every $f \in I^2$, and conversely any linear map $r: I/I^2 \to \mathbb{R}$ gives rise to a derivation $D(f) := r(f-f(p))$.
Now let $X$ be a scheme over a field $k$ (you can generalize this to a morphism of schemes) and $x$ a closed point. Consider the local ring $\mathcal{O}_{x, X}$ of functions regular at $X$. Then the stalk at $x$ of the sheaf of Kahler differentials $\Omega^1_X$ corepresents the functor taking an $\mathcal{O}_{x,X}$-module $\mathcal{F}_x$ to $\mathrm{Der}(\mathcal{O}_{x,X}, \mathcal{F}_x)$. In particular, $$\mathrm{Der}(\mathcal{O}_{x,X}, k) \cong \mathrm{Hom}(\Omega^1_{X,x}, k)$$
It is in this sense that you think of $\Omega^1_{X,x}$ as the cotangent space to $X$ at $x$. Indeed, in this case $\Omega^1_{X,x} \cong m/m^2$ where $m \subset \mathcal{O}_{x, X}$ is the ideal of functions vanishing at $x$.
UPDATE The previous answer that was here was pretty much completely wrong. Thanks to Georges for several corrections. I encourage everybody to vote my answer down and his up.
If $M$ is a $C^{\infty}$ manifold and $A$ is the ring $C^{\infty}(M)$ then there is a natural map from the Kahler differentials $\Omega_{A/\mathbb{R}}$ to the $C^{\infty}$ one-forms. This is surjective but far from injective. For example, $d \sin x \neq \cos x dx$ in the Kahler differentials. The basic problem is that Kahler differentials are only linear for finite sums, so they can't "see" nonpolynomial relations.
If you replace $C^{\infty}$ by complex analytic and $M$ is an open simply connected set in $\mathbb{C}^n$, then the Kahler differentials map to the holomorphic $(1,0)$-forms. This is still true for any complex manifold if interpreted as a statement about sheaves; let $\mathcal{H}$ be the sheaf of holomorphic functions and define the sheaf of Kahler differentials by sheafifying the presheaf $U \mapsto \Omega_{\mathcal{H}(U)/\mathbb{C}}$; then we again have a map from Kahler differentials to holomorphic $(1,0)$ forms.
In algebraic geometry, if $M$ is a smooth complex algebraic variety, one usually considers the sheaf gotten by sheafifiying the presheaf $U \mapsto \Omega_{\mathcal{O}(U)/\mathbb{C}}$. (We are now using the Zariski topology.) These are, by definition, the algebraic $(1,0)$ forms. They are not isomorphic to the holomorphic $(1,0)$ forms but, if $M$ is projective, they have the same cohomology by GAGA.
Hello everybody, I'm not a mathematician :) so sorry not to write the details here. Basically, I studied engineering and control theory. In nonlinear control theory we often use differentials, either Kahler or ordinary, to study the systems. There has been a long discussion whether those two notions are isomorphic or not. I believe, we have the answer finally. Together with my colleagues we have shown that differential one-froms are isomorphic to a quotient space (module) of Kahler differentials. These two modules coincide when they are modules over a ring of linear differential operators over the field of algebraic functions. It was published as G. Fu, M. Halás, Ü. Kotta, Z. Li: Some remarks on Kähler differentials and ordinary differentials in nonlinear control theory. In: Systems and control letters, article in press, 2011. Available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167691111001198


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I know there ATMs in Harare and Bulawayo that dispense USD. What about Victoria Falls? I didn't see any in Victoria Falls last time I was there.
Most other forums online indicate that now the Zimbabwean ATMs in Vic Falls dispense USD.
VictoriaFalls-Guide.net indicates that:
There is also an ATM I can't remember the brand in the shopping area near chicken-inn off the main road.
The Barclays ATM was giving out large notes (100USD) which can be hard to get rid of in the local shops. Its probably best to have a bunch of 1, 5, 10 USD notes with you when you arrive.
Yes they are there and as mentioned Barclays Bank is the best bet and accepts various international cards.


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Chicken Broth
It is virtually impossible to reproduce restaurant quality soups at home unless you make your own chicken broth. Make sure the bones are cut into small pieces to get maximum flavor extraction.
Makes 1½ gallons, total time:
- 10 pounds chicken bones
- 2 gallons cold water
- 1 cup Twomey Sauvignon Blanc
- 1 pound white onions, diced large
- 4 ounces carrots, diced large
- 4 ounces leeks, diced large
- 4 ounces celery, diced large
- 4 ounces fennel bulb, diced large
- ½ bunch fresh thyme
- ½ bunch fresh parsley
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 tablespoon black pepper
- Place all the ingredients into a large 3 gallon stock pot over medium heat. Bring liquid to a gentle boil, turn heat to low and maintain a light simmer for 4 hours, skimming off and discarding any oil, foam or skin that forms on the surface of the both. (Do not stir or let the mixture come to a heavy boil; this will make the broth cloudy.) Strain the broth and chill in an ice bath.
- Once cold you can freeze the broth in zip lock bags until ready to use. The broth will last 4 days in the refrigerator or up to 60 days in the freezer.


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Kids Night A Good One At CGS
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Madman Photography)
Some great racing would take place at the Cottage Grove Speedway on Saturday June 7th for Kids Night. During the course of the evening five lucky kids walked away with brand new bicycles apart of a giveaway contest that would take place. Classes in action would be the Northwest Extreme Sprints, Late Models, Northwest Extreme Modifieds, Street Stocks, and Dwarf Cars.
The Northwest Extreme Sprint feature witnessed Dave Hibbard of Medford take full advantage of his pole position starting spot to grab the early lead. The pilot of the C&H Motorsports/Tangible Real Estate Investments/Dave's Carpet & Vinyl Liquidators/Southern Oregon Veterans Benefit #3 Zeitler cruised around the historic ¼-mile clay oval out in front however late in the race Cottage Grove's Colin Baker would slowly but surely close in on Hibbard only for Hibbard to hold on and win his second feature of 2014. Hibbard is now the only repeat winner in Northwest Extreme Sprint competition.
Colin Baker would finish a close second for car owner Brian Crockett in the BC Motorsports/Steelhouse Metal Roofing Supply/Hedge Carter Continuous Gutter Service #83 John Boy while behind him in third was Dusty Redmond of Roseburg in his Redmond Trucking/Independent Thinning/Whit-Log Trailers #57 Rocket. The RCV Custom Coach Service/Cobalt Computer Services/William & Mathis Accounting/All Around Printing #4 XXX of Creswell's Jesse Thistle came home fourth and fifth went to Vern Wheeler Jr. of Central Point in the Dave Hibbard owned C&H Motorsports/Tangible Real Estate Investments/Dave's Carpet & Vinyl Liquidators/Southern Oregon Veterans Benefit #1 Maxim.
A thriller of a Late Model feature would take place for the fans last Saturday. Randy Martin of Eugene in the Team S.D.M.F. #88 Warrior would seize the initial race lead and seemed to have the top side of the track figured out. But the bottom of the race track would start to come in and Blaine Taylor would keep his faith on the inside line and take over the lead on lap three. Taylor would lead the rest of the distance in his My Boys Slate Fired Pizza/Taylor Restaurant Equipment/Mueller Commercial Services #18 MasterSbilt to win his first career main event at CGS.
The Cold Spring Resort/R.G. Remanufacturing/Superior Fuel Cells/Driving Force Graphics #36 Rocket of Shaun Mayea out of Bend was second, and had actually reeled Taylor in the last few laps, while Britton Donahoo from Salem crossed the wire in third chauffeuring the O&O Farms/Karcto Racing #5 MasterSbilt. The rest of the top five would see the Superior Fuel Cells/X-Factor Race Cars/All Pro Steel #42 X-Factor of Paul Culp from Springfield in fourth and Aloha's Brittany Ray in the Brittany Ray Motorsports #12B Swartz was fifth.
The Dwarf Car main event was equally entertaining as Creswell's Kevin Hicks tried to hold back all challengers. Hicks would lead a little over half of the race, in his Hicks Family Racing/The Wright Shop/Cindy Sew It/B-Rad Motorsports #78 Philpott, until shortly after a lap eleven restart Ryan Martinez from Portland would make a move down low for the top spot. Martinez would stay out in front for the rest of the distance and put his Auto Truck Wholesale/Van Raden Industries/St. John's Tire Factory #9 M&M into the winner's circle for the second time of 2014 at Cottage Grove and his fourth time overall between CGS and Sunset Speedway Park in Banks this year.
Brad Hicks of Creswell would beat out his dad for second at the line in his Hicks Family Racing/The Wright Shop/Cindy Sew It/B-Rad Motorsports #77 B-Rad while Kevin Hicks was third. Another father/son contingent would finish in fourth and fifth with the Drager Performance #88S M&M of John Chrisman from Albany followed by his son Dylan Chrisman in the Drager Performance #66S M&M.
Despite only two cars in the Street Stock event it was a nail biter from start to finish. Steve Begley of Eugene would keep his Nathan Anderson Dentistry/Platinum Hair of Creswell/Stacy Graves Massage Therapy #00 Nova out in front despite several attempts by Cottage Grove's Even Britton to challenge for the lead. Britton would end up second in the Dot's Trophy Shop/Ollivant Timber Management/Howell Logging/Gilkison & Dad Inc. #85 Nova.
In the Northwest Extreme Modified race it was David Schmidt from Eugene putting on a clinic. He would lead every lap but the first to put his EMS Truck Repair/Cindy Sew It/Oregon Concealed Training/Hunter Brake & Alignment #9 Pro into the winner's circle for the very first time of his career. Jimmy Owen of Cottage Grove was second in his Eagle Racing Graphics/Dan Martin Excavating/Dirt Tracking #27 machine while the Akin Racing #54 Monster of Crow's Scott Akin was third.
Cottage Grove Speedway returns to action for two nights starting with Friday June 13th and then Saturday the 14th for Relay For Life weekend. The American Sprint Car Series-Northwest Region will be on hand for both nights while the support classes for Friday is the Northwest Extreme Modifieds and Hornets and on Saturday it will be IMCA Modifieds and Street Stocks. For each night the Pit Gates will open at 2:00 PM, Front Gates open at 4:00, and Racing starts at 6:45. Ticket prices per event are Adults $15.00, Seniors/Military/Juniors (13-17) $13.00, Youths (Ages 12-6) $8.00, and Children under the age of 5 are FREE. For more information log on to www.cottagegrovespeedway.com.
Race Summary:
Kids Night At The Races
Saturday June 7th, 2014
Cottage Grove Speedway
Cottage Grove, Oregon
Late Models
A Feature: 1. 18-Blaine Taylor; 2. 36-Shaun Mayea; 3. 5-Britton Donahoo; 4. 42-Paul Culp; 5. 12B-Brittany Ray; 6. 16-Rob Williams; 7. 88P-Mike Peters; 8. 78-Ed Peters; 9. 96R-Tony Bounds; 10. J871-Roy Kirk Jr.; 11. 88-Randy Martin; 12. S09-Kevin Kirk; DNS 03-Kevin Ropchan
NW Extreme Sprints
A Feature: 1. 3-David Hibbard; 2. 83-Colin Baker; 3. 57-Dusty Redmond; 4. 4-Jesse Thistle; 5. 1-Vern Wheeler Jr; 6. 12-Orion Redmond; 7. 21-Mike Griffith; 8. 5D-Patrick Dills; 9. 71JR-Colby Carter; 10. 10K-Don Waddell
NW Extreme Modifieds
A Feature: 1. David Schmidt; 2. 27-Jimmy Owen; 3. 54-Scott Akin
Street Stocks
A Feature: 1. 00-Steve Begley; 2. 85-Evan Britton
Dwarf Cars
A Feature: 1. 9-Ryan Martinez; 2. 77-Brad Hicks; 3. 78-Kevin Hicks; 4. 88S-John Chrisman; 5. 66S-Dylan Chrisman; 6. 14-Robert O'Neil; 7. 76-Brian Hicks
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Chantecaille Brilliant Glosses
Chantecaille Brilliant Glosses are one of these products.
I should say up front that I don't think they're for everyone. They come in sleek, classy-looking tubes, wear wonderfully, and have a texture to die for, but they ARE very sheer. If you're the kind of person who has pigmented lips and prefers highly pigmented/opaque glosses - the kind where the color on your lips is the exact same as the one in the tube - these may not be for you. (And to those people, I'm happy to point you toward Chantecaille's more pigmented potted glosses... although there's another group of us entirely that hates potted lip gloss... sigh.)
If you're a loyal reader, though, you probably already know that I love sheer lip products; most colors more than a few shades away from my natural lip color make me feel like a stranger in my own skin. I also care way more about being comfortable than perfect - I'd rather wear plain lip balm than a deep matte red on my lips with the iconic "little black dress" (ignoring the fact that I don't even own one), however sultry the red may be, and good luck catching me in heels more than ten days a year. For this reason, I perpetually gravitate toward glossy, sheer, moisturizing, non-sticky lip products, and Chantecaille Brilliant Glosses are just that. They look and feel absolutely luxurious on my lips - more so than any other lip product I've ever used - and yes, I really do mean that. I can also say with absolute certainty, given the current state of my lip gloss collection, that Charisma, Glee, Modern, and Sweet will collectively be the first four full-size lip glosses that I completely use up from start to finish. These lip glosses even pass the boyfriend test - he unfailingly tells me that my lips either look "juicy" or "kissable" whenever I wear one.
A few other notes: these don't seem to have a noticeable scent to me - they do smell faintly sweet, but not overly so. They're $28 each (I can just hear your wallets wincing - don't worry, mine's in the chorus too), or about $22 each if you get them in kits (a trio of three full-sized ones for $68, six half-sized ones for $65, etc.). Chantecaille is notoriously hard to find in-person, in my experience, but is available from a variety of sources online. You can see the results of a price comparison search for Chantecaille Brilliant Glosses here on Pebble.com. If you prefer to purchase "from the source," your best bet is probably Chantecaille's website, which has free shipping on all orders through August 12 (and a store locator if you'd like to try these in-person first and happen to have a counter nearby - ha!). With that said, to be honest, I wouldn't hesitate to direct you to eBay. I know not everyone's comfortable with this option, but I've gotten most of the Chantecaille products I own from there at great prices, and it's all authentic; I get the impression that Chantecaille has a small enough market that it either hasn't popped up on the radar of scammers yet or they just don't think it would be worth their time to counterfeit the products.
Last but not least, I want to mention that KarlaSugar, talented friend and blogger extraordinaire, is also posting her own swatches of Chantecaille lip glosses this week, in addition to my lip swatches. I was only able to swatch the glosses in my own collection for you today, but I believe she has all of the ones currently available from Chantecaille in her pictures. Karla, thank you for sharing this with me!
Um, I think I've babbled enough now. I guess this is what four months of college finals and then writer's block does to a person! Without futher ado, here are your pictures. Sorry about the different lighting on the picture of Charisma; I acquired that one after I took the pictures with the rest of them.
Brilliant Gloss: Allure, Charisma, Charm, Elation, Glee, Love, Mirth, Modern, Sweet
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Wow, they do look like fantastic glosses - I typically have a really hard time getting glosses to look even on my lips. Allure looks beautiful on you!ReplyDelete
Hey you are back - awesome! Love the swatches, I have been curious to see what they look like on the lips. Thanks!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 3, 2011 at 1:19 AM
Thanks for the great pics! The glosses are lovely! I've been hunting on the web to try to find the ingredient list...do you know it by chance? I love Charm, Mirth and Sweet. So natural and gorgeous.ReplyDelete
wow. great review! apparently angelina jolie wore this lip gloss last night at the golden globes. any idea what color? looks like maybe charm?ReplyDelete
Hi Katie,ReplyDelete
I'm not sure, and I have read that Charm is one of her favorites, but based on this up-close-and-personal pic I found (http://cdn.buzznet.com/media/jj1/2011/01/jolie-globes/angelina-jolie-golden-globes-2011-brad-pitt-12.jpg) I'd guess it's maybe Love or Mirth over a cool pink lipstick/liner.
The one she used is "Love" :D yay! Which is now sold out everywhere!ReplyDelete
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Is it true that any manifold homotopy equivalent to a k-dimensional CW-complex admits a proper Morse function with critical points all of index <= k? I believe this is not true, so I would like to see a counterexample.
Take a contractible $3$-manifold which is not homeomorphic to $\mathbb R^3$ -- like the Whitehead manifold.
If such a Morse function existed on the Whitehead manifold, it would be a Morse function with only one critical point, the minimum, and therefore the Whitehead manifold would be an open 3-ball. The proof of this has two steps: (1) $f$ can have at most one critical point, WLOG a minimum by homotopy-type considerations, and it can't have less than one critical point by the "edit" below. Step (2) if it has one critical point let it be $f(p)=0$, the minimum. By the Morse Lemma, $f^{-1}[0,\epsilon]$ is diffeomorphic to a closed 3-ball. The flow the the gradient of $f$ gives a diffeomorphism between $f^{-1}[\epsilon,\infty)$ and $S^2 \times [\epsilon, \infty)$. Pasting these two diffeomorphisms together gives you a diffeomorphism between the manifold and $\mathbb R^3$.
edit: Well, I guess there's the special case to consider that the Morse function could have no critical points but then you could deal with this by the argument that the Whitehead manifold isn't a product of a surface and $\mathbb R$, which by the classification of surfaces amounts to saying that the Whitehead manifold isn't homeo/diffeomorphic to $\mathbb R^3$.
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Suppose that $M$ has a proper Morse function $f\ge 0$ with all critical points of index at most $k$. Then homotopically $M$ can be made of low-dimensional cells: it has homotopical dimension at most $k$. But also $M$, relative to its boundary $M^{\ge c}$, can be made by attaching high-dimensional cells. Thus the pair $(M,M^{\ge c})$ is $(dim(M)-k-1)$-connected. So for example if $k\le dim(M)-3$ and $M$ is simply connected then $M$ must also be "simply connected at infinity".


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WACO (December 20, 2012)—Waco ISD administrators acted Thursday to quell viral rumors on Facebook about impending violence Friday at University High School that generated a number of phone calls from worried parents and Rockdale ISD officials cancelled Friday classes altogether because of similar rumors.
In a letter to parents, Waco ISD Superintendent Dr. Bonny Cain said the district is aware of the rumors and is "actively following up on leads that even hint of substance."
"When appropriate, practical, and within reason, added or enhanced security measures are being implemented," Cain said in the letter.
In response to the rumors and the concern they've generated, University High School officials are planning to restrict access to the school Friday, which is an early-dismissal day.
Students will be allowed to enter only through the side door leading to the student parking lot and the rear bus drop-off entrance.
No access will be permitted through the front doors of the school.
Meanwhile Rockdale ISD administrators canceled classes altogether Friday partly in response to "improper and inaccurate comments and social media discussions of possible threats" that created disruptions on district campuses," a message on the district's Web site said.
Police and school officials investigated the comments and "established that all campuses are safe and that these comments are inaccurate," the statement said.
"School attendance has been dramatically affected over the last few days with student and staff illnesses including flu, stomach virus, and flu-like symptoms. The number of students that are out ill combined with the continued disruption on school campuses has prompted Rockdale ISD to cancel classes on Friday, December 21 in the best interest of students and staff," the statement said.
Friday is the last day of class before the Christmas break and it's also the end of the 5,125-year Mayan calendar cycle, which some have associated with an apocalyptic event.


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Before you guys start tormenting me by saying that it's a repeated question, my question deals with the redesigned Facebook events page, even at Facebook help if i check how to export birthdays, the help text given there is for the old page, wherein it says that you need to click the "magnifying glass" icon, from there select birthdays and so on. But the redesigned events page doesn't have this option.
I'm really getting annoyed since even Facebook didn't change its help text. There is no option to select Birthdays or export birthdays.


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A museum for everythingPosted Monday, February 16, 2009, at 10:28 PM
In Nevada, there's a fantastic musuem, much larger than most people realized, filled with all sorts of exhibits about many aspects of Vernon County throughout the years. It's an eclectic place where one can learn about how people lived through the years. It's fun to walk through the exhibits and see places you know about and how they've changed. There's also the Novak Baseball Museum on Cherry Street -- something every fan should see.
If the city of Nevada has two such treasures, what might one find in the whole state of Nevada? Well, there's the Atomic Testing Museum, for one. The Buckaroo Hall of Fame -- it's all about cowboys -- is a a place called Winnemucca, Nev,
Throughout the country, you can find museums dedicated to juat about anything. In Tennessee, there's a Bird Dog Museum.
In Colorado, there's the American Numismatic Association Money Museum. Wikipedia says the Hammer Museum in Alaska features hundreds of hammers and other tools. There are literally hundreds of museums in Nevada -- and yes, there's a gambling museum, cleverly called the "Nevada Gambling Museum." Interestingly, this museum is neither in Nevada's capitol city of Carson City, nor in its most famous city, Las Vegas. It's in Virginia City. Las Vegas is, however, home to the Pinball Hall of Fame and the Neon Museum. Hmm.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons is urging President Barack Obama to back federal tax code changes as part of an economic stimulus package to allow the state to help finance power lines, part of its plan to boost alternative energy, an aide said on Thursday.
Nevada's Republican governor in a letter to the president requested changes to Internal Revenue Service codes that would allow the state to establish a not-for-profit corporation that would issue tax-exempt private activity bonds to finance the construction of $3 billion in transmission lines across the state.
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Nevada's Republican governor in a letter to the president requested changes to Internal Revenue Service codes that would allow the state to establish a not-for-profit corporation that would issue tax-exempt private activity bonds to finance the construction of $3 billion in transmission lines across the state.
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Just now came across the museum article! We are big fans of museums (as well as zoos, national parks, historic sites, botanical gardens and the like). In the states I have been in, here are the best museums, in my opinion
ARKANSAS-The history museum in downtown Fort Smith. Thousands of items on exhibit from dolls and Indian artifacts to musical instruments and toys.
ARIZONA-The Route 66 Museum in Kingman. Tells not only regional history but had good display of First Ladies of the US clothes when we were there.
CALIFORNIA-The Mojave Museum at Barstow. Blends nature and history together for a good exhibit on San Bernadino County.
COLORADO-The Ice Skating Hall of Fame at Colorado Springs. You don't even have to be a big fan to enjoy it.
ILLINOIS-Pres. Grant's home at Galena. A lot of folks do not even know he lived in Illinois at one time.
INDIANA-Santa Claus. Not a museum but an amusement park where it is Christmas all year round (and recently included other holidays)
IOWA-The George Maier Museum at Elkader. One man's collection explains the growth of America.
KANSAS-The High Plains Mus. at Colby. Includes a sod house, an old church, 1 room school house, the largest barn in Kansas and thousands of exhibits including one on Marion Talley, the opera singer from Nevada, Mo.
KENTUCKY-The Indian Mounds at Wyckliffe.
LOUISIANA-THe Rose Garden at Shreveport. Not really a museum but incredible flower displays.
MINNESOTA-Spam (the lunch meat) Museum at Austin.
MISSOURI-(other than Nevada area)-The Money Museum at Federal REserve Bank in KC.
NEBRASKA-Harold Warps Pioneer Village.
NEVADA-Lost Mining City Museum at Overton.
NEW MEXICO-UFO museum at Roswell (several in town)
OKLAHOMA-Museum of the 5 Tribes at Muskogee.
TENNESSEE-The National Civil RIghts Museum, where Dr. King was shot.
UTAH-Utah Field House of Natural History at Vernal with its incredible dinosaur sculptures.
WISCONSIN-Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien with its thousands of displays on everything from fur trapping to frontier medicine
WYOMING-The huge statue of President Lincoln between Cheyenne and Laramie on I 80
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NEWELL - According to the International Energy Agency, drilling in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations should help the U.S. surge past Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer by 2020.
Since Ergon Inc.'s refinery is located right in the heart of this burgeoning oilfield, the Jackson, Miss.-based company is investing more than $78 million to expand its capacity to take advantage of the increased local crude production.
"This expansion will provide our customers with even greater reliability, higher quality fuels and an improved customer experience," said Don Davis, president of Ergon West Virginia.
The majority of the projects will be finished next year, with the remainder to be completed in 2014.
Located near the very northern tip of West Virginia's Northern Panhandle, the Ergon oil refinery opened in 1972. The company acquired the facility from Quaker State - now a subsidiary of global oil giant Royal Dutch Shell - in July 1997.
According to the company, the Newell refinery uses high-pressure hydrotreating technology to produce highly refined specialty products and fuels from local Appalachian grade crude. The facility now can process more than 20,000 barrels of oil per day, gathering most of its oil from Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and New York.
The oil is taken by truck or pipeline to gathering centers in Ohio and Pennsylvania before moving on to the refinery by truck, barge and pipeline. The oils refined by Ergon can become motor oils, gear oils, greases, pharmaceutical and agricultural spray oils, and in rubber applications.
Drilling, fracking, processing, transporting and cracking in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations throughout the Upper Ohio Valley continue to increase. Major corporations such as Chesapeake Energy, Gulfport Energy, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Dominion Resources, MarkWest Energy, Williams Partners and Royal Dutch Shell are all taking their stakes by investing billions of dollars to harvest the resources that lie thousands of feet underground. Now, Ergon is confident enough in the oilfield to make this $78 million investment.
In addition to the natural gas found in the Marcellus and Utica formations, oil and natural gas liquids (ethane, propane, butane and pentane) are also prevalent in the rocks - particularly the farther west one drills. The report shows that oil and gas from unconventional sources in the U.S. are expected to significantly increase until 2035.
The international agency's information also predicts the U.S. will be "almost self-sufficient in energy, in net terms, by 2035." The projections show U.S. oil production peaking in 2020 at 11.1 million barrels a day. This theoretically means the need to import oil from the Middle East would end over the next decade.
The report shows that by 2020, shale drilling should allow the U.S. to surpass Saudi Arabia in oil production. It also shows the U.S. should become a net exporter of natural gas within the next eight years, meaning the country should be able to produce more than it can consume.


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I have always wondered what there is no cheese made from other milks other than cow, goat or sheep. Are they not suitable for humans? Do they taste bad? Is it even possible to make dairy products with them?
There are several main reasons, historically:
Lastly, I have actually had camel's milk ice-cream, which goes to show that it's just a cultural thing mostly.
It's possible, but the reason why we drink cow/goat/sheep milk is because of how much easier it is to get at it. Pigs don't store their milk in udders, making each milking of them a very low-yield process.
As daniel suggests, cost of production is the main issue.
But it is possible. In fact, recently in the UK a restaurant served human breast milk ice cream [Source] and I don't see any reason why we couldn't have cheeses made from human milk.
There are even cheeses* that are made without any milk for vegans [Source], and it sounds absolutely delicious
*Not real cheese, keep it well away from my pizza
Another explanation is diet. Pigs eat pretty much anything, while cows are rather selective about the grass they eat. The milk takes on a lot of the characteristics of the food the animal eats, so cheese made from a pig would probably be pretty bad.
I'm a cheese monger in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.A. (PNW), and I've heard of a pigs milk cheese that is produced in Italy.
Some reports say that it's produced in or around Tuscany. The cheese is called Porcino (Italian for "something of the pig" - I may have the spelling wrong) and is rarely sold outside the region, and never outside of Italy.
One website that talked about Porcino cited an article on it, but later said that the article was a hoax. I have no way to confirm or deny the validity of the article. Though I have talked to cheese distributors here in the PNW, and they confirm that it is a real cheese, but that there is no way for them to procure it for sale in this part of the world.
According to my sources, some of the same Italian families have been making this cheese for over a millennium.
I think we are also neglecting the production costs of making pig's milk cheese. Given the amount of milk that would be needed to turn a profit or even make a single wheel compared to the amount of care and cost associated with raising and maintaining a sow for milk (which from what I understand does not produce a great deal of milk anyway) isn't very economical.
You cannot make cheese from human milk. Everyone who has tried has mixed human milk with cow's milk. The have tried but failed to make cheese from purely human milk.
What they do not seem to realize is when they separate the curd from the whey, every single ounce of human milk is discarded in the whey. Human milk does not form curds - period. You cannot make cheese without curds.
cheese or butter can not be made from pig camel horse milk its just not possible it will not turn in to cheese only cow sheep and goat milk can be made into cheese


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my question is, what kind of copyrights i can set for my artwork that i create with gimp or inkscape.
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At what point do I need an extended-validation SSL certificates (EV) rather than the less expensive domain-validated SSL certificate?
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I think the (EV) is mostly snake oil. Most users wouldn't know what the green bar in their browser is really indicating compared to the standard SSL
therefore there is no increase in security.
The only (relevant) advantage is you have an authority that recognizes that your domain name matches the company name. This could be important in (assuming user knowledge):
That's mostly up to you, standard SSL's are perfectly fine and compliant. I would also decide based on the service or product i'm offering and the amount of security and trust that I had to provide visitors to the website. eCommerce for most products regular SSL is fine in my opinion. As the price of products and services reach $1,000 I would suggest getting the best SSL you could which makes the Green URL areas. I forget what they're called.
My view is that EV SSL is a convenient ploy by certificate authorities instead of fixing the broken chain of trust. It merely does what regular signed certificates did 10 years ago. Nonetheless, if you conduct business over the internet which requires protection against sophisticated phishing attacks, then you don't have a lot of other choices.
So when to definitely get EV SSL?
Right now, pretty much anyone can get an SSL certificate, including criminals who wish to stay anonymous, and they can get one for any website, including one that purports to be another organization. This wasn't always the case, as initially to get a signed certificate, CAs would perform extensive background checks to verify the identity of the website operator. That's why the certificates cost $100~200 and had a renewal fee each year. You were paying for the cost of verifying that you are who you claim to be.
Now, CAs buy their way into the chain of trust and then just use it as a way of essentially printing money. We pay them $20~100 each year for essentially doing nothing. They simply automatically generate a signed certificate that has no meaning and is issued without any checks or scrutiny on the website it's issued for. The only difference between a regular CA-signed certificate and a self-signed certificate is that the browser displays a scary message to users when it's self-signed. But there's no guarantee that one is safer than the other.
So the system is effectively broken, which the CAs saw as an excellent opportunity to create EV SSL and charge more money for this "deluxe" certificate—you know, one where they actually do the job they're supposed to.


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Students from the Rutgers School of Law–Newark Class of 2014 have received 10 of the 27 Eagleton Fellowships awarded for the 2013-2014 academic year. The program is open to all Rutgers graduate students with an interest in politics and government.
Each year the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University awards one-year fellowships through four related programs: Harold and Reba Martin Fellowships, Henry J. Raimondo Legislative Fellowships, Governor's Executive Fellowships, and an Eagleton Alumni Fellowship.
The fellowships are designed to complement academic study. Eagleton Fellows work toward their degrees without interruption. During the fall semester, students take a seminar in applied politics to prepare them for the spring semester, when they are placed with an office in the New Jersey Legislature, the Governor's Office, an executive agency, or other government-related office.
Following is a profile of the law school's 2013-2014 Eagleton Fellows:
Olta Bejleri and her family received political asylum in the United States after fleeing Albania, the country in which she was born and raised. She holds a B.A. in political science and sociology from Fordham University. While at Fordham, Bejleri participated in the university's Emerging Leaders Program and interned for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. At Rutgers–Newark Law, she is a notes editor for the Rutgers Law Review, an LRW teaching associate, and a Minority Student Program teaching fellow. She has been an intern for U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas, District of New Jersey, and a legal researcher for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of New Jersey. After graduation, she will join O'Melveny & Meyers in New York. Bejleri is a Governor's Executive Fellow.
Sara Bennett, a Harold and Reba Martin Fellow, has a B.A. in theatre and drama and in African American studies from Indiana University. Prior to pursuing a master's degree from Columbia University in African American studies, Bennett spent several years as a professional stage manager and production manager. While at Columbia, she interned with the William J. Clinton Foundation. A J.D./M.S.W. dual degree candidate, she has been an associate editor of Rutgers Race and the Law Review and treasurer of the Public Interest Law Foundation. She has been awarded PILF grants for summer internships at the Vera Institute of Justice and in the district office of New Jersey Senate majority leader Loretta Weinberg. This fall she continues her social work field placement at the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice.
Roosevelt Donat is an evening student who works in Newark as a director of government relations and strategic planning. He earned a dual degree in government and sociology from Georgetown University. Donat is an associate editor for the Rutgers Business Law Review and the Northeast Black Law Student Association's chief of staff. Last summer he worked as a summer associate for American International Group. His public service activities include frequent participation in workshops for underprivileged inner-city youth on the value of higher education and hard work and two service trips to Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. A Henry J. Raimondo Legislative Fellow, he will intern in New Jersey Assembly Majority Office.
Leonard Jones is a graduate of Seton Hall University where he earned a B.A. in political science and an M.P.A. in public service. He is an active member of the Student Bar Association, the Association of Black Law Students, and the Rutgers Law Record. He has interned in the litigation department at Prudential Financial, Inc. and has clerked at the office of the Union County Counsel. Jones is a Governor's Executive Fellow.
Ian Liberty, who was awarded the Eagleton Alumni Fellowship, is editor-in-chief of the Rutgers Race and the Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Board. He earned his undergraduate degree in political science from Rutgers where, as an undergraduate associate at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, he interned with the New Jersey Democratic State Committee. Dedicated to public service and public interest law, Liberty is the recipient of a Proskauer Rose Public Interest Fellowship, Kinoy-Stavis Public Interest Fellowship, and Charles H. Revson Public Interest Fellowship. His summer positions have been with Volunteers Lawyers for Justice and the Essex County Office of the Public Defender. His note on the unconstitutionality of modern debt collection practices has been chosen for publication.
Anthony Marcum, a native of Ohio, has a B.A. in history and political science from the Ohio State University. In addition to serving as an articles editor for the Rutgers Law Review, he has been vice-justice of Phi Alpha Delta – Jackson Chapter, a finalist in the Nathan Baker Mock Trial Competition, and a member of the school's National Mock Trial Team. Marcum has been a judicial extern for U.S. District Court Judge James E. Seibert, Northern District of West Virginia, and interned for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office and New Jersey Chief Justice Stuart Rabner. This past summer he interned in the U.S. Department of Justice's National Security Division. A Henry J. Raimondo Legislative Fellow, he will work this spring in the Assembly Minority Office.
Rachel Moody, whose interests focus on environmental policy and regulation, is completing a dual degree program in law and public policy. Before law school she was part of the AmeriCorps Backcountry Trail Crew, helping to build and maintain trails in Klamath National Forest and Yosemite National Park. A legal intern in the U.S. EPA's Criminal Division this past summer, she has worked at the U.S. Attorney's Office – District of New Jersey, the New Jersey Attorney General's Office, and the San Francisco Planning Department. Moody was selected as a New Leaders Council–New Jersey Chapter 2013 Fellow. This fall she plans to take part in Climate Ride's New York to Washington D.C. bike ride to raise awareness of climate change issues. She is a Governor's Executive Fellow.
Barbara Silber graduated cum laude from Rutgers University with a bachelor's degree in political science. During her final semester, she interned at the U.S. House of Representatives for Congressman William Pascrell, Jr. followed by a year as a legal assistant at a law firm that specializes in civil litigation. Silber is a member of the Moot Court Board, has held a leadership position with the International Law Society, and is a volunteer for Veterans Pro Bono Program. She has interned for Knight Capital group's in-house legal counsel and worked as a summer associate at Brach Eichler, LLC. She will work in the Office of Legislative Services as a Henry J. Raimondo Legislative Fellow.
Aaron Washington, a business editor of the Rutgers Law Review, holds a B.A. in African American studies from Rutgers University. He has pursued a career in financial services, working at Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, and J.P. Morgan Chase. As a law student, Washington has been a research assistant for LRW instructor Ellen Rice, an LRW teaching associate, and a teaching fellow for the Minority Student Program. He spent the past summer in Washington, D.C. as a participant in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Summer Honors Law Program and, in the future, hopes to use his experiences to protect the financial interests of others. Washington is a Governor's Executive Fellow.
Michael Woodruff, a Brooklyn, New York native, earned a B.A. in philosophy and psychology from Clark University. After graduation, his interest in law and justice led him to a position at the Vera Institute of Justice and participation in the Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service at NYU's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. Woodruff is an articles editor on the Rutgers Law Review, a member of the Moot Court Board, and a Kinoy-Stavis Public Interest Fellow. He has worked as a legal intern at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and, this past summer, at the Office of the Appellate Defender. He is a Governor's Executive Fellow.


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Well, I did not find anywhere a rule against it. Am I right in assuming that they can maintain their alternate form when they sleep?
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Yes. The power that allows a changeling to disguise themselves states:
The only thing that would supersede the wording of the power is the unconscious condition, but there is nothing there that indicates that effects end.
If you're still not convinced, take a look at the glossary entry for Polymorph:
Nothing there about being unconscious either.
There's also a discussion here that goes into more detail and covers other effects (Auras, conjurations, marks, stances, etc).


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