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AP: Spitzer abandons license plan for illegals; Update: Triumphant humpbot video added!
posted at 9:49 pm on November 13, 2007 by Allahpundit
Smells like … victory.
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided to abandon a plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, officials familiar with the decision told The Associated Press Tuesday night…
The governor's office signaled to New York lawmakers Tuesday that Spitzer will say at the meeting that he is shelving the plan and that immigration is a federal issue to be handled by Washington, according to congressional aides who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because no formal announcement had been made.
Last month, Spitzer sought to salvage the license effort by striking a deal with the Department of Homeland Security to create three distinct types of state driver's licenses: one "enhanced" that will be as secure as a passport; a second-tier license good for boarding airplanes; and a third marked not valid for federal purposes that would be available to illegal immigrants and others…
About 70 percent of New Yorkers oppose the license plan, according to a Siena College poll of 625 registered state voters released Tuesday. The poll, conducted Nov. 5-8, had a sampling margin of 3.9 percentage points.
70 percent in a state bluer than the oceans. I can't wait to see what this chastening does to the Democrats' plank on amnesty during the campaign. Thanks, Spitz!
I feel the sudden urge to tango. Join me.
Update: Beset on all sides: "[H]e came to believe the proposal would ultimately be blocked, he said, either by legal challenges, a vote by the Legislature to deny funding for the Department of Motor Vehicles or a refusal by upstate county clerks to carry it."
Update: I concur with commenter Number 2. This calls for a cameo appearance by His Majesty.
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Update (Bryan): If it weren't already dead, this kills off Bill Richardson's chances of winning the Dem nomination. As governor of New Mexico, he signed a law that allows illegals to obtain drivers licenses.
Update: Fools rush in where New Yorkers fear to tread.
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Not a Flight of Fancy
Private space travel isn't frivolous or impossible. It's an epic enterprise.
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April 7, 2010, Wednesday
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Donald Ickes was killed just moments after finishing some Christmas shopping for his grandchildren last Dec. 14 at a model-train store. Pulling his car onto the road that afternoon, Mr. Ickes, 65, was blindsided by a G.M.C. Yukon sport utility...
April 7, 2002, Sunday
National Briefing | Northwest: Washington: A Gates 3.0 Is Expected
William H. and Melinda Gates, the world's wealthiest couple, are expecting a third child, due in October. ''The family is thrilled to have a new addition on the way,'' said Trevor Neilson, a family spokesman, adding that Mr. Gates, the chairman of...
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Can a human eat grass and digest it? Could it be possible to use it as food just like other plants such as wheat or beans?
To elaborate on A random zoologist's answer, the problem is that the human digestive system does not contain any cellulase enzymes. Cellulases are a class of enzymes that break down cellulose, the chief structural component of plants. You might be able to obtain a small amount of nutrition from grass or other cellulose-rich materials, but as the plant cell walls are made of cellulose, most of the plant material will be indigestible.
Wheat and other grasses are very significant sources for human nutrition. Grass seeds are digestible; seeds have to digest themselves to sprout, with very little biochemical machinery. Human civilization is founded on the ability to cultivate grass to eat.
It is due to pepsin that a cellulase supplement would not help to digest grass stems and leaves. Pepsin is the enzyme in the stomach that breaks peptide bonds and from its perspective, cellulase is just another peptide chain (pepsin is so effective, the stomach has to prevent itself from being digested while at the same time maintaining enough pepsin to digest food — because pepsin digests pepsin). Cellulose is a tough sugar polymer (as is chitin, which forms insect and fungus exoskeletons), so after all the cellulase was digested by pepsin only bacteria from the intestine could process the remaining cellulose. What the bacteria convert it to might make one ill.
Humans can derive significant nutrition from bamboo shoots, which have less robust cellulose than in mature plants, and bamboo is a grass. Pandas also cannot digest cellulose effectively, but that doesn't stop them from trying. They might eventually develop a cellulase gene by sheer willpower and tenacity.
@jarlemag: inhaling sugar water could quickly become a very bad idea. Encouraging microbes to colonize near the brain may result in them converting neurons into more microbes. The Naegleria amoebae can be very aggressive. In Pakistan and India it is somehow traditional to treat illness by putting water up one's nose; when it is not recognized how clean the water must be to do that safely, people die.
Well, humans can eat grass, but it will not be digested. Cause to digest grass our body needs different kind of enzymes, which lack in humans so they can't digest grass directly although humans can eat grass, but not recommended.
Similarly our body has different enzymes to digest wheat and beans etc. Also remember rice, wheat and beans are fruit, not plant. Although we can digest some of the plant.
Even in times of famine, when people are literally dying from hunger, they do not eat grass - it is not digestible. But they eat cooked artiplex, which commonly grows by roadsides.
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Looking forward to it, should be good
Looking forward to it, should be good
I'm struggling with the dwarf Sneezy. Any ideas what his personality stats should be like? I'm thinking about making him well meaning but a bit stupid (ie not controversial but not adaptable/good at making decisions. Thoughts?
Hmmm He would be a difficult one Sneezy, But I agree bad decisions/Timing would have to be in there somewhere!
Yet, he should be consistent, as you can always count on him to sneeze
You could make his injury proneness to the maximum allowed...hence him sneezing and falling ill a lot...
Dopey, probably low ambition and intelligence, or no creativity, or error prone
Doc, you can have good fitness, and good stamina, no injuries
Happy, obviously good temperament, and personality,
Bashful, you can have low temperament, and low sportsmanship
Grumpy would be low professionalism, and high agression
Hope that suggestion helps
And we're underway, cheers guys
I was thinking to myself the other day that there isn't enough manager sign-ups, and by this I mean where a manager is put into the game in an unedited database. Would there be an interest in this?
i too was thinking of doing a managers sign up
i would be interested and im sure a lot of others would be too
Guys a lot of the dwarfs don't get picked up on frees and are retiring. I need a way to change this otherwise the experiment can't get underway!
Any ideas appreciated
I'm thinking either reputation increase of the players or starting everyone at a club. If I take that option who should it be?
I'm also thinking possibly putting one dwarf at a different club in the Blue Square Prem. Plus having the Queen and Snow White at different BSP clubs. Thoughts?
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You could try using FMRTE to temporarily increase their reputations to a level which will get them picked up. Something like 250 to 300 (if it is out of 1000, can't remember off the top of my head) should be enough, then reduce it back to its original value.
Randomly select teams in BSS for them to be on already, this way they have a team and will undoubtedly picked up quickly.
Ok I'm putting The Queen at Salisbury and Snow White at Eastbourne (the 2 lowest rep clubs in BSP)
The 7 dwarfs are going to Lewes, Altrincham, Barrow, Kettering, Histon, Weymouth, Grays. Everyone head to the OP of the thread for details of where they all have gone. Then away we go for real this time!
Ive been thinking of an idea for an AI experiment for a while now and since 9.3 has been released i think i should do it now. The idea is to use the malaysian league because it dosent allow foreigners and to have a league of all the national teams
There is already a database in the editors forum that is similar, but I am sure that whoever created it would let youn use it. I think it is a very good idea to put the top national sides against one another in a league format
didnt realise their was one their. I will probably make my own database though as that won't be done on 9.3 and i want as realistic player stats as possible
Would people be interested in a international challenge where you could only choose players playing in the actual country? For example if you choose Brazil, you would only be able to call up players playing in Brazil, meaning no Kaka, Pato, Julio Cesar, etc. In my opinion it would be interesting since people would learn about lesser known players who are actually pretty good. And I'd probably also have it so you could choose any team, but of course South American teams would be more interesting since a lot of players move abroad.
I really like that idea
Good one simao
An Idea:::
How The Mighty Has Fallen
Huddersfield Town Athletic Football Club, with most of their success coming in the 1920's have been a
regular League 1 team for a couple of seasons now and with new manager Lee Clark wanting the team
to become a premiership side, Lee knew he had to get quality players but were could he find these
players from??
The Answer
Jimmy Riddle, an amazing tycoon from England realised this and being a massive fan of HTAFC decided
to buy HTAFC. He upgraded the Youth Facilities only as he realised the future of the club is kids (aged
18). But these kids weren't all from the same country making it difficult for them to communicate with
each other. The Youth Academy brought in 16 kids in varying positions but each kid could only play in 1
The Form
Age: day/month/1990
7 Attributes for 20:
3 PPM's:
which foot (only 1, cant be both):
1 Favoured Club:
Good idea Jimmy
I have the idea that say 20 people would create a team themself with the rep of 3000 and start in bsp and the first one to get to EPL would win it's a challenge/sign up. What would be a good transfer budget to set for the teams?
nothing too big but perharps set a future fee, so they can at least survive
would you do it
do the sign-up?? i probably would as it is a decent idea
well I would be able to superleague aswell because I won't have to do anywork on the create a club sign up. It would rely on the people doing the sign up to post screenies etc
i mean i would run it, if you wanted me to
my computer crashed so the db's went off it so i am not running 1 at the mo
shall we do it as joint thing. Then I can concentrate on superleague as well jimmy. PM with ideas mate
yeah yeah might as well
Ok I'll start thread in abit mate
do u want to tell me some ideas
i have PM'ed you
Ridleys does something very similar to this last year which I took over a ran till 2020 and only 1 team had reached League 1 and most were still stuck in the BSS and BSN or had been relegated to non-playable leagues, so be aware that it can take a long time for clubs to get to premier league level
We have given the clubs ok budgets tho
We started the balance at 1 million do not know how much yours is but i suggest improving on that slightly. I will be following how it goes, you will probably get more seasons done if two of you are running it, good luck
I have an interesting idea for a challenge where your goal is to sign all the players that you find by typing in the search box: faceinthegame, and then attempt to win the Champions League with those players.
Just an idea that popped in my head.
Why doesnt someone create an international superleague
rancer: isn't that the one with all the SI employees
kashmirshazad: There is already one in the editors hideaway Click here
My sign-up
Just to say, my sign-up is now open.
Just though of it on the spot and started it, so I would like it if some regular members signed-up as they can be relied on.
Might well get some SI employees following it, seeing how they get on
it could be really hard because most of them don't exactly turn out amazing
Olly Kenney \o/ What a legend for the Softies, in his one and a bit seasons there on loan.
I suppose if you can't win you'd have to start again as they'd retire!
Are they all related to SI in some way the ones that appear when you type it? I'm sure Ter said something about them not all being there or something.
There have been a huge number of sign-ups started recently.
I think that it would be very hard, as they all have random PA's don't they?
i remember typing it in at about 2013 and there were quite young regens there
one was brazilian and quite good so maybe you would just have to wait until good ones pop up
Yes, I know that you don't have to sign all of them
I think that it would be down to luck if you got any good ones.
Still that's what makes a good challenge, being difficult.
My experiment
I am going to start an experiment, much like one person did last year.
I can't find their thread which would help
You start with a team in the BSN/BSS.
And, I can't spend any money and I see how far good training and youth facilities can get you.
BTW, I will holiday the seasons.
that was me. said thread.
Thanks Paul,
But I don't think that I am going to do it because I don't have FMRTE or Genie Scout.
I tried to download them for other experiments but they won't work.
How come it ended Paul?
The same reason the majority of all of my other sign-ups/experiments/stories have ended. Lost interest & Motivation. Shame really because they've all been pretty good in principle.
I've never done a sign up before and have had an idea but wanted some advise.
How much time does it take to to the write ups and information, I want a lot of information to feed back to those doing it and also those viewing the thread, would an hour a day cut it?
Anyway onto the idea.
Father and Son Premier League.
The sign up will be for 20 people all taking one of the Premiership clubs. The singupee will the be 'Father' and manager with the usual three managerial styles etc...
The son would be a 16 year old at the club, with both each others favoured personal (i.e. Brian and Nigel Clough etc...)
All stats would be randomised out of 20 meaning some will be good some bad, some might have great stats for some skills, but terrible stats completing them.
So not only is it the fortunes of the managers career but also the sons, how good can he get, will he be carted off by his dad?
Also what is a good CA and PA for the 'sons'.
Oh yeah and anyone know a good free image hosting sight?
You could probably do it on about an hour a day. YOu might not manage to post every single day doing it, but it should be fine.
Imageshack and photobucket are good image hosting sites.
how many sign-ups are you allowed to have
There's no limit or ban but you don't want to do any more than two really if you want to keep your people intrersted.
Best bet is to post this in the Ideas thread where people will give you feedback on your idea
its not advisable to have more than one sign up as they can take a while to update especially if your doing it properly with screen shots and everything.
These sort of questions should be asked in the ideas thread
This should be helpful.
James James and John Smith have been great freinds and great enemies since primary school all the way
through to University. After University they both became very succesful and very rich and with this they
both created an English football club. James James called him James United Football Club and John
Smith called his John City Football Club. James' club was based in Manchester and Smith's is based in
London. These two freinds has a bet to see who would win the English Premier Division and Champions
League first.
They both built a 10,000 seater stadium with an expansion to make them 100,000 seaters, JUFC have
20 Youth Facilities and 10 training Facilities while JCFC have 20 training facilities and 10 Youth Facilities
There will be 19 players that can sign-up for each team and 1 manager for each.
JUFC players will have 200 attribute points to put into any attributes they wish and a -10 PA
JCFC players will have 220 attribute points to put into any attributes they wish and a -9 PA
The Managers get 250 to spend on any attribute and a CA and PA of 175
James James.
I once had a staff member called Robert Robert.
1 sign-up per person is good otherwise, it would be too much work unless, you are unemployed etc.
Some people have 4 signups etc going at the moment that they have just started.
Ah, just noticed that Dafuge has closed some
Well done daf
ueah you should only start a second once your first has been running for a few months
Does anyone else think that the CSE forum is getting too clogged up. A few people running too many sign-ups at once, and they are pretty much the same idea, just different names...!
And some of the vocabulary that they use is shocking.
Rant over.
It is being discussed in the social group
Had a look around the forum and didnt see this challenge being suggested so here it goes,
Be the first manager in god knows how long, to win the English premiership, fa cup and league cup using only English players!
Picking a team in the top four or Man City is obviously going to be easier so pick a mid table team or even a championship team if you fancy a real challenge.
When you complete this, quit your post immediatley and jump ship to another country and do the same.
I watched Mike Bassett - England Manager on DVD last night. Anyone else seen it? I was thinking of doing some kind of experiment with all the characters from there, and giving progress reports just like the Snow White and the 7 dwarves experiment.
I think the other one with Mike Bassett would be better, the club one
I remember the club series with Mike Bassett, but not as many characters I can remember from there? How can we edit Bassett? Obviously he has alot of people in his favoured personnel and his tactis are 4-4-2 .
I've had a pretty epic idea guys. It will obviously take an enormous amount of work, as much by me as the rest of the CSE community but here it is anyway:
The idea would be to start a thread offering any CSE challenge participant to upload their save game of their most successful team (ie. teams that have completed challenges, like dafuge's challenge etc).
From these saved files (limited to say 20 teams) I would then go into the editor and create my own database - mimicking every player, staff, club info, stats, everything from their team and copy it over to the new database. By the end of what I imagine would be a hell of a lot of editing, I'd have one almighty database containing 20 of the most successful CSE teams. I would then put them into one division on the game (like the Dutch as an eg).
Then I would simulate the seasons to see how these teams fared against each other. I'm unsure what the best thing would be to do for managers - perhaps give each user an opportunity to create their own manager for their side? The other idea I have is depending on time and availability of users I would run it as a sign up whereby each game week, the users in the CSE community would PM me with their tactics, selection and substitution plans etc. I'd then run the game and report the results for a whole season.
What does everyone think? Do you even think its possible??
Get Neps FM 08 Gundos team and we'll have Paul Wallace remade \o/
I think it is a great idea and would really help the forum spirit with a real competitive sign-up
Could also solve the age old mystery of the better player between Danny Roberts and Paul Wallace!
Although Wallace would struggle hugely in a top league, and I doubt dafuge still has his 06 save
Would be sick to include my FM08 Rizhiquan save, although I think Liu Lijia and Zhu Jinhui would have no chance...but there is hope with my Real Oviedo team.
And for the managers, I think you can use fmrte to see their stats...
Although I would not want a manager signup, most of us are busy with exam time not too far away.
iacovone - that's a pretty ambitious idea. Would be interesting alright. Just a shame the game doesn't itself allow you to do it - one for future versions maybe.
Would be interesting to pitch the final Wallace and Roberts teams from the 2008 thread against each other - both European Cup winners and both pretty awesome sides.
Would be interesting to pitch the final Wallace and Roberts teams from the 2008 thread against each other - both European Cup winners and both pretty awesome sides.[/quote]
I still have the save files for the Monkeys, so it would be possible if anybody was to attempt to do it.
That idea sound immense, although it would involve a huge amount of work.
Bit of a shame I don't have my FM06 save with Danny Roberts in his prime, I'm still convinced he was the greatest player I've ever seen in CM/FM. The fact he was more successful under the AI (with England) than with me suggests he could have scored even more goals had my tactics been better.
Love to see how Tonka would fair.
I have this idea that I create two teams and place them in BSN. People will sign up as players for the team and they will all be 17. But I am going to call the teams Football Manager FC and Football Manager Live FC and it is a race to the EPL. I would give them equal budget, stadium capacity etc so it would be fair. What do you think?
It's a pretty worn out concept if you ask me.
I would put the attributes high and ambition low so players would stay at club longer. Can't I do this sign up as well as my other one?
Not fair!!!!! lol
Heres the toy you chucked out your pram.
Haha, I just wanted to de my sign up!!!!!!!!!!!
And you can, after you finish/stop your other sign up, go for quality rather than quantity, it's hard to manage two sign-ups unless you give up alot of time
Exactly what the others have said. Having a quality 1st sign-up is much more effective than starting of with two at once but maintaining next to no quality control!
Thanks for advice and I suppose it's best just to concentrate on one sign up
Can anyone in here tell me if it is necessary (or perhaps better) to run a holiday game on full detail when running a test to study player development? Or will the players develop in the same way on minimum detail level?
I would run it in full detail just in case. I think you get a more realistic development overall if you do so. But that is just my oinion and I don't know exactly if player development is affected by it or not.
My Latest Idea :
I'm going to create a new team. "Real London CSE"
The team will have a stadium thats quite small, also somehow linked to the forums and forumites.
Staff for the club will be forumites names, and the team will be put in the BSS / BSN with 20 players that are all names of Forumites that frequent CSE.
Then, Put the game up for download, start a new thread, and people can track the progress in the same manner of Dafuges / Gundo's Challenge, trying to get Real London CSE to the Prem.
Great idea Nep.
Now what position should I be...
Sounds great. I'll be the determined, strong DC/DM/MC/AMC/ST!


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I would like to know how Message Queues are implemented in the Linux Kernel.
The Linux kernel (2.6) implements two message queues:
System V IPC messages
The message queue from System V.
A process can invoke
On the other side, a process invokes
t specifies the message returned from the queue, a positive value means the first message with its type equal to t is returned, a negative value returns the last message equal to type t and zero returns the first message of the queue.
Those functions are defined in include/linux/msg.h and implemented in ipc/msg.c
There are limitations upon the size of a message (max), the total number of messages (mni) and the total size of all messages in the queue (mnb):
The output above is from a Ubuntu 10.10 system, the defaults are defined in msg.h.
More incredibly old System V message queue stuff explained here.
POSIX Message Queue
The POSIX standard defines a message queue mechanism based on System V IPC's message queue, extending it by some functionalities:
See ipc/mqueue.c
Create a message queue with
Lets see what happened by using
Now fill the queue with some messages:
Again, you generally do not hardcode the msqid in the code.
And the other side, which will be receiving the messages:
See what happens:
After two receives, the queue is empty again.
Remove it afterwards by specifying the key (


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Bledsoe takes charge in first day with Bills [7:40 PM]
AP reports: 'Williams credited Bledsoe for showing the commitment to suit up for a camp that featured mostly rookies. "I thought that spoke volumes about him being in practice today and getting started as soon as he can," Williams said. "And he jumped right in with both feet today and took charge."'
Rookie And New Player Orientation [6:43 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: In total, 57 players attended the first-day workout. Some of the big names taking part included quarterback Drew Bledsoe, wide receiver Reggie Germany, first-round draft pick offensive tackle Mike Williams and linebacker London Fletcher.
Marketing The Bills [1:33 PM]
Jamestown Post Journal reports: '��We started calling ourselves �The Bills� more, rather than �The Buffalo Bills,� so people in a broader area would identify with us,�� he said.'
Bledsoe, Bills give area much needed boost [1:31 PM]
Wellsville Daily Reporter reports: 'Sure, it's only football, but Western New Yorkers follow their team with a passion unmatched in most other NFL cities. When the Bills are on the rise, spirits are lifted on the Niagara Frontier.'
Bledsoe Takes Out Full Page Ad to Thank the Fans of New England [1:30 PM]
Boston Globe and Boston Herald reports: 'Please know that you have made a profound difference in my life and the way I will live it. And while I am very excited about my future in Buffalo, I will miss you.'
Bledsoe Brings "It" Back To Buffalo [9:22 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: It�s back. It has been gone for five years, though we never knew how badly we missed it until we saw it return.
Open Mike [9:13 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'But the most striking thing about his appearance is he does not look fat. He is just . . . plain . . . big. Wide. Thick. Big. He wears a size 60 sportcoat.'
Bills' roster isn't only thing that's changed [9:12 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Here's betting this is the season we find out that Williams, now that he has the personnel, can flat-out coach.'
New 'savior' is also a true role model [9:12 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Granted, the deadpan Bledsoe barely registers on the charisma meter. But he left a legacy beyond wins and losses in New England. The Boston Globe's Mike Holley: "He proved you don't have to be disrespectful to make a point, you don't have to be a self-promoter to draw attention . . . Bledsoe is the person all parents want their children to be."'
Web writer stirs up a fuss in Foxboro by scooping the world on Bledsoe trade [9:10 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Tom Donahoe, the Bills' president and general manager, said this week that the Patriots posted the deal on their site before they formally replied to the Bills' offer.'
Big Mike makes big splash [9:09 AM]
The Colony Courier Leader reports: '"In college my goal was to be the best," Williams said. "I knew I had the God given ability to be the best and I wanted to use those talents. I wanted to go out there and be the first offensive lineman taken and that's what I worked on everyday when I stepped out there on the field. To accomplish that goal is so satisfying and comes with a great responsibility."'
Bledsoe makes Bills an easier sell [5:22 AM]
D and C reports: 'On a team void of star power, the Bills have a poster boy again. And boy did they need one. Last season, attendance dipped to a 14-year low...'
Mike Williams All Smiles [5:22 AM]
WGR55.com reports: The Bills first round draft pick rolled into town Thursday in preparation for the team's orientation camp for rookies and new free agents. Williams was all smiles at his press conference because he knows where he's going to begin his NFL career, "I have a home. When you go so many places and visit with so many teams you wonder where am I really going to be? It's like a big poker game and I was trying to play the draft myself, but with all the possible picks you just never know. Now the difference is I have a place where I feel very accepted."
Bills finally make move in right direction [9:44 PM]
CBS Sportsline reports: 'The Bills drafted Texas tackle Mike Williams in the first round, a huge player who will be an immediate starter. Williams will likely play right tackle, which means Jonas Jennings, who played well as a rookie, needs to find a new home. Williams plans to look at Jennings at guard and left tackle, even though the Bills signed Denver lineman Trey Teague in free agency. The team is also high on second-year man Marques Sullivan. "The best five will play," Williams said. "We'll spend the next couple of months figuring out what's best for Jonas."'
Williams vows that he's got Bledsoe's back [9:22 PM]
AP reports: '"I talked to Drew last night just briefly, and he said, 'All right, you got me don't you?"' Williams said on Thursday. "And I'm like, 'Yeah, Drew, I got you Drew. I'm kind of nervous, but I got you, Drew.' "He's the captain, and I'm going to work for him. I'm the workhorse."'
Bills Introduce Mike Williams [7:02 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: I talked to Drew last night. He said 'Big boy you ready, you got me don't you?' I'm talking to big time (I thought). 'I got you Drew, I got you Drew.' I'm kind of nervous a bit but I got you Drew. He's the captain. I'm going to work for him. I'm the workhorse.
Photos from Welcome Bledsoe rally [6:58 PM]
Syracuse Post-Standard reports:
Tom Donahoe on the Jim Rome Show [3:12 PM]
The Stadium Wall reports: -Decided Sunday to take off conditions and just make the trade for the pick straight up.
-Spoke highly of RJ as a person and a player but felt his injuries kept him from being a success. Classy treatment of RJ.
-Did say he feels Bledsoe can bring leadership that was lacking. Met him for the first time on the plane flight to Buffalo and said they guy is excited and dialed in on being the Bills QB. Impressed with his character.
-Said the turnout for a 5 minute rally was unbelievable.
-Didn't want to call the Bills a playoff team yet,the ability of the team to gel and foster some chemistry will go a long way towards their success.
-Said he IS glad the players are starting to talk playoffs. You want the players fired up as that can only lead to good things.
-Said he hasn't seen such excitement anywhere that he is seeing in Buffalo right now
Bannan to roam in Buffalo [1:45 PM]
Denver Rocky Mountain News reports: 'Various scouting reports list his strength, intensity and awareness in getting to the ball among his pluses. Conversely, scouts say he sometimes relies too much on his strength when trying to disengage from blockers and lacks an explosive first step.'
Bills take DL Bannan in 5th round [1:44 PM]
Boulder Daily Camera reports: '"I'm really excited with how it turned out. Just to be taken is an honor," said Bannan, who leaves for Buffalo on Thursday to participate in the team's first mini-camp. "I'm going to a great organization. They told me they needed help (at defensive tackle) and they made me feel wanted."'
Bills take former GHS standout in seventh round [1:43 PM]
Gaffney Ledger reports: 'The Bills plan to use Stevenson at outside linebacker and in nickel situations, he said. He�ll also be used on the special teams. Stevenson doesn�t have long to celebrate his selection - he leaves Thursday for the Bills minicamp.'
Buffalo and Bills give Bledsoe the star treatment [1:24 PM]
Olean Times Herald reports: 'Those who question Erie County�s unemployment figures would have done well to check the stadium parking lots on Wednesday. What other reason would there be for nearly 2,000 otherwise able-bodied folks to be out tailgating at �The Ralph� on a sunny weekday afternoon? There were even vendors hawking food, drinks and Bills� merchandise.'
Bledsoe Gets Kelly's Support [12:54 PM]
WGR55.com reports: As Western New York welcomed Drew Bledsoe to the Bills family the newly acquired quarterback expressed his admiration for the Buffalo franchise. He said he always considered the Bills a high caliber organization. But what made him hold the team in such high regard, even as an opponent, was his respect for the team's quarterback at that time, "It means a lot to me to follow in the steps of one of my heroes, Jim Kelly, who was a guy that I admired greatly."
Patriots violated a cardinal rule [12:53 PM]
Washington Times reports: 'Only a few laws in the NFL are inviolable — unless you're Al Davis, I mean. One of them is: Don't eat the yellow snow in Green Bay. And another is: Never trade a starting quarterback to a team in your own division.'
Mini Camp Dates Announced [12:37 PM]
NFL.com reports: BUFFALO: April 26-28 (rookies); May 20-23; June 4-7.
Thinking Super Bowl already, fans whoop it up for Bledsoe [10:14 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Bledsoe looked like a rock star - a conservatively dressed rock star.'
Faith, hope and clarity [10:13 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Drew Bledsoe's arrival has created very high expectations for the Buffalo Bills. Anything less than a winning season and the playoffs would be a disappointment. That's fine with Bledsoe because he feels the same way.'
Kelly confident Bledsoe can be a hero, too [10:13 AM]
Buffalo News reports: '"Any time something like this happens, they seem to rally around the team, and it's really nice to see. It was a carnival atmosphere out there. You have to laugh to a certain point, but then you think about what it means for everybody here. It means on Mondays when they wake up to go to work they might be smiling again."'
New QB pushes the right buttons [10:12 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'It's a rare town that will hold a rally for a football player and treat him like some head of state. But it's good that Buffalo can still turn on the small-town charm at times like these.'
Part III: Fans React to Bledsoe Trade [10:09 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: A VERY BIG THANK YOU to Mr. Wilson, Mr. Donahoe, and Mr. Williams for bringing Drew Bledsoe to the Buffalo Bills! What an incredible stroke of luck and brilliance! I am so proud to be part of this community and to be a Buffalo Bills fan!
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The Problem of Postpartum Depression
In This Article:
Dangers of SSRIs
The dangers of SSRIs go beyond their dangers to the baby. One potential side effect of these drugs is a feeling of numbness, of separateness from others. Feeling numb does tend to blunt depression, but it may do so at the expense of a new mother's feelings of intimacy with her baby and her partner at this crucial time. The most common side effects of SSRIs include nausea, sleepiness, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, headaches, trembling, indigestion, abdominal pain, and nervousness. SSRI drugs also seem to lift normal inhibitions against violence and suicide in some people. Prozac has been linked with violence toward others, suicide, and self-mutilation, and thus may even play a part in enabling an overwrought woman to commit one of the worst crimes imaginable causing serious harm to her child. Many experts, including Harvard University psychiatrist and author Joseph Glenmullen, M.D., and Peter R. Breggin, M.D., psychiatrist, author, and director of the nonprofit International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP), warn that SSRIs are overprescribed and that their dangers are drastically underplayed.
Dr. Glenmullen's most recent book, Prozac Backlash (Simon & Schuster, 2000), warns that SSRIs can cause symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's disease including facial and body tics and muscle spasms that may persist even after the drug is discontinued in at least 10 percent of those who use them. This finding implies that SSRIs may create dangerously low levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine in some people. Moreover, the long-term effects of Prozac and similar drugs are not known, but some studies indicate that permanent brain damage could occur because the constant artificial elevation of the neurotransmitter serotonin eventually burns out the serotonin receptor sites in the brain and makes them unable to respond.
The manufacturer of Prozac insists that no link between the drug and suicide has been proven. Interestingly, however, they will be marketing a newer version of the antidepressant, which, according to published reports, they will advertise as less likely to cause suicide and violent behavior in those who use it raising the question of why they would use this issue as a selling point. The "new Prozac," R-fluoxetine, is set to hit the market just as the patent for the current version, which has had sales in excess of $2 billion a year, runs out. Incidentally, Sarafem, an antidepressant that is being marketed heavily for a form of premenstrual syndrome (PMS), is chemically identical to Prozac with a different, female consumer-savvy name.
Serotonin does seem to play a role in depression, and that is why SSRIs can provide relief. Keep in mind, however, that no one has shown that a chemical imbalance in this case, low serotonin levels is the sole cause of depression. Boosting serotonin will improve most people's moods, but this symptomatic relief at best because the nutritional precursors the brain needs to produce its own serotonin remain depleted unless deliberately replenished. As Dr. Breggin says in his book Talking Back to Prozac (St. Martin's Press, 1994), depression is not caused by a Prozac deficiency any more than a headache is caused by an aspirin deficiency.
Fortunately for those who wish to avoid SSRIs, there are ways to elevate serotonin levels naturally with foods and supplements. We believe that taking SSRIs can make things worse for many women who suffer from PPD, and we do not recommend using them, especially over the long term, unless you have one of the more serious forms of depression. If you do need them for the short term, you should enlist your doctor's assistance to help you wean yourself off them as soon as possible. Never stop using SSRIs abruptly, however, as this can cause serious withdrawal symptoms. Taper off gradually with the guidance of a knowledgeable physician, preferably one who is experienced in prescribing increasing amounts of the nutritional precursors you need as you wean off the drugs.
Many women suffer from a kind of depression that results not at all from low brain serotonin levels but from low levels of another brain neurotransmitter, norepinephrine. Increasing serotonin levels with drugs does not help this kind of depression. On the contrary, it often makes people even more tired and depressed. Women with low serotonin levels tend to have a great deal of anxiety, while women with low norepinephrine levels feel like they fell into a deep, dark hole and just cannot muster the energy to get out of it, or elicit more than one positive thought in a row. People with low norepinephrine levels are often dramatically helped by restoring normal thyroid and adrenal gland function. The amino acid tyrosine, along with P5P, copper, iron, and vitamin C, is necessary to make norepinephrine. Tyrosine, along with the mineral iodine, is also the main nutritional precursor for all the thyroid hormones.
As you will discover, we believe that the vast majority of cases of PPD can be prevented and/or treated very successfully without resorting to drugs that may harm you and your baby. The natural strategies presented can help to restore serotonin levels and replenish key nutrients and other biochemicals that are likely to be depleted as a result of bringing a child into the world. We will see how a woman's nutritional status is affected by pregnancy and birth, how this can determine her overall state of health, and, most important, what she can do to regain a state of balance and well-being.
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Digestive Disorders Health Center
GI Woes Cut Into Work Productivity
Oct. 15, 2007 (Philadelphia) -- People who suffer from common gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), constipation, and acid reflux often find it hard to get the job done, researchers report.
In a study of more than 400 men and women with the conditions, the average lost work time amounted to about one day in a 40-hour workweek.
About six hours per week were lost to what the researchers coined presenteeism --"when you're at work but not getting work done because something else is not letting you function 100%," says G. Richard Locke, MD, a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minn. An additional two hours were lost to absenteeism, he tells WebMD.
The study was presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology.
People With IBS Particularly Hard Hit
The study included 86 people who suffered from IBS with constipation, 39 people who had chronic constipation alone, 239 people with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and 36 people with functional dyspepsia (recurrent discomfort in the upper abdomen that is often accompanied by bloating, belching, nausea, or heartburn).
They all filled out questionnaires asking how often they missed work and how productive they were while on the job every two weeks for a year.
Locke says that those who suffered from IBS with constipation, functional dyspepsia, and chronic constipation -- often called the functional GI disorders as they have normal test results despite severe symptoms -- were particularly hard hit. They lost 10.3 hours of work per week, on average, vs. 6.3 hours for people with GERD.
Howard Kroop, MD, a gastroenterologist at Thomas Jefferson Medical Center in Philadelphia, tells WebMD that people with functional GI disorders "tend to suffer a lot of anxiety and embarrassment that serve as triggers for more symptoms. That, in turn, weakens their sense of well-being and interferes with their ability to get the job done," he says.
Also at high risk for poor productivity are people who suffer from IBS with diarrhea, he adds. They tend to have a lot of symptoms in the morning, which makes it difficult for them to get to work on time, Kroop explains.
(Do chronic digestive problems interfere with your job? How do you cope? Talk with others on WebMD's IBS: Support Group message board.)
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What kind of responses will come back from an editor after a short story is accepted in an anthology? Specifically, is it common for a writer to hear that an accepted story has potential but needs significant editing before it's finally accepted? I've had a hard time finding any actual verbatim responses online.
While editing short stories in an anthology, these things are to be kept in mind :
1) Editor should clarify obscure allusions, giving information concerning events and persons named, clearing away difficulties to comprehension.
2)Apply such commentary that will help readers to appreciate.
By and large, if you're sending a work to someone like a literary review magazine or an anthology in hopes it will be published, you must assume that they will only accept your work if it's 100% ready for publication. For one thing, the editors at these places simply do not have the time to engage in lengthy correspondence with 10 or 15 writers to help them polish their work up. For another, it's my experience, particular among beginning writers, that when you reach the point where you think a work is around 90% finished, it is in fact around 20% finished.
Just to give one an idea of the kind of polished manuscript editors expect, Ernest Hemingway used to say that he didn't feel that he even really understood a story until he'd rewritten it for around the 9th time or so, and he'd generally have a story undergo revisions well into the double digits. I'm not saying that you have to rewrite a story 10 times any time you get it published - everyone's process is different - but if it even looks like a rough draft, you are literally competing against people who have taken Hemingway to heart, and you will be judged harshly for that.
Finally, one should note that from an editor's standpoint, even if a story seems like it's almost there, there is a very good chance that the author simply is not going to agree with whatever changes the editor would like to make to the story. You aren't (necessarily) developing a long-term relationship with an editor here the way you would with a full-fledged novel (which can be a lot sloppier than a short story nowadays anyway). You're trying to get someone who is probably not getting paid a whole lot to see your vision in the 15 minutes it takes them to read your story. You simply can't afford to put out anything but the best possible version of the story you're writing.


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JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (WIBW) -- Shane Taylor is thankful to be alive after a front porch caved in on top of him at a friend's house on East 12th Street in Junction City.
The dangerous collapse happened on Saturday, May 12, 2012.
But Taylor was not alone on the porch as it started to fall apart- nearby was his friend's 11-year-old daughter, Morrena Adams.
"I was over at my uncle's shop working on cars and the neighbor's daughter had come over and asked me if I had heard something that her mother had said to me earlier. Her mother is a friend of mine. So we go to find out what it was and her and I walk up to the porch. She gets up to the screen door, I follow her and I'm about two feet behind her and I hear some cracking and see the porch roof start to separate from the house. About that time, I knock her out of the way and put my arms up and just catch what's coming at me. It comes down and folds me up into an accordion basically- shoves my head and chin into my chest, breaks my sternum, cracks my ribs, collapses a lung at that point. Then my chest collapsed onto my hips and did damage to my spine. I had no way to scream. It just crushed me basically," Taylor explained.
Neighbors and emergency crews freed Taylor from the debris and he spent most of the week in a Wichita hospital being treated for his injuries. He had surgery on his spine to repair several vertebrates. Morrena, meanwhile, walked away with only a few bumps and bruises.
Taylor is a former volunteer firefighter and he says it was his natural instinct to put Morrena's safety before his own.
"I didn't even think about saving her. It was just a natural reaction. I used to be a volunteer firefighter for the Westmoreland Fire Department and I attribute everything to their training. Even if it was an adult, I'm thinking I'm going to take care of them before I take care of myself. I'd rather put myself through the agony then watch somebody else go through it and especially a child. I think I was under there for about 20-30 minutes. I was trying to scream and just couldn't. My uncle and surrounding neighbors came and lifted it off of me and then EMS and firefighters came after that. Volunteers were shoving blocks underneath the rubble to crib it up enough so they could get me out and get me to the hospital," Taylor added..
His road to recovery will be a long one but Taylor says if he had to do it all over again, he wouldn't change a thing.
"Being under that thing, I didn't know if I was going to get out. They didn't know that I was under there at first and I had no way to say anything and I was afraid. All of the trauma hit me at once and I was going out. It's been a horrible experience but I'd do it for anybody any day of the week," he told 13 News.
"He pushed her off the porch and took the whole brunt of the roof. I was very surprised that he was still alive because it was unbelievably heavy. I want to tell him thank you very much over and over because he saved my daughter's life," said Andrew Adams, Morrena's father.
Melonie Adams, Morrena's mother said: "We are so appreciative and have the utmost respect and admiration for him in the biggest part of my heart. I personally feel like I owe him a great amount of love and attention from this family because of what he's done for us. My daughter is her own witness to his heroism so he's definitely played a huge part in her life. She said if it wasn't for him that she would have been dead. It was one thing seeing him under there and not knowing if he was going to make it or not and then knowing on top of that what he did for my daughter, was unreal and his actions were the biggest part of that day. He's a hero to us."
"I hope he gets better soon because it feels like I owe him my whole life for saving me and that was a big thing that he did for me," Morrena Adams told WIBW.


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This is probably a bit subjective, but what do people prefer for pre-generated characters at conventions? Detailed characters with well-defined histories and personalities, or more sparse characters where you "fill in the blanks" to personalize that character?
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My answer is, very strongly, "a bit of both."
It's very important to provide clear histories in order to ground the characters. In a con game your players won't know the characters, probably won't know the world, and may not even know or like the entire genre you're in. You have to provide enough information to let a total stranger understand how this character fits in to their world - because the player needs to have reasonable expectations for how the world and NPCs will react to them.
It's extremely important to provide enough personality information - possibly implied by the backstory, rather than directly stated - to give the characters goals. You don't have to say anything about the character directly, but you must provide an idea what the character would try to achieve, or how (which indirectly will say a lot about their personality). This is the number one reason I see for hesitant / unhappy playing at conventions - a player who doesn't understand what their character would want to achieve, or how to go about it, or has goals the player simply can't get behind. Give the player some idea what the character wants - other than just "complete the mission". Why does it matter if the mission is completed? Is there nothing else they care about?
It's also important to keep both these concise. You have a few hours for the whole game; the player has to read and understand the whole sheet in minutes. Anything that the player has to refer back to and reread simply won't get used at all. Don't give the character a two-page history of the conflicts of their family history; they won't remember the relevant bits when they happen. Instead, give them an NPC that they already know hates them, or single out one other pregen character as someone they owe a favour to. (One rule of thumb I use for writing: nobody remembers a character name or family name or historical fact until it affects a character they've met and care about.)
(Basis of comparison: this post is probably too much text.)
The reason for these rules of thumb is: in a con game you have no idea what kind of players you're going to get. And they may well be uncertain if they like the system, or shy, or not know the world, or be tacticians who don't like to act. You have to provide hesitant players with some clear guidelines to follow; in particular with a clear idea what goals to achieve and ways to go about them.
Players who want to "fill in the blanks" with character and personality are players who like to roleplay, so they won't be put off playing by having some provided background. Instead they'll elaborate upon it, using the material you've provided and taking it in directions you hadn't thought of. But people who don't like to improvise this stuff will be put off if they have nothing; some will feel like they have no idea how to play the character. Some people like clear structure.
(An aside: if people don't like playing certain kinds of background or personality, they'll generally say so when picking a pregen, or early. Be alert for signs of this in the first couple of minutes reading the sheets, and allow swaps or alternatives. I usually bring two more pregens than the actual number of players in the game.)
So to summarize:
I think it's best to have some background, but to overall keep it sparse. You want people to be able to read over the character in 30 seconds and have a good idea what it's about, so they can make a quick decision about whom they want to play. Probably the best kind of background to include is how the characters are related to each other - it keeps team work going. Another advantage to relationships is that in a con adventure with pregenerated characters, you can centre some aspects of the adventure around different characters. If a key character hasn't been chosen for whatever reason, you can still draw on that character as an NPC contact for one of the other PCs whose friend they are. Relationships with NPCs is similarly a good idea, as if a situation that stumps the party comes up, having an NPC who's friends with one of the party come in and drop some information in their laps doesn't seem entirely contrived.
There is not (or at least should not be) a single answer to this. It depends entirely on the type of con game you are running. Pregen characters are there specifically to feed the scenario and to communicate things that are important about that game.
If it's a roleplaying heavy scenario, like a Cthulhu Masters Tournament, especially where the relationships between the characters are expected to play a heavy role in the scenario, then the characters should be extremely detailed, up to a full page of background info. The detail should be game-relevant, however, or be important information the player should keep in mind when they RP the character, not random "facts" that don't bear on much.
If it's some random dungeon crawl, like any D&D Encounters scenario, a sentence suffices. Let the players make up more if they want. Here, the stats part of the character sheet is "what's important."
If it's a game with a nonstandard universe, say a Fading Suns scenario where you want to have a little character background to get across setting elements, you would probably have about half a page that is heavily seeded with "Joseph was sold to a Brother Battle momastery on the remote world of Isger when he was a spratling; he took Holy Orders and fought in his first conflict at the age of eleven" kinds of things that give players a quick-start on getting into that setting/genre.


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I had installed Windows 2-3 days before.
On my laptop, there was only one drive. Because I wanted to partition it, I installed application called
easeus partition master. But because my Windows 8 crashed and I do not have dvd with me, I just want to take a backup of one folder which is very important to me.
I was searching all over the Internet. I installed Ubuntu so that I could access that folder and take a backup.
Is there any was to access that folder for taking a backup?
I googled it and I got couple of results from here as well but with no avail.
I do not have DVD from where I installed the Windows 8. So it means that I cannot repair it.
I have installed Ubuntu on another partition with the option
Install Ubuntu along with Windows 8 yet I can not access the partition of Windows 8. The error is
Can not mount the partition.
When I Googled it, I got this found this question and I tried for this answer.
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I believe that children who grown up in restrictive families become diffident. I consider myself the best example. On the other hand, children granted freedom become confident. I have seen numerous children among my relatives that demonstrate this idea.
That is, you grant freedom to children, they become confident, but they abuse the freedom and become a confident but spoiled child.
I can speak of two of my maternal cousins. One was raised in a restrictive family and another is being raised with freedom. The first one has had outstanding academic results and was hired by a good multinational company but is now fighting with depression, indecision and lack of adjustments with his family.
The other one does not have any interest in study but is living a tension-free and happy life.
How to solve this dilemma?


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I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that our universe consists of only the familiar and the visible. We smugly refuse to admit that parallel universes or dimensions can exist next to ours, just beyond our grasp. If our scientists invent concepts like forces, it is only because they cannot visualize the invisible vibrations that fill the empty space around us. Some scientists sneer at the mention of higher dimensions because they cannot be conveniently measured in the laboratory.
Michio Kaku
Source: Hyperspace : A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimens ion, Pages: 5
Contributed by: ~C4Chaos
Copyright © 2016 Gaiam, Inc.


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Texas A&M University is looking at private companies to take over their golf course after losing thousands of dollars in the past few years.
A university official, who doesn't want to be identified, tells News 3 that the golf course has lost $600,000 in the past four years.
The 18-hole golf course is played on by students and residents in the Brazos Valley like Bob Palmarez.
"I've seen how it used to be when it wasn't maintained very well, so anytime we play golf, we try to support something like this so they can continue to maintain it and keep the fees lower, so that these kids here can have a reasonable price to play golf," said Palmarez.
The price to play could be going up. The university official says A&M is looking at one private company to come in and renovate the course. The goal for this course is to look similar to local golf courses like Traditions Club.
Although the golfer's eyes are on the target, they also notice the improvements needed in the clubhouse and the course.
"The cart paths [need improvement] and continuing to maintain and upgrade the greens. That is really important," said Palmarez.
"There is always space for improvement. If everything is going to be better than that would be great," said Clotide Chen, a Texas A&M student who plays golf on the university's golf course.
The university official tells us they haven't signed a contract yet, but plan to in the next couple of months. They hope to have a company start renovating the grass and irrigation system by the summer.


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I am trying to get the historical price data on selected American and European style options at EUREX. I am not familiar with their system. Does any one know whether they have something like yahoo finance where I can just download market data through R? Or at least, excel files with daily prices. Thank you
Unfortunately the only possibility to get data from the biggest option exchange of the world is to buy these from EUREX directly (or some other professional data provider) - and they are quite expensive.
More infos can be found here (and some sample files): http://www.eurexchange.com/market/historical_data_en.html


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Consider the following question. I have a long selection of files (some 5,000), arranged linearly, and I want to view to what degree the files have changed between each other. For a small example, here are some (nonsensical) strings:
string1 = "i am a cheese ball";
string2 = "i am a cheese bull";
string3 = "i am a cheese frog";
string4 = "i am a cheesy frog";
string5 = "i am a cheesy frog";
string6 = "i am a cheesy curd";
stringlist = {string1, string2, string3, string4, string5, string6};
Here is how to manually get my answer, which is
list = {EditDistance[string1, string2],
EditDistance[string2, string3], EditDistance[string3, string4],
EditDistance[string4, string5], EditDistance[string5, string6]}
There must be an automated solution, however, that moves through the list and gets the
EditDistance[] between each set of things (i.e. 1 to 2, then 2 to 3, then 3 to 4, then 5 to 6, etc.). Outside of a convoluted set of
Do[] loops, however, I can't find the proper command. I suspect the issue is that I'm having trouble expressing mathematically what I want to do here.


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If a positive integer $n$ is picked at random from the positive integers less than or equal to $10$, what is the probability that $5n+3\le14$?
(A) $\displaystyle\large 0$
(B) $\displaystyle\large\frac{1}{10}$
(C) $\displaystyle\large\frac{1}{5}$
(D) $\displaystyle\large\frac{3}{10}$
(E) $\displaystyle\large\frac{2}{5}$
The first thing thought of was to solve the inequality. This gave me:
$$\displaystyle\large n\le\frac{11}{5}$$ Then I did trial and error: I started with $n=1$ and that came out false (because 1 is not $\le\frac{11}{15}$), so I'm assuming that there is $0$ probability for n from $2\to10$ satisfying the expression. And that therefore there is $0$ probability for $5n+3\le14$ for $n$ being $0\ge n\le10$. So the answer is (A). Am I right?
[Note: I didn't start with $n=0$ because I was confused about "the positive integers less than or equal to $10\,$" and that there was controversy about 0 being neither positive nor negative. Do school assignments take this into account? Should I or should I not count $0$ as positive? - end note].


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Dublin Picnic Spots during a heatwave, the Top Five
Posted on Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Posted in Dublin EventsTags: Dublin Picnic spots, Howth, Ireland heatwave, phoenix park, Places to picnic in Dublin
Something strange is happening across Ireland for the next two weeks, something called a Heat wave! This is not a word used often in Ireland so it's got everyone very excited and if you happen to be in Dublin for this historic event you should be too. So leave your raincoats at home and take…


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If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?
When the big bang happened where did it occur?
When the big bang happened how did it occur?
Where did the energy come from? Energy can not be created or destroyed does that mean, energy has existed before the universe was here?
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1. If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?
The universe isn't expanding into anything. Space-time isn't curving into a higher-dimensional space. So what do we mean by "curved" and "expanding", words usually having a meaning only for objects in space?
The answer is it is just an analogy. Mathematicians have found properties of space an ant on a surface would see in his world and generalized them to higher dimensions. For example an ant could choose three distant points on a sphere and connect them by lines he believes to be straight and non-curving at every point and find out the sum of angles inside such a triangle is larger than $180^\circ$. If we do this in our space and find out we also get a triangle with more than $180^\circ$ inside, we woud say we live in a space with positive curvature. We just define it that way, just by analogy. And we need not believe there is another space embedding ours.
With an expanding space the matter is similar. On an expanding sphere, the ant would go around places and find them to be farther and farther apart. By this analogy we define an expanding space as a space where all the distances grow in time. Again, we do not need our space to be plunged into something else to expand in this sense. For the studies of the early universe the "smallness" of the universe has a very clear sense - it means that things that are now far away were very closely packed by physical interaction and they could easily reach out to each other.
However, there are some subtleties to this, for example because galaxies and other gravitating objects act basically as a pin which holds a chunk of the sphere from expansion. You can see that this gravitational "pin-down" is basically holding by the Newtonian gravitational force.
How do you then simply tell between galaxies flying away from each other by inertia and some repulsive force and space expanding between them? The answer is you don't. You could understand the metric, the notion of space-time "distance" of general relativity, as a peculiar field acting on all physics in a flat space, e.g. making signals and particles fly faster, and all the observations would be without a change. "When the physics don't change, the physicist don't care."
General relativity includes non-trivial topology, but it does not "predict" it in any local sense from the configuration of sources - the field can be only sometimes inconsistent with the configuration and topology. Hence, you could say the whole "curved space-time" is just a word we use in analogy to some formal structures on actually curved objects. It is just a handle to get to the real physics and as long as no ambient space with extra dimensions contributes to the physics, we say it does not physically exist.
2. When did the Big Bang happen and where did it occur?
"When" we do not know. The physics of the very very early universe are unclear and so we do not know if the Big Bang in the sense of "the universe coming into existence" even happened. We do however know that if we extrapolate general relativity backwards in time, we reach a point where all places in the universe approach extremely close to each other (in the sense of the "metric") and just a tad deeper into the past the equations break down. This point would be about 13.8 billions years ago.
In the old sense of general relativity, the Big Bang would have happened everywhere. All the places would just be so close together that distance between them is eventually zero. They might still be distinct points in space, but they are all in seamless physical contact. The equations do not allow to go further back into the past, so you might say it is a "beginning of time".
But you could also jump to the conclusion the whole universe grew "from one place" or from a "primeval atom" - but this is exactly an extrapolation towards the breakdown which is done more religiously than physically, as might have been partially the case of the catholic priest Georges Lemaître, the pioneer of Big Bang cosmology. It works pretty well for a finite universe because it's volume shrinks to zero in this process, but for an infinite one (which might be the one we are in), the universe is infinite at every point before the breakdown - amongst other properties, it has always an infinite volume. How would it jump to a point from there? The equations just do not give a clear explanation and we cannot expect them to, since they are full of undefined quantities at such a moment.
Nowadays we are very sure it did not happen the way general relativity describes it. We are just pushing the boundaries of our knowledge further and further back in time, expecting the universe to be shrinking more and more but without knowing where this will take us. We talk about "cosmological models" rather than "cosmologies" because we know it is a foolish ambition to formulate a definitive "cosmology". We just do not know what might be hiding behind the corner.
The Big Bang is now more of a reference either to the point we know the distances between places to be the smallest or to the point in time where general relativity originally predicted the breakdown. So in a sense, it is nowadays a reference to an era of the whole universe - the Big Bang now refers to "everywhere" in the universe about 13.8 billion years ago.
3. How did the Big Bang occur? Where did it get it's energy?
Once again, we have no idea. Current physics can tell you what happens based on initial conditions. It cannot tell you why a particular set of initial conditions is realized apart from extrapolating further and further into the past. Certain areas of research try to give a holistic description which would for example say that according to some very basic principles, the laws must have been this way and only one set of initial conditions is allowed. I.e., the total energy in the universe would not be a part of the configuration but of the law. But as far as I know, none of these have yet brought any satisfying results in this question.
If there is a moment of "the creation of the universe" it could not be explained by anything outside because a working definition of "the universe" is "all there is". I.e., if something would explain the creation of the universe, it would be a part of the universe and might not be explained itself. You can create a closed circle of causes, but you then cannot explain why this circle is realized rather than not. This is getting philosophical and it is just a taste why physics really cannot provide an answer.
I.e. when you ask "Energy can not be created or destroyed does that mean, energy has existed before the universe was here?" you get into conflict with the definition of the universe being all there is. If there was energy before the universe then there existed something before the universe. But since the universe is the sum of all existence, the universe existed at that point - it existed before it existed. That is obviously a non-sensical conclusion. So if there exists a "creation point" of the universe, there is nothing beyond that just by definition. A statement of creation of the universe includes the statement that energy was indeed created at such a point.
A half-answer to your question might lay in some of the cyclical cosmological models which model the Big Bang as formed from a seed of a previous stage of the universe. Many of these models talk about a "bounce" of the previous universe almost collapsing and then stopping to reexpand - this is usually caused by quantum-gravity effects. The energy it has would be provided by the previous universe and the Bang would be a "Bounce" fully understood by physical laws.
Nevertheless, none of this answers questions of the type How did the previous universe gain it's energy?, Why is there something rather than nothing?, Why was this universe with it's laws and initial conditions picked rather than another one? Mainstream physics just does not provide an answer to these questions. These questions are beyond the scope of the usual scientific method and it might be just "by accident" that we find partial answers to them - there is no guarantee we ever will.
There are much better people to answer this question, but I will answer it from the point of view of an experimental particle physicist, the way I have filed this knowledge in my head.
Astronomical observations show that all clusters of galaxies are receding from each other, a behavior that refers to the effect of an explosion.
The theory of General Relativity, which treats gravity as a deformation of space-time around massive bodies, has been used to model this observation mathematically , the Big Bang is a particular solution within GR.
The BB in this theory happens from one point, as an explosion as shown in the links above. All points in our universe are this point. Practically metaphysical but true. So there is no meaning on "what it is expanding to", except mathematical: the functions necessary to describe the data show expansion of space. It is the expansion of the points within the universe that has been measured and modeled, without any reference to an "outside".
A useful for me analogy is the surface of a balloon. Our universe, in smaller dimensions, is like the surface of an expanding balloon. All points on the surface are receding from each other and as far as the surface is concerned, it just expands. All points on the balloon theoretically project back to the beginning point. Others like the analogy of a cake with fruit interspersed. As it rises in the oven each piece of fruit recedes from the others and if we could think that all of it could be originating from a point, all points in the expanded cake would be the beginning point.
GR theory differs from the Newtonian and special relativity world we have explored and are familiar with. For these we have definitions of energy and also conservation of energy.
In the GR framework there exists energy but the concept of conservation of energy is not valid. Energy can appear according to the appropriate equations. GR is necessary in the description of observations of large dimensions in space and time and very massive bodies. Energy conservation is not a general law in GR, but is observed locally.
As for when the big bang happened, in the links I gave you one reads out the measurement as 13.8billions of years ago. Astronomy has measured this. Where has no meaning in the BB model that agrees with observations up to now, because all points in the universe were one point, according to this model, and no reference is included to an overall higher dimensional system ( as in the balloon analogy where the third dimension outside the surface exists). It is all a mathematical model.
The space started expanding in accordance with GR expectations, each point receded from each other point. A detailed exposition of the model should include that the real beginning is shrouded by quantum mechanical effects. General relativity is a classical theory. It is expected that at the projected back singularity of the BB the quantum effects are dominant , and quantum mechanics does not have singularities . There are effective models for this necessarily quantized period of the BB as shown in the figure referred to above:
The BB model fits the observations up to now.
Energy conservation is funny with general relativity. To have a conservation law you need something which is a constant of the motion. In the case of energy in spacetime this requires there be a Killing vector that is constant along all timelike geodesics. This isometry is what defines the conservation of energy. Spacetime metrics for cosmologies do not admit a Killing vector which is constant along timelike geodesics.
The universe expands as a manifold. The spacetime is foliated by spatial surfaces, where points on that surface increase their distance along the time direction of the foliation. If the universe is flat these spatial surfaces are just $R^3$ spaces, and the curvature of spacetime is defined by their extrinsic curvature in the space plus time = spacetime. The universe is not particularly expanding into anything outside of itself.
Your assumption that there has to be something before, after, outside or even in between, some sequence of events, while natural to classical Physics, is not necessary. Google for "Lucretius arrow "edge of the universe"" finds various web references, none of which I particularly want to cite, to the fact that Lucretius asked what happens at the edge of the universe around 100BC. With various similar search terms, Google leads to various Philosophical forums that have had similar Questions asked.
Your Question also has slight similarity to the ancient Zeno's paradox of the Arrow.
AFAIK, there is no settled Answer to this. It's often convenient in mathematics to assume that there's a continuum, and such models can be quite effective, but there's no necessity. Taking things to be without end, infinite, in endless ascents or descents, etc., while often useful, also requires care when constructing mathematical models, because without care things can end up being badly defined.
To step into the detailed Question you put, you are asking about before, after, and outside what we can confidently infer from fitting experimental data to models of current physical theory. There does not have to be anything at all there. A different possibility, perhaps equally disconcerting, is that we may be using models of the scientific theories that we find to be very accurately consistent close to Earth and the Sun in a domain in which the the experimental data does not fit any single consistent model. In particular, there is no guarantee that there is a consistent atlas of the big bang (and yes, for those who know of these things, I also mean this technically, as of a manifold).
I fear that this is rather general, but insofar as I see the Question blows Philosophical so blow I.
Only a physics undergrad here, so I only know of this stuff cause ive done a bit of extra reading, perfectly possible that I misunderstood it. But you can "create" energy/matter, the catch being that you must also make a matching amount of anti matter/energy, resulting in a net gain of 0 energy/matter. Something I saw before I learned this that kind of started my understanding of it was this video on Hawking radiation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6srN4idq1E
If I understood the reading correctly, this is a possible mechanism of creating the universe (particle/anti particle mechanism). This apparently happens all the time in Quantum Mechanics, but on a much smaller scale, and apparently the only way to use this effect to create something that lasts more then a fraction of a second is to have it create a universe worth of matter/energy and matching anti matter/energy. What makes this so hard to get a definite understanding is the fact that you have to apply general relativity as well as Quantum field theory, and the 2 can sometimes disagree (I don't have enough understanding of either to say exactly what the disagreement is, I just know there is apparently one)


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Tsuihiji, T., M. Kearney, and O. Rieppel. 2006. First report of a pectoral girdle muscle in snakes, with comments on the snake cervico-dorsal boundary. Copeia 2006:206-215.
Maisano, J., M. Kearney, and T. Rowe. 2005. Cranial anatomy of the spade-headed amphisbaenian Diplometopon zarudnyi (Squamata, Amphisbaenia) based on high-resolution X-ray computed tomography. Journal of Morphology 267:70-102.
Rieppel, O., and M. Kearney. 2005. Tooth replacement in the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Clidastes. Journal of Herpetology 39:168-172.
Kearney, M., J. Maisano, and T. Rowe. 2005. Cranial anatomy of the extinct worm lizard Rhineura hatcherii (Squamata, Amphisbaenia), based on High-Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography. Journal of Morphology 264:1-33.
Kearney, M. and B.L. Stuart. 2004. Repeated evolution of limblessness and digging heads in worm lizards revealed by DNA from old bones. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271:1677-1683.
Buckley, L., K. de Queiroz, and M. Kearney. 2004. Snake relationships and ambiguous data: a reply to Highton et al. Herpetological Review 35:117-121.
Kearney, M. 2003. Systematics and evolution of the Amphisbaenia: a phylogenetic hypothesis based on morphological evidence from fossil and recent forms. Herpetological Monographs 17:1-75.
Kearney, M. 2003. Diet in the amphisbaenian Bipes biporus. Journal of Herpetology 37:404-408.
Kearney, M. and J. M. Clark. 2003. Strategies for resolving ambiguity resulting from missing data in the phylogenetic analysis of extinct and living taxa: a critical review. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23:263-274.
Kearney, M. 2003. The phylogenetic position of Sineoamphisbaena hexatabularis reexamined. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23:394-403.
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Some future voters had the chance to see what it's like to cast their ballots today.
The Classical Conversations program transformed the atrium of Hillvue Heights Church into a mock precinct.
This was part of a class dedicated to teaching the importance of voting. Before casting their ballots, students visited the republican and democratic headquarters. and had a mock debate where they talked about issues with classmates.
"They all researched their candidates and gave speeches, and today we've done a mock election, and we are excited to hear the results," said Classical Conversations tutor Mildred Ward.
The students weren't just voters, some worked the voting booths, while others helped voters sign in, and others passed out "I voted" stickers.
Like real voters, they'll find out the results of their election tomorrow.


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Is there anyway to change hostname from being
[ftp://mysite.com]?. I'm not sure if there is any benefit to doing this but I notice that for high profile sites that doesn't get me to their FTP login, so why does it have to go to mine?
Is there anyway to change hostname from being
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What is the operating system on your server?
Do you have a dedicated server, or are you on a shared hosting?
If you have a dedicated server and it's OS is GNU/Linux or Unix like (BSD, MacOS), you must shut down your FTP server, and use SSH instead of it to put file on it:
FTP is a very bad protocol, because it's totally unencrypted. Actually, most FTP client (like FileZilla, who is free for Windows, GNU/Linux and MacOS X) support SSH for file transfer, so why keep a week and unencrypted service open?
You cans also use WinSCP for this.
It's just a other door to try for cracker, sniffing your network for login/password and files, or for brut force attacks.
if you are on a shared hosting, it seems that you don't have the choice: ask the support of your provider about it, but few of them let you use SSH instead of FTP, and even you can use SSH (like some hosting plan with 1and1), the FTP service will always work for you as for the others customers.
At this point, you must be aware of one thing : shared hosting who permit both SSH and FTP often use same login/password for the two protocols!
So, NEVER user FTP in this case, because you can reveal your SSH login at this occasion to anyone listening the traffic between you and your server.
If you are under Windows environment, then, try FTP with SSL, it's better than nothing.
You can also install a Cygwin environment with an SSH server. It's a bit complicated to do it properly, without creating new vulnerabilities, but when it's properly done, it's the better option in this case IMHO!