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Sunday, June 14, 2009
On Tempeh Meatballs
11 comments:
- beckiwithani said...
[This has nothing to do with your recipe, but...] Ever since the birth of my daughter, I've said I really understand why sleep deprivation is on Amnesty International's list of torture techniques. It's insanity-inducing at its worst. The only good thing about it is that it goes by in a blur...
I'm a teacher, and I tell this to my teenage students every chance I get. It's great birth control. :) Hope your blurry no-sleep weeks go by quickly.
- June 14, 2009 at 9:59 PM
- dreaminitvegan said...
These look great! I have tried Tempeh Meatballs before and they were way to moist and soggy. I'm going to take your advice and not steam the tempeh before hand. Thanks.
- June 15, 2009 at 12:44 AM
- VeganCowGirl said...
Thanks for the tip re: the vwg. I think that the few attempts I made with these I didn't include enough of the vwg and admitted defeat a little too early. Worth another try.
Again - more wishes of wellness and recovery to vegan mom and sweet dreams to the kidlets!
- June 15, 2009 at 1:35 AM
- Mary said...
Thanks for those tips. I love tempeh, special taste and all, so I'll have to try your meatballs.
- June 15, 2009 at 1:09 PM
- Bianca said...
Oh, thanks for the tips! I still haven't tried your meatball recipe, and I'm glad you posted about this because it reminds me that I need to get around to that.
Glad to know the Vegan Family is doing well!!
- June 15, 2009 at 4:36 PM
- ARTISANNE said...
Oh my, I'm starving now!!
Congratulations on vegan daughter and very best wishes you all :0)
- June 17, 2009 at 4:34 AM
- Oraphan said...
Your tempeh balls look so good!!! I'll give it a try very soon. Thanks so much for the tips, it was very kind of you. =D
- June 18, 2009 at 4:12 AM
- Anonymous said...
on the subject of tempeh balls and gluten, Isa, postpunkkitchen, has a great recipe for tofu balls which is much like tofu scramble but adjusted just right to make an incredible ball of goodness; for those intolerante to wheat...
- June 20, 2009 at 6:19 PM
- Ali said...
Thanks for the tip! My tempeh balls did fall apart in my sauce the last time, and now I see that my sauce was too thin. Excellent! I'll give it another shot. Thanks!
- July 18, 2009 at 11:45 PM
- Steffi McKnight said...
Hi VeganDad,
I found steaming the tempeh for ten minutes gets rid of the "special taste" and still keeps the meatballs cohesive.
- June 24, 2011 at 8:48 PM
- Rose said...
This is going to be my next endeavour. Thanks for the recipe!
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For Curtis J. Milhaupt '89, advanced research on Japan and other Asian nations allows for a more nuanced view of legal systems both at home and abroad
Professor Curtis J. Milhaupt '89 can recall with crystal-like clarity the first time he wandered the streets of the Shinjuku section of Tokyo. He was an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame and had just arrived in Japan on his first trip to Asia. Milhaupt was not carrying a map, did not have the address of his host family, and had only studied Japanese for a few months.
It was absolute bliss.
"For a 19-year-old kid from a small town in Wisconsin, Tokyo was about as different as you could get," says Milhaupt from his office in Jerome Greene Hall. "I guess you might say that I like being disoriented."
Much has changed since that day in 1981, for both Milhaupt—the Law School's Parker Professor of Comparative Corporate Law and Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law—and for the country that quickly became his life's passion. When he first visited and fell in love with Japan, it was still considered a developing country but was seen as being on the cusp of elevating to a position of economic power.
While Milhaupt earned an undergraduate degree in government and international studies, Japan fully emerged as a global economic force. After graduating from the Law School in 1989, Milhaupt went to work for the New York City–based firm Shearman & Sterling in its sovereign debt and mergers and acquisitions departments. But when an opportunity to return to Japan arose in 1992, thanks to a Japan Foundation fellowship to pursue advanced legal studies at the University of Tokyo, his trajectory towards academia was all but assured.
Milhaupt began teaching at the Law School in 1999 and heads the Center for Japanese Legal Studies. He has published seven books during his time in Morningside Heights and has expanded his focus to include Korea, Brazil, China, and India—his recent work explores how India, China, and other nations have achieved economic success despite the absence of robust legal systems. The Stanford Law Review will publish Milhaupt's latest paper, which focuses on the structure of state-owned enterprises in China and received mention in two issues of The Economist.
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"I thought about it strategically, and I got some criticism for announcing so early," Capito noted. "But I knew this was what I wanted to do, and I wanted to go on and make the announcement so the speculation would be over. I wanted to get back to governing in Washington, and thought that people could start looking at my seat if they wanted to run for Congress.
"And this is a minor issue - I get a lot of questions about what I'm going to do politically ... and I'm not a very good faker. I didn't think I could hide my intentions that long."
Political insiders had speculated as to whether Capito might seek re-election in 2014, run for Senate or wait until 2016 and seek the office of governor. She is the daughter of former West Virginia Gov. Arch A. Moore Jr. and his wife, Shelley of Glen Dale.
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Obama has decimated our country. Millions are unemployed because he and his cadre of cohorts instigated socialist economic plans and policies that were consigned to the scrap heap of history more than 30 years ago.
Obama has trampled our Constitution, he's usurped the authority of Congress, alienated our allies, cozied up to our enemies, used our hard-earned money to line the pockets of his cronies, turned a blind eye to voter fraud and the selling of weapons to criminal elements south of the border; and to top it all off, he continues to accrue debt at such an alarming rate that it's a clear and present threat to our national security.
Mychal S. Massie with Project 21, who is calling for Obama's impeachment, put it even more eloquently: "He has acted both unilaterally and in concert with Middle East policies that have opened the entire region to radical Islamists who have already seized Libya and have taken hold in Egypt. He has nationalized American industries, he has subverted the rights of States, he has acted in concert with criminal illegal alien elements that are overrunning our country and bankrupting state infrastructures."
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Obama unlawfully used T.A.R.P. money so that the government obtained ownership interests in Chrysler and General Motors. He ignored the War Powers Act in deploying the military machine to Libya. When Congress refused to pass the D.R.E.A.M. Act, he implemented portions of it via executive order."
So, I ask you? Which of these "high crimes and misdemeanors" doesn't constitute as an impeachable offense? One thing is certain - we cannot have another four years of Obama. We need leadership, we need to have the man who hates America removed from office. We want it now and we need it now. Nothing is more important to the survival of America than the immediate removal of Obama from office.
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I'm trying to build an associative array in PHP dynamically, and not quite getting my strategy right. Basically, I want to insert a value at a certain depth in the array structure, for instance:
$array['first']['second']['third'] = $val;
Now, the thing is, I'm not sure if that depth is available, and if it isn't, I want to create the keys (and arrays) for each level, and finally insert the value at the correct level.
Since I'm doing this quite a lot in my code, I grew tired of doing a whole bunch of "array_key_exists", so I wanted to do a function that builds the array for me, given a list of the level keys. Any help on a good strategy for this is appreciated. I'm sure there is a pretty simple way, I'm just not getting it...


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Is there a "simple" mathematical proof that is fully understandable by a 1st year university student that impressed you because it is beautiful?
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Here's a cute and lovely theorem.
Proof. If $x=y=\sqrt2$ is an example, then we are done; otherwise $\sqrt2^{\sqrt2}$ is irrational, in which case taking $x=\sqrt2^{\sqrt2}$ and $y=\sqrt2$ gives us: $$\left(\sqrt2^{\sqrt2}\right)^{\sqrt2}=\sqrt2^{\sqrt2\sqrt2}=\sqrt2^2=2.\qquad\square$$
(Nowadays, using the Gelfond–Schneider theorem we know that $\sqrt2^{\sqrt2}$ is irrational, and in fact transcendental. But the above proof, of course, doesn't care for that.)
How about the proof that
I remember being impressed by this identity and the proof can be given in a picture:
The picture is taken from Brian Sears' webpage. See also here.
Edit: Substituted $\frac{n(n+1)}{2}=1+2+\cdots+n$ in response to comments.
Cantor's Diagonalization Argument, proof that there are infinite sets that can't be put one to one with the set of natural numbers, is frequently cited as a beautifully simple but powerful proof. Essentially, with a list of infinite sequences, a sequence formed from taking the diagonal numbers will not be in the list.
I would personally argue that the proof that $\sqrt 2$ is irrational is simple enough for a university student (probably simple enough for a high school student) and very pretty in its use of proof by contradiction!
Prove that if $n$ and $m$ can each be written as a sum of two perfect squares, so can their product $nm$.
Proof: Let $n = a^2+b^2$ and $m=c^2+d^2$ ($a, b, c, d \in\mathbb Z$). Then, there exists some $x,y\in\mathbb Z$ such that
$$x+iy = (a+ib)(c+id)$$
Taking the magnitudes of both sides are squaring gives
$$x^2+y^2 = (a^2+b^2)(c^2+d^2) = nm$$
I would go for the proof by contradiction of an infinite number of primes, which is fairly simple:
I think I learned that both in high-school and at 1st year, so it might be a little too simple...
By the concavity of the $\sin$ function on the interval $\left[0,\frac{\pi}2\right]$ we deduce these inequalities: $$\frac{2}\pi x\le \sin x\le x,\quad \forall x\in\left[0,\frac\pi2\right].$$
The first player in Hex has a winning strategy.
There are no draws in hex, so one player must have a winning strategy. If player two has a winning strategy, player one can steal that strategy by placing the first stone in the center (additional pieces on the board never hurt your position) then using player two's strategy.
You cannot have two dice (with numbers $1$ to $6$) biased so that when you throw both, the sum is uniformly distributed in $\{2,3,\dots,12\}$.
For easier notation, we use the equivalent formulation "You cannot have two dice (with numbers $0$ to $5$) biased such that when you throw both, the sum is uniformly distributed in $\{0,1,\dots,10\}$."
Proof: Assume that such dice exist. Let $p_i$ be the probability that the first die gives an $i$ and $q_i$ be the probability that the second die gives an $i$. Let $p(x)=\sum_{i=0}^5 p_i x^i$ and $q(x)=\sum_{i=0}^5 q_i x^i$.
Let $r(x)=p(x)q(x) = \sum_{i=0}^{10} r_i x^i$. We find that $r_i = \sum_{j+k=i}p_jq_k$. But hey, this is also the probability that the sum of the two dice is $i$. Therefore, $$ r(x)=\frac{1}{11}(1+x+\dots+x^{10}). $$ Now $r(1)=1\neq0$, and for $x\neq1$, $$ r(x)=\frac{(x^{11}-1)}{11(x-1)}, $$ which clearly is nonzero when $x\neq 1$. Therefore $r$ does not have any real zeros.
But because $p$ and $q$ are $5$th degree polynomials, they must have zeros. Therefore, $r(x)=p(x)q(x)$ has a zero. A contradiction.
Given a square consisting of $2n \times 2n$ tiles, it is possible to cover this square with pieces that each cover $2$ adjacent tiles (like domino bricks). Now imagine, you remove two tiles, from two opposite corners of the original square. Prove that is is now no longer possible to cover the remaining area with domino bricks.
(Well, it may be too "simple." But you did not state that it had to be a university student of mathematics. This one might even work for liberal arts majors...)
One little-known gem at the intersection of geometry and number theory is Aubry's reflective generation of primitive Pythagorean triples, i.e. coprime naturals $\,(x,y,z)\,$with $\,x^2 + y^2 = z^2.\,$ Dividing by $\,z^2$ yields $\,(x/z)^2+(y/z)^2 = 1,\,$ so each triple corresponds to a rational point $(x/z,\,y/z)$ on the unit circle. Aubry showed that we can generate all such triples by a very simple geometrical process. Start with the trivial point $(0,-1)$. Draw a line to the point $\,P = (1,1).\,$ It intersects the circle in the rational point $\,A = (4/5,3/5)\,$ yielding the triple $\,(3,4,5).\,$ Next reflect the point $\,A\,$ into the other quadrants by taking all possible signs of each component, i.e. $\,(\pm4/5,\pm3/5),\,$ yielding the inscribed rectangle below. As before, the line through $\,A_B = (-4/5,-3/5)\,$ and $P$ intersects the circle in $\,B = (12/13, 5/13),\,$ yielding the triple $\,(12,5,13).\,$ Similarly the points $\,A_C,\, A_D\,$ yield the triples $\,(20,21,29)\,$ and $\,(8,15,17),\,$
$$\begin{eqnarray} (x,y,z)\,\mapsto &&(x,y,z)-2(x\!+\!y\!-\!z)\,(1,1,1)\\ = &&(-x-2y+2z,\,-2x-y+2z,\,-2x-2y+3z)\end{eqnarray}$$
e.g. $\ (12,5,13)\mapsto (12,5,13)-8(1,1,1) = (-3,4,5),\ $ yielding $\,(4/5,3/5)\,$ when reflected into the first quadrant.
Ascent in the tree by inverting this map, combined with trivial sign-changing reflections:
$\quad\quad (-3,+4,5) \mapsto (-3,+4,5) - 2 \; (-3+4-5) \; (1,1,1) = ( 5,12,13)$
$\quad\quad (-3,-4,5) \mapsto (-3,-4,5) - 2 \; (-3-4-5) \; (1,1,1) = (21,20,29)$
$\quad\quad (+3,-4,5) \mapsto (+3,-4,5) - 2 \; (+3-4-5) \; (1,1,1) = (15,8,17)$
See my MathOverflow post for further discussion, including generalizations and references.
One cannot cover a disk of diameter 100 with 99 strips of length 100 and width 1.
Proof: project the disk and the strips on a semi-sphere on top of the disk. The projection of each strip would have area at most 1/100th of the area of the semi-sphere.
I like the proof that there are infinitely many Pythagorean triples.
Proof: $$ (2ab)^2 + ( a^2-b^2)^2= ( a^2+b^2)^2 $$
If you have any set of 51 integers between $1$ and $100$, the set must contain some pair of integers where one number in the pair is a multiple of the other.
Proof: Suppose you have a set of $51$ integers between $1$ and $100$. If an integer is between $1$ and $100$, its largest odd divisor is one of the odd numbers between $1$ and $99$. There are only $50$ odd numbers between $1$ and $99$, so your $51$ integers can't all have different largest odd divisors — there are only $50$ possibilities. So two of your integers (possibly more) have the same largest odd divisor. Call that odd number $d$. You can factor those two integers into prime factors, and each will factor as (some $2$'s)$\cdot d$. This is because if $d$ is the largest divisor of a number, the rest of its factorization can't include any more odd numbers. Of your two numbers with largest odd factor $d$, the one with more $2$'s in its factorization is a multiple of the other one. (In fact, the multiple is a power of $2$.)
In general, let $S$ be the set of integers from $1$ up to some even number $2n$. If a subset of $S$ contains more than half the elements in $S$, the set must contain a pair of numbers where one is a multiple of the other. The proof is the same, but it's easier to follow if you see it for a specific $n$ first.
The proof that an isosceles triangle ABC (with AC and AB having equal length) has equal angles ABC and BCA is quite nice:
Triangles ABC and ACB are (mirrored) congruent (since AB = AC, BC = CB, and CA = BA), so the corresponding angles ABC and (mirrored) ACB are equal.
This congruency argument is nicer than that of cutting the triangle up into two right-angled triangles.
how about deriving Binets formula for Fibonacci numbers based on the characteristic polynomial:
$$ f_n = \frac{\phi^n - \psi^n}{ \sqrt{5}} $$
Parity of sine and cosine functions using Euler's forumla:
$e^{-i\theta} = cos\ (-\theta) + i\ sin\ (-\theta)$
$e^{-i\theta} = \frac 1 {e^{i\theta}} = \frac 1 {cos\ \theta \ + \ i\ sin\ \theta} = \frac {cos\ \theta\ -\ i\ sin\ \theta} {cos^2\ \theta\ +\ sin^2\ \theta} = cos\ \theta\ -\ i\ sin\ \theta$
$cos\ (-\theta) +\ i\ sin\ (-\theta) = cos\ \theta\ +i\ (-sin\ \theta)$
$cos\ (-\theta) = cos\ \theta$
$sin\ (-\theta) = -\ sin\ \theta$
The proof is actually just the first two lines.
I believe Gauss was tasked with finding the sum of all the integers from $1$ to $100$ in his very early schooling years. He tackled it quicker than his peers or his teacher could, $$\sum_{n=1}^{100}n=1+2+3+4 +\dots+100$$ $$=100+99+98+\dots+1$$ $$\therefore 2 \sum_{n=1}^{100}n=(100+1)+(99+2)+\dots+(1+100)$$ $$=\underbrace{101+101+101+\dots+101}_{100 \space times}$$ $$=101\cdot 100$$ $$\therefore \sum_{n=1}^{100}n=\frac{101\cdot 100}{2}$$ $$=5050.$$ Hence he showed that $$\sum_{k=1}^{n} k=\frac{n(n+1)}{2}.$$
If $H$ is a subgroup of $(\mathbb{R},+)$ and $H\bigcap [-1,1]$ is finite and contains a positive element. Then, $H$ is cyclic.
Euler's solution to the Basel problem using the (unjustified at the time) Weierstrass factorization theorem. Eventually led to reading Hardy's Divergent Series with understanding coming in fits and starts.
Proposition (No universal set): There does not exists a set which contain all the sets (even itself)
Proof: Suppose to the contrary that exists such set exists. Let $X$ be the universal set, then one can construct by the axiom schema of specification the set
$$C=\{A\in X: A \notin A\}$$
of all sets in the universe which did not contain themselves. As $X$ is universal, clearly $C\in X$. But then $C\in C \iff C\notin C$, a contradiction.
Edit: Assuming that one is working in ZF (as almost everywhere :P)
(In particular this proof really impressed me too much the first time and also is very simple)
Most proofs concerning the Cantor Set are simple but amazing.
The total number of intervals in the set is zero.
It is uncountable.
Every number in the set can be represented in ternary using just
The Menger sponge which is a 3d extension of the Cantor set simultaneously exhibits an infinite surface area and encloses zero volume.
The derivation of first principle of differentiation is so amazing, easy, useful and simply outstanding in all aspects. I put it here:
This proof that $n^{1/n} \to 1$ as integral $n \to \infty$:
By Bernoulli's inequality (which is $(1+x)^n \ge 1+nx$), $(1+n^{-1/2})^n \ge 1+n^{1/2} > n^{1/2} $. Raising both sides to the $2/n$ power, $n^{1/n} <(1+n^{-1/2})^2 = 1+2n^{-1/2}+n^{-1} < 1+3n^{-1/2} $.
Can a Chess Knight starting at any corner then move to touch every space on the board exactly once, ending in the opposite corner?
The solution turns out to be childishly simple. Every time the Knight moves (up two, over one), it will hop from a black space to a white space, or vice versa. Assuming the Knight starts on a black corner of the board, it will need to touch 63 other squares, 32 white and 31 black. To touch all of the squares, it would need to end on a white square, but the opposite corner is also black, making it impossible.
The Eigenvalues of a skew-Hermitian matrix are purely imaginary.
The Eigenvalue equation is $A\vec x = \lambda\vec x$, and forming the vector norm gives $$\lambda \|\vec x\| = \lambda\left<\vec x, \vec x\right> = \left<\lambda \vec x,\vec x\right> = \left<A\vec x,\vec x\right> = \left<\vec x, A^{T*}\vec x\right> = \left<\vec x, -A\vec x\right> = -\lambda^* \|\vec x\|$$ and since $\|\vec x\| > 0$, we can divide it from left and right side. The second to last step uses the definition of skew-Hermitian. Using the definition for Hermitian or Unitarian matrices instead yields corresponding statements about the Eigenvalues of those matrices.
Fermat's little theorem from noting that modulo a prime p we have for $a\neq 0$:
$$1\times2\times3\times\cdots\times (p-1) = (1\times a)\times(2\times a)\times(3\times a)\times\cdots\times \left((p-1)\times a\right)$$
I like the proof that not every real number can be written in the form $a e + b \pi$ for some integers $a$ and $b$. I know it's almost trivial in one way; but in another way it is kind of deep.


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Apartment consist of:
*the living room you will find a foldable sofa-bed for 2 people, mezzanine bed, leather sofa and TV in front of it.
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* bathroom with shower unit
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We also provide:
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*iron and ironing board
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The Neighborhood
Let yourself fall in love with this historic part of Prague and be sure to visit the National Theater that is located just a few minutes from the apartment. The famous Wenceslas Square and magical Old Town Square with its astronomical clock are also located close by.
To get around the city with ease the Národní Třída tram stop (line 22) is located just 5 minutes away and will take you to the Lesser Quarter or the stunning Prague Castle.
The apartment location allows to get deeper into life of an Old and New Town in the same time with a specific unforgettable atmosphere, wagging streets with small medieval squares and numerous cafes and restaurants. It all promises an unforgettable experience of your visit to Prague.
Really easy to reach main attractions in Prague, as
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*Charles bridge (10-15 min walk)
Getting Around
It takes 30 minutes to get to your apartment from airport by taxi. We can organize a transfer from the airport directly to the apartment - the cost of this service is 20 EUR/car for 1-3 ppl, 25 EUR/car for 4 ppl, and 35 EUR/car for 5-6 ppl. In this case our driver will meet you in the arrival zone, drive you to your apartment and hand you in all needed maps and keys.
Parking is not included in price, but no worries about it, when you will arrive we will explain you all details about parking and show you where you can park your car, for the lowest price. The nearest public parking is located on the Narodni str. and parking costs 12 eur/day (weekends and nights for free)
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- Check-in from 15h00 (we will do our best to prepare your apartment as soon as possible) and check-out until 11h00 (you can leave your luggage in our office afterwards)
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Heel ruim en compleet ingericht appartement op loopafstand van alle bezienswaardigheden, maar toch in een rustige omgeving. Door de ligging hebben we zelfs geen gebruik hoeven maken van het openbaar vervoer.
De eigenaren waren zeer vriendelijk en regelden taxivervoer van en naar de luchthaven. Ook kregen we uitgebreide uitleg over het appartement en bruikbare tips over bezienswaardigheden in de stad.
De bedden waren wat hard, wat ik zelf geen probleem vond, maar wat anderen vervelend zouden kunnen vinden. De boiler is redelijk groot, maar nadat de derde persoon had gedoucht, was er geen warm water meer.
Een nadeel van het appartement waren de doorzichtige gordijnen in de slaapkamers waardoor we steeds al vroeg wakker werden.
Appartement was erg schoon en ligt dicht bij het centrum!
Helaas is het in de douche alleen koud water, maar dat was het enige gebreken.
Wohnung war Sehr sauber und liegt nahe am Zentrum!
Leider gibt es in der Dusche nur kaltes Wasser, aber das war schon der einzige Mängel.
Uitstekend appartement in het centrum van de stad. Moeilijkheden om parkeerplaatsen te vinden, maar de moeite waard.
Excellent apartment in the center of the city. Difficulties to find parking places but it worth.
We had an amazing stay! Great and clean flat. We have stayed with 6 and two guys hat to sleep on the spare bad. Though i wouldn't suggest it, even that is possible. Easy 10 points to me!
Everything was perfect: host, accommodation & location. The host were super responsive and available and gave us great tips to enjoy the city. The apartment has everything needed and is located in city center, most of touristic points are reachable by foot. Thank you :)
Beautiful apartment with an excellent location, most of the sights can be reached without using public transit. However, the apartment itself was not very well cleaned when we arrived, especially the toilet.
Excellent apartment with a great location. Everything was clean and working. Building is very quiet, though the apartment was echoing. Very modern kitchen and bathroom. Strong waterpressure and instant hot water. Only few things that might bother people. The beds are quite low, so that might be a problem if you have mobility issues. The kitchen is also quite small if you are a large party. Those didn't affect us. The only minus for us was the fact that there wasn't any reading lamps near the beds.
Over all the apartment was great and everything worked smoothly with the renters. Prague was amazing, we are hoping to return soon. (and wouldn't hesitate to rent this apartment again)
Sehr zentrale Lage! Von der Wohnung aus kann man bestens die Stadt erkunden. Gemütlich ist sie allerdings nicht eingerichtet. Da wir viel unterwegs waren, hat uns das nicht gestört.
Das Appartement war schön und hatte eine fantastische Lage, man war überall schnell zu Fuss.
Leider war es nicht ganz sauber, die zwei Badezimmer/WC waren Klein und am meisten fehlten uns die Storen oder Nachtvorhänge, da man direkt eine Strassenlampe hat, welche die ganze Nacht das Zimmer bestrahlt.
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Does anyone have a recommendation for a work flow for georeferencing high resolution aerial photography using open source tools? Comparison of user friendliness and robustness between Quantum GIS versus GDAL?
GDAL user-friendliness is basically nonexistent, but hot damn does it ever work well. I wrote up this guide to my own georeferencing experiments a few years ago: http://mike.teczno.com/notes/flea-market-mapping.html
It's a bit out of date, but the basic elements are there: find matching points between your image and a reference map (I'd now recommend http://getlatlon.com in favor the one at http://gorissen.info), use gdal_translate to knock up a virtual raster, and then you're basically done in the sense that the resulting VRT file can be converted to the GeoTIFF or tile of your choice.
I'm doing a lot with this right now, including collaborating with Tim Waters on the excellent server-side Map Warper mentioned in this thread, so there may be some new stuff in the near future loosely based on some experiments I did in JS last year: http://mike.teczno.com/notes/canvas-warp.html
I do know of two web-based solutions that might be worth taking a look at:
I'm pretty sure Tim Waters open sourced his code, so even if these particular tools don't suit your needs, looking at their source might give you some insights.
Sorry, I can't post more than one external link because I am apparently less than reputable.
I find QGis's georeferencer to be pretty decent for a point and click tool. I wrote a little guide - image georeferencing with QGIS - which is slightly Canadian data-source specific, but walks through all the steps you need to get an arbitrary map into QGis.
Since you are using aerial images: do you need orthorectification? In that case I guess ILWIS would be your best bet, although GRASS also supports it (I haven't tried that myself though).
Work flow for ILWIS is described here: http://spatial-analyst.net/PDF/TN_Ortofoto_in_ILWIS.pd
You can also use the Image rectifier plug-in in MapWindow. It uses an enhanced 4 or 6 point algorithm.
If you have or can create a *.geom file for your image, you can use orthoigen is gdal to quorthorectify your imagery.
OpenEV comes with FWTools, seems OK to me but I load 300 MB images into QGIS easily and deal with them there. So I can recommend it only from casual use.
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Which diode (semiconductor material) has the lowest voltage in the direction of conductivity?
In fact, Schottky Diodes
have the lowest forward voltages. This means, that this is not a question of band gap "voltage" (this is a energy difference originally!) but of technology. Second are Germanium point contact diodes with gold wires.
"Diodes" made from Galena maybe are very low too, but due to the wiggely properties I would not dare to write about the "impressions" I had some times for some seconds on a scope.
Superconducting Niobium Chip Smashes Silicon Power Consumption Standards A superconducting logic chip with a clock speed of 6 GHz beats silicon energy efficiency by two orders of magnitude
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Jackson Hole Cabin Rentals
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I am a climber (currently doing mostly bouldering - short, powerful and very dynamic climbs) and I recently have issues with sore back muscles - I can barely move the next day after exercises and the following few days. What can I do about it other than making sure I warm up properly and stretch? Should I try any vitamins or other supplements?
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There are a couple sources of pain, particularly for the lower back. These are:
DOMS is characterized by a dull soreness that can range from a general feeling of being "used" to a more intense feeling of soreness inside the muscle. Usually, after the same type of stress repeated regularly (such as every other day), the body gets used to the stress and returns to a state of normal rather quickly. Eventually the pain can even disappear.
Injuries on the other hand can range from very small tears (a normal part of getting stronger) which can cause pain for a couple days. The more severe the injury the more severe the pain. Injuries can be caused by a lack of flexibility, a lack of core strength (in the case of the back), and poor technique.
Ironically, the long term solution is essentially the same in both cases. The only difference is that you have to let an injury heal first.
After your bouldering exercises, I recommend a cool-down period. In this cool-down you'll do the stretching you need to improve your range of motion, but don't over-stretch (meaning don't push past the pain). The very next day when you can barely move, try to get your blood flowing with a simple warmup. You'll probably have to go slowly, but it is worth it. Then foam roll and do more stretching.
In essence you can stretch daily, and the more you limber up, and foam roll the soft tissues, the better you will feel and the quicker you will recover. If your bouldering activities are all on the weekend, you should have a couple days for building core strength in between during the week. Even if you don't have access to barbells, kettle bells, or anything like that, good body weight exercises will help you improve your core strength.


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Gov. Dave Heineman reminded Nebraskans to fly their flags at half-staff in observance of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day on Friday, Dec. 7.
"Lowering the flag is a way to remember the victims and honor the heroes of Pearl Harbor," Gov. Heineman said. "We must always remember their sacrifice and the sacrifices of all those who serve in uniform."
Congress has designated Dec. 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, and each year the President signs a proclamation ordering flags to be flown at half-staff.
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Checklist for Sales and Sales Operations Leaders
By Brian Dayton-Oracle on Apr 08, 2014
You're running a sales or sales operations team. You get invited to a number of events—or are spending time out of the office with customers. That's your job.
Another invitation comes along. You quickly scan it, thinking "what's in this for me?"
The Checklist
- New Ideas: Do you look outside your company, to industry thought leaders and your sales peers for new ideas?
- Career Planning: Is it important to look ahead—for your business and your career—to understand where Selling is headed and how it's changing your job?
- Translating Plans to Action: Is there something you could learn from your peers—running Sales organizations like yours—about doing things faster, closing more big-ticket deals?


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Live and Let Live: Why Saturday Night Live still matters
By Matthew Singer 12/13/2012
In the ephemeral world of television, there are two constants: Saturday Night Live and complaints about Saturday Night Live. Ever since the show debuted in 1975 and changed televised sketch comedy — if not comedy in general — forever, it's been going downhill. At least, that's the consensus. Each subsequent generation of cast members is worse than the last. The current incarnation already has us pining for the glory days of Andy Samberg music videos and Kristen Wiig speaking in wacky voices; and surely, once this group has moved on, the next batch will conjure fond memories of Kenan Thompson and that heavyset curly-haired guy. What's weird is, everyone knows this, because everyone still watches Saturday Night Live.
In this age where everything that's ever aired is viewable across multiple platforms whenever we want to view it, people are so oversaturated with choice when it comes to entertainment that they have taken to regularly watching shows they don't even really want to watch. It's been dubbed "hate watching." Vulture recently surveyed the Year in Hate-Watching, profiling such notable, delightfully disdainful programs as Smash, The Killing and my personal favorite least-favorite, The Newsroom.
But people were hate watching Saturday Night Live long before the advent of Hulu, DVR or even the Internet. Pretty much from the moment the last remaining original cast member left, viewers have seemingly watched SNL only to track its declining quality. I'm guilty of it myself. Just this past Saturday, I got home early, sat on the couch and watched nearly all 90 minutes of the most recent episode. The first sketch after the monologue was based around Jamie Foxx repeatedly calling three game show contestants "bitches." I thought, "Why am I watching this again?" But then I stuck around all the way until the infamous post-12:30 dead zone, which actually featured the best sketch of the night: another game show parody, this one called Dermot Mulroney or Dylan McDermott? It was just absurd enough to work for me, but I doubt the rest of the viewership has a sense of humor bizarre enough to find the repetition of those two names funny.
What is the pull of SNL? Why does everyone complain about how terrible it's gotten, yet keep tuning in? The easy answer is that it's an American cultural institution, and there's a certain comfort in engaging with something that's so deeply woven into the fabric of the country that it transcends considerations of quality. But I think it's because, on increasingly rare occasions, SNL gives us something that normally only comes from major sporting events: Those moments that can only be fully experienced live, as they happen. I was reminded of this when watching the SNL Christmas Special on Friday, and remembered being doubled over in tears the first time I saw the "Dick in a Box" digital short. Those kind of bits, which ripple through the culture and become universally shared, happen so rarely; but when they do occur, you want to be there, and you want to be the one who tells your friends about it. In a prerecorded culture, SNL remains live. We hate watch because we love.
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While searching for jobs online I noticed that most PHP web developer jobs ask you to know about algorithms and data structures.While I don't know PHP yet I have started to learn it in order to obtain a job in that field.
While I have seen some similar questions on the forum I don't feel like the answers satisfied my needs.
I already have some knowledge of the quicksort algorithm and how to use a stack from when I was working in Java and Javascript , but I am guessing it is not enough.What I would like is a list of the most common used algorithms in web development.


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This is actually pretty cool. However, most of my courses are now using Desire2Learn now. Most classes rely heavily on web resources, many projects like this need to take off to provide an easier and more intuitive learning experience. The web is still kind of awkward.
Hopefully in the future, support for Office 2010 is supported (including the 64bit version, I have a feeling that will be forgotten).
I had not known about many of the projects on http://www.educationlabs.com/pages/default.aspx
The Chemistry addon is quite useful and done well. More projects like these need to be developed and then marketed.
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I actually would have to disagree with the statement of 10,000 combinations. Were this a number lock, then yes, there are 10,000 combinations to choose from. But this is based on easy to remember because it's a a word. So since most people won't use GOCK or LHCK or LHUK as their combination, that drastically cuts down on the possibilities.
Would like to get one though just so I can figure out what all the reasonable combinations are.
Too bad it doesn't have all 26 letters on each dial. I'll bet you can't even set it to f**k.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ Kansas legislators reconvene this week facing a decision about Gov. Sam Brownback's plan to stabilize the budget by canceling a scheduled sales tax decrease.
The political climate appears to be as volatile as the state's recent weather.
The Senate has embraced the Republican governor's plan to keep the sales tax at its current rate of 6.3 percent, as well as his proposal for cuts in personal income tax rates to follow up on reductions enacted last year.
The House wants to let the sales tax drop to 5.7 percent in July as planned, with less aggressive income tax cuts.
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THEY may be 73 and 72 respectively, but that's not stopping Charlie and Judie Packard from cycling across Australia.
Quick thinking by a Mt Berryman women has saved a house from being engulfed by fire early today.
THE Melbourne International Truck, Trailer and Equipment Show delivered on its promise of being the place business gets done and served as a great venue for the transport industry to come together.
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Hundreds show up for protest rally Saturday
December 30, 2012
STEUBENVILLE — Hundreds of people showed up for a protest rally on the steps of the Jefferson County Courthouse Saturday, despite the snow and freezing temperatures, to voice their concerns over a......
People in the WTOV Channel Nine viewing market along with the nation following these connected stories have been critical of the station's coverage. Hence, more & more viewers are switching towards Wheeling's WTRF or the Pittsburgh news stations for more non bias coverage.
WTOV is in such a small media market which it is between a rock & a hard place. On one side the viewers are expecting transparency and news from all angles and on the other side trying NOT to alienate their news sources, this being the Democratic political machine of Jefferson county who are the puppet masters from local school boards to county officials.
Other news outlets are not held hostage by the Tammany Hall of Jefferson county so their is little fear of being shut out of news stories. It is what it is.
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It's a very popular experiment (eg), from elementary school : put a burning candle on a dish filled with water, cover the candle with an inverted glass: after a little while, the candle flame goes out and the water level inside the glass rises.
The standard explanation (as I recall it) was that combustion "burns" oxygen, and the consummed volume accounts for the extra water that goes inside the glass. Is this correct? I remember feeling (years later) uncomfortable with the explanation, because "to burn" is certainly not "to dissapear": I thought that oxygen combustion produces (mainly) $CO_2$ and hence one oxygen molecule would produce another $CO_2$ molecule, and the volume would remain basically the same. Perhaps $CO_2$ dissolves into the water? I would doubt that.
To add to my confusion, others state that the main cause is not the oxygen combustion but the changes of air temperature, that decreases when the flame goes out and makes the air inside the glass contract... which would rather invalidate the experiment as it was (and is) traditionally taught to students.
What is the right explanation?
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Update: As from webpage linked in accepted answer, there are several effects here, but I think it's safe to say that the "traditional" explanation (consumption of oxygen) is just wrong: oxygen turns into $CO_2$ and water and -even assuming that this is the complete chemical picture (it's not) and that all water condenses- that would produce a slight decrease of volume ($CO_2$ dissolves in water poorly and very slowly). The main effect here is thermal expansion-contraction of air.


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I can see why the community can sort of look down on the ISEB exams (at least the Foundation - I haven't looked at the material for any of the others). So I got to wondering exactly what similar courses are out there that could genuinely help you become a better tester? I've heard of the Weekend Sessions but don't think im quite ready for that level yet.
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Craig - please don't feel you're not ready for the Weekend Testing sessions, they're absolutely intended to be a safe space for testers of all levels to try new things and make mistakes in a friendly and supportive environment where they can learn from them. We've had people who've never worked as a tester but who are interested in entering the profession someday attending the sessions and enjoying them. (I think the youngest testing student we've had was 14).
There is no need to commit to attending a series of sessions, you can just turn up whenever you're free to attend one. There are sessions in various timezones, so pick one that fits in with your schedule. There's also the WeekNight Testers
If you're a member of the Association for Software Testing, you can sign up for the BBST Foundations course for free: http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/training/ and then the following courses (Bug Advocacy is currently running, with further courses in preparation) currently charge a (fairly low) fee. The courses are run online, so are available anywhere in the world where you have internet access.
I'd recommend this for the following reasons:
The BBST series of courses are based on work originally developed for software engineering students at Florida Institute of Technology. The course content is available free online for anyone to inspect it. Even if you don't take the AST presentation, I'd recommend anyone involved in software testing who aspires to calling themselves a professional should make themselves familiar with the course content.
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I can strongly recommend the Rapid Software Testing course, should you have the opportunity to attend one near you.
There are a lot of other good courses, but dependent on geographical location.
The BBST courses will post (with your permission) the names of successful BBST graduates.
For professional recognition, Elizabeth Hendrickson recently launched Entaggle - I believe this might have been inspired by discussions at Agile Testing Days in Berlin in 2010 about the lack of a respected certification for testers, and Agile testers in particular.


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Typically we determine the concentration of proteins using a 280 nm reading. However, it is reasonable to use 205 nm. I was curious about the effectiveness of this method.
This may be what you are looking for. The conversion formula is:
$$ \text{Protein concentration (mg/ml)} = \frac{ (\text{Absorbance at 205 nm})} {31} $$
The first, Scopes, does indicate that nucleic acid contaminants will confounding 205 nm absorbance readings. It seems as though this spetrophotometic calculation is feasible for relatively pure protein species.


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Tips for New Moms: Your Mom and You
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The nuclear familyStay-at-Home Was the Norm
While many women in our mothers' middle- and upper-middle-class circles received college degrees and spent some time in professional life, most also relinquished work when they had children. Though their material expectations were modest, our moms could, in many instances, afford to stay home with us full-time when we were small.
Today 65 percent of moms with small children are in the workplace. According to Time magazine, economic conditions demand that 60 percent of us are in the workplace to pay for bills, not to garner extravagances. Some of us work outside the home because we would otherwise be unfulfilled and thus intolerable mommies. But the mommy majority prefers part-time or flexible hours, which are hard to come by in our seemingly evolved marketplace.
Dads Stuck Around
Decades ago, having children solidified marriage, according to the statistics. These days couples who take the parenthood plunge increase their chances of divorce.
Our fathers and their fathers were the primary, if not only, breadwinners in our families, and were not expected to devote much time to child care. Today, husbands and fathers fully expect to be engaged in child care and have taken up a bigger role. In fact, as leisure time in America shrinks, many dads today feel gypped, unable to devote the hours to their children that they intended to.
There used to be an enormous stigma attached to being a single mother. Today single motherhood is accepted, even admired, and a much larger percentage of families are run by single-mom heads of households.
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Gold-medal winning bobsled driver Holcomb talks about his battles with depression, blindness
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PARK CITY — When Steve Holcomb heard that Olympic silver medalist Jeret "Speedy" Peterson had killed himself, he was as surprised as anyone else.
But unlike most of those who struggled to reconcile the aerial skier's gregarious personality with the fact that depression had driven the 29-year-old to shoot himself on a starry summer night at a lonely canyon campground, Holcomb understood what might compel a person, even a seemingly successful professional athlete, to end his own life.
The bobsledder, who won a gold medal in the 2010 Olympics, understood because he'd battled similar demons when he tried to end his own suffering four years earlier.
Athletes are, by definition, strong.
Showing any kind of frailty — physical or mental — could mean losing even the chance to compete.
"I didn't want to show weakness," said Holcomb of why he was hesitant to ask for help dealing with his depression. "Sports is incredibly competitive, and politics are always there. You can't afford to have anybody doubt you in anyway."
The perception of athletes as superhuman exacerbates the stigma already associated with a disease like depression. The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that more than a quarter of the population suffers from a diagnosable mental illness. About 6.7 percent of U.S. adults will struggle with depression at some point in their lives — many for multiple years.
Athletes are usually fiercely independent and resourceful, which can make the helpless, hopeless feelings that accompany depression even more isolating.
"There is also a pride factor," he said. "I thought, 'I don't need anybody's help; I can do this.' There are things you don't want people to know because you think they will hold it against you … I couldn't imagine being in a competition and saying, 'Hey, I'm depressed.' It would not be beneficial; People wouldn't embrace it. To me, when I was going through it, it was best not to say anything."
Those fears are often unintentionally confirmed when depressed individuals express their sadness and fear and are told "to just cheer up."
"There is definitely a misconception about what depression is," said Holcomb. "I had a few friends who knew I was kind of down and depressed and they would tell me, 'Just cheer up; it will get better.' It's not just a matter of me saying, 'I'm not going to be depressed.' It's a chemical imbalance."
Holcomb's battle with depression began even before he was diagnosed in 2002 with keratoconus, a degenerative eye disease that would eventually leave him blind. But the illness deepened the inexplicable desperation he felt.
"The (diagnosis) started sending me into a deeper spiral," he said. "I was finally starting to get better as a push athlete, coming into my own in the sport, and now it was just going to end."
The graduate of Park City's Winter Sports High School had just switched to bobsled after training as an alpine skier for two years.
Despite his worsening eyesight, the Eagle Scout and former member of the U.S. Army's World Class Athlete Program continued to compete as a push athlete for the U.S. bobsled team. He moved into the driver's seat in 2001, which only intensified the overwhelming guilt he felt about his worsening vision.
Instead of seeking help, Holcomb, who was "the life of the party" as a teen, became more and more withdrawn. Finally, in 2005, he sought help and was diagnosed with depression.
"I started working on things with someone who helps a lot of athletes," he said, adding that depression among athletes is common because of the extremes created by constant competition. "It started around 2004, at least that's when it started taking a toll on my everyday life."
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LAMPASAS (January 21, 2012)- A local school district kept students in school for MLK day on Monday, causing some parents to pull their children out of class.
Lampasas ISD didn't recognize MLK day as a holiday this year, but as a school day. Many parents within the district, like Tammy Guthrie-Fagan, were outraged.
"I just felt disrespected," Guthrie-Fagan said.
"My children are bi-racial and this holiday is not just important to me, but to them."
Guthrie-Fagan kept her four boys at home Monday to observe the MLK holiday. But she wasn't the only parent who disagreed with Lampasas ISD's calendar.
News 10 found six other students who were kept home Monday by their parents because of the MLK holiday.
"I've traveled a lot and have never seen a school district that made kids go to school on MLK day," Lampasas ISD parent Michael Bradley said.
"I just didn't understand why."
Many school districts in the area were closed for MLK day. Waco ISD, Killeen ISD, and Temple ISD are just some News 10 checked with.
Even Copperas Cove ISD, a district that lost multiple school days because of bomb threats last year, gave their students the day off.
When News 10 asked why Lampasas ISD didn't recognize MLK day as a holiday this year, Superintendent Randall Hoyer sent us this statement:
"Our calendar is adopted by our school board with input from the staff and community."
Guthrie-Fagan didn't like his response.
"I think it's bogus that he's going to take my opinion into consideration before the next school calendar is approved. I don't believe him." Guthrie-Fagan said.
"I will be on top of this until something changes."


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After a one-year hiatus, the Fall River Football Challenge is back in action.
The free football event for local middle schoolers and high schoolers was pushed inside the Luke Urban Field House on Friday afternoon because of inclement weather, but the routine remained the same.
Cris Borges, who co-founded the FRFC with the late Jason Cummings, brought the challenge back after suffering through the deaths of two people very close to him a year ago.
"Last year my mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and I had to be with her," said Borges. "After she passed away, I reached out to Jay to see if we wanted to put it together quickly, but his words to me were he did not want to rush it. He wanted to do it right. He said for me to take some time to clear my mind and we would give it a break for a year."
Then in late August of last year, Cummings passed away unexpectedly.
"When Jay passed, a lot of people reached out to me and asked me if they could help get it going again," Borges said. "It took me a little while, but I wanted to do whatever I could to get it going. I was stressed trying to plan it without Jay, but I had help from a lot of people. I think it's very important to bring it back. I lost it a little bit when I was talking to the kids earlier."
The FRFC opened with Borges addressing the group of nearly 50 participants before former NFL players Will Ford and Ryan Powdrell stressed the importance of education to the group.
After the speeches, the group broke up into six different stations to work on drills specific to their position.
Watching the action was new Durfee football coach Taylor Brown, who said he was happy to see the FRFC back in action.
"It's great to have it back," said Brown, a Durfee graduate who spent last season as an assistant coach at Bishop Connolly. "It offers an opportunity for younger players to come out and show what they've got."
Borges said the turnout was a bit low this year compared to others, but he said that may have had a lot to do with the rain.
He also said that even though it's football that brings the kids to the event, the FRFC's goal is to help them beyond the football field.
"The true meaning of this is to help these kids make the right choices both on and off the field," Borges said.
Mike Thomas is the sports editor of The Herald News. Email him at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @NostraThomasHN
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Today in Tweet Beat, Spencer Pratt keeps finding ways to earn money and gain enemies. Also, did you know that today is "Thong Thursday"? You can thank Ice-T's wife Coco for the heads (ass?) up.
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Getting BP's CEO to testify at a Congressional hearing DID accomplish one thing: British accents are no longer sexy #ftrs #tcot
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I realize this is a very common question, but the problem of evil is an important one, and as far as I can tell, has not been asked here.
In short, why does G-d allow evil to exist?
I realize this is a very common question, but the problem of evil is an important one, and as far as I can tell, has not been asked here.
In short, why does G-d allow evil to exist?
I would say that an answer on the simplest level would be to give us בחירה - choice. If there was no evil (and no "evil inclination"), there would not be much meaning to doing "good" and fulfilling the Torah. If everything was good and clear-cut, we would not really have free choice.
On a deeper level, this question could probably fill books (and likely does)
Evil exists because Gd desires for it to exist. Just as gravity exists, planets, entropy, time, space, animals etc. Everything in the world has it's purpose and one can find positive reasons for all things, and negative consequences of all things. For example, if gravity didn't exist, people would not be able to stay on the planet, however because of gravity, people get hurt when they run and fall, and bridge construction causes people to die.
Evil, has its own positive consequences as well.
G-d created good and evil, says both the Torah and Isaiah (Deut. 30:15-20; Isa. 45:7). One reason for having both is explained at Deut. 30:15-20 -- with Free Will, G-d had to give us choices, both good and bad, and the inclination to pursue evil as well as the competing inclination to pursue good. Without these inclinations fighting each other, our election of one over the other would be a foregone conclusion just like the last Egyptian election. Secondly, he created other kinds of evil -- natural disasters, still-born babies, birth defects, diseases, poor people -- to teach us His mida of compassion. Without a communal need that people give of themselves, we would lack community.
Of course, good and evil in this world are completely relative. What is good for the butcher is an evil for the animal to be slaughtered. We see this very much in the institution of karbonot (sacrifices) of which the Torah spends much time discussing even though animal offerings have only been an active part of our religion for a relatively short period (about 1400 years). As I heard brought down from Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, we brought animal offerings for unintentional or unwitnessed sins in order to appreciate that but for certain factors, our own fate might be the same as this poor animal. It is ironic that we should learn compassion through the suffering of others, but how else would we learn it?
For more thoughts on this, see Rabbi Benjamin Blech's book, "If G-d is Good, Why is the World So Bad?", Simcha Press 2003.
The Ramchal in Da'as Tevunos gives several reasons for the creation of evil:
In siman 38, he explains that Hashem's Oneness (the revelation of which is the purpose of creation - siman 40) can only be fully grasped by seeing the facade of what it would mean for Hashem to not be in complete control, and then negating that facade. In siman 40 he writes that Hashem made evil in order to use it as a vehicle for revealing His complete absoluteness.
I briefly discussed how this works here.
In this point, the Ramchal is arguing that the primary purpose of the existence of evil is not for the purpose of facilitating free-will, but rather for the purpose of completing the appreciation of Hashem's Oneness. Evil, and the notion that there is a reality to something outside of Hashem's will, exist only to facilitate the revelation of Hashem's Oneness when evil is obliterated.
Later (Siman 118), discussing the existence of bad things, e.g. suffering, he says evil was created in order to have a mechanism for punishing the wicked:
Evil in this context means the existence of negative things. If Hashem is completely good and bad is an "external" creation (siman 104), the existence of negativity needs to be explained.
As for the Evil Inclination, Da'as Tevunos cites the Zohar (Siman 78):
The Tanya at the end of Chapter 9 bring a parable from the zohar illustrating the role of evil.


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Should stretching be done before exercise? Does the type of exercise (running, weight training, swimming) affect the answer?
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It really depends on what you are doing. I don't have any links, but Ivo's detailed answer about stretching after exercise alludes to the fact that stretching cold muscles is a bad idea. However, with some activities you need to get a good stretch in so you can avoid injury before you begin.
For example, when I do squats I need to get to a certain depth (below parallel) so that my whole body, including my knees can be strengthened. When I'm cold I just can't get that deep due to a natural lack of flexibility. To warm up, I'll do a set of five empty bar squats, followed by some stretching to get to the right depth. I continue to warmup this way, increasing the weights until I get to my work weight.
Flexibility is important any time you are doing something technically challenging and requires a full range of motion. That includes martial arts, gymnastics, certain lifts (like squats and cleans), etc. You won't be able to stretch properly until your muscles are warm. You can do a quick jog, jumping jacks, or the basic motions you will be doing while you exercise without the same amount of resistance you would normally use. After that, you can stretch appropriately.
NOTE: not all exercise activities benefit from stretching, and Ivo's answer is coming from the perspective of a runner. You have a lot less requirements on your range of motion to run than you do to execute a flying kick.
I think Ivo has described the lack of known physical benefit in his response to a prior question (and above in his comments): Should I stretch after exercise? and for the most part I agree.
and from what I have read static/dynamic stretching does not enhance or hurt the body, if anything it could be considered as part of the workout routine. My typical workout consists of 5 minutes of warm up (rope jumping, jumping jacks, etc.) and 5 minutes of stretching (including some yoga stuff) - and I've found that to be sufficient enough to warm my body up and MENTALLY prepare me for the workout.
So - my opinion - I think it prepares one mentally by giving you some time to think about the workout and what your trying to accomplish and a time to adjust your body to the movements your about to make. Make the stretching relevant to the workout (don't do static stretches if you're about to do kickboxing and don't focus on your arms if it's a heavy legs day).
If it is bodybuilding/weight-lifting that you are doing, it is probably best to do a quick (1 exercise) stretch after the warm-up cardio, and then do some stretches in between exercises.
What this does is stretch the fascia of muscle, therefore giving it more space to grow. This is heavily used in the FST-7 training method.
For weightlifting, it is not only unnecessary, it is actually detrimental.
For other sports, it may or may not be beneficial, depending on the sport. E.g. I could not have conceived any martial arts training session, back in the day, without very thorough stretching beforehand. I would have pulled a muscle, or worse, if I didn't stretch before.


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