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Three crashes - two over the weekend and one Monday morning (today) - injured four local people.
A White County Sheriff's Office accident report said Bryan Martin Ackerman, 28, Carmi, was driving a 2009 Honda passenger car westbound on Illinois 14 around 5:25 a.m. Monday (today) when fog obscured his vision at the intersection with U.S. 45.
The report said Ackerman was unable to see the stop sign at the intersection and proceeded through it without stopping, striking a northbound 2002 Chevrolet pickup driven by Keith D. Hedly, 47, rural Enfield.
The impact knocked both vehicles off the roadway and on to private property on the northwest side of the intersection where two more unoccupied vehicles were struck and damaged.
Those vehicles were identified in the report as a 2001 Buick owned by Darrel Buckles of Grayville and a 2004 Buick owned by Melvin and Mary Rubenacker of rural McLeansboro.
Ackerman suffered minor injuries but was not transported by ambulance, however, a passenger in a Hedly vehicle, 47-year-old Jeff Trout of Carmi, suffered more severe injuries and was taken by ambulance to Hamilton Memorial Hospital in McLeansboro.
Janelle J.W. Jennings, 44, Carmi, was driving a 2000 Ford on County Road 1000 East near 1475 North in Carmi Township around 4:40 p.m. Friday when she swerved to avoid a squirrel in the roadway.
A sheriff's office report said she lost control of the vehicle, left the roadway and crashed in to a ditch.
She was also taken to Hamilton Memorial Hospital by ambulance for treatment.
April L. Benham, 33, rural Norris City, was driving a 2010 Chevrolet Tahoe on County Road 350 near 1183 East in Heralds Prairie Township around noon Saturday when she met an oncoming 2009 Chevrolet pickup driven by Chad C. Hayes, 36, rural New Haven.
A sheriff's office report said Benham was across the centerline, causing the two vehicles to incur a sideswipe collision.
The report said Hayes was injured but was not transported from the scene by ambulance.
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The Florida Democratic Party says Attorney General Bill McCollum, a Republican candidate for governor, has targeted a sacred cow: Social Security. In a press release Feb. 3, 2010, the state party said that when he was in Congress, McCollum "voted to dismantle Social Security." That's a major charge. The Democrats are not simply saying he voted to reduce the program that provides income for millions of senior citizens, but alleging that he sought to tear it apart. To back up the claim, the Democrats cited nine votes McCollum took related to Social Security in the 1990s. The McCollum campaign doesn't dispute the individual votes but disagrees with how they're being interpreted. "Bill McCollum was always a supporter of Social Security, despite the attempts of Democrats to portray him (and every other Republican) as its enemy,'' wrote McCollum campaign spokeswoman Kristy Campbell in an e-mail. We examined those votes and showed them to experts on Social Security. We then concluded the Democrats are distorting McCollum's votes and making an incorrect claim based on flimsy evidence. Patricia Dilley, a University of Florida law professor who helped write Social Security legislation in the 1980s, said it was a stretch to describe the votes in such stark terms. "There is not a vote in here directly to dismantle Social Security,'' she said. The Democrats cite these votes by McCollum to support their claim: More...
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Boys roundup: Indians drop Hearts; Kaynor rolls
Jonathan Mitchell scored 16 points and had seven assists as Watertown pulled away from Sacred Heart, 63-40, Tuesday in NVL action Watertown.
Eddie Hill added 16 points and 13 rebounds for Watertown (7-5), and Zach Kopp had eight points and six rebounds.
Isiah Rascoe had 13 points and Tyran Flowers 11 for the Hearts (4-8).
Gilbert 76, Thomaston 54: Robert Skinner scored a game-high 26 points to propel the Yellowjackets to a BL win in Thomaston.
Yoharkey Sarmiento added 24 points while Luis Cordova notched 11 for Gilbert (8-3).
Drew Gagne scored 21 points while Alex Gagne added 14 points for Thomaston (5-7).
Northwestern 83, Shepaug 27: Conner Guiheen scored a game-high 18 points for the Highlanders in BL action in Washington, Conn.
John Stevens and Arthur Lefevre added 17 points apiece while Jimi Phillips finished with nine for Northwestern (11-0).
Lucas Guliano had 13 points for Shepaug (2-9).
Wilby 100, Seymour 28: Walter Wright scored a game-high 23 points for the undefeated Wildcats in Waterbury.
Shawn Coles added 12 points and Kenan Jasavic, Stanley Foote and Taifa Wright had 10 each for the Wildcats (12-0). Mohammed Serdah recorded 10 rebounds and Taifa Wright had six assists.
Tyler Stevens had 16 points for Seymour (0-12).
Kaynor Tech 89, Wolcott Tech 34: Tre'Von Gibbs had 20 points, 12 rebounds and 10 blocks for the Panthers in Waterbury.
Terrance Thompson scored a game-high 26 points and Tre-Kel Douglas chipped in with 14 points, 16 rebounds, five assists and five steals for Kaynor (11-1), winners of 11 in a row.
Rayon Thompson recorded 10 assists, eight steals and nine points.
Luke Pergola had 16 points for the Wildcats (0-11).
Cheshire 63, Sheehan 54: Eric Dietrich netted a game-high 18 points to lead the Rams over host Sheehan in SCC play.
Andrew Yamin finished with 14 points while Erik Pettit followed with nine points for Cheshire (7-4).
Newtown 52, Pomperaug 48: Connor Quinn dropped in a team-high 19 points as Newtown (4-7) edged the Panthers in SWC action in Southbury.
Lucier Fortier recorded a double-double with 23 points and 14 rebounds while Nathan Rubinstein contributed with seven points for Pomperaug (4-7).
Masuk 62, Oxford 44: Jason Mraz recorded a triple-double with 13 points, 10 rebounds and 13 blocks for the host Wolverines in a losing effort. Steven Mahoney and Kyle Chudoba both had eight points for Oxford (3-8).
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If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with hepatitis C, it's natural to wonder if the condition can be cured. As a viral infection that can attack and damage the liver, hepatitis C is one of the most serious hepatitis viruses.
Read on to learn more about whether hepatitis C can be cured, and what you can do to help prevent it.
Does Everyone Need Treatment?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that up to one out of four people who contract the hepatitis C virus will eventually be cured from the condition without treatment.
This fortunate minority will avoid having the infection become chronic and more serious. Although it's possible for the virus to disappear in this way, it's not clear what causes the infection to go away for this group.
Are There Medicines to Cure Hepatitis C?
The most common form of treatment for the chronic form of hepatitis C is a combination of the antiviral medicines ribavirin and interferon. The goal of treatment with these medications is to rid your body of the virus.
These drugs can slow down, and in some cases stop, the virus' attack on your liver. Your doctor or a liver specialist will monitor your treatment to determine its effectiveness.
Is There a Vaccine to Prevent Hepatitis C?
Although prevention is often the best cure, there is currently no vaccine to help protect people from getting hepatitis C.
There are vaccines for other hepatitis viruses, including hepatitis A and hepatitis B. According to the CDC, researchers are working toward developing a vaccine for hepatitis C as well.
However, if you are diagnosed with hepatitis C, your doctor may advise you to get vaccinated against hepatitis A and hepatitis B. This is because these viruses can also lead to liver damage and complications during treatment of hepatitis C.
Can a Transplant Cure Hepatitis C?
If you develop chronic hepatitis C, an infection that becomes long-lasting and can lead to liver cancer or liver failure, you may need a liver transplant.
A liver transplant removes a damaged liver and replaces it with a healthy organ. But the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC) notes that it's possible for hepatitis C to return even after a transplant.
To make the treatment effective, it will be important to take the medications that your doctor prescribes in order to keep you healthy.
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Certain forms of alternative medicine are believed by some to help cure hepatitis C. However, the Mayo Clinic reports that there are no research-proven forms of alternative treatment or complementary medicine for hepatitis C.
Milk thistle is an herb commonly suggested to help cure liver disease. But a study published in JAMA found that milk thistle was no more effective than a placebo in treating patients with hepatitis C.
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According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), it's definitely possible to have a positive response to treatment of hepatitis C. A successful treatment means that the hepatitis C virus can't be detected in your blood anymore.
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SIDNEY, Neb. Cabela's announced today that shareholders re-elected all nine of the nominees to its board of directors, each for a one-year term, at the company's annual meeting of shareholders held last week.
Accordingg to the company, each of the nominees to the board of directors was re-elected by at least 96% of the shares cast with respect to nominees at the meeting. The nominees were as follows: Theodore Armstrong, Richard Cabela, James Cabela, John Edmondson, John Gottschalk, Dennis Highby, Reuben Mark, Michael McCarthy and Thomas Millner.
"We were very pleased with the turnout, which was a record for our shareholders' meeting," said Tommy Millner, Cabela's CEO. "In addition to the formal business of the meeting, it was a pleasure reviewing our great business results from last year and outlining our 2012 vision and plans for the coming year."


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Division of Gifted/TalentedAs this issue of IMAGES explores the topic of assessment, we must address and acknowledge Indiana's Public Law 221 and school accountability. Whether assessing students, teachers, programs or services, professional development, or individual schools; educators will be held responsible. What are the implications of "continuous school improvement" as they relate to Indiana's gifted/talented students?
Twenty-first century educators, parents, and other stakeholders are confronted with "continuous questions and concerns" regarding the education of our gifted/talented students. However, twenty-first century Indiana educators, administrators, and school leaders are being held accountable for helping ALL kids achieve at higher levels in the content areas. For the latter part of the twentieth century most gifted/talented programs focused on the content of the process as the hallmark of their curriculum. Today's gifted/talented educators are confronted with the challenge of integrating the content of the process into the content of the subject area.
What paradigms will we leave behind as we form new ones? How can educators ensure they are meeting the state's accountability requirement and doing what's best for kids? How do educators and leaders of the gifted measure the effectiveness of services and the intellectual growth of these talented students? What do leaders do with the data gathered?
Public Law 221 purports "continuous student improvement." That means ALL students are challenged to learn, including Indiana's gifted students. The following chart is an attempt to illustrate meaningful connections between school accountability and gifted education. Accountability and gifted education are compatible and complementary. As we enter new eras of answerability we must maintain a positive attitude, demonstrate initiative and resourcefulness, and continue to advocate for gifted children.
These words from Albert Einstein, though offered in time long past, have meaning today.
Educators must "raise new questions," consider "new possibilities," and "regard old problems from a new angle" if we expect to make "real advances in" gifted education.
|Gifted/Talented Education Connections
|Major Components of PL 221
|What's best for kids?
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• Instruction (Indiana Academic Standards)
|• Align with and mastery of standards
• Added depth and breadth
• Vary content, process, product
• Develop scope and sequence
• Integrate and connect with regular classroom
• Design purposeful, meaningful, and challenging activities
• Incorporate student services, guidance and counseling plan
|• Continuum of services, program articulation
|• Assessment
|• Align with curriculum and instruction
• Assess students both formally and informally
• Employ Multi-faceted student assessment
• Design effective program assessment
• Use assessment data to improve instruction and/or program
|• Parent and Community Involvement
|• Include Broad Based Planning Committee members on School Improvement Teams
• Communicate corporation vision and goals with BBPC
|• Technology
|• Participate in Listservs
• Use IDOE website
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2 Nov 2012 7:37 AM #1
Ext 3.x support for IE 10?
Does anyone know when IE10 support will be released. 3.4.2 seems to not work very well with IE 10. The Ext.isIE6 property is 'true' on IE10, which I think must cause all kinds of problems with hacks internally targeted for IE6.
Does anyone know?
2 Nov 2012 9:09 AM #2
2 Nov 2012 9:51 AM #3
I'm not usually one for jumping on bandwagons and asking for direct answers regarding timescales (my usual answer when posed such questions is "when it's ready"), but I have to agree with the topic poster that at least some "extremely rough" estimate of when this might appear would be greatly appreciated.
I too am currently being hit over the head on a daily basis by our QA department and customers alike asking when IE10 will be fully supported - and not being able to give an answer can be challenging!
From what I can see from my own testing with IE10, I could probably fix the issues I have encountered manually - but if an official release is imminent then I'd rather not waste that time I could dedicate to other projects. Obviously the main aim is to move over to EXT4 which doesn't appear to have the same issues - but that also might take a while
2 Nov 2012 10:34 AM #4
Without this update ExtJS version 3 is effectively unsupported which contradicts everything that Sencha has officially stated. We *really* need an official statement from Sencha so that we can inform our customers that they have a supported product.
2 Nov 2012 10:38 AM #5
Sencha have already stated that 3.x WILL be updated to support IE10 - so I believe the only remaining question is when this update will be available
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14 Nov 2012 7:40 AM #7
Many thanks Mitchell - the estimated release date is much appreciated
3 Dec 2012 8:12 AM #8
I've now manually updated the ext-base and ext-all files to fix the issues I was experiencing in my app with IE10.
The main issues which were being encountered were:
- The shadows of all components being rendered incorrectly.
- All dropdown menus (including calendar controls) being given the minimum width, and squashing their contents.
- All menu items not displaying their icons
- Disabled buttons not displaying as disabled.
3 Dec 2012 9:02 AM #9
For anyone else wanting to repeat this course of action, I would recommend the following:
In ext-base-debug.js, search for the following pieces of code, then add the sections in green:
isIE = !isOpera && check(/msie/), isIE7 = isIE && (check(/msie 7/) || docMode == 7), isIE8 = isIE && (check(/msie 8/) && docMode != 7), isIE9 = isIE && check(/msie 9/), isIE10 = isIE && check(/msie 10/), isIE6 = isIE && !isIE7 && !isIE8 && !isIE9 && !isIE10,Code:
isIE : isIE, /** * True if the detected browser is Internet Explorer 6.x. * @type Boolean */ isIE6 : isIE6, /** * True if the detected browser is Internet Explorer 7.x. * @type Boolean */ isIE7 : isIE7, /** * True if the detected browser is Internet Explorer 8.x. * @type Boolean */ isIE8 : isIE8, /** * True if the detected browser is Internet Explorer 9.x. * @type Boolean */ isIE9 : isIE9, /** * True if the detected browser is Internet Explorer 10.x. * @type Boolean */ isIE10 : isIE10,
var cls = [' ', Ext.isIE ? "ext-ie " + (Ext.isIE6 ? 'ext-ie6' : (Ext.isIE7 ? 'ext-ie7' : (Ext.isIE8 ? 'ext-ie8' : (Ext.isIE9 ? 'ext-ie9' : 'ext-ie10')))) : Ext.isGecko ? "ext-gecko " + (Ext.isGecko2 ? 'ext-gecko2' : 'ext-gecko3') : Ext.isOpera ? "ext-opera" : Ext.isWebKit ? "ext-webkit" : ""];
Once complete, minify the modified files and try them out in your app.
21 Feb 2013 12:28 PM #10
Any updates on this ???!!!
I tried the suggested 'fix' but it didn't help me ... have a bunch of IE10 complaints now from our customers. When will 3.4.2 be available?


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What is the difference between exegesis and hermeneutics? Are they the same, is there overlap, or does one pick up where the other leaves off?
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What is 'hermeneutics'?
Hermeneutics is the field of study concerned with the philosophy and science of interpretation -- especially the interpretation of communication.
"Biblical hermeneutics" is specifically concerned with the philosophy and science of interpreting the Biblical text. So Biblical hermeneutics would cover all of the following sorts of inquiries and more:
What is 'exegesis'?
Exegesis, as indicated by its etymology, is the act of critically interpreting a text in an attempt to "draw the meaning out" of the text. (This is in contrast to what has come to be know as eisegesis, where one reads his own meaning into the text.)
"Biblical exegesis" is the act of drawing the meaning out of a Biblical text. So Biblical exegesis would cover all of the following sorts of inquiries and more:
The relationship between hermeneutics and exegesis
Basically the distinction boils down to this (as it pertains to the Bible*): Hermeneutics is the field of study concerned with how we interpret the Bible. Exegesis is the actual interpretation of the Bible by drawing the meaning out of the Biblical text.
The distinction is not quite as simple as "theory vs. application," though, since hermeneutics is not just concerned with the philosophy of exegesis, and exegesis is not merely the application of hermeneutical theory -- even if we restrict our comparison to Biblical hermeneutics and Biblical exegesis. Here are a couple of examples to illustrate this:
So we are sort of comparing apples to... ontology here. In a sense there is no overlap; The focus of exegesis is the text. The focus of hermeneutics is stuff like exegesis... why do we do it? how do we do it? how should we do it? As far as sequence, I suppose it could be argued that since exegesis is "critical" in nature, it implies some scientific method, which implies some prior hermeneutic. That is as far as I think we could go in relating the two sequentially, though.**
*Given the scope of this site, I am assuming the question is specifically about the distinction between Biblical hermeneutics and Biblical exegesis.
**Gordon Fee and Dougless Stewart, in How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth) say that exegesis is Step 1 and hermeneutics is Step 2 to emphasize that what we think about the text should be based on what the text actually says. (But they essentially had to redefined their terms in order to make this point.)
In common use you would employ hermeneutics to study the text before expounding on it through exegesis.
After a chat discussion, this is my understanding:
Hermeneutics is the theories and methods for studying text. Exegesis is the interpretation of text.
The difference is in theory verses practice.
For example, hermeneutics has techniques available, such as contextual analysis, or lexical-syntatical analysis. Hermeneutics is the theory behind translating text.
By comparison, exegesis is the application of interpreting and translating text. There are no "exegesis techniques" (that would be hermeneutics). Instead, there are commentaries regarding the text, which are entire books of exegesis.
Example qeustions here on the site (the examples better suited for meta):
"What does 'water' mean in 5 Timothy 127:33?" - Exegesis
I completely agree with Richard's great answer, but would boil it down to this:
Hermeneutics: Is the study and the right application of scriptures make man knowledgeable, acceptable, truthful, and serviceable.
Purpose of Hermeneutics
Exegesis: Refers to deeper explanation after Bible studies. It explains each text taken with deeper analysis. It explains beyond the Hermeneutics explanation.
Goals of Exegesis
Biblical exegesis should be the intellectual enzyme that transforms the stupor of our worldly and futile affections into a deep and glad and living hope .
Procedures of exegesis
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Am I underlying a misunderstanding if I think of (the art of) exegesis as application of hermeneutics?
Regarding texts:
hermeneutics as the techniques of understanding and exegesis as the art of explaining
Both are serving interpretation:
hermeneutics more on the side of the text and exegesis more on the side of the audience
When hermeneutics are being applied for the interest and benefit of an audience, how can it help but fall into one with exegesis?
It may not matter as long as the exegesis is being checked by reason, which is nothing but the hermeneutical understanding of an author's mind and intention.
What if an author makes reference to a higher source of knowledge beyond his own understanding (at the time of writing)?
Biblical hermeneutics as I understand it will always touch and sometimes transcend any human rule. Good answers will (and they already do!) check the error better than rules alone ever will.
Because Fee and Stuart's book How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth has been so influential – over three-quarters of a million copies sold in four editions – let's add their practical definitions of exegesis and hermeneutics to this discussion. From the preface (second edition, 1993; bold emphasis mine):
By this reading, exegesis – recovering the meaning of a text to its original writer and readers – is the necessary prelude to hermeneutics, the process by which contemporary readers discern a text's continuing application. As Fee and Stuart caution, "A text cannot mean what it never meant ... [Exegesis] is the starting point. How we work it out from that point is what this book is basically all about" (p.30).
The explanations already supplied approximate the theological reality. In practice there is sometimes confusion between hermeneutics and exegesis, since one cannot separate theory and practice, while doing (or especially when teaching) practice. I think it is also necessary to add that exegesis is a quasi-scientific approach to the Biblical text, to find the meaning intended by the human author in his historical and philosophical context. Hermeneutics, on the other hand, answers questions about the relevance of that basic message for our faith and practice today. Conservative Biblical hermeneutics considers the "authorship" of God and His broad and deep intentions for the readers, not only the basic exegetic meaning.
This Site's Usage of the Terms
At hermeneutics.stackexchange.com, there is a history of closing questions, because they do not "Start from the Text", as they are "supposed to".
In classic linguistics, this actually illustrates what Exegesis is: a textually oriented "critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text", (Exegesis).
This same article also affirms that the terms "Hermeneutics" and "Exegesis" are often used interchangeably, but does not note that this is not accurate.
However, here at hermeneutics.stackexchange.com, it is often the case that these two terms are used interchangeably, very often to the dismay of visitors.
Hermeneutics for the Rest of the World
Interpretation methodologies, (including, but not limited to: "Exegesis" and "Eisegesis"), fall nicely under the broader umbrella of "Hermeneutics".
NOTE: It should be noted that "Exegetical" methodologies lend themselves to "Deductive, Concrete, Certain, Conclusions" -- whereas "Eisagetical" methodologies lend themselves to "Inductive, Probable, Conclusions".
Both methodologies are valid, however:
Eisegesis, as a Hermeneutical Approach
As Wikipedia notes, Eisegsis, from the Greek "INTO" makes inferences by bringing presuppositions INTO the text, like cultural factors, pragmatics, semiotics, etc. (Although many "Exegetes" bring cultural factors into the text, they argue that "Exegetical" purity has been maintained, *sigh ...)
Good Eisegesis:
We can "Inductively Infer" that Jesus Probably was a carpenter, if we also prove that there is an ancient authority which demonstrates that fathers taught their sons their trade, and sons were obliged to follow in their footsteps. (IF this authority actually exists, then this Eisegetical approach is valid--though I have never seen such an authority, let alone one that would apply in Jesus' peculiar circumstances.)
Bad Eisegesis:
One of the most Offensive Eisegetical mistakes that people make is asserting, for certain, that Jesus died on "Friday": because, (A.) we "know", culturally, that Jews observed Sabbaths on Fridays, and; (B.) The text is abundantly clear that Jesus died on the Preparation Day.
However, this Eisegetical mistake is soundly corrected by employing Exegesis:
We know that there were "High Sabbaths", (like "Shabbat HaGadol"), days of the week which are considered Sabbaths, No Matter which day they are--Like the Passover Feast. If it falls on a Thursday, then Thursday is a Sabbath, like the very first Passover.
... but that destroys 2000 years of traditional inferences ...
Exegesis, as a Hermeneutic Approach
As Wikipedia Notes, Exegesis, from the Greek "OUT OF" makes inferences from the text, outwards.
Perfect Exegesis Example:
(other than the fact the statement was spoken at the time--or rather not spoken ...)
An Example: Beginning Exegetical Analysis, with Eisegesis:
Inductively, we can understand how people probably would have thought that Jesus was a Carpenter, by cultural factors alone, because Joseph was a carpenter.
But: Are there certainties that Exegesis can bring us to?
Based on what the text says, a lot of what was said about Jesus can be taken with a "Grain of Salt", and by doing so, we can distinguish what can be gleaned/identified as certainties.
The text demonstrates that an "Ad Hominem" attack was employed to belittle Jesus, for the purpose to diminish him as a "prophet".
Because of the nature of the attack, (and fallacy), the credibility of what they were saying is called into question.
But despite this, we are left with a "Certain Fact", regardless of the truth, the text is very clear about intent and "offense".
Additionally, in Jerusalem, as in Nazereth, it was noted that Jesus had been very educated, and none of them, including the people in his home town, knew Jesus well enough to know how he got so educated:
Because they didn't know Jesus well enough, then they obviously cannot be taken as authorities into Jesus' home life, how he was raised, etc.
Exegetically, we can make the following deduction:
"The text certainly conveys that people were attempting to diminish the perception of Jesus as a "Prophet", by identifying him merely as a "carpenter, or carpenter's son".
But Exegesis does have its limits:
It remains inconclusive, however, but probable, that he was actually a professional carpenter, because of:
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Which Bay Area Restaurant Accidentally Overcharged a Michelin Inspector by $800?
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The chef shows his support for gay marriage, but lost a couple of Twitter followers in the process.
Consider that shark jumped.
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That's one way to ruin a perfectly lovely dinner.
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'Fritters are up'
Our rock-star comparisons prompted at least one reader to ask the old question, 'Was Waters ever really a chef?' And who should chime in but Jeremiah Tower.
Were they at Saison, perhaps?
The gang included chef Tyler Florence's daughter Dorothy.
Also, they had a great meal at Manresa.
He's already an addict!
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It's almost New Year's Eve, and the kids in the kitchen at Flour + Water just tweeted this photo of an "experiment": some black-and-white, almost striped bowtie pasta. We suppose that would be part squid-ink, part plain pasta. Cute right?...
Burrell accused Falkner of bad-mouthing her competitors after Burrell was eliminated from 'Next Iron Chef.'
The giveaway's only good today.
The tiny Richmond-district Japanese joint might never have caught Michelin's eye without tweet recommendations.
Also, one of them is addicted to Blue Bottle iced coffee.
Did it happen in Yountville?


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The 5 Biggest Mismatches in Movie Fight History
5. Cliffhanger
Fight: Gabe Walker (Sylvester Stallone) vs. Eric Qualen (John Lithgow)
The bad news first: a gang of evil white-collar criminals are holding your sister hostage approximately 10,000 feet above sea level. To make matters worse, it tends to be cold on mountaintops, and for no discernible reason you're only wearing a tank top.
Now for the good news: you're a trained mountain climber who, as luck would have it, grew up climbing the mountain on which they're holding her, so you've got a Coors Park-sized home field advantage. Oh, also, you're Sylvester Stallone and the guy you're fighting is the dad from 3rd Rock From the Sun.
That's right, when faced with the job of finding a villain fearsome enough to menace Stallone's maverick climbing instructor, the makers of Cliffhanger settled on John Lithgow, a man whose previous villains spent their time trying to convince kids to stay home from prom.
In an attempt to even the odds, Cliffhanger emphasizes the fact that Stallone is haunted by the memory of watching a woman plunge to her death. He is not, however, haunted by cerebral palsy, the only thing that could make a fight between Lithgow and Stallone anything other than laughable.
When they finally meet in the climactic scuffle, Lithgow manages to get Stallone in a head lock, and improbably appears to have him on the ropes before the helicopter they're dangling from (don't ask) falls off the side of a cliff, taking Lithgow with it.


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I have to implement a simple hashing algorithm.
Input data:
- Value (16-bit integer).
- Key (any length).
Output data:
- 6-bit hash (number 0-63).
- It should be practically impossible to predict hash value if you only have the input value but not the key. More specific: if I known hash(x) for x < M, it should be hard to predict hash(M) without knowing the key.
Possible solutions:
- Keep full mapping as a key. So the key has length 2^16*6 bits. It's too long for my case.
- Linear code. Key is a generator matrix. It's length is 16*6. But it's easy to find generator matrix using several known hash values.
Are there any other possibilities?


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Worth a hill of beans!
By Edward Wong on Mar 24, 2009
In this blog, we'll show how to get Scheduler BC to trigger a Stateless Session Bean (SLSB) deployed in a Java EE Service Engine. I'm using GlassFish ESB v2.1 Milestone 1 Installer from here so YMMV if using a different version:
- Start a new EJB Module project:
- Enter Name and Location of EJB Module:
- Select the GlassFish Server and press Finish:
- Under the Source Packages node of the project, create a Scheduler WSDL Binding:
- Choose the SCHEDULER Binding Type and press Next:
- Add a new Simple trigger:
- Define the Simple Trigger:
- Ensure the appropriate Date Format is selected before pressing Finish:
- Under the Source Packages node, create a Web Service from WSDL:
- Specify the Name and Location step and browse for the Scheduler Binding WSDL created earlier:
- Remember to enter a Package name before pressing Finish:
- In the Java editor that appears, implement the method accordingly:
- Almost done, save everything and create a Composite Application project:
- Key in Project Name and press Finish:
- Drag the EJB Module project onto the CASA canvas and do a Build Project and afterwards, should look like this:
- Save everything, Deploy the Composite Application project, and you should get similar results:


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They are called cooks. It's like saying there are amateur heartsurgeons.
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Chef is a word with multiple definitions:
In common usage chef is most commonly used to refer to a cook of great skill or accomplishment. Many people each year attend the formal education required to become a chef, at Le Cordon Blue etc, merely for the personal joy of cooking for themselves, their family and friends. These people are both 'chef's' and are 'amateurs'. Today many 'amateurs' have advanced their culinary skills to the point where they are indeed deserving of the title 'Chef'.
I would deny no one with the passion for the art of cooking the title of 'amateur chef'. This is, after all, how Julia Childs started out....


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The following command runs fine, that is, doesn't ask for a password, prints no warnings or errors, and simply provides a DB prompt:
$ psql -U dbuser dbname
psql (8.4.10)
Type "help" for help.
When trying to generate an ERD out of this DB with SchemaSpy (running as the same host user), it doesn't work:
$ java -jar ~/schemaSpy.jar -dp /usr/share/java/postgresql.jar -t pgsql \
-host localhost -db dbname -u dbuser -o ~/db
Using database properties:
Failed to connect to database URL [jdbc:postgresql://localhost/dbname]
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: The server requested password-based
authentication, but no password was provided.
If I try with a blank password (
-p ''), it instead prints:
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: password authentication failed for
user "dbuser"
How do I run SchemaSpy on a PostgreSQL database with a DB user that has no password?
I tried changing the
pg_hba.conf settings to completely permissive, but it still doesn't work:
$ sudo grep ^local /etc/postgresql/*/main/pg_hba.conf
local all postgres ident
local all all trust


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Churches Protest Arrest of Winter Haven Women Accused of Not Paying for Meal
Winter Haven's A&G Restaurant presses charges, claims pair didn't pay for meal.
Published: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 at 8:52 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 at 8:52 p.m.
WINTER HAVEN | After breakfast, "Mother" Lewis ended up in handcuffs.
An article published on page B1 on Thursday incorrectly said Bishop Joseph Lewis is with the Church of God the Bible Way. He is with Church of God and True Holiness and is the diocese bishop for Southern Florida, which includes the Winter Haven church. The online version has been edited to reflect this correction.
The image of the 78-year-old woman sitting in a holding cell had more than 20 people protesting outside A&G Restaurant in Winter Haven on Wednesday morning.
The Jan. 14 arrest and the events that followed has entangled the restaurant staff, two women facing charges, Winter Haven police, the State Attorney's Office and the protesters defending the women and urging potential customers not to eat at A&G.
The fact that Willie "Mother" Lewis and her daughter Ruthena Lewis, 44, ate at A&G and left without paying is undisputed.
The pair left the restaurant, at 1174 Havendale Blvd., were arrested at their church and charged with misdemeanors.
"They should not have treated her that way," said Bishop Joseph Lewis, who is with Church of God and True Holiness and is the diocese bishop for Southern Florida, which includes the Winter Haven church. Lewis was with the protesters as cars honked and zoomed past.
"This woman is a pillar in the community she lives in."
Joseph Lewis is not related to Willie Lewis or Ruthena Lewis.
The circumstances that led to the arrest of the pair and the events that followed are documented in 10 pages of Winter Haven police reports.
About 10:30 a.m. Jan. 14, the two women ate a breakfast that came to an $18.46 bill, the report said.
After the meal, Ruthena Lewis took her mother to their car outside, and then returned inside to pay for the meal, Willie Lewis said.
"I couldn't see anything from out there," the elder woman said.
According to the police reports, Crystal Henson, a restaurant staff member, ran a credit card that Ruthena Lewis gave her and it was declined. Restaurant staff told police Ruthena Lewis held the cancel button down as she ran the card, according to the reports.
The report said police were told that "(Ruthena Lewis) stated to (Henson) that if she gave them the meal for free she would go to heaven. If she ran the credit card again, she would go to hell."
Ruthena Lewis then handed Henson a business card with Joseph Lewis' information on it, and told her that the restaurant could call him to pay for the bill. Ruthena Lewis left the restaurant, got into the car and drove off, but an employee got her license number and gave it to Winter Haven police, who arrested the pair soon after.
Willie Lewis had $80 cash in her purse when she was arrested, the report said.
Joseph Lewis said he came to the restaurant soon after the arrest and paid the check. He is a regular customer at A&G and had eaten breakfast there earlier in the day. When he paid the women's bill, he said the restaurant's owner, George Paragios, told him he would ask police to drop charges against the women.
On Jan. 18, police arrived at the restaurant to have Paragios sign a waiver of prosecution.
"He advised that he wanted to continue with the charges, and refused to sign the waiver," the report says.
When Paragios declined to sign the waiver to not seek prosecution of the two women he told police they "were cursing and causing a disturbance." A disturbance wasn't noted in the original report of the incident.
Paragios declined to comment about the situation Wednesday, but he allowed the waitress, Natasha Anthony, who got the license plate number on Jan. 14, to comment for the restaurant.
Anthony said the women were purposely trying to leave the restaurant without paying for their food.
"The law is the law whether you're 25 years old or 85 years old," she said.
Protesters said they planned to stay outside the restaurant until 1 p.m. Wednesday then come back Saturday if the charges on the women remain.
Because the Winter Haven Police Department has filed charges, if Paragios were to sign the waiver now, the State Attorney's Office would take the suggestion to drop charges into consideration but the waiver wouldn't guarantee that.
A diversion program is another possibility that could involve the women repaying Winter Haven police for investigation costs but would also result in the charges being dropped.
Their next court date is March 4, said Brian Haas, State Attorney's Office spokesman, although the case may be resolved before that.
Neither of the women has a previous criminal record, Haas said.
Sharon Henderson of Winter Haven came to the scene of the protest about noon Wednesday as a bystander. She saw the black protesters and white customers walking into the restaurant.
A white woman had yelled racially charged statements at the protesters just minutes prior.
"Automatically, this just looks racial, and that is a shame," said Henderson, who is black.
"There are too many of these petty things going on in the world."
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7 Reasons Computer Glitches Won't Go Away (Ever)
#3. Software Patents
One of the things proponents of free open-source software like to push is the idea that any regular Tom, Dick, or Harry with an idea can add his knowledge and experience to the programs he uses, send it upstream to the creators and have the fruits of his efforts enjoyed by everyone. But in the real world (America), trying to do this will get your ass sued, because anybody could claim that you're stealing his brilliant ideas, such as clicking things without having to click on them again.
The answer to many of life's problems seems to be "because lawyers love money."
In 1991, the patent office lost its taxpayer funding, at which point its patent criteria changed from "Any new and useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter" to "Any idea whatsoever for which applicable patent fees are paid" (as Cracked has covered before).
For example, Sega holds a patent on the concept of "using a floating arrow to direct the player," meaning that any game that wants to point at a door, such as Bioshock, has to pony up money to Sega.
Yet, somehow, they manage to avoid paying royalties to the Rand Estate.
You don't even have to have invented the thing you're suing people for. Companies that buy the assets of bankrupted software companies, known as "patent trolls," make a business out of doing nothing but buying the rights to patents on things similar to something that's being done by a bigger company, then forcing the bigger company to either pay up or remove whatever it is the patent troll claims to have a patent on.
For example, in 2003 Microsoft changed Internet Explorer so that you had to click inside any part of the page using a plug-in (such as Flash) before you could use it. This wasn't because Microsoft wanted to -- it had to do this to sidestep a patent on "not clicking on things before you can use them" that a patent troll called Eolas claimed was being infringed.
Which ironically sounds more like a patent elf.
In 2007, Microsoft restored IE to the way it had worked before -- after paying Eolas several million dollars to "license their technology."
A whole lot of the innovation you're using now -- including the basics of your operating system that were developed, not by Microsoft or Apple but by Xerox -- happened before the era of software patents. Otherwise, those innovations may never have happened at all. Who can afford to pay for every little facet of a system that happens to be similar to what someone else invented?
#2. Y2K-Type Bugs
Hey, remember the "Y2K Bug"? The programmers of the world's software had been using the last 2 digits of 19XX to represent the year, meaning that come 1/1/00, all the computers of the world would instantly go into panic mode if they hadn't upgraded. Society was doomed. People everywhere were partying like everybody had a bomb.
The earliest predictors would attempt to live off the grid by replacing their names with indecipherable symbols.
As it turned out, the computers were much less panicky than the people hiding from them in concrete bunkers were. But bugs like Y2K will never go away -- there's another similar bug we'll have to fix by 2038. Countless little ones will happen between now and then; for instance, on March 1, 2010, a bug in leap day calculation caused all but the newest PlayStation 3 systems to lock users out of playing their own games.
This is why you should never work hard on anything ever.
The problem is that time itself isn't exact. The rate at which the Earth hurtles around the sun isn't constant, which is why we have such weirdness as leap days (which were the cause of the aforementioned Y2K+10 clusterfuck) and leap seconds (when an international group of scientists decides to add or remove a second to an upcoming minute).
And then we have time zones. If you thought time zones were divided up into 24 equal sections with neat vertical lines, you're wrong. Check the time zone settings on your computer clock -- there are 91 time zones on there, because different governments insisting on having their own. In fact, several countries just changed their daylight savings time rules. And yes, your computer needs to know the time and date. Just ask the F-22 fighter pilots who saw their multimillion-dollar flight control systems lock up in midair when the plane crossed the international date line and got confused.
That's all the plane you get for $150 million.
#1. Trying to Make Computers Usable to All Humans Everywhere
Here's what Minesweeper looks like for most of the world:
Flowers. If you're using Windows Vista (or 7) in America, you'll still see mines when you first start Minesweeper. The flowers show up by default only in other countries, because games about not stepping on land mines aren't so fun when you're doing it with one arm, because you lost the other one to a land mine.
This is the kind of thing you have to think about now, as personal computers have gone from a geek tool to an everyday appliance used on every land mass on earth. But you don't want to have to write and sell 800 different versions of your software. You need it to be adaptable to people all over the world, some of whom have disabilities. Doing that successfully is next to impossible.
Land mines: the bane of the software industry. And also people.
For instance, that hypothetical guy with one arm can still use his computer, because there are devices to help him (there's even a gadget that lets you control the mouse cursor using only your eyes), but you have to write your software knowing your user might be using it that way. Now think about how many different scenarios and disabilities you have to account for. Ask the guys who made BioShock 2 -- they found out only after release that the hacking minigame is unplayable if you're colorblind. This isn't some rare condition -- that's one in 10 people. And it never occurred to them.
And then you have the nightmare that is human language.
Anyone else ever notice that the Tower of Babel looks sort of like Minas Tirith?
The text in early computers used American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), which defined 128 characters it could display, including the 26 letters of the English alphabet.
But when the rest of the world started using computers, they needed to include their umlauts and their Russian backward R's and their yen signs. To fix this, they created Unicode, which increased the range of characters to several million, allowing languages from Chinese to Farsi, and symbols like a hammer and sickle, and an exclamation point dotted with a heart. Fixed, right?
Not quite. To support actually drawing all these things on your screen, you have to build your system to allow for all sorts of other variations -- languages that write text from right to left, or with letters that can have rows and rows of extensions above them. Each new attempt to accommodate everyone adds more complication and more opportunity for something to go wrong.
In conclusion, diversity makes us weak.
We're not saying this will never get fixed. We're just saying that it isn't going to get fixed until all the people of the world start speaking the same language and sharing the same values, and all disabilities are cured.
At which point we will buy the world a Coke.
Stuart P. Bentley is a programmer with binoculars peeping through Microsoft's bedroom window in Redmond, Washington. He has a website at TestTrack4.com
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Some plants have lobed leaves, like the English oak (Quercus robur), while other plants growing the same deciduous woodland habitats, and very often growing alongside oaks, such as the European beech (Fagus sylvaticus) don't have lobes. Here are two two leaves side by side for comparison:
These two species should be subject to most of the same evolutionary pressures. Why would one evolve lobed leaves, whilst the other has only tiny serrations?
Some plants have lobed leaves, like the English oak (Quercus robur), while other plants growing the same deciduous woodland habitats, and very often growing alongside oaks, such as the European beech (Fagus sylvaticus) don't have lobes. Here are two two leaves side by side for comparison:
This is a question for which, I think at the moment, we don't have a clear answer.
It is important to bear in mind that the leaf plays a number of important roles in the plant (photosynthesis, thermoregulation etc.) so leaf shapes probably evolved through a process of successive trade-offs. This may make it difficult to identify the exact selection processes operating on any one species. In contrast, something like the eye has a well-defined single function, which in principle at least, makes it easier to understand the link between form and function.
From Niklas (1988):
However, there are a number of ideas to explain leaf shape diversity which include:
It has been shown that by adding lobes to leaves, the rate of heat transfer across a leaf is greater than that of an unlobed leaf of the same area (e.g. Gurevitch and Schuepp 1990). So, lobed leaves may be selected for under certain environmental conditions.
Lobed leaves may have greater hydraulic efficiency. For smaller veins, hydraulic pressure increases as they present an increased resistance to water flow. This places stress on the deliate outer leaf tissues. If lobed leaves have relatively less mesophyll tissue than large, highly conductive veins, they may have reduced hydraulic resistance compared unlobed leaves (Sack and Tyree 2005).
So, some or all of the above possibilities (which are not necessarily mutually exclusive) may shape the leaves of species which may appear to have undergone very similar selective pressures.
This is a good read by Nicotra et al. (2011) which summarizes the state of play.
Gurevitch J, Schuepp PH (1990) Boundary layer properties of highly dissected leaves – an investigation using an electrochemical fluid tunnel. Plant, Cell & Environment 13, 783–792. doi:10.1111/j.1365- 3040.1990.tb01094.x
Nicotra et al., The evolution and functional significance of leaf shape in the angiosperms, Functional Plant Biology, 2011, 38, 535–552
Niklas KJ (1988) The role of phyllotactic pattern as a developmental constraint on the interception of light by leaf surfaces. Evolution 42, 1–16. doi:10.2307/2409111
Sack L, Tyree MT (2005) Leaf hydraulics and its implications in plant structure and function. In 'Vascular transport in plants.' (Eds NM Holbrook, MA Zwieniecki) pp. 93–114. (Elsevier Academic Press: Burlington, MA, USA)


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Dalyn Dawkins rushed for 1,479 yards and 18 touchdowns for 6A State Champion Trinity. He also had 38 catches for 367 yards and 5 more scores. The Rocks running back signed with Purdue University. His father, Ralph, played at UofL and was a starter on the 1991 Fiesta Bowl Champs.
Dalyn, at 5'8" and 181 pounds, was overlooked by some schools because of his size, but is looking forward to getting a chance to be an every down back for the Boilermakers. He picked Purdue over Western Kentucky and Colorado State.
KENT TAYLOR: Why Purdue?
DALYN DAWKINS: First of all the academics are great, I really couldn't pass up that opportunity. They're in the Big Ten, that's big time football right there, and it's a huge campus, very nice place and I love the coaching staff there. I got to meet with some of the players who are already on the team and they were cool.
TAYLOR: How much did the proximity to home weigh in?
DAWKINS: That played into, that's why Colorado State was kind of hard for me to go there, the distance was a little too far. Purdue was the best situation.
TAYLOR: What about Coach Darrell Hazell did you like?
DAWKINS: I've got a lot of respect for him, for what he accomplished at Kent State. He's a cool guy, he's very up-front, he's going to be honest with you and tell me the truth. He wanted to give me time, he didn't want to rush me into the decision.
TAYLOR: Are you upset, (or) do you feel like some schools overlooked you because of your size?
DAWKINS: I wondered that sometimes, but sometimes things happen for a reason. If it was meant for me to go to Purdue, it was meant for me to go to Purdue. I saw it when I was up there, I liked it a lot.
TAYLOR: Will you play as a freshman, or will you redshirt?
DAWKINS: All three schools were willing to give me a true opportunity to play as a freshman. That's all I ever wanted, I want to be able to compete as a freshman. If I'm not ready, I'm not ready, but I think I'll be ready.
TAYLOR: Did UofL recruit you at all? I know they have some running backs, but how involved were they?
DAWKINS: They were recruiting me just a little bit, not too much. I don't know what it was about them, I guess they didn't want me.
TAYLOR: Your dad played in a couple of games for UofL at Ohio State – what did he tell you about the atmosphere of Big Ten football?
DAWKINS: It's very different, it's one of the best football conferences, that's for sure. The fan base is great and it's always going to be a packed house. Playing at Trinity I'm used to that.
TAYLOR: Purdue has traditionally played Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan – what place are you most looking forward to going into and playing?
DAWKINS: Ohio State and Notre Dame.
TAYLOR: What are you going to study there?
DAWKINS: I'm still undecided. Probably business and marketing.
TAYLOR: Was there a time when you thought you would end up at Cincinnati?
DAWKINS: I was really leaning towards Cincinnati, the whole season, I said I'm going to Cincinnati, I wasn't really worried about the recruiting process because I knew I was going to Cincinnati. Then Coach Butch Jones left and I had to reconsider that.


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Men's Tennis Earns First Win of 2014 over Newberry, 6-3February 8, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Opening up South Atlantic Conference play on a high note, Anderson University men's tennis came away with a 6-3 win over Newberry, Saturday afternoon at the Max Grubbs Memorial Courts.
The victory marks AU's first of the season after dropping a 5-0 decision at Division I power Clemson on Sunday, while Newberry falls to an even 1-1 overall record.
In doubles action, Anderson was able to post two wins, as the freshmen tandem of Juan Carracedo and Mateo Rivas claimed an 8-4 victory over Michael Saunders and Vinivius Botelho at the No. 1 position, while sophomore Inaki Iriberry and Tomas Passalacqua defeated Mohammed Chakir and David Sons, 8-2 at No. 3.
Heading into singles play with a 2-1 advantage, it was the bottom of the Trojans' lineup which propelled AU to the victory. At No. 3, Passalacqua earned his first singles victory in the Black and Gold with a three-set 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 win over Newberry's Fernando Espana. Sophomore Paul Michael Calhoun, who was slotted at the No. 4 position, matched Passalacqua's three-set win with a 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 triumph over Chakir.
Iriberry and senior Danilo Faria earned straight set victories at No. 5 and No. 6, respectively, as Iriberry knocked off Carolis Nicolopulous 7-5, 6-1 and Faria grabbed a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Sons.
The victory increased AU's winning streak over the Wolves since the Trojans joined the SAC to four straight matches.
Anderson returns to action on Wednesday as it begins a three-match road swing beginning at Peach Belt Conference opponent GRU Augusta. First serve is slated for 2 p.m.


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I've been having a problem with a facebook like-box for a client, and me and a friend simply can't figure out what we're doing wrong, and it's been close to three days of staring at it. Here's the code we get from developers.facebook.com:

var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";

Nothing shows up. We did get this piece of code to work, but it doesn't quite work the way we want to:

<fb:like-box href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/mywebsite/1111111111" width="280" colorscheme="dark" show_faces="true" border_color="" stream="true" header="false"></fb:like-box>
You have to log in to facebook to see the feed, but the client want it to always show up.


text: During the recent Weirton United Way report luncheon, officials recognized the contributions of the United Steelworkers Local 2911 to the organization's annual fundraising campaign. To date, employees of ArcelorMittal Weirton have contributed almost $30,000 to the 2012 campaign. Pictured, from left, are United Way Executive Board President John Frankovitch, Campaign Chair John Greco, USW 2911 President Mark Glyptis, Campaign Vice Chair Don Gianni Jr. and United Way Executive Director Kristin Bowman-Cross. -- Craig Howell


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Um...yes...I'm loud...but is that REALLY the only thing you can say about me?
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Give me a moment to gripe here. When I talk about my fellow instructors, I try not to speak ill will, and as you can see from my other post this week, I am challenged when asked about other classes at my facility. Ones that I might have tried, but which just don?t appeal to me personally based upon the workout I am looking for. In that case, I try to be delicate about saying that for me, it?s not a good workout on certain days because I might be just looking for something different?or I might say it?s too dancey for me and I?m just not coordinated enough. In other words, I place the onus on ME as to why the class doesn?t work. Thus, I try to speak well of my fellow instructors because we were part of a team. I was particularly annoyed yesterday when one of the students I advise came up to me and said, ?Oh, I took so and so?s class, and she said you teach it too?and that you?re loud.?. WHAT? That?s all she said? That I?m loud. NICE. I agree to that, but I do kinda do other things well enough, or provide a good workout ? my attendance numbers prove that. But you know what, if that?s all you?re going to say, it?s kind of a crappy way (in my own opinion) to talk about people you work with?and frankly, I?m pretty peeved right now. Sigh.Share


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I've been very positively impressed by Tristan Needham's book "Visual Complex Analysis", a very original and atypical mathematics book which is more oriented to helping intuition and insight than to rigorous formalization. I'm wondering if anybody knows of other nice math books which share this particular style of exposition.
John Stillwell's recent book Naive Lie Theory is amazing and in a similar vein. It provides great geometrical intuition for many of the common matrix groups. What is particularly impressive about this book is how he motivates more complicated ideas, such as maximal torii in a very elementary fashion. It is perfect for undergrads looking for a good introduction.
I share your admiration for Needham's book!
One of my favorites is Geometry and the Imagination by David Hilbert and Stephan Cohn-Vossen.
Some of their figures are stunning, almost works of art, and of course all drawn before computers!
Here they are explaining how one ellipsoid, one hyperboloid of one sheet, and one hyperboloid of two sheets, pass through any point in space:
I've just been reading "Visual Group Theory" by Nathan Carter. The similarity of title to Needham's may be coincidence, but the book has exactly the same effect: it SHOWS you WHY all these things are true, when conventional proofs so often just TELL you WHAT is true.
My favorite along with the Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham
is Grad, Div, Curl and all that by H. M. Schey
NOTE: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is still the best mathematical book I have ever read.
"Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein" by David Mumford, Carolina Series and David Wright.
Most certainly visual, this book is not in the same category as most of the books mentioned so far. In fact, it defies categorization at all because it is a combination of an amazing ground level introduction to group theory and a monograph on Shottky groups, which grew out of desire to find mathematics to go along with stunning computer graphics. And it has outstanding cartoons by Larry Gonick.
I haven't read Needham's book so I'm not totally sure what you mean, but it sounds like you might like "Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology" by Bill Thurston and Silvio Levy.
"Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics" and "Ordinary differential equations" by late V.I. Arnold. In my opinion, these are THE books for anyone who wants to understand geometric theory of ODEs. I agree with Andrew's comment though, that the books might be a difficult read for an undergraduate (particularly, the first one).
My pick for Fourier analysis is, well, "Fourier analysis" by T.W. Körner. Very pedagogical, with lots of historical sections and nice illustrations. And it is probably more in the spirit of Needham's book than the books by Arnold.
A Panoramic View of Riemannian Geometry by Marcel Berger.
It gets into quite advanced and sometimes technical topics, but geometric intuition is always at the fore. Lots of great pictures! It must be impossible to read this book without getting passionately excited about differential geometry. Berger's other books on geometry are similarly outstanding, if more conventional.
John Stillwell's "Classical Topology and Combinatorial Group Theory (Springer-Verlag Graduate Texts in Mathematics)". See also the answer on his "Naive Lie Theory".
I also had the sheer pleasure of being lectured by John Stillwell when he was here in Australia in the early to mid 1990s. I took four of his courses in all, in general group and Galois theory as well two topics (topology and Riemann Surfaces) which were very much subtopics of the above book. I hope he wouldn't mind my saying that his gift for explanation did not appear magically: sheer hard work was evident in his lecture notes and he gave me the impression of someone never happy with an explanation as it was, he was always striving for a simpler and cleaner one for everything he lectured. Perhaps a mathematical analogue of Richard Feynman as a teacher. In his Galois theory lectures I and a few other students were lucky enough to join him as fellow learners: he was still getting his lectures straight and, in his honest way, warned us that this would be the case. So we "read" Emil Artin's "Galois Theory" together. Thus I got to see first hand the staggering amount of work he put into building his explanations.
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos by Steven Strogatz. Lots of pictures, intutive and clear explanations, interesting applications, great humor.
Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality. Needham says in VCA that Penrose taught him what good style is.
It's not exactly as visual as Visual Complex Analysis, but Michael Spivak's A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry has a lot of the same appeal to intuition and conversational style. (Well, I've only read Volume 1, there's a total of 5, but if they're anything like other Spivak books I've read, this holds true of them as well).
David Bressoud's "Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating-Sign Matrix Conjecture" is also wonderful. Emphasis on how the conjecture was proved, and its connections to many interesting areas of math.
A quite recent book is Advanced Calculus: A Geometric View by James Callahan. It is liberally illustrated and even contains a section on Morse's lemma in the chapter on critical points. Bear in mind, though, that the book is not intended for absolute novices to multivariable calculus. Familiarity with basic concepts such as partial derivatives is expected, as is some knowledge of linear algebra.
Edit: A review by William J. Satzer is available at http://www.maa.org/publications/maa-reviews/advanced-calculus-a-geometric-view.
Roger Godement, Analysis, vols. I to IV (Springer). Contains many interesting historical, heuristic and motivational comments. Includes several details on Bourbaki ("bande militante") in Vol. III. Great mathematical content, plus some provocative thoughts.
A wonderful book which overviews a lot of these kinds of ideas is Glimpses of Algebra and Geometry by Gabor Toth. From the product description, "The purpose of Glimpses of Algebra and Geometry is to fill a gap between undergraduate and graduate mathematics studies. It is one of the few undergraduate texts to explore the subtle and sometimes puzzling connections between number theory, classical geometry and modern algebra in a clear and easily understandable style."
If I may add my two cents, I would add two more books that are an integral part of my library, and which I have presently lent to a gifted middle school student. One is the 'shape of space' by Jeff Weeks, and the other is 'Symmetry of things' by John Conway
Jeff Week's book is an incredibly enjoyable account of the topology of 3-manifolds. I came across someone mentioning the late Bill Thurston's book in this post. While Thurston's book is definitely more rigorous, I would say that Week's book is an overlooked classic. His invitation to experiment with intuition to extrapolate to the abstract, and tying in a theoretician's mental forays with cosmological measurements is quite an eye-opener.
John Conway's book, on the other hand, while it showcases some ideas of symmetry through the work of some artists like Bathsheba Grossman, is largely about abstraction. It is a major work, the latter part technical enough to challenge and inspire mathematicians on the forefront of their field (in his words, not mine!).
Another book to try is Michio Kuga's Galois' Dream. It certainly has its own unique style (very playful) but I think its focus on intuition sets it apart from many other math books. Apparently it was quite a pop-culture hit in Japan!
David Bressoud's book Second Year Calculus: From Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity is something like Needham's book. Both have an emphasis on history and applications.
"Solid Shape" by Jan J. Koenderink, MIT Press
This is an older book, but it has some really nice approaches to thinking about differential geometry, and he encourages the reader to develop multiple views of the subject.
This, Indra's Pearls and Needham are my all time favorite mathematical tomes, and I return to them regularly.
I strongly recommend "The Essence of Chaos" by Edward N Lorenz. Not only considerable historical background, but a wonderful discussion of chaos, a unique and realistic model development and classic models. All without deep mathematics, but detailed so that one can program his model of a sled on a snow covered hill with moguls. A true classic that should be on every book shelf (after having read it in depth!)
Even more visual, even less formal, is "Dynamics, the Geometry of Behavior," by Ralph Abraham and Chris Shaw. I find the approach very useful for a difficult subject, however it needs to be supplemented with more rigorous material.
A digital edition can be purchased through Aerial Press http://www.aerialpress.com
The Shape of Algebra in The Mirrors of Mathematics by G. Katz and V. Nodelman
The Wild World of 4-Manifolds by Alexandru Scorpan
All You Wanted to Know About Mathematics but Were Afraid to Ask: Mathematics for Science Students by Louis Lyons
He explains some basic topics that science students need to know. Excellent explanation, extremely intuitive and beautiful. Too elementary for most readers of this thread, but a good read for an advanced high school student / beginning undergrad.
Parallel Coordinates: Visual Multidimensional Geometry and its Applications by Alfred Inselberg
Has been praised by Stephen Hawking and others
The barrier, imposed by our three dimensional habitation and perceptual experience, has been breached by this innovative and versatile methodology. There are beautiful visuals of multidimensional objects and insights into multidimensional problems: Air Traffic, Data Mining, Intelligent Process Control
From Geometry To Topology by H. Graham Flegg
This book explains some basic topological concepts using a lot of examples and it has quite a lot of pictures. In fact, it is rather hard to find a single page that has no pictures in it. Very good for intuition indeed. And also very cheap since it is a Dover reprint.
if you are interested in dynamical systems/oscillators/differential equations, Pikovsky's Synchronization: A Universal Concept in Nonlinear Sciences is very well-written.
How Not to Be Wrong: the Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg; Penguin Press, 2014 is a wonderful, easily read exposition on subjects such as statistical analysis for a wide variety of examples. Also a lot of history. Surprising and clearly written.


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I've finally managed to get a grasp on the Bell test experiments and all that they imply about our reality. Now I'm curious about the mathematical derivation which allowed Schrodinger to predict the existence of entangled entities.
Can someone please provide an explanation of these equations or direct me towards good sources of information on the subject? Thanks.


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As we all know, English is the universal communication medium. Now we know how powerful it is to convey our thoughts. When did it become a common language? Why did they opt for this language?
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English became the lingua franca around WWII, but it was already used all through the British Colonial Empire, establishing it in North America and Australia among others. here is a citation of Wikipedia:
This is a difficult question to answer because so many of the terms are vague. Even the term "English" is mutable, as there are many dialects and variants used regionally which are quite distinct from one another, with their own grammatical quirks and entirely unique vocabularies.
However, I would say that it was England's massive colonial expansion and the post-colonial retention of English for trade and negotiation that are mostly responsible for it's prevalence - in turn caused by England's naval superiority for many centuries. The aggressively prolific production of English-language media in the early- to mid-twentieth century (Hollywood et al) resulted in prolonged global exposure, and a significant proportion of research and diplomacy was already taking place in English. Nobody can say exactly when its usage gained "critical mass," but I would agree that it was somewhere in the early 20th century.
There are many other universal-communication languages in use (a notable drive in S E Asia to promote "Mandarin" Chinese as a lingua franca is underway) but as you say, none of them so prevalent as English.
I agree with the other answers which emphasize: a) the British empire, and b) the dominance of the US in business/science in the post-WWII era. I might also add that its simple alphabet (non-calligraphic, no accents, etc) was very useful in the early computer era when coding and printers were simple.
On a biased note, it's my impression that English is more dynamic than many languages (quick to adopt foreign words and to coin phrases), and while it has a lot of irregular verbs it has also undergone trade-language-like simplifications, such as the dropping of noun gender and less inflection. I've been told that english has more synonyms than some languages, which also makes rhyming easy. Last, perhaps the US's history of immigration also helped spread exposure.
The BBC News magazine has an article on "How English evolved into a global language"
It refers to a free exhibition at the British Library: "Evolving English - One Language, Many Voices"
Usually the nation with the biggest power spreads its culture and language. Take the Greeks or Romans for example, when they were in power, the world spoke their language. As simple as that.
I am very surprised that none of the answers has mentioned the obvious: English is simple. Speaking English at the basic level needed to order a meal or direct a taxi is by far easier than any other language I know. Speaking English well is another matter entirely but the lingua franca does not require great ability.
English has the following features that make it very easy to speak it well enough to be understood:
Now, I want to stress that the chaotic nature of English makes it a very difficult language to speak well. However, its basic simplicity makes it a very easy language to speak just well enough to be understood. I think that this is a very important factor to consider when thinking of the language's current popularity.
Obviously the historical, geopolitical and economic considerations mentioned in the other answers play a major role. Greek has none of these points in its favor yet was the lingua franca of the Byzantine world for centuries. Simplicity is not essential for a language to become widely spoken but it does help.
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EDIT On a slightly more serious vote (erm, freudian slip, I meant note!), I think that apart from the geopolitical aspect, another element in the success of English is its flexibility and openness to evolution.
If you contrast with a protectionist language like French that has a 'magisterium' which has to decide on all things new (l'Académie Française), there is much less liberty to improvise or adapt. In English, it's often been a case of 'If you can't beat them, join them', and we liberally import any new and useful words we come across.
So in one sense, English hasn't so much beaten other languages as absorbed them.
English may now be the world's lingua franca, but according to a review of Nicholas Ostler's latest book in The Economist the future looks quite different:
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I have a few piano videos I put on youtube and felt like showing people. I know they aren't perfect, but I think they're good enough (you can tell me if you don't think they are).
So can you guys watch them (and maybe give constructive criticism or at least tell me if you like them or not)?
My youtube name is Pian0ii0.
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6 Species We've Nearly Killed Off (For Dumbass Reasons)
#3. The Asian Rhinoceros Makes a Great Placebo
You know all about this one, right? Rhino horns are used in traditional Chinese medicine; it is pretty much the basis for westerner's views on the subject. And most of us think that throngs of Chinese men are downing ground up rhino horn to get their dongs hard or get "women in the mood." Turns out we are wrong, but the truth is no less retarded. It seems that the Chinese prescribe ground rhino horn to prevent fevers and convulsions. Their medical industry is, in hindsight, largely rhino horn-oriented.
While it has no known healing properties, rhino horns are a well known cause of pants-shitting.
Clearly lacking the advanced technology required to produce aspirin, a drug that has been in production since 1853, they feel the need to rely on what essentially amounts to a giant finger nail growing on a large land mammal's face.
Wait, What?!
It seems that rhinoceros horn is made of of keratin, the same stuff your hair and fingernails are made of, so if for some reason it actually did work (it doesn't) to prevent fevers and convulsions, they could skip the whole "we have only 1000 of these things left to harvest" aspect and just harness the hair and fingernails of the over one billion fucking Chinese people.
Non-evil Solution:
As mentioned, the fevers can be reduced with aspirin, or Tylenol. Convulsions are a bit trickier, but there are nice synthetic drugs that don't have the horrible guilt of annihilating a species attached to them that do a much better job than rhino hair clippings.
#2. Tigers Are the Swiss Army Knives of Chinese Wildlife
If Walt Disney movies dating before the 90s are to be believed, tigers are ferocious assholes that want nothing more than to feast on sweet human flesh, preferably children. And to be honest, what predator worth its salt wouldn't want to eat humans? Unless armed with an assault rifle, mankind's only defense against these predators is running and shitting themselves. Or, as they do in India, wear a mask on the back of your head to scare them away, because, presumably, one of the world's most successful predators is just too big a wuss to attack someone from the front.
Shown with antelope too stupid to wear a party favor.
So what does this super predator have to fear from people? Oh, wait... They live in China, so everything.
Wait, What?!
China doesn't really play nice with most animals, but tigers, being masculine and powerful, are extra fucked. While most ancient medicines seem to have a rough logic to using animal parts as medicine (tiger penis works like Viagra), China has its own set of rules that takes even this shaky logic and views it through a kaleidoscope, while using hallucinogens.
They use tiger bile to cure convulsions in children. They use tiger blood for willpower and overall health, and tiger gall stones for weak eyes. They also utilize tiger fur, which seems to make sense until you hear what they're using it for.
No, the tiger fur isn't for badass pimp suits; it's to burn. To get rid of centipedes. Hey, when we said "retarded," we meant it.
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Westerners are forced to rely on V-8 and healthy diets instead of cat blood, and we're forced to scrape by with glasses for our eye problems. Many of us might consider burning the rare and expensive hides of large Asian hunting cats for our bug problems, but we're sure a large number would simply settle for bug spray.
As you can see, everything you can kill a rare, exotic apex predator for can be accomplished without the horrific genocide and ingestion of disgusting body parts and fluids, though of course all the modern alternatives have the nasty side effect of actually working.
#1. Mountain Gorillas Make Awesome Souvenirs
Here at Cracked, we use the word "retarded" pretty wantonly. But every so often, we come across something so mind-bogglingly retarded, so utterly stupid, it defies comprehension. The poaching of mountain gorillas falls into this category. First off, gorillas are apparently popular as "bush meat," which is a blanket term for "endangered animals people like to eat because they are fucking assholes."
But again, bush meat ALMOST makes sense; we can at least grasp the concept of people enjoying food that's rare, forbidden and liberally spiced with evil. But no, with gorillas, things move beyond merely immoral into pure "What the FUCK?" territory. Gorillas are often being poached for their heads and hands. As souvenirs.
Wait, What?!
We almost can't joke about this. Almost. In Africa, they seem to have precious little in the way of noteworthy natural resources, aside from diamonds, emeralds and rain forests, so the people in nations that have mountain gorillas have taken to killing and dismembering them to sell their heads and hands as trinkets for tourists.
They hate that.
While in America, scientists were teaching Koko how to use sign language and giving her kittens, the Africans have been busy making sure her cousins never say a fucking word.
Non-Evil Solution:
One of these. Just as trinkety, just as bullshitty, but nowhere near as bad for the gorilla population.
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Let G be a finite group and let F be an algebraically closed field. If the characteristic of F is 0, then the number of irreducible F-representations of G is given by the number of conjugacy classes of elements of G. A paper I'm reading says that if the characteristic of F is p>0, then the number of F-irreps of G is the same as the number of conjugacy classes of elements whose order is not divisible by p.
If G is abelian, it seems to me that this should say that the p-sylow subgroup of G acts trivially on every characteristic p irrep. This is because I can split G into G'x P (non-p and p-sylow subgroups), and then any irrep of G' extends to one of G by letting P act trivially. Since the formula mentioned above would say that they have the same number of irreps these must be all of them.
My question is: Is this true? If not, then where is my reasoning going off track?


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Though I am not advocating a strict adherence to the wealth by level progression, if that progression is used, how would "extra crew members" of PCs fit on the chart? The leadership feat text does indicate that the "cohort does not count as a party member when determining the party's XP". Does this also apply to wealth? Does a higher level PC with a cohort and followers via the leadership feat factor the equipment of the cohort and all of the followers into the wealth of the PC? Or does each individual entity track wealth separately? How does a DM figure out, if the cohort / follower(s) is brought on an adventure, what amount of treasure to reward the party with? And to a lesser extent, how does this apply to familiars and animal companions who may support certain item slots?
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How do familiars, animal companions, cohorts, followers, and the like fit into the wealth by level progression?
XP: "The Cohort does not count as a party member when determining the PARTY's XP"
To determine XP: "Divide the cohort's level by the level of the PC with whom (s)he is associated with. Multiply this result by the total XP awarded to the PC & add that number of xp to the cohort's total.
IF a cohort gains enough XP to bring it to a level one lower than the associated PC's Character level, the cohort does NOT gain the new level-it's new XP total is 1 less than the amount needed to level up. (Cohorts must be at least 2 levels lower than the PC)
Wealth: (Edited with reference) "The cohort should be equipped with gear appropriate for its' level." This is for "starting wealth" Once they adventure with the party they are entitled to some treasure.
DMG pg 105:
"sometimes a cohort seeks no pay, only the opportunity to serve alongside the PCs. Such cohorts require only living costs. However, they are not common."
Cohort gets half a share of treasure
See @Ben-Jamin's answer.
Personally, I feel that Leadership is already an incredibly powerful feat. Making the Leader pay for that opportunity to double their action economy seems entirely justifiable to me. Making the feat double your action economy and add extra wealth seems even worse than it is otherwise.
Familiars, Animal Companions, Psicrystals, et al. do not get wealth
These are still NPCs, but were they not attached to another character they most likely would not have treasure, and in a few of these cases they literally cannot exist as separate characters. Any gear they wind up wearing should be paid for by the master, just as a knight would pay for his horse's barding.


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Where can I find gear for C2-N2? Is there any point? So far it seems like he just sits around in my ship making annoying comments and helps w/ Crew Skill Missions. Is there gear that can help him do missions better? If nothing else can I get stuff to make him look cooler? Is it too much to hope for a chip that will give him a less annoying personality?
Your ship's droid companion uses standard droid parts (produced by Cybertechs, bought for commendations, or found as quest rewards), but no parts will help him succeed at missions - affection is the only thing that can affect missions.
Just use him for gathering missions, and phase him out as you get the rest of your companions — anything he can do, your other companions can do better.
As Raven Dreamer noted, you need droid parts to make him companion ready. And why would you use this incredibly annoying heap of scrap on your missions? Because he's the only healer pet you get at early levels unless you are the bounty hunter. You can equip him on the cheap if you always select the droid parts on the companion gear rewards for the first few you do. (Companion gear normally shows up as the rewards for the any of the non-main story line, planetary or class)
The companion system is set up so you will mostly have one less deployable slot than you have companions. This means that you should always have a free companion to run around with, although if you spend a lot of time in a group that won't matter much. Which puts the question of which companion should be allowed to see the world while you work the others like little third world children in your own personal sweat shop? Since affection controls both the time it takes to run a crew skill mission AND how often you get a critical success on crafting, any hardcore crafter should outfit the droid and max out the affection of the others ASAP! Assuming you put in 160 hours getting to fifty having your maxed out affection nets you around 43 "bonus hours" on your crew skills... which means more purples, materials and every thing else that you use to make MONEY. (The math there is based on the Bounty hunter companion gains... I know the trooper gets even more as they get their companions earlier than the bounty hunter does.)
If you aren't a crafter? That droid sucks... kick his crappy ass to the curb and only think about him when your cursing the fact the Bioware chose to put him right at the door to your ship so you have to listen to his sniveling voice every time you come aboard.
From what I've read at the Wiki:
C2-N2 can eventually be summoned to aid in combat, but in order for him to be any better in combat, you'd have to make parts for him with Cybertech, or purchase droid parts from the Galactic Trade center.