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I had a calculus professor who suggested we should be using base 12 number system. What are the advantages of using such a system?
As I see it, there are two advantages. First, it's not too different from base 10, so it comes fairly naturally. Second, 12 has many divisors, so $1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/8, 1/9, 1/12,\ldots$ would all be terminating decimals.
More factors: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6 (and sometimes 1/12) are common fractions, which would turn out "even" (not infinite). The Babylonians where on to something with their base-60 system...
Well, in the base $10$ number system it is as easy to multiply by 5 as to divide by 2 (the answers differ by 0 at the end). And it is as easy to multiply by 2, 4, 8... as to divide by 5, 25, 125..., by the same reason. So in the base $12$ number system it is as hard to divide by 2,3,4,6,12,4,9,16... as to multiply by 6,4,3,2,1,36,16,9..., and, therefore, one can trade division to multiplication in more instances...


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I was wondering what the most optimal time to check and process emails is. Having bought a smartphone, I can access email anytime now, but the beep of new messages, while gratifying, is also distracting, especially because a touchscreen keyboard is not conducive to writing longer replies. Is there a time in which you feel its most effective to sit down and check emails, or
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There isn't a best time for everyone. If you are asking this question, you are likely checking e-mail entirely too often though. Turn off that beep! I find turning off e-mail received notifications and filters/folders to be critical. The former stops me from being tempted to check too often. The later lets me scan the more important e-mails quickly and leave the rest for once or twice a day.
As far as when to check, the best "time" is when it isn't interrupting your thought process. Right before/after you go to the restroom/take a break/etc. The other key is to check less often. Try to halve it at first. If you typically check every 30 minutes, try once an hour.
Another good time is while waiting for a meeting to start. Even though you aren't going to compose a long reply on a smartphone, you can delete e-mails you don't need to reply to and reply to the ones that only require a sentence or two of reply. I like the feature to "mark as unread" because I can indicate that I still need to reply and I didn't "really" read it. (I don't do zero inbox from my BlackBerry; only my actual e-mail client.)
Also see some tips for getting less e-mail/organizing it.
It depends how important email is to your job. In my job, I have to answer it, but programming, writing, and meeting with people are far more important. So for me the most productive time to read email is at most once per day and at my least productive time of day. This is typically late afternoon or mid-evening.
If email is your entire job, flip the process and use your best time of day for email. But most of us should use our worst time of day.
My two fixed times are first thing in the morning on my commute to work - so I can be prepared before getting into the office if something drastic has happened overnight, and on the commute home so if something happens at end of day I can delegate to a team on overnight or send a response back to let the sender know it will get actioned the following day.
Aside from that, checking at natural breaks works for me, so I turn notifiers off and only check when I have completed a task so I can then continue with my next task or reprioritise.
Most effective for those (most of us!) that don't need to answer immediately, would be checking 2-3 times a day. Best is to NOT check first thing in the morning, as it would most probably just distract you from real work. Better is to first do an important task (one you need to do anyway today) and only afterwards check mail for the first time. Repeat at lunch, and 1 hour before you close shop. O, and don't read mail the minute you want to go home, as it probably contains an "important" mail that would have you make more hours than you'f like
I make it a point to check email only once a day, this was largely inspired by Tim Ferris' book the Four Hour Work Week. Currently I check my personal email at night, and my work email in the morning. I believe Tim suggests checking your email in the late morning, so that you can get some work done without being distracted by thinking the new stuff that came in, but still gives you time in the afternoon to handle them.
I read mail on the following moments:
Actions that comes with email I only perform on my GTD moments. Or, if priority is very very high or taskduration is very low, I do it instantly.

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Neue Rechtschreibung changed numerieren to nummerieren. This is not optional, so numerieren is incorrect now. How come numerisch did not change?
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This is said to be justified by the Stammprinzip: words sharing the same root shouldn't diverge in matters of orthography. Strengthening the Stammprinzip was said to be one of the "pro Rechtschreibreform" arguments. In addition, the "u" as a short stressed vowel, would require the following consonant to be duplicated.
So, since "nummerieren" is said to be derived from "Nummer", it should be written in the same way, with double "m".
There's a lot of criticisms about that point: since "nummerien" as well as "Nummer" and "Numerik" shares the same latin root "numerus" (verb: "numerare"), the Stammprinzip would urge "numerieren" if applied inconsistently. Nevertheless, "nummerieren" is in fact the sole correct form of spelling.
EDIT: However, this doesn't justify why only "nummerieren" was assimilated to "Nummer" but not "numerisch". According to canoo.net, "numerisch" is derived from "Nummer", whereas "Numerik" is derived from "numerisch". So "Numerik" can't act as root to apply the "Stammprinzip" on "numerisch".
According to the "amtliche Regelung der deutschen Rechtschreibung"
it is clear that in the case of "nummerieren" there is an exception from the rule that there is a doubling of then consonant when a short vowel follows (as is the case in "Nummer" but not in the case of "nummerieren"). This exception holds true when a resulting word stems from a word where consonant doubling occurs even when the pronunciation of the resulting word is different.
"Numerisch" on the other hand is a direct loanword derived from Latin numericus where a doubling does not occur. As this is unclear we will also find "nummerisch" in written German (but this is not done according to the "amtliche" rules and should therefore be discouraged)
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If I have a little child with an Ipod (which is muktzeh) in its hand can I grab the hand and shake it out of its hand into a safe place to prevent the child from breaking it?
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The Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (88:13) says that moving Muktza indirectly (as you described) is only allowed if you need the object you're shaking, and not for the sake of the Muktza object.
So you shouldn't be allowed to shake the kid in order to drop the Muktza, if your intention is only to safeguard the Muktza.
However, since you are not allowed to pick up a kid who is holding Muktza (ibid 14), you could decide you want to pick up the kid and cuddle/play; as a result you now could shake the Muktza off them (onto a safe place - ibid 13) in order to pick up the kid.
Disclaimer: I'm not a posek! Consult your Rabbi before accepting my opinion!
Reason: a k'li shem'lachto l'isur (object whose main purpose is a forbidden activity on shabbos) can be moved "michama l'tzel" (from sun to shade) in order to protect it from being damaged. You don't even need to use a shinui - you can just pick it up and move it.
Likewise here - the ipod is in danger of being damaged; you can just pick it up and put it somewhere out of the kid's reach.
(I have deliberately left my previous answer "struck out", because while I'm embarrassed by my previous show of ignorance, I think it's a valuable lesson in consulting your sources before opening your mouth... thanks to @msh210 for questioning me!)
Turns out "michama l'tzel" is a specifically stringent case; you can't even do that with a k'li shem'lachto l'isur (one of the most lenient cases of muktzeh) (Shabbos 123b, Rashi ad loc. d"h ומחמה לצל).
There is, however, an eitzah (recommended "trick") for someone who wants to move something muktzeh in order to protect it from damage: invent some reason why you need to use the space it's in, e.g. if it's on the grass, you can decide you want to sit down in that spot specifically. Then you can pick up the object - and once it's already in your hands, you can go and put it down wherever you want. Even though it's a bit of trickery, it is permitted to do this for a כלי שמלאכתו לאיסור (Shulchan Aruch HaRav, 308:12).
But after all that, I'm not sure how that translates to the kid with the ipod - maybe you want to use his hand to put some candies in...? :)


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WWWJDIC defines なかなか (with negative verb) as by no means
But shouldn't it have been considerably ?
By no means means 100% not
considerably means like 85% not
So does なかなか (with negative verb) bends more towards by no means or considerably?
WWWJDIC defines なかなか (with negative verb) as by no means
But shouldn't it have been considerably ?
By no means means 100% not
considerably means like 85% not
So does なかなか (with negative verb) bends more towards by no means or considerably?
Ah, なかなか. How often you frustrate my attempts to translate you! 「なかなか」はなかなか翻訳しづらいですね。
I will leave the discussion of inter-language correspondences to the professionals and attempt to educe a definition. For my example sentences, I will use the Chakoshi corpus from Purdue (searchable here, but the interface leaves much to be desired).
First, with non-potential verbs (these are from the conversational corpus, so there are some really informal contractions here):
The first conclusion we can draw from these examples is that they imply the passage of time. That is, a particular state (defined by the negative verb) continues over some length of time.
The use of なかなか can also imply an expectation on the part of the speaker. In the sentences above, なかなか hints that the speaker waited for and expected something to happen (the tympanitis to get better, the e-mail to accumulate, etc), but after some time passed, the expected result still had not come.
These two implications are present in sentences with potential verbs as well:
With potential verbs, なかなか implies that the speaker put forth a good deal of effort (over a length of time) but was still not rewarded with the expected result, or that the speaker achieved the desired result only with difficulty.
A sub-category of なかなか deals with existence or frequency:
This use of なかなか merely implies that the action does not happen all that much or only rarely. The implication of expectation is weakened or entirely absent in this use.
As mentioned by others, there is no nice English translation for なかなか that works all the time, so it has to be treated on a case-by-case basis. I hope the examples and explanations here help you decipher なかなか the next time you see it paired with a negative.
Elaborating on Amanda's comment, it is very often that one word in some language has to be translated into two different words in another language depending on the polarity (negation or affirmative) of the sentence. To give you an example in English, consider the word
In negative contexts,
This sentence is the negation of:
and is not the negation of:
It might be possible to subsume these two meanings under a single meaning depending on the linguistic analysis you take. But it is also true that different languages use different words to make different distinctions. That may help you imagine why it is like what you asked.


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I think that I conceptually understand C# delegates, however, I am struggling to find a real world example where they would be useful. Can you provide some answers detailing how C# delegates were used in real applications and what problems they enabled you to get around.
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GUI code uses delegates to handle events, such as button clicks, window moves. Using the delegate allows you do have a function called whenever the event occurs. An example would be linking a function that saves data to a "Save" button on the interface. When the button gets clicked it is set up to execute the function that saves data. It's useful in GUI programming because your whole program could be waiting for the user to do something and you have no way of knowing what they will do first. Using delegates allows the functionality of your program to be connected to the UI in such a way that the user can do things in any way they want.
Virtually anything using the Observer Pattern would likely implement delegates.
Read the description and you'll probably imagine some scenarios where you would use them. GUI event handling is a common example.
Linq uses the
These allow you to use lambda expressions as parameters and define the action to be taken as part of the parameter list.
Delegates are bloody useful in asynchronous programming.
You have a class which does stuff asynchronously and has a callback. You can have the delegate method invoked upon callback - and your class implementation will do the logic described in your delegate method.
Delegates are particularly useful as a solution for the hole in the middle pattern. Essentially, there are a lot of cases where you want to wrap a unique set of instructions inside of a common bunch of instructions. It's particularly difficult if the instructions before and after the unique bit need to share state. With delegates, you can just pass a delegate into a function. The function executes the before bit, executes the delegate, then executes the after bit.
In the "old days" of non-OOP languages like Fortran and C, it was incredibly useful to be able to have a subroutine receive an argument which was a pointer to a function.
For example, the
In windowing systems, all kinds of callbacks follow the same pattern.
In Lisp, even in the early days, there was something called a "functional argument" or FUNARG, which was not only a function, but it also contained a storage context where it could remember and interact with part of the outside world.
This same need exists in OOP languages, except when you pass the address of a function you also have to pass the address of the object the function is a method of. That's two things you have to pass. So a delegate is just that, and allows that good old pattern to still be used.
Here is a simple example that shows how useful delegates can be at creating simple code that follows the DRY principle. It also allows you to keep code extremely close to where it is needed.
Here is a real world example of the advantage that delegates provide.
I've seen interesting implementations of the Strategy pattern that uses delegates effectively. (ie the strategy is a delegate)
The one I was looking at was for pathfinding where the algorithm to find the path was a delegate that could be (re)assigned to at runtime so that different algorithms could be used (BFS vs A* etc.)
Many of the classic GoF patterns can be implemented with delegates: For example, Command pattern, Visitor pattern, Strategy pattern, Factory pattern and Observer pattern can often be implemented with a simple delegate. Sometimes, a class is better (e.g. when a command needs a name or a strategy object needs to be serialized) but in most cases, using
My first encounter with delegates was checking for a program update (windows forms C# 3.5) by downloading a file from my website, but to avoid the update checking locking the whole program I used a delegate and a thread to do it asynchronously.


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On Tuesday, when a Spanish judge ordered destroyed more than 200 bags of blood drawn from high-level athletes, it appeared to mark a setback in the fight against performance enhancing drugs.
The decision came the same day that Eufemiano Fuentes was convicted of endangering public health for systematically transfusing the blood into top-level athletes to boost their endurance. Dr. Fuentes was first charged in 2006 after Spanish police raided his apartment and seized the blood bags and other evidence. He denies any wrongdoing.
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When Operation Puerto first began, anti-doping authorities obtained information on a number of athletes, resulting in some suspensions. Some of the biggest names in cycling were booted from the sport. Then, the information stopped coming. It didn't take long for conspiracy theorists to question whether Spanish authorities were interfering with the investigation to protect the country's famous athletes, a charge those authorities have denied.
Tygart says Spain's lax approach to anti-doping allowed it to "become a doping haven for athletes around the world."
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It's a good thing that Ron Wolf was GM during the nineties. If Thompson had been, he never would have parted with a first round pick for Favre, he never would have risked bidding for Reggie in free agency, and he never would have cleared Favre for his procession of maladies. But thank God Ted is thinking of the long run. Too bad in the long run we're all dead.Hide replies
say what?
Unlike Thompson, who is completely risk averse, Wolf would make a play and take a reasonable risk. Thompson's abject conservatism is driving this decision. Rodgers would play if it were up to him. If it were up to McCarthy, he would play Rodgers. Thompson is the "organization" both MM and AR speak of with barely concealed scorn. Thompson's conservatism would have precluded him from engineering the turnaround that succeeded only because Wolf had the cajones to take a risk.
How do you know what the doctors are saying? It seems like everyone assumes he is really cleared. I'd guess that Rodgers thinks he's ready, but the doctor says no.
And if Rodgers came back and was reinjured the first time he was sacked, everyone would be saying what a stupid decision it was.
Things are different in now than they were in the 90s regarding player health issues. NFL just agreed to huge settlement over those issues so we might as well realize that being cautious is the way these things will go for the forseeable future.
Good grief...drama queen...
Name someone/anyone in Reggie White's league worth spending big bucks on?
And since you're talking about Ron Wolf and Reggie White, his contract was for a whopping $17 Million over 4 years. We're not even in the same century when it comes to contracts and the NFL.
We are all gonna die.
Agree, for the most Part.. TT has become set in his ways and it's hard to change..With a Super Bowl comes some degree of arrogance.. I have sent letters, begging for the leadership to change direction.. An A. Rogers doesn't come around often.. You have to strike .. My main point is most team are now ..Ranting "build though draft" that's the sign to go the other way, Look, for the past 2 years; 3 undrafted college players made the Roster! So what sense does it make to worry about lower picks... Find the Free agent in areas of need ex: safety/another pass rusher.. We r 10 million under cap.. The time and energy to develop lower picks just seems counterproductive to winning SUPER BOWLS! Its Title- town ,not "lets be get 10 wins" umm Mr. MM! & TT ..
And yet Wolf produced as many SB wins as TT to date
very true ..but apples and oranges .. Think Farve was such wild card ..If AR on those teams ..many more SB's
Great post Lost.
So much derp
Somehow, the owners don't figure into the organization.Hide replies
This co-owner is perfectly OK going with what the doctors say.
you not a owner of the team
"you not a owner of the team"
Yes, 'Tarzan', am owner of team. At least to the extent of any other shareholder is.
(One share; want the number?)
A Jerry Jones type owner would definitely have bypassed Thompson and let Rodgers make the decision.
And how has that worked out for the Cowboys?
*This* owner would like Rodgers to play if he and McCarthy are both ready for him. Notice how MM testily dodged the question "whose decision is it"? Not his, obviously, and he's not happy about it.
What does "abdomen" mean for Neal. (This is at least 3 weeks right?) He must be playing with a ruptured ab. What else could it be?Hide replies
I think he had sports hernia surgery. Those repairs often get entangled with nerves and become chronic problems. They flare up when heavily stressed, but also flare down pretty quickly. Thus, he's always getting an extra day or two off.
that makes sense...excellent commentary lep
For crying out loud. Why should they ever play him again? He might get hit and get a booboo? I guess it's an "organizational" decision to blow off this season too. What a bunch of clowns. Rodgers deserves better than these guys.Hide replies
Yeah, well, we here deserve better than having to read your B.S. ... .
Maybe you need to get a life outside of Packer football. The Packers deserve better fans than the likes of you.
You mean they need sheep like you. You remind me of a cubs fan.
If we go to the playoffs this year, do you think we have a legitimate shot at competing for a Super Bowl.
Tort1305 - Says the guy with 500 comments/ responses. All you do is insult and trash other posters who are also fellow fans. The Packers deserve better fans than you. So why don't you just STFU already and keep your condescending remarks to yourself?
Matt Flynn in the snow at home against the Steelers, or Jay Cutler in the wind and rain @ Philly?
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sadly, i don't think that's much of a debate this year... cutler
Well if the Packers win, Trestman has hinted he may rest his starters. So Cutler possibly could not play all that much.
Jordy Nelson vs. Ike Taylor.
In case you missed it MM said the phrase "we made the organizational decision that he was not ready to play" like 7 times. He constantly fell back on that phrase, as if to suggest that if it were up to him Rodgers would be on the field. Ted Thompsom is really under control of this ship. I think it's fitting that the players call him the white ghost. Pulling stings like Gepetto.Hide replies
No I think a lot of people caught it. I think it means that they're just going to take the full 8 weeks. The question I have is how fair is to bring Rodgers back for the last game with everything on the line when he hasn't played for so long? Maybe he just steps in and has a 150 QBR day but I think the odds are against that.
So, was the chance that he might play vs. Detroit completely fabricated by the media? Because it's almost a month later, and he's not ready.
If not fabricated by the media, the Doctors who thought he could be ready sure were far off in their opinion.
I've been willing to go with the flow on this for a long time, deferring to the cautious approach when the stakes were less well known. But, as of today, I think the Packers really need to alter how they're communicating this situation with the public. Because now it's starting to reek of certain top officials (I'm guessing both Thompson and Murphy, since it involves both football and business) trying to protect themselves. But with a very good shot at the playoffs on the table (along with a possible, if not likely, shot at the Super Bowl), there needs to be some accountability for this important decision. Thompson? Murphy? McCarthy? Mackenzie? Who specifically is supporting this decision? And it may be (or end up being) the correct decision, but, as a long-time fan, I want to know who should be credited or criticized for this when all is said and done. Framing it as an "organizational decision" is just too vague for genuine accountability to occur. Packer fans are spoiled, but not too spoiled to overlook a squandered opportunity for a division crown and playoff berth.Hide replies
They don't owe you an explanation. You're not involved in the decision or its consequences.
Pack needs to hire the Lakers doctor that cleared Kobe.Hide replies
Because that worked out so well for Kobe Bryant.
I think he was just having a little fun...I chuckled.
I know this is a looooong shot, Surly, but you didn't happen to use that handle in a game called WWII Online/Battleground Europe, did you? I used to fly in that game with a dude from WI who used that name.
If not, please ignore. If so, small world.
Not me but I'll be your wing man,anytime, Nasty in LA.. I got the need. The need for SPEED!!!
I knew yesterday .. When I saw AR interviewed..Could not look at camera, face told the story, he is ready to play! But they would not clear him… everyone career's in the GB Org .. Is tied to Mr. Rogers .. Playoff r not important..Bonus if Pack gets in but everyone one gets a pass because AR got hurt, administration types like that kind of cover..Not say'n they don't want to win; but.. Leadership they still get their checks.. Sad but true… Pack will win Sunday ..AR will be back for bears .. it will still come down to the D ..they have to step up.. with no Jolly.. :-(
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A parent hipster. More pretentious than hipsters because they now think their life has purpose.
"Did you hear Dov Charney just knocked up a bitch?"
"Oh, no! Not another pipster!"
"Oh, no! Not another pipster!"
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A pipster is a combination of Hipster and Popster (Pop people). They are often mistaken with real hipsters. A true hipster is not mainstream. A pipster is a mainstream hipster. They have a little part of the hipsters style, but when the hipster changes it because it is too mainstream, then the pipster keeps wearing it.
The Hipster often has long beard, and messy hair. The Pipster still has a clean boy cut.
The Hipster often has long beard, and messy hair. The Pipster still has a clean boy cut.
"Oh my god! Did you see that pipster! He looked like hipsters did 2 years ago!"
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When executing the scripts I'm going to pre-define certain "global variables" which can be used to script my application.
In order to provide meaningful code completion I want these variables to show up in the code completion tab as if they were defined in the parsed source files.
I tried the following to add a "system variable" to the VariableResolver but unfotunately the variable doesn't show up during auto completion.
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How about a relaxing float down river in a livestock tank? Go with Dan Kaercher as he learns to "steer" the tank on the picturesque Nishnabotna River in southwest Iowa.
Hosted by Dan Kaercher, Iowa's Simple Pleasures features Iowa travel destinations, restaurants, events, parks, recreation and more. Produced by Iowa Public Television, the series highlights fun things for Iowans to do, see and taste, right here at home.
Kaercher: I've heard of going up a lazy river by the Old Mill Stream, but do you think the writer of that jazz tune ever thought of floating on the river in a livestock tank? I've really enjoyed myself over the years, tubing, canoeing, and kayaking down Iowa rivers, but I've never tanked down an Iowa river. Brian and Wendy Leaders are the owners of Rubber Duck Outfitters. Brian, how did tanking come to be?
Leaders: Tanking in Iowa just didn't exist until this year. But I have a lot of good friends that have tanked in Nebraska, and I saw the pictures that they brought back. I heard the stories that they had and I thought this is something that real we've really got to add to our outfitter business.
Kaercher: Tell me, how do people react to tanking, and what kind of tanks do you use?
Leaders: Well, we use a big blue poly tank. It's an 8-foot wide poly tank. I built benches it in. We have people comment anywhere from no way in heck would you ever get me in one of these to this is something that I've got to try. Once we start getting the people off the river, most of the comments are "that was really cool, it wasn't what I expected, and we're absolutely going to do it again."
Kaercher: Now, these are officially livestock watering tanks. Have they ever been used?
Leaders: Absolutely not. We purchased them brand new, put the benches right in them when we purchased them, and put them in the water.
Kaercher: Today we're tanking but there are other ways you can get people on the Nishnabotna, right?
Leaders: Absolutely. We offer canoes, kayaks, tubes, and tanks, so you have your choice of the four. I think people are finding it's much more safer, much more buoyant, and you can actually have a better time in them.
Kaercher: Tell me what are some special things I should be watching for.
Leaders: You know, we have a lot of wildlife. We have a lot of beavers that are on the water. We have a lot of deer, muskrats. We also have a lot of turkey that come down and get water to drink. So those are some of the things to look for. There's also some scenic areas that you can see. You can see the towns as you float by, a lot of different town water towers that you see, and just the different types of crops and trees that you see in this area.
Kaercher: So what age group this for?
Leaders: Tanking covers all age groups. We've had groups with young children, one as young as two years old. We take our children, which are six, nine, and two. We had a group a few weeks ago that were in their seventies, and they had a great time. So we pretty much core the gamut when it comes to ages.
Kaercher: What's the home base for Rubber Duck Outfitters?
Leaders: We're home based out of Bottna Bend Park out of Hancock, Iowa. We're about forty minutes from downtown Omaha and Council Bluffs. You could come out just for an afternoon. You can have a short drive out. We can float you for a couple hours, get you back home. You can camp overnight. We can also provide catered meals or boxed lunches, so we can accommodate you with the food also. Let's get started.
Leaders: Okay, let's go.
Kaercher: Thanks a lot. You can't be too safe, right? Ship ahoy! Get me to my tank. Hi, neighbors! Howdy.
Kaercher: Is this the Loess Hills around here?
Leaders: There are some loess soils in this area. The Loess Hills are about 30 miles west of here -- the true Loess Hills.
Kaercher: I noticed that there's some erosion on the banks. Now, we had a wet year so is that what comes with it?
Leaders: Yes, absolutely. When you get a high water year. We end up with erosion on the sides of the banks. You get a lot of deposits that come in. They set on the inside of the bends, and then the erosion happens on the outside. So you do have a lot of erosion in this area. Even some of the farmers' crops end up going down the river.
Kaercher: Now, this river just got a designation, is that correct, as an Iowa --
Leaders: Iowa Water Trail.
Kaercher: What comes with this designation?
Leaders: What comes with that is access ramps, new access ramps with rock and steps down to the river at each of the city parks and county parks. It also comes with signs that you see on this bridge up ahead of us.
Leaders: Well, Dan, there is where we get out. I hope you enjoyed the trip.
Kaercher: Oh, yeah, I did. That's a new thing on my bucket list literally, a tanking trip. You guys were great. Wendy and Cindy and everybody else, Logan and Brain, we just had a great time.
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I have recently started to employ pomodoro as a way to allocate time for working on specific tasks (using Pomodorium) and am starting to see encouraging results. I figured if there's some tool that integrates GTD with it, I would be a lot more encouraged to also get started with GTD (by setting aside 25 min slots to list activities that I need/want to do but have never been given proper time budgets). Otherwise I may consider the use of Tracks 2.0 for that purpose, but with less inclination. So the question is, is there a single app (or a combination that comes close) I could use to address these needs?
Here is one such application ("Most Popular Pomodoro & GTD Integration Software"): http://www.pomodoroapp.com/
I found it at Which computer-based Pomodoro timers exist and what are their features? which has other apps you can try out.
@eflat: The link between Pomodoro and GTD is that during your Pomodoro you are supposed to write down any internal interruptions so you can decide what do to about it later. You realize later that you're pretty much creating a "GTD Inbox". If you're already doing GTD, it makes sense to write your internal interruptions into your existing GTD Inbox (so you can do it, categorize/tag, or otherwise decide what to do with it).


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When one buys a new article of clothing that a shechayanu would technically be made on, at what point is the bracha made? When the person purchases it? Or when they wear it for the first time?
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Rishonim (see Sh.O. O.H. 223:3-4) rule that the brocha should be done when the person purchases the clothes, but achronim (Ben Ish Hai,Rav Ovadya Yosef [in his Shiurim he said this]) say one should recite the brocha only when he actually wears it.
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Downtown Spartanburg abuzz as ice skating rink is readied
Published: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 1:12 a.m.
Since Sunday, crews have spent hours building the city of Spartanburg's first ice skating rink — an enclosed circle of frozen water powered and chilled by a complex series of tiny pipes under the ice.
Skating on the Square
Weekdays: 3-9 p.m.
Friday: 3-11 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m.-11 p.m.
Sunday: 1 p.m.-9 p.m.
Thanksgiving Day: 4-9 p.m.
Black Friday: 10 a.m.-11 p.m.
Christmas Eve: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Christmas Day: 4 p.m.-9 p.m.
New Year's Eve: 10 a.m.-1 a.m.
New Year's Day: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.
COST: $10 per person, includes skate rental
City Engineering Administrator Tim Carter said city crews have worked with Magic Ice of Orlando, Fla., since Sunday preparing the rink for its first skaters on Friday. An anonymous donor paid to have the ice skating rink, the first round rink that Magic Ice has installed, on Morgan Square through Jan. 6. Normally, outdoor ice skating rinks are oval, rectangular or rectangular with rounded edges.
The round rink, designed to fit Morgan Square specifications, has 1,040 pipes resembling garden hoses that run underneath the roughly 5 inches of ice. The pipes are connected to larger lines that pump coolant from a 200-ton chiller into the rink to keep the ice cold, Carter said.
It will take crews about 20 hours to spray water onto the rink. If temperatures reach 70 to 75 degrees, the city will have to stop operation of the rink for the day, Carter said.
Lowe's of Spartanburg donated a building to house ticket sales and ice skate rentals. Little River Roasting Co. will sell coffee, and Groucho's will have food during the ice skating season.
City Special Events Manager Mandy Merck said 300 pairs of ice skates have been ordered for Skating on the Square.
"People are so excited, there has been a lot of buzz," Merck said. The city has started a Facebook fan page for Skating on the Square, and Merck said people are ready for the rink to open.
From 3 to 5 p.m. Friday, people can skate for free. Grand opening ceremonies, which include a performance by the Greenville Figure Skating Club and music by Meeting Street Academy students, will be held afterward. Mayor Junie White will speak, and there will be drawings. A snowman and polar bear characters will be skating and will be available for photos with children. The Hub City Farmer's Market will have vendors along Dunbar Street during the event.
The cost to skate will be $10, which is good for an entire day, and ice skating lessons will be available. Merck said various events are planned throughout the season, including two-fer Tuesday (buy one, get one free), Black Friday half-off admission, college night, special performances during Dickens of a Christmas, movie nights and a New Year's Eve party.
Merck said she hopes Skating on the Square will become an annual event.
"This is a brand new venture for us," Merck said. "Everyone is ready to get started. We think this will be great for Spartanburg and great for downtown."
The rink also is available for birthday parties, large group events, fundraisers and private parties.
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Jay-Z's Newest Client: Yankees' Robinson Cano
Rapper and record producer Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter is branching out into the world of sports agency, and he has landed the biggest available fish in all of baseball as his first client.
New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano, the team's best player, is hiring Mr. Carter and his partners to represent him as he heads for free agency this fall, according to Mr. Carter's company, Roc Nation.
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Mr. Cano is leaving Scott Boras, who is considered baseball's premier agent, to join Roc Nation Sports, Mr. Carter's new partnership with sports agency CAA Sports. Mr. Boras didn't respond to an email seeking comment.
While Creative Artists Agency veterans are expected to take the lead in contract talks, Mr. Carter is involved in more than name alone. He is expected to gradually delve more into the negotiating side of the business and may eventually become a certified agent.
"Because of my love of sports, it was a natural progression to form a company where we can help top athletes in various sports the same way we have been helping artists in the music industry for years," the 43-year-old Mr. Carter said.
Mr. Cano, 30, is earning $15 million in the final year of his six-year, $57 million Yankees contract. He could command a deal of $200 million or more over multiple years when he hits the market this winter.
Mr. Boras is known for getting his clients top dollar, perhaps most memorably the 10-year, $252 million deal he won for former client Alex Rodriguez after the 2000 season. But Mr. Cano's move to join Mr. Carter indicates a desire to increase his off-field visibility.
"At this point in my career, I am ready to take a more active role in my endeavors both on and off the field," Mr. Cano said in a statement. "I am confident that the pairing of Roc Nation Sports and CAA Sports will be essential in helping me accomplish my short- and long-term goals."
Steve Horowitz, a partner at InnerCircle Sports and a former senior executive at the sports agency ProServ, said the partnership appears to make sense for all involved.
For Mr. Carter, it expands his sports portfolio at a time when the worlds of sports and entertainment continue to merge. For CAA, joining Mr. Carter increases the company's ability to bring major celebrities and athletes into its fold, since there are few figures who have as much credibility with young athletes today than Jay-Z.
"He can talk to them about both their on-field and off-field businesses, and in the way that he has migrated from singer to producer to sports-team owner, show them a path that I'm sure a lot of them would like to follow one day," Mr. Horowitz said.
Mr. Carter is a minority owner in the National Basketball Association's Brooklyn Nets. Mike Bass, the NBA's executive vice president of communications, said "there is no prohibition on NBA owners having an interest in businesses that represent non-NBA athletes."
If Mr. Carter were to represent basketball players, it is believed he would have to sell his share in the team, although he hasn't shown an interest in representing NBA players, according to people familiar with the matter.
In any contract talks, Mr. Cano will be represented by longtime CAA agent Brodie Van Wagenen. CAA Sports also represents stars such as Tony Romo of the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade.
Mr. Carter, a Brooklyn native, has deep New York connections, playing numerous shows at Yankee Stadium and famously rapping that he "made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can." His involvement, as well as that of the New York-based Mr. Van Wagenen, seems to bode well for the Yankees' efforts to sign Mr. Cano for the long term.
Yankees officials seemed bemused by the turn of events, unwilling to handicap whether this increased their chances of keeping the All-Star second baseman.
"I have no idea what the future will bring on any of this," Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman said.
—Matthew Futterman and Kevin Clark contributed to this article.
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As Dean David Schizer noted recently in kicking off the Clifford Chance Thought Leadership Initiative on Diversity, Professor Theodore M. Shaw and attorney Curt Levey are "familiar sparring partners."
In 2003, Shaw and Levey, the executive director of the Committee for Justice, argued opposing positions before the U.S. Supreme Court in cases challenging race-based admissions practices used by the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan Law School.
This April, the two continued the debate over affirmative action during a spirited discussion held at Jerome Greene Hall. Levey opened by voicing his support for socioeconomic-based admissions policies that do not consider race. Shaw, the former director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, responded by pointing out the limitations of such plans.
"Class-based solutions are helpful, but they are not a complete substitute for race-conscious measures," he said. "Though African-Americans and Latino-Americans are disproportionately poor, the vast majority of poor people in this country continue to be white, so . . . there's no guarantee you're going to reach significant numbers of people of color [using class-based admissions policies], in terms of including them in opportunities.
Or at the very least, you may see a diminishment."
As part of his presentation, Levey cited studies showing higher dropout rates and a greater likelihood of failing the bar exam for minorities who benefited from affirmative action in law school admissions. He asserted that socioeconomic-based admissions policies will not create a significant drop in the overall number of law students of color who graduate from law school. "What you have," Levey said, "is a cascade effect, where less [minorities] get into the top schools."
Shaw countered this point by focusing on the benefits of an elite education. "I have a problem with the cascade effect," he said. "Placement at these top [law schools] opens doors in ways that don't always happen at lesser schools." Shaw went on to conclude that "diversity is important, and I don't think there's a good reason to exclude race from all the other factors that constitute diversity."


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Recently, I'm studying modal logic for my master's thesis, and my research background is category theory. So, I naturally have a question that why it is said that necessity (box) and possibility (diamond) are dual? Are they dual categorically? If so, what is an adjunction between them?
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We learn programming by writing programs and learning from other programs. Which open source code repositories/programs do you suggest for learning/improving programming?
While citing reference please also mention the thing you liked about it.
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We learn programming by writing programs and learning from other programs. Which open source code repositories/programs do you suggest for learning/improving programming?
While citing reference please also mention the thing you liked about it.
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I would recommend Scott Hanselman's weekly source code articles, he does exactly what your proposing, that is read more source code to get better. It's worth the read.
I can recommend Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. It's a series of puzzle games (minesweeper, sudoku, fifteen) available for Windows, OS X and Linux (and as java applets). The architecture is quite simple: there's a front-end interface with three implementations (one per platform), a back-end interface with one implementation per game (I've given three examples) and a mid-end that makes them talk together, do serialization and other neat stuff.
Basically, it's good OOP. Written in C. It's easy to contribute to (I implemented the Filling and Range games) since it's well documented, and it's easy to read.
Disruptor's code is exemplary and also much can be learned from what it does to achieve extreme performance on modern hardware.
Worth reading are Martin Fowler's explanation of its architecture, the technical paper (PDF) and the QCon presentation. Also the developer blogs contain much good reading - especially the Mechanical Sympathy Blog which teaches many things about how modern CPUs and memory works.
One of the best pieces I've found of clear and concise source code is the jQuery source. Whether you like Javascript or not, it makes a great case against advocates of "code being the documentation".
There's lots of comments but it's not ascii artwork and you can see clear reasoning going - the comments make you know exactly what is trying to be achieved.
An example (full source):
It depends upon your interests, but I had worked with the Quake III codebase, and that was fairly well-written and nice to work with. It is written in C.
The Linux kernel is a very good way to learn.
I know it may be difficult to dive into because of the multi-architectural structure and the large amount of code but there's some very good article to go slowly inside, like this one from Tim Jones.
I've learned a lot by looking at a specific subject, like the FAT driver implementation and filesystems abstraction.
You'll find lots of examples. But has Jim Buck said, it depends on your interests. I've learned a metric s-- ton of "stuff" from the SharpDevelop source.
Relatively small, yet with enough complexity to be able to learn from, my vote goes to:
Apache's Log4Net logging framework.
It's source code is very readable, and "cross-platform" [compilable on: .NET 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, CF, MONO...], thus being valuable for lesson in "cross-platform" C# development...
If anyone has a copy of Code Reading by Diomidis Spinellis, what open-source projects does he write about there?
@Avinash: If you want to learn more about programming in general, I would recommend both Code Reading and Code Quality by Spinellis. They have code samples from various projects, all FOSS, I believe, so you can not only read about them, but go and get the version discussed in the book and the latest version to read more code from them and learn.
I thoroughly recommend Code Complete 2nd Edition (ISBN: 0735619670) written by Steve McConnell. For the most part, it uses C++ as its lingua franca, however it has occasional mentions of Visual Basic code. In fact, this book was actually used throughout my college's computer science department for advocating good coding practices. And, to be frank, after reading this book, my coding skills and productivity improved by leaps and bounds.


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Each time, if I want to use terminal, I press super key, typing terminal in search box, and enter to select terminal icon.
How can I have hotkey to open terminal. (I'm not say hotkey : control + alt + Fn because it will open a full-console, not what I want). I just want a terminal windows.
I have searched in keyboard shortcut, but I don't see option to select hotkey for this purpose. I just see one option : "Hotkey to enter command", when use this hotkey, it will apppear a small popup, but I don't know what command exist. (and it doesn't look like terminal)
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Graduation Invitations 10% Off Coupon Code
I just got an email from eInvites.com with a coupon code for 10% off All Graduation Invitations and Announcements. Code: Grad2012
It can't be combined with other offers and expires on 5/14/12.
I just got an email from eInvites.com with a coupon code for 10% off All Graduation Invitations and Announcements. Code: Grad2012
It can't be combined with other offers and expires on 5/14/12.
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Well, that's a bit tricky. See, we do a lot of stuff with your vote, using it to work out the popularity of what you voted for, compare that to all the other things voted on, tally up our leaderboard, work out your reputation. Someday we'll do a little cartoon showing just how hard your vote is working.
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POST /1/cards/[card id or shortlink]/attachments API call does not specify how the file should be encoded. For "Valid Values" it simply says "A file". I was wondering if anyone has a working example of how to get files into Trello cards using the API.
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Under the terms of the agreement, which took effect January 1, 2013, Enterprise is committing five tugs and 10 barges for the transportation of refined products and other hydrocarbon products along the US inland waterway system. Financial terms were not disclosed by the companies.
Enterprise Products announced Tuesday that it entered into a
multi-year contract with SeaRiver to provide the ExxonMobil
subsidiary with transportation services.
Under the terms of the agreement, which took effect January 1,
2013, Enterprise is committing five tugs and 10 barges for the
transportation of refined products and other hydrocarbon products along the US inland
waterway system.
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with SeaRiver, one of the largest consumers of marine
transportation services in the energy industry," said Gerald R.
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of Mexico.
Its fleet of double-hulled barges is among the youngest in the
industry and meets or exceeds federal requirements for safety,
according to the company.
Reflecting Enteprise's commitment to growing its marine
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You win some, you lose some, but what's going on with achievements?
I wonder if Blizz is yet to tweak the achievement scoreboard, I hope so.
You see I noticed a few incongruities.
I have done 2 Northrend instances – I don't think so!
Officially I have not completed any of the outlands instances, let alone the number of Old World instances I officially haven't completed.
I know, it was hard for Blizz to work it out, I mean what proof do they have that you have completed the instances?
If there were quests related to the instance that you have completed. We know Blizz knows this, otherwise you could repeat the one off quests.
So what about Deadmines. I completed Deadmines (countless times) and the quests for the instance (and many more instances).
So give me the credit and let me move on!
If you are carrying a drop from a required boss, surely you have completed the instance. I accept that for many items this could be normal or heroic, at the very least give us credit for normal.
Some items are only available in Heroic, as an example Quag's Eye. Dropped by Quagmirran, only in heroic mode, and Quag is the measure of achievement for The Slave Pens.
It took me 12+ months to get a pug to go get Quag. I got Quag's Eye, a now worthless trinket. It's sitting in my bank.
But I don't have credit for the Instance?
Why not?
Come On Blizz, think about it again, do another parse, give us credit where credit is due!
Gnome and Out!


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Boehner at CUA: 'Smashing heads for the BVM'
The Speaker made his somewhat contested appearance at commencement and delivered a fairly standard buck up speech that offered no insights into how his faith informs his politics. That is disappointing, I think, but not surprising. But among his folksy recollections -- which aimed at showing how Catholicism makes you tough, it seemed -- was this keeper:
I played football in high school. The Moeller High School football team was the Moeller Crusaders. And our coach, Gerry Faust, made sure we earned every bit of that name. For him, there was no distinction between the spiritual life in the Church and the physical grind of the football field. He made no bones about it. He would tell us in no uncertain terms that life is a precious gift from God, and therefore making the most of ones life is a direct form of devotion to the Virgin Mary.Hed have the whole team kneel down and pray the Hail Mary before every meeting, every practice, and every game. Then wed go out and smash heads with the other team for four quartersall in the name of the Blessed Mother. That gives you an idea of the kind of guy Coach Faust was, and still is. And it was the basis for a lesson he taught us, one I've been repeating ever since: Theres nothing in life you cant achieve if youre willing to work hard enough and make the sacrifices necessary to succeed.
Yeah, well. That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except sometimes it kills you. Go figure.
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Catholics are now encouraged to use the EF Ave Maria pass when the OF Hail Mary pass fails to vanquish Protestants or other heretics.
Some years ago, faculty at my school were subjected to a motivational speech by a former L.A. Laker, whose spiel contained the same weird religious jock logic Mr. Boehner offers here: "devotion to God/the Blessed Mother" = "making the most of one's life" = "smashing heads." Blessed are the victorious head smashers, for they can achieve anything in life.I had to pretend I was taking careful notes because I knew if I looked at one or two folks sitting at my table, we'd burst out laughing.
Shocking news: Commonweal contributors disappointed with Boehner speech; in other news, Gov. Cuomo supports legalized same sex marriage; progressive Catholics speechless.
offered no insights into how his faith informs his politics______________________I know that such is not understood around here, but Catholicism is NOT all about politics. Rather than get a political speech from a politician, what would be more refreshing would be for a magazine/blog that purports to call itself Catholic to set aside politics for a while.
For him, there was no distinction between the spiritual life in the Church and the physical grind of the football field.
Metaphorically speaking he's right. The longest speech we have of Mary is when she visits her cousin Elizabeth. How she is presented in Scripture, as opposed to later depictions in Marian piety is strong, bold, and connected with political life. Certainly not a diminutive, "nice" European girl."He has shown might with his arm, dispersed the arrogant of mind and heart. He has thrown down the rulers from their thrones but lifted up the lowly. The hungry he has filled with good things; the rich he has sent away empty. He has helped Israel his servant, remembering his mercy, according to his promise to our fathers, to Abraham and to his descendants forever."With the content of the magnificat, Luke connects Mary to Hannah, another interesting woman in her own right.
And he connects her to Miriam, whose victory song is the oldest bit of poetry preserved in the Hebrew scriptures.
"Did he cry?"Shocking news: more than once.
David, thanks for posting this and allowing us to close the loop, so to speak, on last week's discussion.For me, it's a reminder that, even in our little corner of the world, we're a big church. We're the church with high school coaches like Gerry Faust or Bob Hurley from St. Anthony's in Jersey City who are the single biggest spiritual and moral influence in the lives of many of their players---even decades after those teenage athletes (like John Boehner) have stopped playing their sport.We're the church with priests and nuns in parishes on the South Side of Chicago (and South Boston, and the West Side of San Antonio, and...and...and...) who incarnate the Church's social teachings for so many of the people they come into contact with (including a young Barack Obama). We're the church where the last two speakers of the US House of Representatives (Boehner and Nancy Pelosi) receive Communion side by side---despite their political differences.We're just a big church. A spiritually wise woman I know once talked about how we're all called to work in the vineyard of the Lord---but it's a really big vineyard. At times we're called from working in one part of the vineyard, to work in another part of the vineyard. The vineyard's so big that there are parts we may never know about...let alone see or work in. There are workers in the vineyard we'll never know...and some of those we know, we won't understand why they're doing the work they're doing. The central question for each of us then is, how is God calling you to work in the vineyard? I still don't know what she was saying. By which I mean, I understand some of the metaphor, but I keep stumbling (and I mean stumbling) on new layers of meaning that it has.
Auuuugh, Boehner threw in my biggest stock-commencement-speech pet peeve: Of course, to whom much is given, much is expected." It's a worthy thought, obviously -- not to mention scriptural -- but I can't understand how this wording has become so standard: aren't people listening to themselves? You have to say "OF THOSE to whom much is given..." Otherwise it doesn't make sense. If you're going to quote Our Lord let's do him the favor of quoting an entire thought.I was at a graduation myself this weekend -- not a Catholic school, but the (not-so-high-profile) speaker did begin his talk with a shout-out to the Catholic elementary school where he got his start. Sr. Agnes was his "Coach Faust," it seems. So that was nice. And while he did quote Robert Frost ("Two roads diverged...") and Gandhi, he left out the "much is expected" quote. I bet he would have gotten it right, though -- Sr. Agnes probably taught him how to diagram a sentence way back when!
As I recall, those Moeller High football teams under Faust were a dynasty. Didn't translate so well to ND. Between a significant alumni contingent unhappy with his record, and, I imagine, a significant faculty contingent unhappy with his praying, he didn't stand a chance. I wonder if it's Providence that the program hasn't really flourished since.
Ancient joke, goes back years and years, and it's about Notre Dame (sorry).Young man on football team, in confessional, talks about roughing up opposing players Father, I tried to break their bones, gouge their eyes out. Very wicked, my son, are you truly sorry? Yes, Father. I piled on when the ref wasn't looking, tried to hurt star player so he'd be pulled out. A great sin, my son, are you truly sorry?Yes, Father.And who were you playing, my son?Southern Methodist, Father.(Pause). Ah well, my son. Boys will be boys. Maybe you should think twice before taking a coach named "Faust" as your spiritual guide.
And the answer to the question is, Yes, he did cry:http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/121836154.html
Probably too much space given to a rather pap like speech.I note Mr. Faust went on to coach at ND without overwhelming results.Of course, I am bewildered by the analogy here of the BVM and footbal lspecifically and big time sports in general - there's enough hypocrisy in the latter as it is.But not to wory, the President of CU has assured us that the Speaker is a fine Catholic.So are they all, all fine Catholics....
I haven't read the entire speech, but the excerpt reported here suggests a pretty conventional pre-Vatican-II Midwestern Catholic male point of view. Work hard, pray to the Blessed Virgin, and things will work out. There are worse ways to organize one's life.(By "pre-Vatican-II" I mean to refer simply to the era in which his spirituality was formed. I don't know - and frankly am not particularly interested in - his views on the 2nd Vatican Council).
"Work hard, pray to the Blessed Virgin, and things will work out. "While I don't agree there are worse ways to run your life, that's not what Mr. Boehner said. He said "There's nothing in life you can't achieve." Which is patently idiotic. I waited until I was 25 to blossom into a latter-day Marlene Dietrich. I worked hard smoking cigarettes and learning to put on eye-shadow and lipstick just right. It was then that my soon-to-be-ex boyfriend told me I looked like Sally Field. I ditched him came to the realizatio that all things were not possible for all people.


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I'm quite interested in the LaTex/TeX system and am wondering if any other fellow writers use it frequently to write in.
For longer pieces, especially those with figures, tables, contents, or internal references, or citations.
For shorter pieces (such as an essay) I'd do it in Word or OpenOffice, since I normally don't need the power of Latex and getting it laid out properly won't involve much work.
Any writing of decent size, I use LaTeX because:
What I absolutely don't use it for:
Scriptwriting. Final Draft is much better suited to that task.
I write everything in Vim with LaTeX, using the sffms package. As the name indicates, the sffms package was written for SF, but manuscript style is pretty much universal. I highly recommend it.
It seems there a significant bias in the responses - people who do use are much more likely to care about this question than people who don't.
I only use TeX when I'm writing something with lots of equations or figures (I'm a physics student/teacher, so I do that sometimes). Otherwise a word processor is easier for me.
Yes. I want my work look as good as possible and I've yet to find anything that even comes close to TeX. HTML is nice but printing it ...
I'm a huge fan of LaTeX.
Though I usually write in something ultra-minimalist (markdown syntax in pyroom lately), before actually showing it to anyone, I'll convert to LaTeX for better formatting control.
I'm not sure that counts as "writing in" TeX or LaTeX -- I find anything other than a plain text editor too distracting to the "get this down on screen or paper" phase -- but LaTeX is at the heart of my "make this presentable" phase.
I use it, but mainly because I hate Word. It's a little tricky to get started in, but in the long run you'll be happier. It's much easier to make things look professional, and there is no fighting with the stupid program.
I love LaTex, but I do not use it anymore simply because every editor I know uses word. Every piece I have written has required multiple rounds of editing using Word's "Track Changes" feature. Sending editors a PDF and asking them to mark it up via text comments (e.g. "2nd graf: capitalize "John") slows down the entire editing process.
If you're writing fiction, you're asking for trouble by using LaTeX. There are no real advantages to it, except perhaps that since it's only ASCII it will probably never fall into the same black hole as that .xyz file you created years ago in some word processor whose name you can't remember anymore.
For technical writing, especially if it includes equations and funky formatting requirements, it's a good tool. Even then, I'd try to use a GUI like LyX as the front end.
It's an intriguing and brilliant tool which makes some complex tasks simple, and provides a beautiful consistency. On the other hand, some simple things are nearly impossible, and other things require a degree and practical experience in programming to figure out.
La/TeX is a typesetting markup language. I wouldn't imagine ever actually writing in a TeX environment.
However, there are obviously lots of people above who do!
(I'm also voting to make this a CW since the answers are by natu highly subjective, unless someone cites an empirical study.)
Matter of opinion and all that, but I prefer plain text with no formatting.
Writing and typesetting are separate activities that are not relevant to each other. When you're writing a story your focus should be the characters and the story, not what font you're using or whether your chapter titles should be centered. If you get wrapped up in text formatting while you're writing it's a distraction.
It can also be a trap. You can get into a thing of turning the formatting decisions into a major part of your creative effort. Then you might want to express something -- a mood, an atmosphere, an emotion -- and you'll slip up and express it using formatting rather than words because in that moment the formatting happens to be easier somehow, or more appealing.
I just stick with .txt. Of couse that means I can't use bold or italic. But C.S. Lewis said (somewhere) that a good writer has ways of indicating bold or italic using word choice and sentence structure.
This is regarding fiction -- if you're writing a scientific paper with equations that's another story.
Yeah, I think there's a lot of bias in this community towards technical writing, since StackExchange seems to attract that type of community. However, the question isn't clear on the type of writing.
That being said, assuming you were writing fiction, you might want to consider a tool like Scrivener. Fiction writers, and even non-fiction writers, like it because it lets you write your story or article in sections or scenes and re-arranging your sections is a breeze. You can also easily keep notes within the same document.
And for those who still like LaTex/Tex, I believe there is an option for exporting your finished document to LaTex.
Best way to write in LaTeX, in my opinion, is to bypass it and use Org-mode in Emacs (a text editor used most commonly by programmers).
Org-mode is a feature rich multi-use outline-based editor environment that can export directly to LaTeX/PDF, among other things. Essentially it lets you write using Org-mode's simple formatting and outline hierarchy, then the export automatically adds all of the tedious LaTeX markup for you. Org-mode is largely responsible for the resurgence of interest in Emacs over last few years. Read more here: http://orgmode.org
A decent second choice would be to use LyX. Not sure if anyone has mentioned LyX or whether you already know about it, but it essentially adds a layer over LaTex and lets you write your LaTeX document using a GUI application that's similar to a regular word processing app. http://www.lyx.org
It might sound very Silly, but the best thing you can do is to use the notepad with a different font, so that you like it.
Formatting will be a big waste of time, and using conventional MS Word or others different than the usual notepad won't allow you to use version control .
The best control version is through TXT files!
After finishing your story, edited, corrected, applied version control. Then you can use latex, Word, Libre Office, whatever you need to create a great formatting, or simply deal with the publisher.
Remember, the most important thing is the content, not the format.
And if you are worried about the format, you can do it with latex in a very easy way, just check this templates https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/books
I write books. The reading experience of a book comes not only from the abstract content of the text, but from its visual appearance as well. Text has a surface.
When I write, I need to see the text as it will appear on the printed page, otherwise I am unable to compose its visual rhythm and structure.
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I've been writing .Net code since 2003 and so I am very comfortable with it now and have a fairly deep knowledge surrounding the .Net framework that I have built over the years, plus feel very comfortable with advanced programming concepts and programming in general.
I want to get into some game programming, but the last C++ I wrote was at a beginner-to-intermediate level around 2001-2002. I know that there is a lot of support for game development in .Net languages these days, but I also know that there are a lot of game libraries, resources and commercial products built on or around C and C++.
Would learning C++ at this stage be a practical endeavour for me, or would the amount of time required to become competent with C++ outweigh the productivity advantage I'd get from sticking with .Net?
One of my considerations is that I'm concerned about the massive and growing impact Apple is having on the tech world and the general complacency Microsoft seems to have with winning consumer and developer mindshare these days, which leaves me wondering, if I were to focus my efforts on .Net technologies (particularly in view of the fact that the Mono team was recently laid off after Novell's acquisition), am I probably severely limiting my potential future audience for any games I create?


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ANDERSON, S.C. – Using a late first-half run, the Anderson men's basketball team wrapped up its home slate by outpacing Tusculum, 89-76, in South Atlantic Conference action Wednesday night at the Abney Athletic Center.
Anderson (20-7, 15-6 SAC) clinched at least the fourth seed in next month's conference tournament and has now earned its fourth 20-win season in the last five years. Tusculum fell to 3-24 overall and 2-19 in the league with its eighth consecutive loss.
The Trojans claimed their ninth straight win over the Pioneers and won their sixth consecutive home contest.
Anderson held a 41-32 rebounding advantage and forced 11 turnovers that resulted in 20 points. The Pioneers shot 44.8 percent from the field on the night, while AU posted 43.8 percent accuracy.
Senior guard Chandler Hash led the Trojans with 28 points and pulled down four rebounds. Junior guard Myson Jones added 22 points, two assists and two steals on the night. Senior guard CJ Gleaton tallied 16 points and six rebounds, while junior center Chris Ross grabbed a team-high seven rebounds in 16 minutes of action.
Tusculum's Darius Carter led all scorers with 39 points and was a perfect 11-of-11 from the free throw line, while freshman center Chase Mounce netted 11 points and recorded seven rebounds. Addison Flynn chipped in 10 points.
"I am really proud of this group of guys," said Anderson head coach Jason Taylor. "And I am pleased that we could give them a good send-off."
Trailing, 14-12, with less than 12 minutes left in the first half, junior guard Alani Adekambi knocked down a 3-pointer from the left corner to ignite an 11-0 run by the Trojans, as AU pushed out to a 23-14 lead. Gleaton helped fuel the run with four points.
But the Pioneers responded with a 16-3 outburst of their own to take a 30-26 edge with just more than five minutes remaining in the opening frame. Then it was Anderson's turn to respond, as the Trojans closed the half with a 16-2 surge and claimed a 42-32 halftime advantage. Jones and Hash each scored seven points during the decisive run.
Anderson would not trail again, opening an 11-point lead on Hash's 3-pointer at the 15:33 mark of the second half and went on to build an 80-64 cushion with 4:11 on the clock. Tusculum trimmed the Trojans' lead to eight on two occasions inside the final three minutes, but would get no closer.
Anderson wraps up its regular-season schedule by visiting Queens University of Charlotte on Saturday. The Trojans will be looking for a sweep of the season series after edging the Royals, 85-84, at the Abney Center in late January. Tip-off is set for 8 p.m.


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Reading Wojtaszczyk's Banach spaces for analysts, I'm trying to understand his proof that the space of all continuous linear functionals on $(X^\star,\sigma(X^\star, X))$ is $X$.
To show the $ \subseteq$ part, he says let $\varphi$ be any linear functional on $X^\star$ continuous in $\sigma(X^\star, X)$. Then $\{x^\star \in X^\star : |\varphi(x^\star)| < 1\} \supset \{x^\star \in X^\star : |x_j(x^\star)| < \epsilon, j=1,\ldots,n\}$ for some $\epsilon >0$ and some $x_1, \ldots, x_n \in X$. (Isn't this just saying since $\varphi^{-1}((-1,1))$ is open, it contains a neighborhood of 0?)
Then--- this is where I get lost--- he says that the result follows from the fact that if $\varphi_0, \ldots, \varphi_n$ are linear forms on a linear space $X$ (without any topology), then $\varphi_0 \in \text{span}\{\varphi_j\}_{j=1}^n$ iff $\text{ker}\varphi_0 \supset \cap_{j=1}^n \text{ker} \varphi_j$.
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Madonna football
WEIRTON - There will be a Madonna football parent and player meeting on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the school cafeteria.
Important information will be discussed and a summer schedule to be given.
Big Red Boosters to meet
STEUBENVILLE - The Big Red Boosters will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the high school conference room.
All are welcome. Memberships are available.
Weir High soccer plans meeting
WEIRTON - All Weir High freshman girls and incoming freshman girls interested in playing girls soccer must report to an informational meeting on at 7 p.m. May 28. If you can not attend this meeting and are still interested, please contact Jessica Naughton at (304) 670-0896 or email@example.com.
Joe Board Boxing has openings
KNOXVILLE - Longtime area boxing guru Joe Board has announced there are openings at his gym located at Kelly's Old Skool at 8898 state Route 213 in Toronto.
The gym is open in the afternoon, five days a week. Training and lessons are free of charge.


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Councillor Victoria Quinn
How to contact me
I hold regular Advice Bureaux for constituents within the Sparkbrook Ward.
You can visit me at my Advice Bureaux Bureaux or contact me on the details below.
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Elected: Sparkbrook Ward
Joined Council: 10 November 2011
Office Expires: 2018
Council Service: November 2011 to date
Political Party: Labour
Position Held: Chair of Housing and Homes Overview & Scrutiny Committee
Committee Membership 2016-2017:
Housing and Homes Overview & Scrutiny Committee.
As well as Regulatory Committees and Overview & Scrutiny Committees, Councillors also serve on their respective Ward Committee/Forum and District Committee.
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When describing a person as humor-challenged, what does it mean?
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It must describe someone who lacks a sense of humour. Humour is a big challenge for such people: they struggle to see that anything is funny. Such phrases were quite popular a few years ago. Someone short would be called vertically challenged, someone fat would be called circumferentially challenged and so on.
It means they lack a sense of humor, being a play on the phrase "mentally challenged", which is one polite way of indicating mental retardation.
The idea behind being "xxxx challenged" is that you struggle personally with "xxxx". It's a more polite way of mentioning it because it supposedly gives more dignity to the person. There is a hope of rising above the challenge (as in mentally challenged) vs. something labelled as an "inability" or "handicap".
However, some find the "xxxx challenged" terms patronizing.
The humor behind "humor-challenged" is that it is patronizing in the same way. It can be used kindly to say, "Don't worry you'll figure out the joke at some point." But, I've also heard it used to mean that they think you have an inability to understand any kind of humor.
It generally means that they have trouble recognizing irony, and double meanings. Depending on the context it can also mean that the person lacks a sense of humor in general, as Barry said.
"XXX-challenged" is a form of political correctness, or a parody of it. It's an exaggerated euphemism for saying someone lacks a sense of humour.