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HOST TONY SNOW: Relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States were further tested Monday, when terrorists hit three residential compounds in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, killing eight Americans and 26 others.
How has the blast changed Saudi policy toward terror? For answers, we turn to Adel Al-Jubeir, foreign policy adviser to the Saudi crown prince.
Mr. Al-Jubeir, first, has your government made any arrests yet in Monday's bombings?
AL-JUBEIR: We are looking at the situation. We're investigating the crime scene. We're investigating the forensics. We have had a large number of people come from the United States to Saudi Arabia. We have, in fact, as we speak now, another 60 or 70 showing up.
I think the statements by the director of the FBI have been very clear about how thorough and how meticulous the Saudi law enforcement effort is.
SNOW: But at this point, no arrests?
AL-JUBEIR: At this point, no.
SNOW: All right. Now, there has also been reporting that that was sort of an inside job, that Al-Qaeda members may have gotten access to National Guard uniforms, to keys to sentry booths. What can you tell us about that?
AL-JUBEIR: Not in terms of keys to sentry booths. To the uniforms, yes, but remember, you can buy these uniforms at any surplus store. They were mainly seeking military fatigues in order to throw off a guard at one of the compounds.
SNOW: Are Al-Qaeda responsible for the act?
AL-JUBEIR: We don't have any definitive evidence, but I would be very surprised if it is not an Al-Qaeda operation.
SNOW: Now, a number of Americans -- you've heard the criticism of the past -- say, "Well, Saudi Arabia is now reaping the rewards of having a number of citizens who have supported Al-Qaeda in the past." What are you going to do to cut off support from within your own country for Al-Qaeda?
AL-JUBEIR: Well, to begin with, I think it's unfortunate that people will think so. One can never say "You deserve it" when innocent people die.
Secondly, we have tried our best in the past to cut off funding to terrorist organizations coming out of Saudi Arabia, making sure that people don't abuse our charities, and being very harsh when it comes to looking for terrorists and punishing them.
That turned out to be not enough, and we need to do more. We need to eliminate the environment in which they can recruit our young people. We need to create an environment that's conducive to immunizing our population from them. We will have to look seriously at every facet of our culture and our society in order to make sure that we can deal with this threat.
SNOW: There's been an extraordinary gusher of commentary from within your country. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal told Time magazine, and I'm going to read a quote, he said, "In this country, extremism has been given a voice and has not been subdued. If any person has doubts that we have extremists in Saudi Arabia, they ought to shut up now. There is very big extremism here, and extremism has shown its very ugly face by killing Arabs, Saudis, Americans and Westerners altogether. There has been too much tolerance of extremism."
Do you agree?
AL-JUBEIR: To a large extent, yes.
SNOW: And what will the government do about that?
AL-JUBEIR: We have -- the crown prince has made it very clear in his address to the nation, we will go after the terrorists, those who support them, those who condone them. He issued a warning to anyone who uses religion to justify such acts, and he described anyone who does so as a partner to the terrorists who will suffer their fate.
SNOW: Your government, a Wahhabi Muslim government, has a great deal of say over which clerics sit in judgment and make statements. At least three clerics before the attacks recently -- Ali al-Kudur (ph), Nasser al-Fad (ph), and Ahmed al-Khalidi (ph) -- all had not only defended but praised some of the people responsible for carrying out the bombings in Riyadh.
AL-JUBEIR: Well, Tony, the thing to keep in mind is that a lot of these clerics are underground. A lot of these clerics issue their fatwas, which are really their opinions, on the Internet, and that gets bandied about.
Our minister of Islamic affairs has made it very clear over the past eight months that you cannot use religion or the pulpit for political purposes. Our supreme religious council, which is composed of our senior religious scholars, in February issued a fatwa, a religious ruling, saying it is un-Islamic to call people infidels and to incite people, because that leads to violence.
Over the past six months, Saudi Arabia has dismissed over a thousand preachers at various mosques who have transgressed. The fact that we haven't talked about it does not mean that we're not doing it. We need to be more public in what we do. We need to be more forceful. We need to educate our people, and we need to educate the world.
SNOW: Are you about to have a showdown in your own country between forces of extremism in your government?
AL-JUBEIR: We are not about to have a showdown in our government...
SNOW: Between forces of extremism.
AL-JUBEIR: But we have having -- we are in a showdown with the forces of darkness in Saudi Arabia.
SNOW: You had mentioned earlier the fact that there are 60 FBI agents on the soil. Your interior minister, Prince Nayef, has said that in fact they're merely there in an observer role, they're not going to be playing an active role in doing an investigation.
How can that be the case? American citizens died, as well as Saudis. Why should not the FBI have an operational role? After all, I thought this was the idea behind the joint task force that has been under contemplation for a long time, now seems to be ready to get up and running.
AL-JUBEIR: Yes. No, no, they're inside Saudi Arabia. They're helping us with the investigation. They're providing support to us. They're sharing whatever information they have. They're sharing their expertise. We asked for them to come. The United States offered to send them. We're very grateful that they are there.
This is an enemy that we are pursuing who is targeting both of us, and we would be remiss if we didn't do everything we can and if your government didn't do everything it could to find the clues and...
SNOW: So it's not the case that they're merely observers? They're active participants?
AL-JUBEIR: No, you only need one observer, you don't need over a hundred.
SNOW: It's also been reported that a number of senior Al-Qaeda officials now are operating out of Iran. Is that your understanding?
AL-JUBEIR: We have seen reports to that effect, but we don't have anything to verify it.
SNOW: What about bin Laden? Osama bin Laden's family is from Saudi Arabia. The family clearly ought to know, have some idea where he is.
AL-JUBEIR: We have been working with the family -- and by "we," I mean not just the Saudi government, also the American government -- since the mid-1990s.
We have no doubt that the family is innocent of his actions. We have no doubt that the family has suffered terribly as a consequence of the reputation that he has created for them.
SNOW: Do you have any doubt that he is alive?
AL-JUBEIR: God only knows. We hear tapes, we see statements, we intercept phone calls where people talk about (inaudible) and so forth. But I don't know.
SNOW: Can you assure the American public -- you mentioned earlier charities. That was a term that spanned everything from charitable organizations to those that were underwriting terror. Can you assure the American public that terrorist financing out of Saudi Arabia has come to an end?
AL-JUBEIR: Yes.
SNOW: Completely?
AL-JUBEIR: Well, look, completeness belongs to God. But what we have done is we have financial intelligence units in our financial institutions. We track every dollar that comes in and leaves Saudi Arabia. We have audited 245 domestic charities. We have looked at the activities of four charities that operate internationally.
We have then -- every charity has to have financial control mechanisms and procedures in place. They have to have outside auditors. They have to have a board of directors.
We then looked at the offices of those charities outside Saudi Arabia. We discovered that most of them employed essentially non- Saudis, whose backgrounds we're not aware of. They could be the nicest people, but we don't know where they came from.
And now, one of the charities that had the most suspicions around it is shutting down eight further offices outside Saudi Arabia. We're focusing our charitable activities domestically.
I think we have done more on the issue of financial controls of our charities and our donors than any other country in the world.
SNOW: In the wake of Monday's bombings, there have been a series of reports that the United States had requested help and security at a number of sites. And there's been a lot of back-and-forth. A more basic question: Are Americans now safe in Saudi Arabia?
AL-JUBEIR: I hope so.
SNOW: You hope so, but you cannot assure that?
AL-JUBEIR: We are as safe, I believe, as we have ever been, certainly safer than a week ago. The issue of safety is relative. But no, we take the issue of the safety of our citizens and our residents very seriously.
SNOW: Your crown prince and your king have been talking about reform, democratic reform, opening up the society. One of the principles, at least in American governance, is freedom of religion. Americans work in Saudi Arabia, but they may not practice their religion freely.
Is your government prepared to say to Jews and to Christians and to others of other faiths that they may practice their religion within Saudi Arabia?
AL-JUBEIR: Well, we -- every non-Muslim has the right to practice their religion in Saudi Arabia in private. We don't stop them, as a policy of our government.
When it comes to the issue of reform, Saudi Arabia has to -- we have to open up our economy, we have to generate jobs, we have to create civil society, we have to allow institutions to flourish, and we have to broaden...
SNOW: But would this mean also the establishment of other religious facilities? In other words, a church, a Christian church, a Jewish synagogue?
AL-JUBEIR: I doubt that, because Saudi Arabia is the heart of the Islamic world. The role of Saudi Arabia in the Muslim world is similar to the role of the Vatican. And so, that's -- I think that's -- I doubt that that will happen.
SNOW: One of the other further questions is the nature of education. Because there has been, for instance, and it has been reported that in Saudi textbooks that Jews and Christians were referred to as (inaudible) or, in other places, infidels, because for various reasons they were seen as being polytheists and therefore at odds with the teaching of your religion.
Do you think it is time to revisit the instruction that is being given to Saudi youth when it comes to viewing the West, the United States and other religions?
AL-JUBEIR: Absolutely. Absolutely. And we've looked at our textbooks, we've looked at the teaching methods. We've made changes to them. We have put in place two pilot programs, one in Riyadh and one in Jeddah. We are assessing its effectiveness, and we may roll it out on a nationwide basis.
You cannot be a Muslim if you do not believe in the Old Testament and New Testament. You cannot be a Muslim if you don't believe in Judaism and Christianity. And anyone who says otherwise is not being...
SNOW: So you must honor people of the Book?
AL-JUBEIR: Correct. Absolutely.
SNOW: A final question. Prince Bandar, your ambassador to the United States, was supposed to do a number of these Sunday programs, we're very happy that you're joining us...
AL-JUBEIR: Thank you.
SNOW: ... but can you tell us why he's not able to appear?
AL-JUBEIR: He has, he was sent on a mission by the government, and it happened at the last moment and, literally, hours before the show, and as a consequence he could not be in the studio to do it out of Saudi Arabia.
SNOW: A mission where?
AL-JUBEIR: You'll find out when it's done, some things are done confidentially.
SNOW: Does this have anything to do with the peace process, or does this have to do with the war on terror?
AL-JUBEIR: I believe it has to do with the war on terrorism.
SNOW: All right. Adel Al-Jubeir, thanks for joining us.
AL-JUBEIR: Thank you, my pleasure.


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7 Sep 2012 6:48 PM #11
I guess those people will be very happy to see it appear in the next minor version.Aaron Conran
8 Sep 2012 4:24 PM #12
Are you saying that we will see both folders and search for components?Perfection as a goal is a nice idea that can point one in a specific direction. However, since "perfection" is an ever changing (evolving?) and moving target, one must admit that perfection can never be obtained...
When in doubt, check the d4mn source code!
And here are my terms...
- I don't care if you use my source code. (Known as "Code.")
- I don't care if I get any monetary compensation.
- I do care to receive credit for Code provided. So, please keep my name in the comments for Code provided.
- Code is provided without warranty "AS-IS" and I claim absolutely no warranty nor liability to the quality, security, and run-ability on any platform.
- By using Code, you accept all risk inherit with Code regardless if Code has known and yet to be discovered bugs.
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Simple. Enjoy.
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28 Nov 2012 3:06 PM #14
another ++++ 1 for folders in the IDE... the time spent scanning every view (over eighty now) is a big time suck.
29 Nov 2012 7:18 AM #15
Folders aren't coming yet but I think you'll be pleased with a bunch of usability stuff comingAaron Conran

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The 10 Greatest Uses of Trash Talk in the History of War
Nothing about Hollywood is more unrealistic than the droll one-liners delivered in the heat of battle. Nobody's brain operates like that in real life -- when facing imminent destruction, most of us just manage a few mumbled words followed by the sound of retching.
Yet history records some badass trash talk that would put Schwarzenegger to shame, some spoken in dire circumstances. Of course, it takes a certain type of badass. Like ...
#10. King Leonidas I, the Battle of Thermopylae
The Situation:
We've devoted a fair amount of analysis to the events of the movie 300, not because so much of it is bullshit, but because a lot of the more awesome elements of the story are regarded by historians to be true. The Spartans' ability to trash talk is among them.
Prior to the battle, it was demanded that Sparta submit to the overwhelmingly powerful Persia by its ambassador. When he demanded that the Spartans surrender their arms, Leonidas had an answer.
The Quote:
"Come and take them."
(Or in the original Greek, "Molon labe.")
The Spartans are kind of famous for being able to not give a fuck in very few words, and this was their masterpiece. This simple Greek phrase somehow managed to roll every top badass one-liner into two words -- alternate interpretations include "Over my dead body" and "Bring it."
We're saying they smelled what he was cookin'.
The Aftermath:
This was, of course, the official foreplay to the Battle of Thermopylae, where a lot of the most badass, overacted lines from 300 would actually be spoken. Yes, that stuff about how Spartans would fight in the shade of the enemy's arrows and dine in hell (well, Hades) is actual, historically documented fact.
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It turns out you can condense Badass into bricks.
#9. General Robert Nivelle, the Battle of Verdun
The Situation:
On June 23, 1916, about halfway into one of the bloodiest battles in World War I (and human history), French General Robert Nivelle issued an order to his tired and tattered troops, forced to stand against the impeding German forces. The order was simple.
The Quote:
"They shall not pass!"
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General Robert Nivelle the Gray.
Or rather, "Vous ne les laisserez pas passer, mes camarades" (it's not a very badass language, French). But the shorter, punchier form is the one that everyone heard and remembered. And we mean everyone.
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Well, everyone except Chad. That guy's a douche.
The Aftermath:
This simple phrase electrified the troops to the point that it was made immortal. "They shall not pass!" became the definitive slogan for the soldiers defending the Maginot Line and achieved cultural immortality soon afterward. The phrase has appeared on books, posters and medals, and continued to be used as the defiant slogan for numerous movements throughout the 20th century and beyond. And Gandalf.
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This medal is awarded to the survivors of Verdun and anyone who kills a Balrog.
#8. Genghis Khan, the Siege of Bukhara
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The Situation:
If there's one thing history has taught us, it's that anyone who picked a fight with Genghis Khan was likely to experience a ton of rapidly approaching ass-kickery.
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Even though you just can't help but want to pinch those adorable cheeks!
Shah Muhammad II of the Khwarazmian Empire found this out the hard way when he insulted Genghis by killing his messenger. This not only resulted in one of the most brutal acts of revenge in history, but one of the most systematic dismantlings of a civilization in history. Some Khwarazmians called the destruction of an entire nation over one messenger slight overkill. The Khan had an answer for them:
The Quote:
"I am the Flail of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you."
Yes, Genghis Khan was something of a supervillain.
The Aftermath:
Genghis Khan went on to become a legendary leader, fighter and lover, whereas you don't see a whole lot of Khwarazmians around. Shah Muhammad II spent the rest of the days in forgotten exile on an island in the middle of nowhere, no doubt fully aware of the fate his empire suffered due to his terminal lack of good manners.
"I told you no creamer! Where did you say you were from, again -- Atlantis?"
#7. John Paul Jones, the Battle of Flamborough Head
The Situation:
John Paul Jones, the father of the American Navy and the one-time temporary conqueror of England, found himself in dire straits on September 23, 1779, during the Battle of Flamborough Head. While dueling the HMS Serapis, Jones' boat was outgunned, undermanned and, ultimately, sinking.
Also, just about everything was on fire.
Having clearly won, Captain Pearson of the Serapis asked Jones if he was ready to surrender. Any sensible sailor would realize "certain death" was the only other option, but John Paul Jones was not a sensible sailor. According to the English, in fact, he was a flat-out pirate.
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We can't see why.
From a sinking ship whose decks were awash with blood, Jones shouted ...
The Quote:
"I have not yet begun to fight!"
After this ballsy proclamation, which likely had the opponent in stitches, Jones began to fight. He rammed his ship into the Serapis, cleared its deck with sharpshooters and had his men storm its deck with swords and grenade-bombs like the pirates they totally weren't, honestly.
Via Deanmosher.com
This picture was brought to you by the letter "Arrr!"
The Aftermath:
Jones' ship was lost, but Jones and his men had no problem commandeering the Serapis. He sailed it to the Dutch Republic, where Jones was hailed by the drug lords in Amsterdam as "The Terror of the English."
Upon hearing that Captain Pearson, who had also survived the encounter, had been knighted for valor at Flamborough Head, Jones added to his list of awesome quotes with:
"Should I have the good fortune to fall in with him again, I'll make a lord of him."
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Lord of the zings! BAM!
#6. Oliver Hazard Perry, Battle of Lake Erie
The Situation:
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry was the type of man that Cracked lists were invented for, starting with his impossibly ballsy name.
Via Wikipedia
His real first name was "Fist," but people kept fainting.
When he engaged the Royal Navy in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812, the 27-year-old Perry famously boasted, "If a victory is to be gained, I will gain it." He meant it.
Perry experienced slight setbacks, like his flagship getting sunk while he was on it, but the battle was nevertheless one of the most spectacular naval victories in U.S. history, so much so that it marked the first time a British naval squadron had surrendered, ever.
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Perry takes a few minutes during battle to get a little fishing time in.
As the ships were now the property of the U.S. Navy, Perry sent a message to General William Henry Harrison to let him know about their recent acquisitions. The message described all Perry felt there was to describe about such a historical victory:
The Quote:
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
The Aftermath:
Perry became one of the most beloved heroes of the war, alongside the ranks of future presidents Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison. Had he not perished just a few years later, it could very well have been him sitting in the presidential chair instead of Harrison.
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Believe it or not, this man was once famous for a lot more than dying.
Now, the best we have to offer him is a stamp.
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With mutton chops like that, you bet your ass this stamp was worth a dollar.


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Rabbi Asher (the "Rosh") moved from medieval Germany to Spain. I know he describes some different halachic practices that were done in Spain (e.g. linen tzitzis); but does he describe the difference in culture? Did he manage the different foods? Language? Communication styles?
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What I find interesting about the Rosh is that he remained an Ashkenazi-centrist, even in his host country. He started a Yeshibha based on the Ashkenaz model, married his sons, exclusively, to members of his own extended family (although he did marry his daughters to Sephardim, probably students at his Yeshibha..).
Another interesting thing to point out is that the Rosh brough the concept of self-martyrdom from Ashkenaz (of Crusader infamy) to Sefarad; during the anti-Jewish riots in Seville in 1391, his great-grandson Jacob ben Asher II took his own life and that of his family, rather than submit to the cross.
That horrific act elicited both horror and admiration from various quarters of the Sephardic community.
Another interesting thing to observe about the Rosh; you of course already mentioned his description of differences in custom. Yet never does the Rosh say a word about pronunciation. It seems, in fact, that the differences between Sephardic and Ashkenazic (Western European) pronunciation of Hebrew was a later development. How and why that came about is for a different discussion.
It is historically true that Rabbeinu Asher was from Germany (Ashkenaz) and moved to Spain (Sepharad) in the early 1300s and carried the tradition of the Ba'alei Tosafoth with him. However, the timeline of the Ashkenazi/Sepharadi split is unclear. There are clear lines of separation dating back at least 1,000 years, this much is true. However, the Geonic period didn't truly end until midway through the 11th Century, well after Rabbeinu Gershom, widely regarded as the first Ashkenazi Rishon, had gained prominence and began issuing decrees that were followed only by Ashkenazim and not Sepahradim (including a ban on polygamy).
That is to say that, while there was already a split geographically, the development into two prominent schools of religious thought was only just beginning in the 11th Century, or less than 300 years before Rabbeinu Asher gained prominence, and this may have been largely due to geography more than anything ideological.
The fact that the RaShB"A essentially vouched for him and made him the de facto chief rabbi of Spain kind of demonstrates that at that stage, any split was one that the leaders didn't much like.
One thing I know he wrote about was surprise that Spanish Jews had assumed authority from the government to enforce capital punishment, although they apparently used this authority to prevent capital punishment, which is something he continued to endorse.
He also opposed secular learning, which he felt negatively influenced Torah study, and which was common in Spain.


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Those who were gaming in the early to mid-90's may remember a top down RPG/shooter called Syndicate, by Bullfrog games. A re-vamped take on the original (this time a first person shooter) is due out in Australia in February 2012. I was completely addicted to the original game, I must have wasted 100+ plus hours on it and enjoyed every second.
Does anyone know anymore about this remake? I can safely say I'll be getting my hands on a copy when it's released here.


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I always hear about matter converting to 'energy' - fusion, fission.
When does it go the other way around? What conditions lead to it? Are there reproducible experiments on this topic?
I always hear about matter converting to 'energy' - fusion, fission.
When does it go the other way around? What conditions lead to it? Are there reproducible experiments on this topic?
It is annoying to talk about mass-energy conversion, because it is too often misinterpreted to mean that energy doesn't weigh on a scale before it "turns into matter". So I will preface the answer by saying that if you heat up a gas, the heat weighs on a scale, if you burn some paper and let the heat escape, the escaping heat makes the combustion products weigh less than if they stayed hot, and if you seal up a nuclear bomb, let it explode, and keep all the products and heat inside the box, the box has the same total mass before and after the explosion.
The conversion of energy, kinetic or electromagnetic, to particles with rest mass is experimentally observed only when the energy comes in big enough clumps to create a massive particle, when the energy is low, this is going to be the lightest charged particle, the electron. Electrons can only be created along with a positively charged particle, to conserve charge, and this is almost always a positron (in rare weak interactions you can make an electron, a proton, an antineutron and an electron-antineutrino). The production of electron positron pairs only happens for very hard X-rays, or particles moving with a comparable kinetic energy, and you don't have this much energy in a single particle even in an atomic explosion. You need to accelerate particles specially.
Because of this gap between the energy of particles and the energy of the lightest charged particle, you don't usually see conversion of energy to mass in day-to-day life.
All the particle accelerator in the world are continuously (when they are operating) converting kinetic energy into matter. For example, when two protons collide at the LHC the kinetic energy of the protons is converted in to tens to hundreds of particles (matter) which the experimenters then try to characterize with their detectors. Most of these particles are very short-lived and either decay into multiple less massive particles or they may interact with the detector material and create even more particles. However there will always be a significant number of electrons, protons, positrons and antiprotons (that are all stable) as the eventual result of the collision. The positrons and antiprotons will eventually annihilate with electrons and protons but in principle if they could be kept separate from ordinary matter they would all last forever. So the original two protons can create multiple protons and electrons (and their antiparticles) and this additional matter is made from the kinetic energy of the original protons.
High energy cosmic rays that strike the earth from outer space do the same thing - the kinetic energy of the cosmic ray will be converted into additional electrons, protons and their antiparticles.
On a much smaller scale, any chemical reaction that requires energy to run will convert the energy required by the reaction into a very slight additional mass. For example, photosynthesis which takes $$6\space CO_2 + 6\space H_2O + \text{sunlight} \rightarrow C_6H_{12}O_6 + 6\space O_2$$ will convert the energy of the sunlight into a very very slight additional total mass of the product chemicals when compared to the total mass of reactant chemicals. There was a question on this topic recently but I cannot find it right now.
A photon is emitted when an electron jumps from a higher energy state to a lower energy state in an atom.
In a process called pair production, a photon can turn into an electron and a positron.
These processes have been understood for about 50-100 years and are perfectly reproducible and measurable in a physics laboratory.
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I want to take up cycling but I'm sure how much I should take on with my first cycle. I don't want to be out of action for a week just because I tried to go too far on my first cycle.
So how far roughly should I try cycling on my first time out?
I want to take up cycling but I'm sure how much I should take on with my first cycle. I don't want to be out of action for a week just because I tried to go too far on my first cycle.
So how far roughly should I try cycling on my first time out?
It depends on your general fitness level, what kind of bike you have and where you are driving.
I stopped mountainbiking about 10 years ago and didn't do any other sports. When I started again 4 months ago a trip of 20km (12.4 miles), road only, took me a good hour and I was pretty exhausted. The first tour of 30km some days later really killed my legs. Now I can ride for 70 or 80km straight and even did a 130km trip with a break.
Start low, try out how much you can do. Try to push your limit further each time. On your first trip I'd recommend a short tour of 10km (6 miles) just to get used to riding your bike.
You might consider buying some cycling pants with an inlay, they really help reducing the pain in the …. I'd recommend a speedometer, too. It is nice to see how fast and far you have gone and how much time you needed.
If you are starting to get more serious about bicycling I'd recommend buying some clipless pedals and cleated shoes. They allow you to not only push but also pull your pedals.
I suspect uncomfortable butt issues will get you first, before you ride far enough to do anything to your legs. (Intriguingly, I have been told it is actually the little hairs on your butt pulling and tearing as you sit that cause the discomfort. I always figured it was about building muscles there to sit on vs bones/fat).
However, absolute mileage is meaningless, since it would depend on your base that you start from. If you happen to be a 2:45 marathoner, then going out for your first ride probably will not be an issue.
I do not think you will hurt your legs enough to rack you up for a week, in almost anything you could do.
Try riding around the neighborhood, since the biggest issue will be getting your seat comfy on the seat.
Basically, just ride. Don't tear after it, just get used to the bike and being on the saddle for a time. I would suggest that for the first few times, at least until you get used to the bike and how it feels, that you stay close to home and do loops around a park or something similar.
The last thing you want to do is decide "I'm going to go ride 20 miles", get 10 miles away from the house and find you can't ride any more.
As you get more and more used to the bike, the exercise, how everything feels, you can start going longer distances, picking up the pace, do things like that.
I would also strongly advise that you get a helmet, if you haven't already. Even for a 1 mile jaunt around the block, wear it. Anytime you are on the bike, helmet is on head. I've seen people fall over at a stop sign and crack their head open on the pole. IMO, bikes shouldn't be legal to sell without a helmet.
We only bought our mountain bikes yesterday, we rode 8 miles and was fine this morning "BUT" may have pushed myself too far today by doing 20 miles and ive got a horrible feeling that my legs will refuse to get back on it tomorrow lol. My backside, my legs, my arms and my shoulders are aching like mad. So I defo think 20 miles is too far...


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What are the essential Japanese counter words?
For example -dai for machines, -mai for papers and stuff like that.
- What else to expect/know?
Thank you
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The article at Wikipedia covers the common ones as well as a decent number of extended ones, and lists the exceptions for days, people, etc. as well as rendaku and number word changes (e.g. 300->san*bya*ku, 4:00-> *yo*ji).
There are entire dictionaries for this (数え方の辞典). Here's a link to a whole bunch. 個 (ko) is the most commonly used one. Japanese people use it often even with words that should have a special counter if it's a less-often used one. It can sometimes be annoying even for them to think of the proper 数詞! Here are most common ones I can think of:
Etc. The list goes on. I happened to live near a harbor so the last one was useful for me (though it was still often substituted with 個!). You can just learn the few most common ones and use 個 for everything else, learning the less common ones as you go.


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6 Legitimate Organizations That Secretly Act Like the Mafia
In every system at every level of society, you're bound to come across at least one group bent on exploiting you with puppy-punching ruthlessness. That's just business: Profit makes you shady. We're pretty sure that was the name of one of Eminem's albums, actually. On the other hand, we have very high expectations of hospitals and charities and the guys administering justice behind the bench. If we can't trust people like them not to use their position to exploit the rest of us, who can we trust?
Answer: No one, it turns out.
#6. Drug Rehab Clinics Invent Patients to Get Tax Dollars
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Contrary to the impression we get from celebrities, drug rehab is not a lavish resort for the rich and famous to take a little timeout from being pretty. For troubled souls that don't have millions of dollars to blow on blow, these centers offer a support system in the struggle to beat addiction. Unfortunately for both taxpayers and drug addicts in California, rehab facilities got hooked on dollar bills and want to score as many hits as possible.
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As addictive as heroin and phonics combined.
Like the rehab clinic that bussed in unsuspecting foster children for bogus counseling sessions as part of a financial arrangement with their foster homes. According to a former employee at So Cal Health Services, staff members were tasked with falsifying the addiction histories of the foster kids, who showed zero signs of drug use, sometimes relying on blatant racial stereotypes to make their claims plausible.
But that was only the tip of the iceberg. Because unsuspecting children weren't enough to turn a meaty buck, rehab operators also resorted to recruiting people off the streets with the lure of cigarettes and small cash payments. Sometimes they just invented fake patients or charged for those who discontinued drug counseling due to prison terms or death.
Three different patients named "Mike Rotch" allegedly each needed a private room.
Government officials, despite being made repeatedly aware of this systematic hoodwinking, remained enamored with the system and pumped $94 million into 56 different facilities suspected of fraud, making a California regulator the most dangerous dope on the streets. A doctor who oversaw 19 clinics (and has since seen 16 of them shut down due to fraud) would approve treatments for patients he never saw, musing sentimentally that even "a brick can undergo counseling." Higher up the chain of command, a combination of disturbingly weak regulations and complicit regulators even permitted convicted fraudsters to run some of the facilities. One clinic asked employees to distribute gift-wrapped cognac to patients as an incentive to attend counseling. Because crack is really hard to wrap, we suppose.
#5. Ethiopian Adoption Agencies Traffic Stolen Kids to America
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For those unable or unwilling to endure the uterus-wrenching process of childbirth, adoption agencies provide a much needed vaginal retention service. Plus, like, unfortunate children probably get something out of it, too -- but mostly it's all about not driving a truck through the downstairs family room.
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If men could give birth, all babies would be test tube babies by now.
All in all, adoption is usually a great thing. But not always: The danger emerges when hucksters and charlatans in countries like Ethiopia, which accounts for about one-fifth of all foreign adoptions by U.S. residents, get involved. We're not just talking inflated fees, but wholesale child trafficking.
Organizations like Christian World Adoption and Better Futures Adoption Services would make false promises to Ethiopian parents. They'd offer to send their children to America for a good education and the guidance of a wholesome family for a temporary period, never portraying the adoption process as final. To dupe Western hopefuls into believing that they were rescuing orphans, agencies would depict them as sick and parentless children suffocating with disease and destitution, falsifying documents where necessary. Children sold for thousands of dollars, and the agencies raked in millions.
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"These children are destitute! Just twenty grand each!"
While groups like BFAS have been shut down and increased awareness of the problem has prompted the occasional revocation of a fraudulent adoption, the scale of the problem is staggering. Basically, as long as adopting African babies remains a fashionable form of self-interested humanitarianism, it's doubtful that an end will pop into sight any time soon. So if you're a hot young celebutante looking to front like you've got a soul, leave those "orphans" alone -- maybe just chuck some money at Habitat for Humanity once in a while to keep the devil at bay.
#4. Courthouse Turns Murder Trials into Dollars
While judges preside over forced auctions, such as those involving real estate, it's a given that the two spheres should never overlap. However, some lawyers and judges object, cleverly reasoning, "BUT MONEY!" before they begin wildly discounting their ethics in preparation for a moral fire sale.
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The scales weigh justice and/or gold bullion.
Take, for example, Judge Thomas J. Maloney, who sold murder verdicts for fees between $10,000 and $100,000. As a lawyer, Maloney formed ties with organized crime and regularly paid off judges to secure lenient verdicts for a known hit man and other mafia clientele. Fast-forward through 13 years presiding over criminal cases, and you have Illinois' only known instance of a judge fixing murder trials.
To execute his legal chicanery, Maloney used his bailiff and a well acquainted lawyer to ferry messages and payments between the judge and crooked lawyers. In at least three separate murder cases and a fourth involving taxes, Maloney and company arranged bribes.
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Sometimes he'd take both sides' bribes, judge honestly, and then return the loser's cash.
However, when their activities fell under the microscope of a massive FBI investigation, the judge panicked and decided to cover his tracks the way any good villain would: by trying to silence the witnesses.
It took the murder trial of Nathson Fields and Earl Hawkins, two gangsters accused of killing rival gang members, to finally catch Maloney. The judge, fearing that he had been spotted accepting a $10,000 bribe for their acquittal, returned the sum to their lawyer mid trial (totally the least conspicuous time to do that, buddy!) and subsequently sentenced the defendants to death (because if something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing). Ultimately, though, the FBI didn't buy Maloney's overcompensating verdict and wound up busting his crooked ass, which was later tried and convicted for his crimes.


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I created an Ubuntu 10.10 live usb with persistence feature. And it works well on my PCs. But one thing annoys me is that each time I boot from live usb, I have to choose between "Try Ubuntu" and "Install Ubuntu". Is there any way to dismiss that dialog and boot directly to the live Ubuntu system?
I wouldn't do it the way you have, but it kinda depends what you want to use the USB key for. If you want to use it to do installs on computers then the way you set up the key is right. If you want to use it as a standard desktop install, that you can use on any random (or even just a few specific) machines then use this method instead:-
For this you will need:
Steps to install:
Advantages to this method
Disadvantages to this method
You can remove 'ubiquity' package, it should remove the switcher but removes the ability to install the system from that USB as well.
There's one more way: on boot of live USB there's a purple screen with keyboard = accessibility symbols in the bottom. If you press any key while it's shown, you'll get another boot menu, which allows to boot directly to the desktop, bypassing the switcher. It doesn't remove the switching completely, but at least works much faster.
So far, I've been able to boot straight to my maverick netbook remix persistent live USB log in screen by edited the syslinux.cfg file on my USB drive.
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Granville and Stark (Invent. Math. 139 (2000), 509-523) proved that a uniform version of the abc conjecture for number fields eliminates Siegel zeros for $L$-functions associated with quadratic characters of negative discriminant. Does the recently announced proof by Mochizuki of the abc conjecture cover this statement?
I don't think so. Mochizuki claims to have proved a diophantine result for points of bounded degree, while you need a uniform form of the ABC conjecture for the application that you mention.
EDIT: About your question below, on the version of the ABC conjecture claimed in Mochizuki's work, it is clearly stated in Theorem A of the 4th paper. Anyways, for the benefit of the people that might read this question, I will state in very elementary terms a corollary of Theorem A in the following context: X is the projective line with the usual projective coordinates [x:y], and D is the divisor $[0:1] + [1:0] + [1:1]$ which makes the curve U=X\D hyperbolic (the degree of the canonical divisor $\omega$ of X in this case is -2 and the degree of D is 3, hence the degree of $\omega(D)$ is 1>0). Ok, here is the corollary (the notation is explained below):
Statement: Let $d$ be a positive integer and let $\epsilon>0$. There is a constant $C>0$ depending only on $d$ and $\epsilon$ such that the following is true: If $A,B$ are non-zero algebraic numbers with $A+B=1$, and if the degree over Q of the number field $K=Q(A)$ is at most d, then we have $H(A,B,1) < C(\Delta_K N_K(A,B,1))^{1+\epsilon}.$
Notation: Here I am using the same definition of $\Delta_K$, H(a,b,c) and $N_K(a,b,c)$ as in the paper on Siegel zeros of the question (this notation is explained in the first page of the paper). Well, if you check the reference you'll see that actually there is one difference: the paper uses N(a,b,c), not $N_K(a,b,c)$. However, in the above statement it is crucial that we must compute N(A,B,1) using the number filed K=Q(A), that's why I added this subscript.
I hope that the readers can see the difference between this version and the uniform ABC conjecture for the paper on Siegel zeros: the fact that here the constant C also depends on d, not only $\epsilon$.
A last trivial remark. To get the classical ABC conjecture with coprime integers a+b=c you take A=a/c, B=b/c and hence K=Q which makes $\Delta_K=1$, and N(A,B,1)=rad(abc).


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I downloaded the Wordnet English language words database and I would like to sort the words by frequency in modern English. The most common words first. I thought in using Google Ngram but it doesn't return the frequency in plain text, it returns an image instead.
The precise order shouldn't matter, I only want that common words such as "table" come before "obnoxious".
Perhaps even the Wordnet database could already contain the necessary information, but I couldn't find the column that could help me.
Is there any Web Site, Web Service or database that could provide me what I need?


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What is the exact release date of Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail?
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April 25, 2013
According to the Release Schedule.
According to the Ubuntu Release Schedule, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail will be released on April 25 2013.
If you want you can download beta 2 of Raring here, although 13.04 will not be supported on this site until it is released.
From Ubuntu site https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases You can find realeses and end of life of ubuntu distribiutions.


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Is the "How to break the speed of light" minute physics video wrong?
Radius of the moon - 1737 km. Thus circumference of the side that can been seen from earth - pi * 1737 = 5457 km.
Speed of light - 300 kmps
So if I point a lazer at one edge of the moon from earth and then move it to the other side in one second I will ultimately make the lazer spot travel 5457km in 1 sec. Thus the speed of the light spot is 5457 kmps!
What is it that I am missing interms of concepts here? When we say nothing can go beyond the speed of light then what does "nothing" mean?


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In Cuts, a Stroll Through Obscure Parts of Budget
WASHINGTON—Some of the new budget reductions will hit parts of the federal checkbook that many Americans would recognize, such as a $276 million cut to the Transportation Security Administration's $5.52 billion aviation-security budget.
But other cuts are much more obscure, such as a $6 million cut to the $110 million budget for the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund.
The White House's Office of Management and Budget on Friday night detailed hundreds of federal accounts that are subject to the new "sequester" reductions. These cuts are part of a rare across-the-board process that culls $85 billion in spending authority from defense and domestic programs over the next seven months.
The OMB said $42.67 billion of the cuts would come from military spending, $31.32 billion from nondefense programs, and $11.35 billion from Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals. It also offered a much more detailed breakdown of how the cuts would be apportioned, giving federal agencies, employees, contractors and vendors a window into what the potential impact might be.
While they represent just 2.4% of all federal spending this year, the cuts are concentrated into the final seven months of the government's calendar year and leveled at a relatively small portion of the budget. The Department of Agriculture alone, for example, has close to 70 accounts that will be affected. The Navy has 13.
The OMB's 83-page list of all the affected programs offers both a diagram of the cuts and a stroll through some of the more unknown parts of the federal budget.
The single-largest account reduction is the $5.75 billion cut in spending authority for the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, a part of Medicare, which has a $283.5 billion budget. The largest defense account affected by the cuts is the Army's $59.42 billion budget for operations and maintenance, which would be reduced $4.64 billion.
Contrast those with some of the smallest accounts affected. Payments to wool manufacturers, a $15 million Department of Homeland Security program, would be cut by $1 million. The $13 million Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant program, run through the Department of Housing and Urban Development, would be trimmed by $1 million.
The OMB's report didn't detail how each federal agency might implement the reductions. It doesn't dictate whether agencies must furlough employees, cut grants or scale back purchases. Those decisions are left up to each department.
The design of some accounts leaves little wiggle room. The Air Force's $22.8 billion account for aircraft procurement was cut by $1.78 billion, a reduction that would likely prove difficult to offset by reductions in travel or office supplies.
How broadly did OMB direct the cuts? It added itself to the list of affected agencies. It will have to trim its own $90 million budget by $5 million.
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I was played castle crashers on Xbox 360 a few weeks back but when I searched on the internet I am outraged that Castle crashers (Campaign) isn't on pc so I decided to start On C.C.P.C but I need to know would you play it if I made it?
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- Petunia floral area rug.
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Goal.com cartoonist Omar Momani gives us his unique take on the football news of the dayLionel Messi made history on Monday night, securing his fourth Ballon d'Or - more than any player has ever managed.
The Argentine's brilliance saw him deservedly crowned the best player in the world, but spare a thought for Cristiano Ronaldo, who was once again pipped to the post by the Barcelona man.
Leading Real Madrid to the Liga title over the Blaugrana was not enough for the Portugal captain, who couldn't even grab more attention with his suit than Messi at the glitzy ceremony in Zurich.
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For those who did not purchase a yearbook at registration, there is still time to place an order. One may pay by cash or check made out to CWCHS for $35 or $40 with the student's name engraved on the book. All payments should be directed to Hillary Gee at CWCHS.
For those wishing to get names engraved on the yearbook, payment must be submitted before April 1. The CWCHS Yearbook team is hoping to have another color yearbook this year, which would be the second year in a row to offer the added feature.
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This is a cool idea (linkcountdown.com) - basically like the million dollar homepage, but with textlinks that help with SEO. Prices started at $1 and increases a dollar every link, so you want to get in while its cheap. The last links will cost towards $1000, but its around $30 now I think. They give away prizes as well.
Gimme your feedback on this!
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Nike Rally All Over Dot Pull Over Women's Hoodie
This hoodie is cute, its as simple as that. You can rock this while working out, casually with some jeans, or lazy with some sweats and you'll feel cute. This Fairisle Hoodie will be a staple in your winter wordrobe so get it fast. Nike did it right with the Rally All Over Dot Full-Zip Hoodie.


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22 Mar 2011 12:35 PM #1
Google Maps is not rendering properly after changing the device Orientation
Sencha Touch version tested:
- 1.0.2
- only default ext-all.css
Platform tested against:
- iOS 4
Summary: Using Sencha Touch 1.0.2, Safari Browser on iPad and iPad2. Same behavior observed with 1.0.1a.
- In my web page I have two screens one contains a list and a Google map, other screen contains a list and google maps with directions. First screen shows the customer locations in the google maps and second screen shows the Driving directions for that customer. Everything works fine until I change the device orientation. After I change the device orientation map will display/render properly in the current screen, but if I navigate to other screen, the map in that screen will not render properly. Basically it doesn't occupy the whole space given for the maps.
Steps to reproduce the problem:
- 1. Create a web page with two screens, one containing two panels, first one with a list and a Google Map control
2. Create second screen with anything. Just create a panel with a ability to go back to previous screen
3. Browse to the web page in iPad [1.0/2.0] in Landscape mode.
4. Navigate from first screen to second screen. Now change the device orientation from Landscape to Portrait and change it again back to Landscape.
5. Go back to first screen now, and you would see the Google maps is not occupying the complete space allotted to it.
The result that was expected:
- Google maps should always consume all the space allotted to it and it should render properly
The result that occurs instead:
- Google maps is not consuming all the space allotted to it and it should display in the same way it displayed when we first visited the page
Screenshot or Video:
Debugging already done:
- none
Possible fix:
- none.
24 Mar 2011 6:54 AM #2
From your screenshots, it looks like Google maps itself is not resizing correctly. There is a event that must be triggered through the Google Maps API (v3) to get the map to resize (this will come up outside of sencha touch as well). It seems the sencha-touch map class is attempting to do so with the following code:
monitorResize : true, ... onResize : function( w, h) { Ext.Map.superclass.onResize.apply(this, arguments); if (this.map) { google.maps.event.trigger(this.map, 'resize'); } },
25 Mar 2011 1:22 PM #3
Worked for me.
I have a geocoder callback that I put the
PHP Code:
google.maps.event.trigger(component.googleMap.map, 'resize');
You could also do something like:
PHP Code:
parent.on('activate', function(component){
google.maps.event.trigger(component.googleMap.map, 'resize');
28 Mar 2011 12:12 PM #4
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Add actress Vivica A. Fox to the list of people upset over Stacey Dash's recent endorsement of Mitt Romney.
In a recent interview, Fox expressed her frustration with Dash saying,
"I didn't know that she was a Republican….I didn't know why she had to do a photo shoot in a Baywatch red swimsuit with the boobs and the whole flag behind her. And she doesn't have a job or something to promote right now. I just didn't get it."
She goes on to say that she was surprised Dash was a republican but even more surprised at the way she showed it, she said, "Most politicians when you support them you try to support them with class" unlike Dash's swimsuit photo shoot.
Fox isn't the only celebrity who has spoken out against Dash. Kimora Lee Simmons believes Dash only supports Romney for attention, she said "I feel like she just done it for press, cause, really, no one really knows her."
This week Stacey Dash early voted for Mitt Romney and she posted the photo to her Twitter account.


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To the editor:
In response to the letter "Timely thoughts for America" (June 30), I must be in dreamland to read a letter quoting Abraham Lincoln and all his great kindness toward us all.
Lincoln made America a proud country to end through all the years of pain. My thoughts are this - using a man who for his greatness gave his life to help others is an insult and a shame of his good name. If you use his terms of beliefs, our country would be better off. These close-minded people even use Martin Luther King to keep our country in ruin, and, yes, it's almost in ruin over greed, selfishness and darn-right ignorance.
God said all are his children, he did not say, "Well you got money, you're mine now." No, the quote talks about the love of money and that you can't serve two masters. How can the love of God be in any person who closes his compassion on another - you are sadly mistaken and you need to seriously think of your own soul, for you sound misguided in your efforts to turn prosperity into a blessing from God.
I'll end with this: Christ after he said these words said you are accountable for your soul tonight, repent and turn to the true Christ's love for others. In his name, amen
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On the other hand Ólafur the White Poet --- or whoever he was, the Icelander who wrote the Preface to the Prose Edda --- describes the beliefs of our ancestors in such eloquent and powerful terms that I cannot refrain from quoting them exactly as they stand in his book.
"They pondered and wondered what it meant," he says, "that the earth and the animals and birds had certain characteristics in common, though they were very unlike in form. To take one such characteristic: if you dig into the earth at the top of high hills, you come upon water without needing to delve down any farther than you do in low valleys. Similarly with animals and birds: the blood flows at no deeper level in their heads than in their feet.
"It is another characteristic of the earth that every year she produces plants and flowers which decay and die that same year. Similarly, animals and birds grow hair and feathers every year, then shed them.
"It is a third characteristic of the earth that when she is cut open or dug into, grass will grow on the soil that is turned upward. From this --- and from their interpretation of rocks and stones as being like the teeth and bones of animals --- they drew the conclusion that the earth was animated, was somehow alive, and they realized that she was incredibly ancient in terms of years and quintessentially powerful: she gave birth to all living things and reclaimed everything that died. Therefore they gave her a name and traced their origin to her."
Although we know today that the earth is not a living being in the sense that plants or animals are, and that her various parts are not interdependent (as are the muscular and circulatory systems of animals, or the roots and leaves of grasses and flowers), nevertheless the speculations of this ancient sage are so pleasing and vivid that no one should really make fun of them. In his day men had no inkling of the timeless forces that operate to regulate the motion of the heavenly bodies, and though they were actively engaged in mining metals from the depths of the earth, it had not occurred to anyone to investigate the various geological strata lying one on top of the other, or to distinguish between streams of water (whose movement obeys the law of gravity) and the blood of animals and sap of trees (whose flow is regulated by other laws).
Jónas Hallgrímsson
Source: On the Nature and Origin of the Earth. http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/Jonas/Edli/Edli.html
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What's the most natural way to establish the asymptotics of $\Delta$ on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$ of dimension $N$? The asymptotics should be $$ \#\{v < A^2\} = \mathrm{const}\ast\mathrm{vol}(M)\ast A^n + o(\mathrm{something}) $$ (Perhaps one could consider first the case of a Kähler manifold? The Laplacian is particularly simple there.)
The most natural way is to study the short-time asymptotics of the heat or wave kernel on M. For example, you can use the heat kernel $p_t(x,y) = \sum_i e^{-\lambda_i t} f_i(x) \overline{f_i(y)}$ where $f_i$ are the eigenfunctions with eigenvalues $\lambda_i$. This is a fundamental solution to the heat equation.
When $t$ is small then you can construct a good approximation to $p_t$ near any particular $x$ by hand, using Fourier analysis in local co-ordinates. The end result is that that $p_t(x,x) \approx C t^{-n/2}$. Now integrate this estimate $dx$, noting that $\int_M p_t(x,x)dx$ basically counts eigenvalues with $\lambda_i \leq 1/t$.
Wener Müler - Weyl laws... http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/mueller/papers/weyllaw.pdf
has a pretty good introduction.
Edit: I see now that only the second section addresses you specific question and not the intro:(


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When you right click on a Linux desktop, a menu appears which contains entries like "New folder", "Change desktop background", "Paste", "Scripts", etc. But on a fresh install in Ubuntu 12.10, the "Scripts" option is not showing. I suspect it has something to do with the updated "Nautilus File Manager" software. Is it possible to turn on the script option so that I can execute scripts with a single click? Thank you ...
Why doesnt the "Script" option show up on right clicking in the desktop in Ubuntu 12.10? How to make it appear?
I had the same problem in ubuntu 12.10 running Gnome nautilus 3.6.3
Scripts not showing in right click menu
This should enable scripts when right clicking on a folder or a file.
Create New File not showing in right click menu
I am trying to get scripts showing on desktop right click, if i manage i will post an update.
Scripts menu(on right-click popup menu) will appear if you add some scripts file to ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts.You can install Ubuntu Tweak and you can add some certain scripts to this director easily or add your script's file to this folder.


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A number of recently exposed terror plots and successful attacks are revealing an overlooked dimension in national security. A small but dedicated number of American religious zealots have been beating the drums of holy war in our midst. As this reality slowly begins to sink in, uncomfortable questions about the country's security strategy begin to arise. How we respond to the various aspects of our increasingly homegrown problem stands to have a lasting impact on American society.
First, let's confront the problem of perception. Who's a "terrorist"? The definition often depends on who you ask. Is a terrorist necessarily affiliated with an organization such as Al-Qaeda? Does an unorganized loner with the motivations and goals of a foreign terrorist qualify? What are the relevant distinctions and similarities between attacks by foreigners and attacks by U.S. citizens? Moving forward, will society view them as separate issues altogether, or different types of the same problem?
Consider the Virginia-born Army Major accused of the November 2009 Fort Hood shooting, Nidal Malik Hassan. He allegedly murdered 13 people and wounded dozens of others. A few months before that incident, Tennessee-born Abdul Hakim Mujahid Mohammad opened fire outside of an Army recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas, killing one soldier and injuring another. Unlike Major Hassan, Mujahid Mohammad has claimed affiliation with Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and had lived in Yemen before being imprisoned and deported for overstaying his visa.
Both men were very public in their disdain for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: Lots of nonviolent people are. Both perceived the U.S. Military operations as unjustified attacks on Muslims and Islam. Again, this idea isn't unheard of and is far more likely to incite debate rather than violence. So, what pushed them over the edge? Hassan's lawyers have pointed to psychological issues, unrelated to any jihadist intentions. Though he claims no terrorist group affiliations, he frequented sermons in Virginia by radical American-born Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki (who also preached to three of the 9/11 hijackers) and they communicated via email shortly before the shooting. He allegedly yelled "Allahu Akbar" before he began firing. If we take Mujahid Mohammad at his word, he was motivated by his faith and ideology as espoused by AQAP. "He told the detective he wasn't guilty of murder, that the shooting was an act of jihad." Both are facing murder charges.
Further than simple religious zealotry and having strong opinions about American foreign policy, both men allegedly escalated their ideology to violence. Still, many of us feel uneasy about categorizing them as Islamic terrorists. The uneasiness may come from the implication of American Muslims and the perceived backlash that this could incite against them. Those fears aren't without some warrant. But explaining the attacks away as isolated psych cases or random acts of violence becomes difficult as a theme begins to materialize. The recently attempted attacks in Oregon and Maryland have eerie similarities to the first two. In Portland, Mohamed Mohamud (born in Somalia, raised the US) is charged with attempting to detonate a bomb near the city's Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. In Baltimore, Muhammad Hussein is charged with trying to blow up a military recruiting office. Both were unambiguous about their jihadist intentions leading up to and during their would-be attacks. If they believe what they say they believe—the evidence suggests that they do—then we should take these warnings seriously and not obscure the threat.
Al-Qaeda and other groups are openly seeking American and western converts to their cause. To a small but unavoidable extent their strategy seems to be working. The people most susceptible to this appear to be young, devout Muslim males. Because anti-Muslim sentiment already stands to make them feel isolated from their neighbors, simple kindness and engagement from non-Muslims can go a long way to breaking barriers. Within the American Islamic community, reaching out to at-risk youth is especially important as they have the opportunity to shape their understanding of Islamic texts.
As with Christian and Jewish fundamentalists, Islamic zealots will have lots of violent and disturbing passages to bolster their cause. It's not enough to simply call them "bad Muslims" or "un-Islamic" while pointing to a majority of peaceful Muslims. To stop the problem of radicalization, we have to address a big part of what makes it so convincing in the first place: Devout religious faith. If children (or new converts) are taught to endorse a book as inherently good and entirely true, then the violent and problematic verses may not seem very violent or problematic. These should be discussed and explained in the most candid way without omission or euphemism. Where needed, teaching should be infused with a healthy dosage of doubt. Otherwise, terrorists groups, extremist websites and radical Imams are left to fill in the gap.
Homegrown terrorists need not be members of an organization so much as they consider themselves members of a movement. To combat this movement, we cannot be evasive about its implications, composition or motivations. "What I am trying to do in this interview is to make people aware of the fact that the threat is real, the threat is different, the threat is constant." In disseminating that message, Attorney General Eric Holder may have his work cut out for him.


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Marius Masalar is an explorer of new media opportunities, working primarily as a composer for video games, films, and advertising. He travels frequently, plays games, loves life, and laughs often. Having escaped from academia bearing two degrees, from Ryerson University and Berklee College of Music, Marius is now happily living his dream.
Marius lives in the beautiful heart of Toronto. While the studio runs mainly on Macs, Marius is a notorious gadget freak, familiar with most operating systems and gadgets, and enjoys surfing at the cutting edge of technology, both musical and otherwise. Writing primarily in Logic Pro, he is also a fan of Ableton Live and Reason, turning to each for specialized cases.
When he isn't hiding in the music cave making noise, you can find Marius wandering the forest, learning something new, or enjoying the company of friends.


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Reviewer: Jack Wei, MD
The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Ultima Vez Modificado: 31 de marzo del 2004
Authors: Corey A. Carter, Timothy Donahue, Leon Sun, et al.
Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology 21(21): 4001-4008, 2003
The current study demonstrates that younger patients with low-risk disease are unlikely to remain on long-term WW. The ongoing study mentioned in the author's conclusions will be important in determining the impact of delaying therapy in these patients. If no detrimental effect is found for delayed therapy, it may be reasonable to pursue WW in these patients to spare them the potential side effects of definitive therapy. Without this information available, patients with higher stage disease and short PSA DTs should strongly be considered for upfront therapy.


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Teenage boys are at higher risk than teenage girls for suicide and teenage boys are a big audience for comic books. In January of this year, Marvel Comics published a special story with Captain America to help raise the issue of teen suicide and deliver a suicide prevention message. A digital version of the comic, Captain America: A Little Help, is available online for free viewing by following the link below and then click "Read It Online".
The story is told with powerful images and few words. In an urban high-rise apartment, a teenage boy is overwhelmed by a variety of stresses which take him to the edge of the building to jump to his death. From this vantage point, he sees Captain America on the roof of a neighboring building. Captain America is surrounded by those wanting to end his life but he resists and prevails but not without "a little help" from the boy who had intended to end his own life. Following this encounter, the boy returns to his apartment and calls a suicide hotline (real number displayed in the story) and states, "I need help."
There are many resources out there for youth suicide prevention. This resource is a worthy effort to meet teenagers, especially boys, where they are often are: online and attracted to an action story.
The Mourning News - February 2011
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For more information about security and emergency preparedness, please visit this web site.
Public access to military installations varies by location. Please contact the location for information about specific requirements for students access.