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India's natural gas importers are fast sealing deals to secure supplies as demand far exceeds domestic output. The nation currently produces about three-quarters of its natural-gas requirements, but will need to import nearly half of its requirements within a few years due to dwindling production.
By DEBIPRASAD NAYAK and ERIC YEP
MUMBAI -- India's state-run Petronet LNG said
Thursday that it has signed a preliminary agreement with
US-based United LNG to purchase around 4 million tpy of
liquefied natural gas for 20 years.
India's natural gas importers are fast sealing deals to
secure supplies as demand far exceeds domestic output. The
nation currently produces about three-quarters of its
natural-gas requirements, but will need to import nearly half
of its requirements within a few years due to dwindling
Several gas-fired power plants are already shuttered or
operating below capacity due to a shortage of gas.
In a statement, Petronet LNG said it expects to finalize the
agreement by the end of this year. The supply of LNG could
begin sometime in 2017-18, R.K. Garg, Petronet LNG's director
of finance, told television channel CNBC TV18.
Buyers in Asia are looking to the US to meet their
increasing energy requirements, as the shale revolution has
left North America with a huge surplus of gas and prices that
are far below those in Asia or Europe. LNG prices in Asia are often
several times higher than in the US because of a regional
supply deficit. Japan, the world's biggest importer of LNG,
pays about $18 per million British thermal units, versus $4 in
the U.S.
While the US has a surplus of cheap gas now, rising import
demand from Asian countries is likely to raise hackles among
some US industry groups and lawmakers who have recently been
advocating strict limits on energy exports to Asia citing
potential increases in domestic fuel prices.
Petronet LNG said United LNG would supply the super-cooled
gas through the Main Pass Energy Hub based off the Louisiana
coast in the southern US.
In 2011, GAIL (India), a state-run gas processing and
distribution company, signed a contract to buy around 3.5
million tpy of LNG for 20 years from Cheniere Energy's Sabine
Pass facility in Louisiana.
A boost in LNG exports would have many positive effects on
both the US and Indian economies, Nirupama Rao,
India's ambassador to the US, wrote in The Wall Street
Journal earlier this month.
"For the US, it would help create thousands of jobs and an
expanded revenue stream for the federal government. For India, it would provide a steady,
reliable supply of clean energy that will help reduce our crude
oil imports from the Middle East and provide reliable energy to
a greater share of our population," she wrote.
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On Saturday, Granby will host its first Open Farm Day, which the Hartford County town's agricultural commission bills as a "farm-hopping tour."
From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 12 Granby farms are opening their doors — or, rather, gates and stalls — to visitors for free tours, events and demonstrations. All of the participating farms are not normally open to the public.
"We have more than 37 working farms in Granby and we really wanted to showcase them, especially now when people are really taking responsibility for the foods they eat and wanting to see where it comes from," said Michelle Niedermeyer, chairwoman of the Granby Agricultural Commission.
Throughout the various farms, which visitors will drive to themselves, there will be story times for kids, pony rides, hosta-dividing demonstrations, horse clinics and vineyard tours. The stops include dairy, horse, vegetable and garlic farms, as well as apple orchards, a livestock breeder and a landscape nursery.
A few farms will charge a small fee for activities, such as the corn maze at Sweet Pea Cheese, the takeout baked goods and soup at Lost Acres Orchard, the barbecue chicken dinner at the Granby Grange Fair. Produce, meats, plants, and other farm products will be for sale at about half of the stops. Animals to meet include chickens, horses, cows, goats, pigs and alpacas.
Visitors can pick up a "passport" at their first stop and have it stamped at other stops on the tour. Those who turn in a passport with at least one stamp will be entered in a drawing for produce samples from the Granby farms.
For directions and a schedule of events, visit www.granbyag.org or call 860-264-5886.
Meanwhile, the Open Farm Day in New Milford Sept. 15 will be the 20th annual event to be held at the Nature Conservancy's 1,850-acre Sunny Valley Preserve from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free.
George D. Pratt Jr founded Sunny Valley Preserve in 1970, donating multiple parcels of agricultural and natural lands to The Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit, international environmental organization.
One condition of Pratt's gift is that the farms be kept in agriculture as long as possible. Today, about 650 acres of the preserve are in active agriculture. The farms are leased by independent farmers who sell most products locally.
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I need a reference for the result which gives the number of solutions to the congruence $mx^2+ny^2 \equiv k\pmod{p}$. This result seems to be something that would be discussed in Gauss' Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, as it is proven from basic results in the theory of curves over finite fields.
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I've come across the answer about what it means to bleed something but am having a hard time finding its origin. What was the original thing that was bled and in what context was it used?
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This fits with the usage of "bleed something" as a negative and damaging one, and not therapeutic. This is pretty much what @Robusto's answer to your related question states.
There seems to be a good deal of confusion in the answers here, and in the answers to the older question referenced by this questioner between at least two different ways "to bleed something":
The original question was about the latter kind of usage, and as best I can tell, this question is about that also.
So, the metaphorical use of to bleed seems to stretch into the distant past. In the second kind of usage, the earliest example the Oxford English Dictionary gives is this line from Shakespeare's Winter's Tale (V. ii. 88):
I would say that it refers to the practice of blood letting using leaches. Physicians of days past, I need to find an exact time-dated reference for you, would bleed patients of "harmful humours". The idea was that blood loss would cure the patient of his ailment.
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I built my own computer about a month ago and loaded Windows 7 on it, and then decided to put Ubuntu 12.04 on instead. It doesn't recognize my ethernet cable, and I cannot get any internet what-so-ever. I would like to know which drivers to download. I have 32-bit, if that helps. I do have an external HDD that I can transfer between computers with. Thank you in advanced.
When did you download the CD image? If this was over a week ago, then downloading and installing the latest 12.04 point release (12.04.2, released on Feb 14) is probably the simplest solution in your situation.
From 12.04.2 onward, the LTS releases will run on more recent kernels. Their LTS Enablement Stack will keep the kernel and X stack in sync with stable versions from newer releases (Quantal, Raring, S). Quantal's kernel (3.5.0) has built-in support for the alx driver, which is what you need.
For those currently on 12.04 LTS: updating from 12.04.1 or 12.04 will not enable the LTS Enablement Stack. To do this, install the linux-generic-lts-quantal and/or xserver-xorg-lts-quantal packages.
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It seems to me that a lot of people do deformation theory (of schemes, sheaves, maps etc) in derived category (of an appropriate abelian category). For example, the cotangent complex of a morphism $f:X\rightarrow Y$ of schemes is defined as an object in the derived category of coherent sheaves $X$. I would like to understand why derived category is an appropriate category to do deformation theory. I would appreciate it if someone could give me a good example or motivation.
I'll post an answer to what I think is a reasonable question, hoping that someone more expert will improve on this answer. My apologies if this answer is too chatty.
First, a very simple reason you might hope that there is something like a cotangent complex and that it should be an object in the derived category of quasi-coherent sheaves. Given a morphism $f: X \rightarrow Y$ of schemes (over some base, which I leave implicit), you get a right exact sequence of quasi-coherent sheaves on $X$:
$$f^{*}\Omega^{1}_{Y} \rightarrow \Omega^{1}_{X} \rightarrow \Omega^{1}_{X/Y} \rightarrow 0.$$
Experience has taught us that when we have a functorial half-exact sequence, it can often be completed functorially to a long exact sequence involving 'derived functors', and in abelian contexts such a long exact sequence is usually associated to a short exact sequence (or exact triangle) of 'total derived functor' complexes, the complexes being well-defined up to quasi-isomorphism and hence objects in a derived category. This is the semi-modern point of view on derived functors, which one can learn for instance from Gelfand-Manin's Methods of Homological Algebra. Experience has also shown that not only is the cohomology of the total derived functor complex important in computations, but that the complex itself, up to quasi-isomorphism, contains strictly more information and is often easier to work with, until the very last moment when you want to compute some cohomology.
Once you've seen this work a number of times (say for global sections, for $Hom$, and for $\otimes$), one might ask if there is a total derived functor of $\Omega^{1}$, call it $\mathbb{L}$, which among other things produces an exact triangle
$$f^{*}\mathbb{L}_{Y} \rightarrow \mathbb{L}_{X} \rightarrow \mathbb{L}_{X/Y}$$
such that the long exact sequence of cohomology sheaves begins with the original right exact sequence.
If you believe that such a thing should be useful, then you might go about trying to construct it. One way to do this involves interpreting $\Omega^{1}$ as representing derivations which in turn correspond to square-zero extensions, and this is where deformation theory comes in. So one might begin to ask what 'derived square-zero extensions' should be, and you might guess that you should try to extend not just by modules but by bounded above complexes of modules. When you do this, such a square-zero extension becomes not just a commutative algebra but some kind of derived version thereof, such as a simplicial commutative algebra. In these terms, the cotangent complex $\mathbb{L}$ of a commutative algebra turns out to be nothing but K\"ahler differentials of an appropriate resolution of our commutative algebra in the world of simplicial commutative algebras. Following this idea through and figuring out how descent should work leads, after a long song and dance, to the desired theory of the cotangent complex.
Once you set this all up, it becomes clear that there was no reason to restrict oneself to classical commutative algebras in setting up algebraic geometry, but that one could have worked with simplicial commutative algebras to begin with, and this leads to `derived algebraic geometry'. In some sense, this is the natural place in which to understand the cotangent complex, and here the higher cohomology of the cotangent complex has a natural geometric interpretation.
One should also point out that Quillen's point of view on the cotangent complex was as a homology theory for commutative algebras (search for Andre-Quillen homology), which in a precise sense is an analogue of the usual homology of a topological space. This is described in the last chapter of Quillen's Homotopical Algebra and is also discussed in Goerss-Schemmerhorn's Model Categories and Simplicial Methods.
To summarise. Deformation theory is about square-zero extensions (as well as about other more general infinitesimal extensions). K\"ahler differentials corepresent derivations which in turn correspond to square-zero extensions. For each morphism of schemes $X \rightarrow Y$, there is a natural right exact sequence involving K\"ahler differentials, which it would be useful to complete to a long exact sequence. Even better, we'd like this long exact sequence to come from an exact triangle of objects in the derived category of quasi-coherent sheaves. Realising this goal naturally leads to derived or homotopical algebraic geometry.
Perhaps one way of reading this question is "Why is it important to think about complexes when doing deformation theory?" One must certainly accept that deformation theory is cohomological in nature: consider the standard Čech construction of classes in $H^1(X, T_X)$ and $H^2(X, T_X)$ corresponding respectively to deformations and obstructions to deformations of a smooth scheme $X$; or consider the deformations of a regular embedding $X \rightarrow Y$, which are parameterized by $H^0(X, N_{X/Y})$ and obstructed by $H^1(X, N_{X/Y})$.
Let me recall the arguments that yield these classes. Locally a smooth scheme has only one deformation up to isomorphism, so global deformations arise from gluing the local ones; the gluing data come from the tangent bundle, so deformations are classified by $H^1(X, T_X)$. Similarly, solutions to an obstructed deformation problem exist locally and are locally unique up to isomorphism, so the obstruction comes from gluing. One writes down the gluing condition and observes that it is a Čech $2$-cocycle (or observes directly that deformations form a gerbe...).
The argument for a regular embedding is similar. One first gives a direct construction for the identification of $H^0(X,N_{X/Y})$ and the deformations of the embedding; then one shows that there are no local obstructions, so global obstructions arise entirely from gluing, and this gives a Čech 1-cocycle with values in $N_{X/Y}$.
What about a more general deformation problem? For example, suppose $X$ is a local complete intersection. A great deal of the arguments above goes through without modification: locally, deformations of a local complete intersection are unobstructed, so obstructions should come from gluing. One should be able to produce a Čech cocycle obstructing the existence of a global deformation. But a cocycle valued in what?
The answer is the (shifted) tangent complex (dual to the cotangent complex mentioned in another answer). This is a complex in in degrees $[0,1]$ that coincides with $T_X$ if $X$. The relative tangent complex of a regular embedding $X \rightarrow Y$ is $N_{X/Y}[-1]$. Thus the tangent complex recovers the two special cases discussed above.
For a complete intersection $X$ in a smooth scheme $Y$, the tangent complex of $X$ may be constructed as $[T_Y \vert_X \rightarrow N_{X/Y}]$. If $X$ is only a local complete intersection then this construction works locally in $X$, but it's not going to glue to something global. However, the local construction is quasi-isomorphic to the restriction of something global. At last, the derived category appears.
All of this is vastly generalized by the cotangent complex, which works the same way as above for arbitrary schemes, without the lci restriction. You can read more about that in Chris Brav's answer.
I do not know about the general deformation theory (if there is such a thing), so I will talk about the special case I am familiar with, namely, representation varieties $R=Hom(\pi,G)$ of representations of finitely-generated groups $\pi$ to a Lie group $G$. In this case, as in some other cases, each analytical germ $(R,r)$ of $R$, regarded as the "deformation space" of $r$, is completely determined by an appropriate controlling differential graded Lie algebra (dgla) $A^\bullet$. A dgla $A^\bullet$ is a certain chain complex equipped with a binary operation called Lie bracket, satisfying certain axioms. The reason for appearance of dgla's in the context of representation varieties $R$ is the basic fact that representations of finitely generated groups could be identified with holonomies of flat connections on appropriate bundles, which, in turn, are described by differential forms with appropriate coefficients. For the differential forms one has both the exterior differential and a bracket, coming from the bracket of the Lie algebra of $G$, hence, one gets a dgla.
Then, there is a basic theorem observed by Deligne, but going back to the earlier work of Schlessinger and Stasheff:
Equivalence Theorem. A weak isomorphism of dglas induces an isomorphism of analytical germs of deformation spaces.
A proof of this theorem (in the general context of dglas, not only for the ones corresponding to representation varieties) could be found in this paper "The Deformation Theory of Representations of Fundamental Groups of Compact Kaehler Manifolds", Publ. Math. I.H.E.S., 67(1988) by Goldman and Millson. The original letter from Deligne could be found here.
Definition. Two dglas $A^\bullet, B^\bullet$ are weakly isomorphic if there is a morphism $f: A^\bullet \to B^\bullet$ which induces an isomorphism on the level of $H^0, H^1$ and an epimorphism on the level of $H^2$.
This, of course, holds if $f$ induces an isomorphism of all cohomology groups, i.e., is a quasi-isomorphism of dglas. This means that the derived category of dglas is the natural framework for the deformation theory whenever it is determined by dglas, since one can expoit sequences $$ A^\bullet \rightarrow B^\bullet \leftarrow C^\bullet \rightarrow D^\bullet \ldots $$ of quasi-isomorphisms (or weak equivalences) of dglas in order to "compute" germs of deformation spaces. This is exactly what Goldman and Millson did in their paper (with a follow-up by Simpson) in order to prove that singularities of representation varieties of Kaehler groups are quadratic.
The intuitive reason for the Equivalence Theorem is that $H^1$ describes infinitesimal deformations while $H^2$ describes obstructions to integrability of all orders for the infinitesimal deformations (both observations go back, I think, to the work of Kodaira and Spencer). In particular, if infinitesimal deformations and all obstructions match then one gets an analytical isomorphism of germs. The isomorphism is merely analytical since one has to deal with infinite power series, as one has to kill obstructions of infinitely many orders. Occasionally, after an analytical reparameterization of the germ, there is only one obstruction (the first one), as in the theorem of Goldman and Millson (in this case, the deformation problem is formal), but this is a bit of a miracle, coming from Kaehler geometry.
Addendum: After looking at this paper by Lurie linked in David's answer to another question (see David's comment), I see that all deformation problems, at least on the level of formal neighborhoods, are determined by some dglas. This is something I did not realize before; I guess, I never think about mathematics in this degree of abstraction. I did find it surprising though, that Lurie did not mention Deligne's letter and the paper by Goldman and Millson, maybe representation varieties do not appear among the deformation problems he was thinking about.


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On Friday, October 28, 2011, the YMCA of Philadelphia & Vicinity hosted its annual John Wanamaker Awards Gala at the elegant Loews Philadelphia Hotel. The event honored exceptional men and women for their efforts to educate, motivate and positively impact individuals, organizations and local communities. All proceeds from the gala have gone to provide financial assistance to one-in-four families that are served at the Y. Photography by Daniel Burke.
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Right i've been thinking lately about the next installment of the game and have made a list of things that i would like to see in the game in many areas. To start I will start with the weapons.
Weapons & Combat
More styles of combat, Kickboxing, Karate, Jiu Jitsu ect.
Weapons that suit that style of combat e.g Nunchaku (Karate), Katana Swords
More handheld weapons e.g Meat Cleaver, Machete, Pipe Bombs, Tear Gas (Like Vice City), Flashbangs, Dagger
M2 Browning machine guns, to mount and fire in missions with lots of enemies
Pancor Jackhammer shotgun
Lots of different gun shops that sell a certain type of weapon
BMX's to make a return
Possibly Skateboards for cool getaways from cops down alleys ect. that cars and bikes can't get down
More supercars, at the moment there is only a few supercars, Comet, Infernus, Turismo, Sultan RS. We need more cars that are like the Audi R8, Bugatti Veyron, Lamborghinis, Ferraris ect.
Jet Ski's (Like Vice City Stories)
Toyota Winglet Personal Transpot Assistant to be included would be nice
I would like Dune Buggys to be included for that off-road experience
(NEW)Tanks to re-appear, they are so much fun when you have completed the storyline.
(NEW)Aeroplanes to re-appear, mostly because they are good fun and better than Helicopters. (Especially the Dodo)
(NEW)More range of cars such as 3 wheelers and Caterman cars ect.
(NEW)Hand Gliders would be a nice touch.
(NEW)Lawnmowers would be a very fun inclusion.
(NEW)Combine Harvesters shuld make a return as well as Tractors.
Not another "Fresh off the boat guy" it just gets boring with the same starts most of the time.
Maybe an undercover cop that works hard and is honest until he is betrayed by his superiors and is deleted from the police database
Or possibly a protagonist that has been on the island for some time as some sort of drug exporter then a deal goes wrong and he gets framed (or something along those lines) and his friends and family turn against him. He then has to find who framed him and win back the trust of his family.
(NEW)I personally would like a protagonist that has the nationality of either Jamaican, Cuban, Columbian or even English.
Mixed cities is a must not 3 islands based on just NY. The most wanted cities are said to be Detroit, Chicago and Cleveland.
More enterable buildings, that can lead to robberies again such as the ones in GTA SA.
More pedestrians in certain cities, in GTA IV it was based in NY that is jam packed with pedestrians however there were not that many comapared to NY.
A few islands off the coast of the main island. Maybe a very small island based on Alaska or the Hawain islands.
A prison island just like Saints Row, however you could maybe go inside and visit characters that could possibly get arrested in missions ect.
More safehouses and this time with Garages or Underground parking.
Maybe even a garage that is near your safehouse. But not directly next to it, maybe a few streets away.
More up to date modern music
No specific channels for Music, like the english radio have channels that play a lot of different genres.
More references to previous characters
Be able to do missions with former protagonists.
(NEW)More side-missions to do. This time the side missions were boring like LJ's drug deals ect.
(NEW)Moe things to do with friends and more friends with special abilities.
(NEW)Or as an alternative have more than 1 special ability for each friend.
(NEW)More Comedy acts for the clubs like Split Sudes. Personally I would like Peter Kay and Lee Evans as well as a few other.(NEW)Maybe a Cinema that show short films related to old GTA games.
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A baby born months premature after his New York City parents were killed in a hit-and-run car accident died early Monday, authorities said.
The boy had been delivered by post-mortem caesarean section at a Manhattan hospital and weighed three pounds. He survived for about 30 hours after the crash Sunday that killed his parents, Nathan and Raizy Glauber, both 21 years old.
Ms. Glauber was about six months pregnant and suspected something was wrong with the fetus, police said. She and her husband were riding to a hospital in a private taxi when it was hit by a BMW, police said. The driver of the BMW fled, and a suspect was being sought Monday, police said.
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Cron? Launchd? iCal??
If so, how?
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For reference, all 3 options would work. The iCal option however has more limitations than the others.
(There are GUIs for editing cron and launchd as mentioned in other answers)
Cron is the most straight forward and well known and there are many tutorials available. The Coles Notes is to add the last line from below to your crontab (either by editing
In Mac OS X,
If you want to use
A sample run daily launchd plist (be sure the file and and the label are the same - minus the plist for the label) follows - this script is run everyday at 3 minutes past midnight:
It's also worth noting that launchd tasks if they were scheduled for when the computer is asleep or off, they will run when the computer becomes available again (turning it on or waking it up) - though only once no matter how many days it may have been. Edit: I just was at an Apple document that said that if the machine is off, then you will lose any launch events during that time, (your script will not launch on startup), (sleep does launch script on waking up)
Another option is to use "at" (check manual page with "man at"). The script can reschedule itself with e.g.:
(use "+ 10 minutes" instead of "tomorrow" to run it every 10 minutes; to stop scheduling, just do "at -l" to list the scheduled job ids and then "at -r id" to remove the job)
You may have to start the corresponding daemon (atrun) first with (see http://superuser.com/a/43680):
Advantages: quick fix, no sudo/root access needed, easy to do complicated schedule patterns Disadvantage: not standard scheduling method for OS X (which is launchd)
LaunchControl is another GUI for launchd/launchctl. While the alternatives mentioned by others are perfectly capable of launching a script on a daily basis, with LaunchControl you can configure complex schedules (like "once every weekday, on weekends every hour between 2PM and 8PM"). Also it is (AFAIK) the only tool which actually validates the job. If a job does not work as expected it will show you why.
It's free to try for as long as you want.
CronniX is a nice GUI frontend for scheduling cron jobs on the mac... Pretty decent if you don't want to go and delve into the cron documentation.
It depends on what you want: iCal scripts will only be executed if you are logged in,
An update: You can check out some apps in the Mac OS X App Store that do this:
Lingon also appears to be available as well, depending on which OS you are running.
I always use Lingon for this, but it looks like it's out of development. You could try Crontooie, but I've never used it personally. Or just edit the crontab file in the terminal.
...whatever command-lines you throw in for "....cut...." will get run every five minutes.
30 years of progress, and 'cron' is still my favorite scheduler.
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Under the assumption that I'm far enough out that I need to hike out on my own, and that I have someone who can help... what is the best way to immobilize a dislocated shoulder for a long hike out of the woods (5+ miles)?
You don't want to immobilize a dislocated shoulder. You really need to fix it. Even if held at just the right angle and not being jostled around, a dislocated shoulder hurts. After a while the muscles will tighten, then start spasming periodically. Then it really hurts and it becomes much more difficult to get it back in.
There are some dangers in getting a shoulder popped back in by a non-expert, but the downsides and practical near impossibility of hiking out any distance with a dislocated shoulder outweigh them.
Once the shoulder is popped back in, the person will immediately feel better. It will be sore and will be in danger of popping out again easily, but it won't hurt anymore. Now is the time to arrange some sort of sling to keep the lower arm roughly accross the belly and tied down so that it isn't used, even if accidentally. Little things we normaly can take for granted can pop it out again, but not when the lower arm is held accross the belly.
First do a proper assessment and determine that it's actually a dislocation and not another problem or that there isn't also another injury in addition to the dislocation. This requires the proper training which is beyond the scope of this medium. This is not a substitute for proper training.
So you've done the assessment and there are no life-threatening issues or other injuries to complicate treatment of the dislocation. If possible, it needs to be reduced, which means you want to get the shoulder back in its proper place. There are several techniques for this, but the primary one being taught in Wilderness First Aid classes is called the Stimson maneuver:
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This is simply a summary and not an exhaustive step-by-step. I skipped many things that should be done as part of any proper patient assessment and treatment. Any first-time dislocations should evac because of possible complications. If it is not a first time then do a proper assessment and determine whether it's needed based on information from the patient.
Again I can not emphasize enough that this is not a substitute for proper training. It's highly possible for the mechanism of injury (MOI) that caused the dislocation to have cause other injuries that need treatment, some of which could be life threatening. That's where the proper assessment is key.
Sources: My own training through both NOLS WMI and ARC is the primary resource I pulled from. The links referenced outline the the same basic procedure with slight variations since my training is intended for a backcountry environment with no immediate access to primary medical care.


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Just exploring the nether, found my first nether fortress, and lots of netherwart. Wanting to start brewing potions in the nether fortress, but getting a source of water is problematic. Is there a way to get water into the nether in vanilla minecraft (i.e. no mods)? I'd like an unlimited water source if possible.
The easiest way is to build a portal nearby, travel to the normal world, fill your glass vials with water there and bring those back to the Nether. You can fill as many vials as you can fit in your inventory and it won't take much time out of your brewing schedule.
You could also keep water in the Nether in a cauldron, but as that only holds 3 vials worth, it's slower than simply bringing the water to the Nether in vials.
In versions of Minecraft before the current 1.0.0 release, you could use the Silk Touch enchantment to get Ice blocks, and break them in the Nether to produce water source blocks. However, this was patched, and they won't create water in the Nether anymore.
The only way to place water in the Nether, currently, is to place a Cauldron and fill it with water. Sadly, it isn't as good as an infinite source, as it can only fill 3 Glass Bottles before needing to be refilled, but it's the only option for brewing in the Nether at the moment.
You really can't have a source of water legitimately in the nether, you can only put it from a bucket to a cauldron in vanilla.
You would need to use mods such as TooManyItems to spawn pure water that's not in a bucket. It looks like vertically flowing water in the GUI. This is the only way to get placeable water in the nether. It won't sizzle, but be placed instead and flow.
One way to kind of keep the vanilla feel would be to make a bucket, find a water source, and "scoop up" the water by just giving yourself a water block and having the bucket empty.
Only raw water can be placed in the Nether. If your single-player world has cheats enabled or you are an op on a multiplayer server, use
Real simple crete two ender chests, keep one and one world and the other in the nether fill it with buckets of water you can keep up to 27 buckets in an Ender chest it's the easiest way to get water in the nether
Ice Blocks can still be used in the Nether to create water, in 1.1. These can be obtained by mining them with a tool that has the silk touch enchantment.
you can't place water in the nether but you can get water in the nether by placing ice blocks and melting them.
Do /give [player] 79. Then place it somewhere that the will melt.
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The Little House Books: Farmer Boy
Sometimes he woke in the morning and heard rain drumming on the roof. That meant he and Father might go fishing.
He didn't dare speak to Father about fishing, because it was wrong to waste time in idleness. Even on rainy days there was plenty to do. Father might mend harness, or sharpen tools, or shave shingles. Silently Almanzo ate breakfast, knowing that Father was struggling against temptation. He was afraid Father's conscience would win.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy
In my review of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, I didn't have much room to talk about Farmer Boy, her second novel, which is about her husband Almanzo's childhood on an upstate New York farm. Farmer Boy is independent from the rest of the series, although it does fill out the character of Almanzo (who returns as an adult in By the Shores of Silver Lake) and his sister Eliza Jane, who grew up to be Laura's hapless schoolteacher.
My essay focused on the development of the character of Laura, who of course is absent from Farmer Boy. But I was sorry to leave that one out, because in addition to being a very entertaining book, it illustrates just how skillful a fiction writer Laura Ingalls Wilder was. The other books are difficult to categorize, falling as they do somewhere between fiction and memoir -- hence Wilder's assurance "I lived everything that happened in my books." Clearly, Farmer Boy is the exception; though she must have heard all about Almanzo's boyhood, she wasn't there. The Wilder children – so different from the Ingallses, but just as vivid and credible – are largely her invention.
The book has a lighter tone; unlike the Ingalls family, the Wilders seem free from financial worries. Almanzo is a classic "growing boy," always either eating or hungry, and the book is full of lovingly detailed descriptions of food. The adult Wilder seems fascinated by her husband's experience of growing up with plenty of everything instead of just enough.
However different their circumstances, the Wilders are like the Ingallses in that they live by a strong moral code and value industriousness. All the children work hard running the farm, and the throughline of the book is Almanzo's love of horses and his need to prove himself responsible and mature enough to care for a colt of his own. It's not nearly as dreary as I've just made it sound, though; it opens with a bang, right in the middle of a dramatic showdown at school between some local toughs and their new teacher and next victim. There's also a wonderful chapter where Almanzo's parents go away for a week and leave the kids to fend for themselves. (It turns out bossy Eliza Jane isn't so bad after all.) And the sequence where Almanzo finally punches his annoying cousin Frank—on Christmas day!—is delightful.
The grownup Almanzo remains a bit of a mystery, at least in his role as Laura's beau. As I note in my essay, Laura never really falls for him; the reader waits in vain for her to suddenly discover she's in love. Their courtship is friendly and their engagement practical, not passionate. Wilder never even indulges in a wink when Almanzo first appears on the scene -- "Little did Laura know that someday she would see that young man on the hay wagon again" or anything like that. But she does make him out to be a hero in The Long Winter, where he courageously saves the town from starvation by riding out into the freezing snow to find a stash of grain. And before that, in Farmer Boy, Wilder gives loving shape to the child she imagines he must have been. It may be that the author was most comfortable showing her love for her husband indirectly, by immortalizing him in her work.
(See my previous post on the Little House books here.)
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It's been a while since i read the book, but i thought he was kind of unheroic in the The Long Winter. Didn't he hide his seed grain behind a fake wall while the town was starving?
If you want to leave virtual flowers and a note at his and Laura's graves:
I forgot to say that Farmer Boy is also a good introduction to Wilder for any young male readers who are under the impression that the Little House books are "for girls."
I'm only making inferences based on my grandmothers' families who homesteaded in northern Michigan, but I think romance was pretty far down the list of things women looked for in husbands in those days. You were looking for security in an insecure place and time, somebody who seemed healthy, steady, and knowledgable about animal husbandry and crop rotation. My great-grandmother's journal mentions her chickens and kitchen garden about ten times more often than it refers to my great-grandfather. When he does show up, there's merely a notation about what he got done that day ("Tom painted Mrs. Adgate's stoop." "Tom with farrier all day." "Tom with Mark at livestock sale.")
When my dad wanted to marry my mother, he said her parents asked a lot of no-nonsense questions about his financial acumen and job prospects of which they were suspicious because he drove a two-door coupe and wore loud ties. It sounds funny, but my grandparents thought romance was a pretty flimsy notion to build a married life on.
Well, the pioneer generation was a bit more reticent in talking about the things of the heart than ours is. But I don't know that I would say that they weren't interested in romance. My mother interviewed her grandmother (born in 1887) at length and recorded the story of her life. It sounded as if she and great-granddad fell pretty hard for each other from the first time they met. Marrying at a young age was much more common. That great-grandma married at 18, another one married at 16.
An interesting book for anyone interested in the life, loves, and concerns of pioneer women, let me recommend "Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey" (Lillian Schlissel and Carl Degler) which I may have refer'd on the other thread about LIW.
His parents were none too restrained in naming their children.
Farmer Boy is free online. Here's the page where little Almanzo's teacher, Mr. Corse, ox-whips big bad boys in the one-room schoolhouse:


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This question is related to an earlier question I asked Should I schedule my tasks with deadlines?
Recently, I've had break from work for two months, so I focused on my personal projects. My experience was that Parkinson's law is very real. In case of infinite time available, i.e. without deadline, tasks fill up infinite time and progress painstakingly slow. Procrastination and distraction become really big issues. So I've switched to scheduling and setting deadlines for my personal projects as well. For example, "read X pages from book Y by next Sunday".
One thing I was wondering about is if I should also set penalties for myself when I miss a deadline and what the penalty should be. Otherwise, I have a feeling that deadlines by themselves wouldn't be very effective.


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As he frequently does, Fr. Robert Imbelli had an admiring post last week about something Pope Benedict had recently said. Titled Images of Gratitude, the post linked to Benedicts remarks on the occasion of his being made an honorary citizen of Freising, Germany, where he had attended seminary in the years immediately after World War II. With a few exceptions, most of the comments on Fr. Imbellis post were positive reactions to the popes sentiments and his intensely parochial piety.I eventually read Benedicts address to the townspeople of Freising. I thought it unexceptional and thereby perfectly suited to the blandness of this particular civic ritual. Popes and other public figures have to say such things all the time. What I found surprising was the adulation the popes remarks elicited. His appreciative recollections concerned family, neighbors, Catholic feast days, walks in the countryside, the numinous aura of Freisings medieval cathedral, and cherished memories of his ordination. At the seminary we were one family, the pope recalls, and Freising became a real homeland to us, and as a homeland it lives on in my heart. The war and the crimes of Nazi Germany are mentioned, but seem vague and distant shadows in Benedicts telling of the hardships and joys, the cold dormitories, study halls, and so forth of his seminary training. Tellingly, he concludes by praising the real Bavarian culture of his youth.It was curious, at least to me, that Benedict spoke nostalgically of what was in fact a desperate and nightmarish time. One explanation for this, of course, must have been his relief that the war was over and the Nazis vanquished. Still, most of Germany lay in utter ruins, tens of millions of Germans were dead, and millions more forcibly displaced or imprisoned. Hundreds of thousands of German women had been raped. The Jews of Germany had been almost entirely exterminated. Yet the pope hints at little of this in his recollections of a somehow still pristine postwar Bavaria. Instead, and in familiar Ratzinger fashion, we get a paean to an idealized version of German village life--of being part of a whole--before the disruptions and depredations of our modern, technological age. Benedicts admirers cast him as forward-looking, but that is hard to square with his ardent longing for the old rite[s] and venerable homeland of his German youth, and his determination to leave unmentioned the poisonous ethnic, cultural, and political hatreds that destroyed the world he idealizes. (Freising is but a stones throw from Dachau.)Benedict is a formidable theologian from whom all of us have a great deal to learn. Yet as a cultural critic, he has his blind spots.Perplexed by Benedicts remarks, I asked a friend who lived in Germany for many years to explain to me what Benedict meant when he praised real Bavarian culture. His response follows.
The interesting and to me key moment, rhetorically and symbolically, is Benedicts evocation of the Munich airport, which he acknowledges is impressive, modern, and specifically cosmopolitan ("global and open to the world")--then goes on in effect to dismiss these qualities over against the abiding loftiness of faith and the immensity and beauty of the Bavarian alpine landscape. This trope is the key to the values underlying "Bavarian culture." It is profoundly rural, village-based, anti-urban and anti-cosmopolitan. Thus is Munich referred to by its residents--proudly--as "not a city, but the worlds biggest village." The Bavarian culture he refers to culminates annually in Christmas, which draws together the religious with the all-important village rituals, lavish festive cooking and baking, and handcrafts. The wood carvings. The endless elaborated crches. The caroling. Those immense horns they play. The festive garb. Its one of those cultural places where Christianity sits most happily and comfortably atop the prior pagan seasonal rituals.A fathomless sentimentality draws together these recollections for older Germans, and especially for Bavarians--a virtual cult of Heimat (ones home place) expressed through effusive feelings of Heimweh (longing for home). The walks through fields and along river banks are standard props of these pastoral Heimat nostalgia narratives. That they are a bit foggy and overly generic coming from Benedict may indicate either the brevity of that time in his life, or the competing clang and clamor of the wartime reality he seems intent on excludingor even perhaps something perfunctory in his rendering of them for this audience. It would be exactly what they expect and want to hear, after all; hes singing their song.What he needs, as antidote to this sentimentality, is a viewing of Austrian director Michael Hanekes new film The White Ribbon. Heimat and Heimweh are the reason such films are made.
As pope, Benedict has expended much of his energy promoting traditional markers of European Catholic identity. Unfortunately, there are some very dark threads running through the Bavarian culture Benedict remembers so partially. Few of us are reliable historians when it comes to understanding the world that surrounded us in our youth. Popes are no exception.
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Perhaps Paul Baumann is too hard on many of those commenting on Benedicts Freising remarks. Like me, most probably didnt read the full text but were simply touched by the image of the cathedral spires and what Benedict, who really has a gift for this kind of preaching, did with it. The point of the image could have been made with any cathedral spires, anywhere, and for many readers Freising and Bavaria probably didnt have much to do with it. Nonetheless, Pauls observation about Benedicts weakness for an uncritical nostalgia about the church and culture of his Bavarian boyhood is salutary. It also points to something else that has long puzzled me: the near obsession with celebrating the popewhatever popeon the part of some Catholic intellectuals. I can understand the place of this kind of hero-worship on the part of people who have neither the leisure nor the formation for the kind of critical reflection that is the responsibility (and curse) of intellectuals. In the simplest dwellings around the world, including those of many of my forebears, there have been honored pictures of Pius IX, Pius XII, FDR, JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr., and now Obama. Fine. They are symbols of loyalty, gratitude, and hope, pure and simple. No more than the pictures of triumphant athletes that often hang alongside them does one expects them to call to mind the tragic failures, personal weaknesses, mixed political legacies, or aborted potential of such heroes. When I find the equivalent of such pictures hanging in the minds of first-rate intellectuals, however, I cannot help but wonder. I confess that a great deal of reading in the very spotted history of the Left in the twentieth century has forced me to ponder the resemblance of papal adulation by some Catholic intellectuals to that of various Great Leaders from Lenin to Fidel to Mao by some left-wing intellectuals. When I once suggested this parallel out loud, my friend Jean Bethke Elshtain was appalled. Was I suggesting that John Paul II resembled Stalin? Of course not. Those who sang Stalins praises had to willfully blind themselves to many of his deeds, while those who sang John Pauls praises had the very contrary at hand. Nonetheless, there seemed something disturbingly similar in this impulse, and not just in the case of John Paul the Great, to highlight and extol virtually every papal deed and statement while finding a way to deflect or ignore rebut almost all criticism. Since no popes in modern times compete with Stalin or Castro or Mao in perfidy, the effect of this papal adulation on the world at large is probably negligible. Its effect on the church may be otherwise. That has changed, of course, in the decades since Vatican II. The cult of papal adulation has been joined now with a kind of mirror cult of papal denigration, especially in the case of Benedict. Both cults spring from the same soil. And both are nourished by another reality, what might be called the tactical use of papalotry. No one with any close knowledge of how official statements and sometimes even personal theology are written can be unaware of the practice of plastering the underlying argument with a defensive layer of papal proof texts. No one with any close knowledge of the Catholic hierarchy is unaware that leading bishops can disagree strongly with papal actions. Yet they almost never say so, not even in the most charitable terms. What kind of freedom in Christ is that? But the practical effect of all this does not bother me, though perhaps it should, as much as the questions it raises about the Catholic intellect. Catholic thinkers are well aware that the guidance of the Holy Spirit has not worked straightforwardly in the history of the popes and, furthermore, that there has not even been a clear relationship between personal sanctity or theological acumen and institutional leadership. I pay attention when Benedict issues an encyclical. I welcome it as an occasion to reexamine my own thinking and choices. But knowing how many papal encyclicals are justly forgotten today, I do not feel the need to treat it as inspired or devise complicated excuses for why he should not be held responsible for the parts of it that seem to be wanting. Why should grown-up, well-educated Catholics indulge in this tendency to treat the pope like the Dalai Lama? (Or, on the other hand, like Torquemada?) It seems childish. It gives a bad witness to the maturity and the integrity of our faith.
Mr. Baumann --This reminds me of a remark a young German friend once made. She had sung some German folk songs for a group of us. I remarked how beautiful the songs were. She replied, "Ah, yes. We Germans are very clever. We write lovely songs and march armies into France".Doesn't this express the human half of the existential problem of evil -- that we are capable of producing both good and evil, beauty and horror? And why should a German ignore the good? Especially one who didn't know at the tilme the horrors being done at Dachau? It's the Pope's speech at Auschwitz that deserved criticism for what it didn't say. I agree with you that he does have cultural blinders on, and they unfortunately deform his view of what the Church ought to be. But I think he has a right to praise what was and is good about Germany.
Someone my father hired as a chemist in the mid to late 1950s had emigrated from Poland to the United States and rather quickly became somewhat prosperous working with my father and also buying apartment buildings. He and his wife, nevertheless, said of just about everything you could imagine, "It was so much better in the old country." My guess is that the United States was a much better place to live than 1950s Poland. Nostalgia is very powerful and sometimes and sometimes dramatically at variance for what the past was really like.
On the one hand, I do think we have to be careful not to demand that one have to say everything about everything upon every occasion, and particularly on such an occasion as the one described.On the other hand, Ratzinger has often displayed a real affection, bordering on nostalgia, for the simpler, more firmly rooted life evoked here. During the Council, in an essay describing four distinct meanings that might be given to the word world, he listed as the second the concrete world not only as created by God but as shaped and marked by man himself. To illustrate it, he referred to the biblical notion that the first city was founded by the fratricide Cain or by his son, symbolic of the world as marked by man, a judgment on technological realities. The biblical author sees it as marked by human pride, by the hubris of one who wants to manage without God. Jacques Ellul in our own time revived that biblical tradition about Cain building the first city.While on the subject, I note that Newman, in his description of the ethos typical of the Benedictine monk wrote this paragraph: The monk proposed to himself no great or systematic work, beyond that of saving his soul. What he did more than this was the accident of the hour, spontaneous acts of piety, the sparks of mercy or beneficence, struck off in the heat, as it were, of his solemn religious toil, and done and over almost as soon as they began to be. If to-day he cut down a tree, or relieved the famishing, or visited the sick, or taught the ignorant, or transcribed a page of Scripture, this was a good in itself, though nothing was added to it to-morrow. He cared little for knowledge, even theological, or for success, even it was religious. It is the character of such a man to be contented, resigned, patient, and incurious; to create or originate nothing; to live by tradition. He does not analyze, he marvels; his intellect attempts no comprehension of this multiform world, but on the contrary, it is hemmed in, and shut up within it. It recognizes but one cause in nature and in human affairs, and that is the First and Supreme; and why things happen day by day in this way, and not in that, it refers immediately to His will. It loves the country, because it is His work; but man made the town, and he and his works are evil. This is what may be called the Benedictine idea, viewed in the abstract; and, as being such, I gave it, in my former Essay, the title of poetical, when contrasted with that of other religious orders.The internal quote is from Cowper:God made the country, and man made the town.What wonder then that health and virtue, giftsThat can alone make sweet the bitter draughtThat life holds out to all, should most aboundAnd least be threatend in the fields and groves?
I was at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers in 2008 for Benedict's visit, and for what it's worth, he struck a less nostalgic tone in his address to "young people" there.
My own years as a teenager were marred by a sinister regime that thought it had all the answers; its influence grew infiltrating schools and civic bodies, as well as politics and even religion before it was fully recognized for the monster it was. It banished God and thus became impervious to anything true and good. Many of your grandparents and great-grandparents will have recounted the horror of the destruction that ensued. Indeed, some of them came to America precisely to escape such terror.
He hardly exhausted the subject, of course, and I know some found what he did say too detached and passive. But it was memorable. His delivery grew much more emotional when he got to this part (vs. the dispassionate reading-from-a-page that characterized most of the talk) -- I remember very vividly his use of the word "monster," and the way his expression darkened as he said it.
I thought Peter's post was excellent.We just had a Commonweal issue on theology.How about a follow up thread on where to go in the current papcy amd environment with critical thinking in the Church? (And ecumenically as cardinal Kaspar and others seek out a kind of state of the question of where it's at?)
"before it was fully recognized for the monster it was" This is a really problematic statement, and part of the frustration, I think, that many of us have with the Benedictine nostalgic musings -- it was NOT recognized for a monster -- certainly not by anything approaching a majority of Germans -- without the horrible external intervention that we now call WWII. It wasn't recognized as a monster until the monster had been beaten to a bloody pulp, along with those who fed it, who were forced to stop. It's the apparent lack of self-recognition that the monster wasn't entirely "other" that rankles and makes what appear to be gentle, innoucuous comments about idyllic Bavarian farming life seem more suspicious than they ought to be.
The thing that struck me was the contrast between the city and the village. American Catholicism, the Catholicism of immigrants is very much the Catholicism of cities. I think it would be interesting to have him and Peggy Steinfels --with her wonderful memoir--talking about urban and rural forms of "thick" Catholicism.
The first 4 words perfectly, if inadvertently, adumbrate the tone of this post. Priceless!It's not that there isn't an interesting point to be made here about how subjective and personal memory can be --there is--but the post is cloaked in an animus that is soun-Benedictian that the reader is left wondering if the author made a large wager on the Colts.
Whatever my undoubted demerits, I seem to possess the singular ability to provoke both Peter and Paul to regrettably rare appearances.From the wiles and snares of papalotry, good Pope John, deliver us!
In judgments about when the "monster" was recognized for what it was, don't we need to add some qualifiers indicating by whom it was recognized, or not?
Actually, I found the Pope's talk charming -- but then I am a nostalgist of the same ilk -- a devotee of such places as Heidegger's Messkirch. Benedict is steeped in German literary culture -- which centers on glowing villages and quiet rural places. His favorite writer is Theodor Storm (also a very popular writer during the 3rd Reich, but that can't be held against him). Has that old world of rural rootedness been lost? No doubt. Heidegger says we have to find roots elsewhere, in Thought, and Benedict might say the same.
Why should grown-up, well-educated Catholics indulge in this tendency to treat the pope like the Dalai Lama?The older I get the more I realize that Catholicism has more than its fair share of near and actual idolatries: Latin The papacy Marianism The cult of saints AuthorityI know that conservative Protestants have their idolS in bibliolatry and churchianity, but one should expect more Godcenteredness in the Catholicism-of-the-road than one finds. Way too much time is spent focusing on those accidentals that have the tendency to direct ones attention away from the substance of faith.
Cathleen Kaveny: "The thing that struck me was the contrast between the city and the village. American Catholicism, the Catholicism of immigrants is very much the Catholicism of cities."Yes indeed, and does that make US Catholicism culturally different from virtually every other variant? including that of our neighbor (my geographical neighbor, at any rate, 60 miles away) to the north, in Quebec?) Does it mean that US Catholic nostalgia therefore rather different from other kinds of Catholic nostalgia? I know too little about Bavarian (or Austrian) senses of Heimat and Heimweh to say anything intelligent (except that they easily become kitschy), but the notion that real culture, real values, real people are rooted in the country rather than the city is very common. Why does Garrison Keillor preach to his educated urban audiences about the realities of Lake Wobegon? a contrast, perhaps, to the falsities of Chicago or New York? Look at US populism today in its various manifestations, still alive and well generations after William Jennings Bryan. What was it that defeated Al Smith in 1928? Was it mostly his Catholicism? or was it his mostly his urbanism, at a time that the US was undergoing a wrenching transtition from small town agrarianism to modern urban industrialism?Nothing to do with Benedict, of course, or (I hope) American populism, but the terrible modern example of this sense of rural reality vs. urban falsity is seen in Chairman Mao, leader of a victorious peasant revolution and notoriously distrustful of dangerous cities that produce dangerous ideas, dangerous institutions, and dangerous ways of living. Shanghai, the most prominent example of such dangers, was held back, kept poor, punished, so to speak, for its modernity, from 1949 until the late 1980s (and now look at it!).So perhaps American Catholic nostalgia is unique in looking back, not to the village church, but to the urban parish, its feasts and festivals of the kind Robert Orsi writes about, and the good old days before Vatican II, when we still knew which was was up. (But I don't come out of urban Catholicism, so I don't really know).
"So perhaps American Catholic nostalgia is unique in looking back, not to the village church, but to the urban parish"I would think that an appealing feature of Catholic European village nostalgia is that the ideal village (I speculate) would be one in which there were no denominational differences: everyone in the village belongs to the same church, which is in the center of the village, thus serving as a visual and physical as well as spiritual focal point for village life. When the church bell rings, the entire town gathers. When a town meeting is required, it is held in the church. That sort of thing. I believe the Holy Father 's reminiscences of the Cathedral conjure this picture, at least a little.Speaking as one who grew up as a Catholic in American small towns: small-town America is multi-denominational. Many of Jean Raber's comments here bear that out, istm. Having also lived for a number of years in Chicago, I would think that the urban Catholic enclave might actually come closer to the single-denomination European vilage ideal than an American small town. (In Chicago, the urban Catholic ghetto certainly still exists, but Spanish is now the vernacular). In the town where I grew up, it wasn't big enough for enclaves (except for the African American neighborhood). The downtown area has a Catholic church, a Presbyterian church and an Episcopal church cheek by jowl (think I'm remembering the denominations). I believe all three are now historical register sites. My experience of small town American life, and I think Jean's comments also bear this out at least a little, is that the denominational differences are a little rawer than is the case in the city or 'burbs - they still chafe a bit.
There is a definite strain in Benedict which avoids reality. He was a comfortable progressive until it got uncomfortable. He does talk about the monster of Nazism. Yet he tries to absolve the German people from it. Bavaria is a beautiful countryside. But the times that he speaks of were perhaps the worst or among the worst in human history. B16 talks about the one true, pure church but hardly recognizes the scoundrels who have led it. He mistakenly sees membership in the church as having all the gifts and forgetting that unity with the Crucifed Christ is the most desirable Christian position.
Well, of course, we in the US have a very ambivalent view of small towns--and religious homgeneneity. Our Town an The Lottery. The City on a Hill and Salem. I wonder whether the idea of small towns is as ambivalent in Germany.
What a strange post, even by dotCommonweal standards.I enjoyed the Pope's address, as I enjoy his writing in general. The image of the cathedral spires touching, but was more impressed by the way the Pope threaded together his memories in the place itself. I think Paul really missed the point here. I find a real joy, depth and generosity of spirit in Pope Benedict's homilies.I find the same qualities in Fr. Imbelli's posts and hope they continue.
The German post-WWII generation deserves praise for firmly establishing democracy in that country. They have acknowledged the evil of that time and their profound guilt, arguably more satisfactorily than the Japanese. And its certainly conceivable that some of these German leaders, far from being rootless cosmopolitans, drew strength from their Bavarian roots. Henry Kissinger, Fritz Stern and others have said as much - it shouldn't be controversial.
"a strain that avoids reality" -- surely this is so, though perhaps we all have some of that strain.It does become quaint when that strain is so out of sync with immense public office.What would we think if President Obama went on about old times in rural America etc.? The Pope gets away with it because he is so very old.
"What would we think if President Obama went on about old times in rural America etc.? "It's a theme that Sarah Palin has been known to invoke.


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WHEELING - Once profitable table gambling is now a liability at Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack, as the venue is on pace to lose about $1 million due to running poker, craps, roulette and blackjack this year.
That projected operating loss does not include the $2.5 million annual fee the track must pay the West Virginia Lottery Commission to operate the table games.
"We have done everything we can to reduce our costs and to increase our customer base, but our ability to drive revenue is very limited now," said Jim Simms, president and general manager of the Wheeling track.
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LOSING MONEY — Gamblers enjoy a round of craps at Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack. Jim Simms, president and general manager of the track, said the facility is on pace to lose about $1 million this year from running table gambling. This does not include the $2.5 million annual fee the facility must pay to have the games. -- Casey Junkins
Information Simms provided shows that through the first two months of 2012, the track only lost $3,365 on table gambling. For the first two months of this year, however, the loss totals $171,407. A major difference between 2012 and 2013 is that the Hollywood Casino Columbus opened in the fall, taking away some of Wheeling's loyal customer base.
"The competition we are now facing from both Ohio and Pennsylvania - combined with the fact that table games are a very labor intensive venture - is making our situation very difficult," Simms noted.
Simms said there are now 105 track employees whose jobs are tied directly to table gambling, each of whom he thanks for their efforts. The number of employees has declined over the past few years in response to the drop in business, as there were more table gambling dealers when the games began in late 2007.
"I take great pride in my responsibility to keep the business stable - and to keep our associates in a comfortable working position," he said. "But if we have to pay this $2.5 million fee again, we are going to have to seriously consider whether to continue offering table games."
Simms emphasized that no decision has been made regarding the table games. The track's current table gambling license does not expire until July 13, about three months after Simms plans to leave his post as the general manager at the facility; he recently accepted an opportunity to open a new casino in Lebanon, Ohio.
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Other West Virginia tracks, all of which now offer table gambling and slot machines, include Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort in Chester, the Mardi Gras West Virginia Casino & Hotel (formerly Tri-State Racetrack) near Charleston and the Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races in the Eastern Panhandle.
Most of the impetus for legalizing table gambling in West Virginia in 2007 centered around Wheeling Island and Mountaineer projecting slot machine revenue losses when Pennsylvania plugged in its slots. Leaders from both Northern Panhandle casinos intensely lobbied the West Virginia Legislature to permit table gambling to proceed in the state, emphasizing it would allow them to maintain an edge over the Pennsylvania facilities, while also creating new jobs.
Following much debate, including spirited discussions over how much tax to levy on the games, the Legislature eventually agreed to tax table gambling at a 35 percent rate, in addition to applying the $2.5 million annual fee on each of the four racetracks.
However, legislators also agreed to allow residents of the four counties that are home to the racetracks to vote on whether to allow table gambling. Under the campaign "Jobs for Ohio County," the Wheeling track convinced voters to allow the games. By the end of 2007, roulette wheels were spinning on Wheeling Island.
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Since West Virginia adopted table gambling at the 35 percent tax level with the $2.5 million annual fee, both Ohio and Pennsylvania have introduced slot machines and table gambling at brand new facilities in Pittsburgh, Columbus and other areas. Pennsylvania taxes its table games at no more than 16 percent, while Ohio charges 33 percent.
For slot machines, Pennsylvania taxes at a 55 percent clip, while Ohio levies the same 33 percent rate it does for tables. West Virginia charges about a 42 percent tax for slot machines, though Simms said the "effective slot tax rates" for Wheeling Island are about 57 percent because of purse funds, breeders' funds and local supplements.
"As long as we are going to be taxed at rates higher than our competition, we are at a complete disadvantage. They have brand new facilities in prime locations. They have deeper pockets for promotions and marketing," Simms said of the Ohio and Pennsylvania casinos.
Simms said he would like the Legislature to "have a discussion" about taxation for table gambling in West Virginia, especially the $2.5 million annual fee.
"I am asking for this issue to be escalated before the (legislative) session closes so that we can find a solution," he said regarding the current regular legislative session set to end April 13.
Simms said there are several potential ways the Legislature could help resolve the problem, including the possibility of applying the fee on the state's four casinos in a more equitable manner that would be based on how much business each property actually does, rather than just charging each one $2.5 million.
"That $2.5 million that we pay ends up going to different charitable groups. We are absolutely not trying to take money from those organizations that we are glad to support," he said. "All we are asking for is to have a discussion to see if there is any way the Legislature can revisit this issue."
Simms said he has "the highest regard" for Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, Senate President Jeff Kessler, D-Glen Dale, and House Speaker Richard Thompson, D-Wayne.
"We are raising this issue now because we need to keep our business competitive. Anytime there is a loss of jobs, it hurts the community," Simms said.
"Our people have been through so much here, with floods and various other challenges along the way. The least I can do for them before I leave is to try to find a solution to this problem so we can keep the table games going," he added.


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Let $\delta$ denote a non-zero complex algebraic differential operator in a single variable x. That is, it can be written as a sum $$ \delta = \sum_i f_i\partial_x^i$$ where there $f_i$ are complex polynomials in x.
Let $R=\mathbb{C}[x]$, and consider the image of $\delta$ as a map on R. As a subspace of $R$, does $Im(\delta)$ always contain an non-trivial ideal?
It does in every case I can think of where there is some trick I can use to understand the image better:
- When $\delta$ is a function.
- When $\delta$ is a constant coefficient differential operator.
- When $\delta$ has order 1.
- When $\delta$ is homogeneous for the Euler grading; that is, it takes monomials to monomials.
It seems like it should be related to the simpler fact that $\delta$ is zero if $\delta$ kills functions of unboundedly high degree, which can be shown from the Formal Continuity of differential operators.
Remark. For more than one variable, the above question is false. If $\delta=x\partial_x-y\partial_y$, then $\delta$ is homogeneous for the Euler bigrading (it takes monomials to monomials), but it kills all monomials of the form $x^iy^i$. Since any monomial ideal in $\mathbb{C}[x,y]$ must contain some monomial of this form, the image of this $\delta$ contains no ideal.


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The Pottsville Maroons and the Cardinals Curse continue to get a lot of attention. Last week there were inquiries from Philly sports radio, the YES Network and newspapers in Tampa, Fla., and Allentown and Easton, Pa. I'm sure there will be even more attention during the buildup to the Super Bowl, so as a service to curious NFL fans, here's a quick primer on the facts of the Cards Curse and the Maroons' stolen championship.
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Copass' attorney argued the prosecution did not meet an earlier deadline to have the death penalty as an option.
"We had to file a notification early on. That's what we did. If the lay of the land changes later on it would give the option out there. If we didn't file the notice it wouldn't even be available," Willis says.
"The motion to exclude death as an option has been withdrawn by the defendant," said Judge Janet Crocker in court.
In a July 26th interview with the victim's grandmother, she told WBKO she did not want Copass to get the death penalty.
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"I just want to see him punished before I do die," Mahaney said.
Any further motions pertaining to this case need to be filed by December 15th.