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and they seem to be Russian.
The Washington Post quotes a Ukranian military official:
Russian forces in two armored columns captured a key southeastern coastal town near the Russian border Thursday after Ukrainian forces retreated in the face of superior firepower, a Ukrainian military spokesman said.
The two Russian columns, including tanks and armored fighting vehicles, entered the town of Novoazovsk on the Sea of Azov after a battle in which Ukrainian army positions came under fire from Grad rockets launched from Russian territory, according to the spokesman, Col. Andriy Lysenko.
"Our border servicemen and guardsmen retreated as they did not have heavy equipment," Lysenko said in a statement.
Ukrainian authorities have denounced the latest fighting as a Russian invasion of their territory, intended to prop up pro-Moscow separatists who have been losing ground to Ukrainian forces and to open a new front in the southeastern corner of Ukraine.
I suspect much more news will be forthcoming in the next hours. Here is the New York Times on the President's news conference:
Mr. Obama declined to call the latest reports of Russian military units moving into Ukraine an invasion, as others have, saying they are "not really a shift" but "a little more overt" version of longstanding violations of Ukrainian sovereignty. "I consider the actions that we've seen in the last week a continuation of what's been taking place for months now," he said. "These separatists are backed, trained, armed, financed by Russia. Throughout this process we've seen deep Russian involvement in everything that they've done."
Mr. Obama's tone was strikingly more restrained than that of his ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, who earlier in the day bluntly accused Russia of lying about its military intervention in Ukraine. In a blistering statement to the Security Council, Ms. Power said "the mask is coming off" Russia's actions, which she called "a threat to all of our peace and security."
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Rev. Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, is Associate Professor of Theology Emeritus at Boston College.
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I would say that the end of Putin's regime will be a good day, but I've learned that what follows could be worse.
Be careful when digesting Western propaganda Ryan. Putin has been proven correct geopolitically more than he has been proven incorrect. Put his record up against the US in that regard and see how things stack up!
Meanwhile, Russia is flatly denying this. According to RT
The Western media has been exploding with allegations, with everyone from the CNN to the New York Times going about the task in a very similar manner: quoting Ukrainian politicians' views on Russia, as well as US figures, the ambassador to Ukraine and the State Department. One similarity could be spotted: they all centered on passionate statements - no evidence - and were followed by a big background into things that took place over the past week.
Whenever there was any mention of someone actually seeing Russian tanks, it seemed a mobile phone was never on hand to take a photograph.
This is just like the situation when the airplane was shot down. Here is the American state department in action! The reporter who questions her is great! No evidence except for social media! I guess the state department now hires valley girls!
NATO released some satellite pictures.
Back in an era when playground bullies used fists, and not assault rifles, it was considered unwise to make fun of the bully when one had nothing but a corner behind him. Mr. Obama and his "team" keep calling Putin names, but if you look at the map, it's hard to see Ukraine as anything but a corner. Why make fun of the bully when he knows we can't hurt him but he can hurt us? Besides, in this case, Mr. Putin may have more history on his side than we do. A good analysis of what he might just possibly be thinking is Mary Elise Sarotte's essay in Foreign Affairs (it may be behind a wall):
Regardless of the rights and wrongs, though, all the dancing around and shadow boxing on our side is just empty gesture when not even the tag team of McCain and Graham is calling for our boots on what has been their ground for ages.
And besides, aren't the editors urging Mr. Obama to prepare us for our next Great Adventure in Iraq? ISIS has, so far, been deemed worse than bin Laden, Stalin, Hitler and Genghis Khan, which shows our talking class has a better feel for metaphor than for history. It is hard to see how we can do much against ISIS when our leaders are divided on the causes of the problem. The Democrats blame W. Bush for breaking the pottery, which, as an explanation for ISIS, is full of holes. But at least it has some smell of "truthiness" about it. The Republican version -- that ISIS stems from Obama's inattention -- doesn't even have that. About the only thing our leadership class can agree on is that we are large, so we must be in charge. Which definitely isn't true.
And as a further besides, aren't we committed to taking out Iran any month now when Israel's attention returns to the "existential threat" against it (cue: Juliette Greco in black turtleneck; image: Jean Paul Sartre, smoking) after a summer of the War of the Teenagers' Revenge?
There still haven't been enough buckets of cold water dumped on prominent American thinkers.
There is a brutal civil war occurring. And the Ukrainians are acting like Nazi's against the east Ukrainians.
This is a CIVIL war and not an invasion of Russia. We should be encouraging peace talks and not amping up talks of war against Russia.
But this is the quality of Obama's leadership. An American viciously and burally murdered on national television by relgious thugs, and he yucks it up on the golf course. ISIS takes oil fields and expands, and he blames Russia. Those who have eyes to see, need to see.
Today's (Friday's) editorial in the New York Times says in part:
Comments from European leaders on Thursday showed they recognize the danger of this moment. European Union leaders meeting on Saturday must join the United States in expanding the economic sanctions. France should seriously reconsider delivering the Mistral assault ships it has sold Russia. And when NATO leaders gather next week, they should give strong reassurances to NATO members along Russia's borders that they will be protected should Moscow turn its attentions on them.
Many of the comments in the Times express skepticism as to whether there is either will or way.
Today's Wall Street Journal editorial shares the skepticism:
On Thursday Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Obama said they will discuss imposing more sanctions this weekend. But if they follow form in this crisis, they will stomp their feet, sanction a couple of more banks and oligarchs, and then beg Mr. Putin to "negotiate in good faith." This would be risible if the consequences for Ukraine, and for the future of Europe, weren't so grim.
Mr. Putin's escalation is also a slap at Mr. Obama, who has pleaded with the Russian that people don't act this way "in the 21st century." Oh, yes, they do. Mr. Obama's refusal to help Kiev with even small arms and antitank and antiaircraft weapons was also a signal to the Kremlin that the U.S. would prefer to look away. The U.S. President has subcontracted out this crisis to the Europeans, which means doing little or nothing.
This whole Ukranian situation reminds me of a book I read years ago by Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August. It recounts the harrowing miscalculations by European powers that lead inextricably to WW1 and plunged the whole world into almost a century of war and the horrors of genocide.
We can only hope that Merkel, Obama, Cameron, Hollande, and Putin have read this grim book.
The book of choice at the moment (which, I'm ashamed to say, I haven't read) is Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers. I think it goes over much the same ground as Tuchman, but perhaps even more forcefully, and looks at parallels between 1914 and 2014.
Mr. Cllifford, I just finished The Sleeepwalkers. It begins with prehistory by Tuchman standards. It doesn't get to Sarajevo until around page 350, or more than hallfway through. I didn't see any close parallels to the present other than the usual hubris of statesmen (all males, in those days; no Merkels) who see only what they expect to see and often can't even conceive of things that are perfectly obvious to potential adversaries. But that's history, not just 100 years ago.
Not NATO, DigitalGlobe, a company operating civilian satellites.
"You know, it has become ridiculous… If earlier, someone would at least put their names on those images, be it [Supreme Allied Commander Europe Philip] Breedlove, Rasmussen, or even [NATO Spokesperson] Lungescu, now, they are hesitant," Russia's Defense Ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov said, RIA Novosti reported. "It makes no sense to seriously comment on this."
However, NATO is using the pretext of a Russian "threat" to push for a "readiness action plan" that will bring the military bloc closer to Russian borders than ever, despite objections from some members of the alliance.
The current "government" of Ukraine is populated by neo-Nazi, ultra-nationalists; heirs of the same crew who supported the actual Nazi's in WWII.
George D - your assertions are opinion based upon nothing. Keep in mind that there are 11 districts in eastern Ukraine and the current pro-Russian separatists are active in only two of these districts (now a third with the latest Russian incursion).
NATO's charter does not lend itself to support military action in Ukraine - Ukraine is not a NATO member. The EU only reluctanlty went along with the last round of sanctions (primarily pushed by the events around the downing of the civilian airliner and loss of life). Next week's meeting will be decisive - either the EU supports added sanctions and more direct Ukrainian support or things will continue as is - with continued Russian prevarications; incursions; game-playing with unmarked soldiers along side pro-Russian separatists.
Some of you suggest that Obama failed in his statements and yet - no one has provided any alternatives? suggested action plans? etc.
Military action would not be well received by Congress or the US public. Whether we like it or not, we need to continue to partner with Russia on affairs in Iraq, Iran, and Syria along with other shared nuclear disarmement projects.
Arming Ukraine military - wonder if some items, intelligence isn't going on but not made public. And how has arming 3rd parties worked out for the US historically?
Calling upon the UN - well, Samantha Powers is trying to do that.
Wonder if Obama isn't trying to lay out a new style of US diplomacy? The Bush doctrine sure didn't work out.
We must measure our success against what is possible rather than what is desired. There is relatively little that we can do short of starting World War II to stop Russia from abusing its neighbors if it has decided that the benefits (including internal political benefits) outweight the costs. The best we can hope to do is to make the cost as high as we can to discourage future violations of international norms.
My assertions are based on reporting from RT. I don't understand Obama's posture. Russia can help with defeating ISIS. I just think that the Western, and in particular American spin as far as Ukraine is concerned, is totally opposite of reality. And the whole Ukraine situation is completely opposite of what is being presented. And they were historically with the Nazi's. The vast majority of people were thrilled when Russia annexed the Crimea. That is also a fact. But aside from that, the US has no strategic interest in the Ukraine so it is odd that there is all this energy being spent there.
Samantha Powers is good on human rights but I don't understand the anti-Russian virulence. Why are they trying to whip up anger against Russia. ISIS is the threat. And, again, Putin was totally correct about what would happen if you destabilize that region. He knew the kinds of forces that would be unleashed.
No country can stand by and allow a group like this to buture one of its citizens for no reason. They need to be shown in no uncertain terms that they are done. Whether that means temporarily supporting Assad. They need to be dealt with severely.
Perhaps the book to look into for insight is Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder, subtitled Europe between Hitler and Stalin. Snyder calculates that some 14 million peope died from policies instigated by Hitler and Stalin between 1933 and 1945. Those policies included famine, gassing, shooting, etc. There is much talk of neo-Nazis dominating the current Western Ukraine government. What about neo-Stalinists in the East of Ukraine? Not that Putin is Stalin, but is the passion to establish Novyruskov akin to the Bolshevik passion to remake Ukraine in the 30s.
P.S. The clue to reading Sleepwalkers is attending to the subtitle: How Europe Went to War in 1914. The book's virtue, in contrast to other great books on the subject (Tuchman, MacMillan, etc.) is not WHO started the war but how personalities, alliances, forms of government, etc. made the carnage possible, when almost no one expected war would break out or could break out over the assassination of the Archduke.
A writer/commentator for whom I have great respect is Anne Applebaum. Her column in today's Washington Post is, I suggest, a must read:
Yep, and that hysteria is exactly what Obama is trying to deal with (to your point about WWI starting, Ms. Steinfels).
Think hysteria - McCain, Lyndsey Graham, Cruz, etc. as versions of what Applebaum cites on the Russian extremist side.
Love the *new* revisionist history about *New or Little Russia* in eastarn Ukraine - you have to really stretch and pick/choose to underline those conclusions; you have to ignore the genocide perpuated upon the Ukrainian people in the 1940-50s by Soviet premiers - relocation of whole peoples and moving Soviet citizens into Ukraine.
Maybe Anne Applebaum would do better to write a column for Die Welt or Le Monde. But perhaps the Sikorski household has little faith in its European near neighbors.
I dont think one can justify bad acts by asserting the ones on the receving end of it are bad people (whether they are or not). Is Russia violating international law in what its doing? Is the Ukraine? I think that's what the focus should be on.
I am told that my reference to the Sikorski household is obscure.
To clarify: Anne Applebaum is married to Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister, who has raised the alarm about Ukraine and the Russian incursion. The limited response from Europe led by Germany is telling. To appeal then to the US as Applebaum does strikes me as a misplaced effort. If the Europeans in their various parts don't care and/or don't see mounting a military response, why should the United States? In fact, how could it?
The reference is obscure until one googles "Anne Applebaum," and voilà, all is clear.
I don't think that informing U.S public and leaders regarding the extent of the threat posed by Putin is "misplaced." It may be a needed wake-up call and provide perspective as Obama and Kerry address NATO.
But I certainly agree that the Europeans are the front line and that if Germany doesn't take decisive action,
Novorossiya may become more than a map and a memory.
There might actually be a peaceful resolution to this afterall. Hopefully, the US will abandon its typical jingoistic rhetoric about arming Ukraine and work toward diplomatic and negotiated settlements of disputes; not just rhetorically but by action. I agree that the US should let the Russians and international community lead. the last thing the world needs is another Libya or Iraq a la USA.
At talks in Minsk, the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics have urged Kiev to acknowledge their "special status." If their demands are met, they will not lay claim to other parts of Ukraine, the rebel republics said.
The initial statement said that if Kiev guarantees their "special status," then the Donetsk and Lugansk republics will do everything possible "to preserve Ukraine's common economic, cultural and political space and the space of the entire Ukraine-Russian civilization."
That special status includes the offical right to speak Russian which the Kiev government has tried unsuccessfully to suppress.
George D: Do you think the self-proclaimed will stick to such an agreement? What enforcement powers do they have over other regions? What about other restless parts of Ukraine? Isn't Zakarpattia home to many Hungarian speakers? Presumably there are many Polish speakers in the west of Ukraine.
Would everyone have been better off leaving the Austro-Hungarian empire intact? With various adjustments over the century? Not a rhetorical question!
It is very difficult, it seems to me, to have homogenous language groups within defined national boundaries at least in this part of the world. Furthermore, is language the only issues that divides Ukraine and the eastern separatists. I doubt it.
Would everyone have been better off leaving the Austro-Hungarian empire intact? With various adjustments over the century? Not a rhetorical question!
MOS, You read The Sleepwalkers. Well before WWI, the empire had a deep fault line running between the German-speakers who (of course) had to run everything and the Hungarians who (of course) hated them. And then there were all the pieces of the old Ottoman empire floundering around for someone's taking. Or not. So if you are serious about a counterfactual, shouldn't your question be: Would everyone have been better off if the Sublime Porte had been able to keep its hinges oiled? And part of the answer to that one would be that the rest of us wouldn't have Syria and Iraq (and Israel) to worry about
Thank the Lord for "Google:"
Sublime Porte, also called Porte, the government of the Ottoman Empire. The name is a French translation of Turkish Bâbıâli ("High Gate," or "Gate of the Eminent") which was the official name of the gate giving access to the block of buildings in Constantinople, or Istanbul, that housed the principal state departments.
No there are many differences. In fact, as I recall the original divide between the Latin and Orthodox churches in the Great schism ran roughly through this part of the region. So there is large differences that are deeply engrained in the culture and, of course, many of the formal issues that are presented, are pre-texts that mask deeper divides. Berdyaev wrote about these differences as wel but in the context of religious division within Christianity (and when you have both Pussy Riot and Putin quote Berdyaev you can bet he is revered across the spectrum).
Howsoever much Orthodox and Catholics fight about the filioque and the infallibility of the pope, they will never come near to a mutual understanding. Here collide worlds which have walked different paths and have collected different experiences upon these paths.
By analogy, this is also true of Russia and the west. Certainly, Putin is a slavophile and is convinced (I think) of seeing to it that Russia's spiritual destiny is fulfilled and so naturally there is a sympathy towards those pro-Russian elements in the eastern bloc.
But I fail to see how this issue is in the US or even Western Europe's strategic interest. Whle there is drumbeats for Ukraine entering the EU, it was never seriously considered until just recently. Why?
Follow the money. My conspiratorial mind goes to Russia's support and involvment with the BRICS.
Tom Blackburn: Christopher Clark (Sleepwalker) does write about the Hungarians as poor governors of the non-Hungarians, but he also alludes to and I think Margaret MacMillan makes much of the Austrian's more effective, efficient and somewhat autonomous treatment of their non-Germans. I assume the Czechs and Slovaks, for example. One of them cites the Hungarian insistence on Magyar being the language of the army as a cause for its poor showing in the war (non-Hungarians didn't speak it). But perhaps I should have said the Austrian Empire.
George D: Your use of the word "slavophile" reminds me of Clark's analysis of the Russian Empire's unstinting support of its little slavic brothers, especially the Serbs. Is this religious or ethnic, or both? It, of course, made the Serbs more belligerent than was warranted by their economic, political, or governing capacity.
Also, you wrote: "But I fail to see how this issue is in the US or even Western Europe's strategic interest. Whole there is drumbeats for Ukraine entering the EU, it was never seriously considered until just recently. Why?" Those drumbeats can be heard in Anne Applebaum's op ed posted by Bob above. That seems to very much reflect the Polish and Baltic countries fears of Russian aggression and aggrandizement. I have the impression that the Czechs and Slovaks are less fearful, but then they are a bit further West. None of these Eastern or Central European countries have happy memories of Russian hegemony. Those that joined NATO and the EU have expectations about European and U.S. protection, but like you (but perhaps not for the same reasons) I expect/hope that neither will move beyond diplomacy and sanctions (especially Germany).
George D, rarely do I post here (though I frequently read the comments) but the fact that you are allowed to post such hypocritical and flatly offensive remarks relatively unchecked astounds me.
You caution against western propoganda yet you site RT ("My assertions are based on reporting from RT."), a "news" organization created under Vladimir Putin to improve Russia's image in the larger world. A "news organization" that has even had an anchor quit on-air over RT overt propoganda (Liz Wahl), another recently resign over RT lies concerning MAL tragedy (Sarah Firth) and several other anchors and reporters criticize their lack of freedom and "editorial line".
Comments like: "I just think that the Western, and in particular American spin as far as Ukraine is concerned, is totally opposite of reality. And the whole Ukraine situation is completely opposite of what is being presented" only lead me to think that perhaps Ukrainian, Canadian (I am Canadian of Ukrainian descent), American, UN, NATO, German, French, British and heck, even Al Jazeera all seem to be spinning because you are so disoriented from the RT spin. When people get drunk George, does that make the world spin or just their head?
The situation in Crimea before the annexation, with Putin denying Russian troops were there despite clear evidence to contrary, only to acknowledge "the little green men" were Russian soldiers "all along" runs parallel to Donetsk and Lugansk. Why would you trust a politician and news agency that clearly lied in the past (6 months) but not those ("jingoist" as you put it) groups that were vindicated in time?
You accuse the Ukrainian government of being "Nazi's" repleatedly without offering any evidence. President Poroshenko was elected freely by the people and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was elected Prime Minister by 371 parliamentatians in the Verkhovna Rada (out of 450 who were all elected prior to the Maiden unrest). Numerous Jewish groups have openly supported the new pro western Government and many Jewish groups are equally if not more concerned with the pro-Russian rebel groups in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine http://www.jta.org/2014/03/25/news-opinion/opinion/op-ed-the-real-threat...
The fact that Josef Zissels isn't concerned with the supposed "Nazism" of the current government but is concerned about Russian involvement in the east of Ukraine is telling: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/170735/josef-zissels-yivo
Ukraine is at a cross-roads and the vast majority of the population (including the majority of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine according to all recognized polling organizations) wish to remain one nation as guaranteed by the Budapest Memorandum. The Russian agitation and outright violation of Ukrainian sovereignty is deplorable. The Ukrainian people are the only ones who should be able to chose their economic parters (EU or Russia) and their military associations (NATO or the Russian Federation). Most Ukrainians do not look back at the Soviet Union as a time of paradise and would prefer to join with the EU and develop like Poland than to remain like Belorusse under a corrupt dictator.
Until and unless this country (1) reinstitues a widespread draft for both genders with exceptions for only the severest physical and mental disabilities and with no exceptions for marital or breadwinner status or educational enrollment (including seminarians) or employment criticality, and (2) imposes a war tax of a minimum of 10% on all sources of income, formerly taxed or not, then "we" will simply be a country of mercenaries being paid now and for the foreseeable future with borrowed money to be paid back (maybe) by your grandchildren.
I have no tructime for the opinions of individuals who have not experience the realities of military service, what people are trained and expected to do, and who have seen the effects of war first-hand.
The likes of John McCain who, of all people should know better, disgust me immensely.
I don't remember typing "tructime." What I meant was "time."
Jim McCrea:
Hear, hear.
No sane person wants to go into combat, though sometimes that may be necessary. If it is necessary, then the decision needs to be taken with the greatest possible gravity and knowledge. And in a democracy, the cost and risk of war must be borne by all the People.
The problem is that we are now the better part of two generations away from any such thing. What pass for leaders in our country do not have the experience, and do not have the experience of living with or amongst people for whom this was an ordinary part of civic life. Other priorities...A baseless reliance on "technology" to obviate the responsibility for eal humans - maybe a brother or sister - lying dead in some field.
In the Naval Service there is an expression: You can delegate authority, but responsibiity cannot be delegated. What have we done: delegated authority to our professional armed forces, thinking that we were delegating, or executng our responsibility.
We agree that it is the people of Ukraine that should decide their destiny. The question is, why was the US funding and supporting Ukrainian opposition? What is the strategic interest of Ukraine for the United States or the West for that matter?
The people of Ukraine may or may not be happy to join the EU but the EU was certainly not sending out any overtures until fairly recently (please correct me if I am wrong). Why now?
The involvement of neo-Nazi's in the opposition is well documented and supported by many media outlets and not just RT (see here: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100260665/ukraine-the-oppos...)
Take Oleh Tyahnybok, the rather rugged leader of Svboda, which dominates the Western-most provinces of Ukraine. Western media has described him as one of the three most important opposition leaders and he's met foreign dignitaries like John McCain. He is also a potentially dangerous man. In one infamous speech in 2004, Tyahinybok lashed out at the "Moscow-Jewish mafia" and the "kikes". In 2005, he wrote an open letter to the President asking him to halt the "criminal activities" of "organised Jewry". It should be noted that he insists he is not anti-Semitic, simply "pro-Ukrainian" and that he has won prosecutions against him for ethnic hatred.
But Svboda has form. It is a member of the Alliance of European National Movements, along with France's National Front, the British National Party and Hungary's Jobbik. Its policies include taking farm land into national ownership and giving to people to hold on a "hereditry basis". No one who was not born in Ukraine can become a citizen; outsiders cannot adopt Ukrainian children. In 2005, one of the party's deputies founding the Joseph Goebbels Political Research Center. It was later renamed after a German conservative revolutionary. That particular deputy described the Holocaust as "a bright episode in European civilisation" which "strongly warms the hearts of the Palestinian population."
The author, Tim Stanley, concludes:
The involvement of Svboda in the protests doesn't delegitimise the opposition, but it is a reminder that this situation is really, really complex. Personally, I share the concerns outlined by Peter Oborne in our recent podcast that the West risks involving itself in something that it doesn't understand and possibly making the situation worse. We have to tread carefully.
I am not saying the party is Nazi but there is a sginificant constitutent that is. As for why Jewish groups are not concerned, I have no idea. They should be. But I still think the BRICS is a concern for Western hegemony and no I am not some new world order, fluoride fearing, zombie. However, even a broken clock is right twice a day!
However, treading carefully is probably a good idea particularly when there is no strategic interest for the US in this area.
Adam - some of us did try to address his unnuanced blovications: see above - "George D - your assertions are opinion based upon nothing"
Given his repeated comments that are all the same - gave up replying.


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America was founded on the premise that our rights come from God. (See The Declaration of Independence.) The God of the Bible clearly states that we are to live a moral life and that we will give an account to Him for our conduct Even as the human body requires pure drinking water, so individuals and society require moral living. Polluted water contaminates pure water, and immorality pollutes individuals and society.
In recent decades, America has been fed a heavy dose of atheistic evolution. Whenever a society ignores God, immorality comes to the front. Someone has said that, "When we play God, we act like the devil."
Adolph Hitler and Mao Tse-Tung played God. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln believed God. What we believe determines what we choose to do.
"Repent or perish" has never been a popular message, but instruction to turn around and go the right direction is the most loving advice we can hear. In John 3:16, Jesus showed us what real love looks like by dying on a cross for our immorality. Without Jesus we will perish.
For the immoralists, love is doing whatever feels good for the moment, regardless of the tragic consequences. For those who follow God's example, love is doing what is best for others, regardless of the cost.
By ignoring God and endorsing immorality, America has increased our woes and has often made us blind to the intention of our foes. Repentance submits to God and acknowledges, "My immorality is wrong, your morality is right."
Some two thousand years ago, there stood three crosses. Two were for thieves. One thief repented, and one perished. The perfect Person on the third cross gives us an opportunity to repent and live eternally. If not, we perish.
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I've realised that, when playing Pokemon, the trick to winning is to evolve your Pokemon.
This takes a bit of luck, in that you have to have the first level Pokemon on the table, then you have to have drawn its corresponding first evolve card, and then you have to have drawn its second evolve card.
So, if I want to create the ultimate Pokemon deck, I'd simply buy 5 water type decks, then assemble a deck containing 25 Totodiles, 10 Crocinaws and 10 Feralligators. It would make for a less interesting game, but I'm guaranteed to evolve my Pokemon, and my opponent doesn't have a chance unless he does the same thing I do.
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Has the ban been lifted on facebook deals?
I apologize if this has already has been asked, but I am posting from my android phone and I have not had a chance to read all of the questions today.
I already saw the woot!/ Facebook sale, but after just checking the deals board, I see there are 2 more Facebook Deals posted.
just wondering why all the new Facebook changes here on woot!
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woot! plays by it's own rules.
probably the other facebook deals just haven't been spotted by the mods to be deleted yet.
I don't know of any changes......but it probably won't be long until there are some. Are those deals still up?


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I've seen this in several places. Is that a set phrase? What does that mean?
I know that it's a way of saying "Goodnight," but the NASA胃 doesn't make sense.
胃 is read い and NASA reads "なさ" so what this actually says is おやすみなさい ("Good night"). However, I don't know wether this is a typo or an intentional misspelling.


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Well, I need someone here with programming skills (because I have none of it) to check if this problem that I am proposing is at least true for the known Mersenne primes, and here is the list of the exponents of the known Mersenne primes :
And the problem is:
If the number $M_p=2^p-1$ is prime then it can be written in one of the two following forms:
$M_p=18k+1$ or $M_p=18k+13$, for $p\geq5$, that is, Mersenne primes, when divided with $18$ leave a remainder that is equal to $1$ or equal to $13$.
I feel that this is quite easy to program but since my skills in programming are practically non-existent it would be so nice if someone here would do that job for me (and for himself if he is interested in this kind of problems).
If this is a proven fact about Mersenne primes then please tell me where I can find the proof because I did not find fact of this kind when I was reading about known facts about Mersenne primes, and I am sorry if this is something quite elementary beacuse I already posted some questions which turned out to be homework-type problems and I did not see it in the moment of posting. Thank you.


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The Nikon- and Canon-branded battery grips are insanely expensive. What alternatives are out there, and where is the best place to buy them?
I highly recommend Zeikos battery grips. I have the Zeikos grip for my 5D Mark II, and I could not be happier. It matches my 5D2 perfectly, with no flex. With two batteries, it gives it enough heft to match my bigger lenses. It has vertical shooting controls (which I never use), and sits firmly attached to my 5D2 body.
I bought it from Amazon, paid $90.00, compared to the $250.00 that Canon's brand grip cost.
Regarding reliability, I've taken it with me now on several shooting trips: Greece, Holland, Germany, Spain, France, Sweden and Finland, and it's never had a single failure.
I've not handled the Canon 5D2 grip, but the Zeikos feels identical to my canon brand 40D grip.
I believe they also make Nikon grips, but I can't speak to them, as I am a Canon shooter.
They are definitely a chinese knock-off brand, but the quality is surprisingly good, and if you need a grip and are looking to save money; you can't beat it.
Now, just a word of caution: while I recommend 3rd party grips, I can't recommend 3rd party batteries. I've read enough horror stories to stick with Canon's over priced batteries.
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I would like to know what is the difference between a Library call and a System call in Linux. Any pointers for a good understanding of the concepts behind both will be greatly appreciated.
There's not really such a thing as a "library call". You can call a function that's linked to a shared library. And that just means that the library path is looked up at runtime to determine the location of the function to call.
System calls are low level kernel calls handled by the kernel.
If you type
For instance, you will find
System calls are handled directly by the kernel.
Library calls are handled by a dynamic library. The program making the library call must first import that library, before the call will work. The library calls themselves may use system calls.
Sometimes libraries are provided as "front-ends" to system calls, to provide extra functionality or ease of use not provided by the kernel.
System calls are functions that the operating system provides for applications to use. Whereas functions like the ones in math.h, string.h, etc are those that doesn't have anything to do with interfacing with the operating system.
Basically there are two modes of linux kernel viz.
Any linux kernel switches itself back and forth between these two modes. Generally, Library calls get executed in User mode and System calls get executed in Kernel mode. In operating system terms, Kernel mode is Atomic in nature and its in Supervisory mode. Almost all Library calls need help from the kernel to perform its tasks. Each library call in turn calls underlying system call. Let us make idea more clearer using following example
Whenever in c program, you use fopen() from header file. Programming environment calls system call open() from kernel and perform its file opening task. Again after executing, control flow return to user mode.
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Why is Java's Iterator not an Iterable?
Idiomatic way to use for-each loop given an iterator?
Can we use for-each loop for iterating the objects of Iterator type?
The foreach loop are as far as I know syntax sugar added in Java 5. So
Iterable<O> iterable;
for(O o : iterable) {
// Do something
will essentially produce the same bytecode as
Iterable<O> iterable;
for(Iterator<O> iter = iterable.iterator(); iter.hasNext(); /* NOOP */) {
O o = iter.next();
// Do something
However, if I do not have an iterable in the first place, but only an iterator (say, because a class offers two different iterators), I cannot use the syntax sugar foreach loop. Obviously I can still do the plain old style iteration. However, I'd actually like to do:
Iterator<O> iter;
for(O o : iter /* Iterator<O>, not Iterable<O>! */) {
// Do something
And of course I can do a fake
class Adapter<O> implements Iterable<O> {
Iterator<O> iter;
public Adapter(Iterator<O> iter) {
this.iter = iter;
public Iterator<O> iterator() {
return iter;
(Which in fact is an ugly abuse of the Iterable API, as it can only be iterated once!)
If it were designed around
Iterator instead of iterable, one could do a number of interesting things:
for(O o : iterable.iterator()) {} // Iterate over Iterable and Collections
for(O o : list.backwardsIterator()) {} // Or backwards
Iterator<O> iter;
for(O o : iter) {
if (o.something()) { iter.remove(); }
if (o.something()) { break; }
for(O : iter) { } // Do something with the remaining elements only.
Does anyone know why the language was designed this way? To avoid ambiguity if a class would implement both
Iterator and
Iterable? To avoid programmer errors that assume that "for(O o : iter)" will process all elements twice (and forget to get a fresh iterator)? Or is there some other reason for this?
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There are requests to "burninate" tags all over the place! What does this really mean; what happens to a burninated tag? How is it different than removing a tag or black-listing a tag? Would it be useful to include this definition in the Stack Overflow Glossary?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
It's right there in the Meme question. It means just deleting a tag. With fire.
In all seriousness, here's what usually happens:
A tag, when it's burninated, is removed from all questions that carry this tag. This will just remove the tag from the system, but it can easily be re-created by users with the privilege to.
If a tag is really bad, and chances are it'll be recreated soon, then it can be blacklisted. Only few tags are blacklisted, but there are many good examples, such as homework on Stack Overflow, or the pc tag on Super User, which are both Meta tags and shouldn't exist.
To get a tag blacklisted, asking on the site's Meta is a good choice. This is nothing moderators can do—in fact moderators can't delete tags either—so it'll require community consensus and a developer to do that.


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It is well known that every group of exponent $n=2$ is abelian. I remember having seen that this is also the case for $n=3$. (can someone give a proof). How does this generalize to any $n$ or to any prime $p$.
The group defined by $\langle x,y,z; x^3 = y^3 = z^3 = 1, yz = zyx, xy = yx, xz = zx\rangle$ has order 27, exponent 3 and is non-abelian.
(Checking exponent 3 basically comes down to ensuring that $(yz)^3 = (y^2z)^3 = (yx^2)^3 = 1$. Or by using Gap.)
Well, any finitely generated group G of exponent 3 is finite by a classical theorem of Burnside. And since the order of every element is 3, the order of G must be a power of 3 by Cauchy's theorem. It follows that G is a finite nilpotent group. A similar argument shows that the same is true for any finitely generated group of exponent 4. This is unknown for 5, and false for 6.
Correction: it seems (see the answer of Primoz above) that any group of exponent 3 is nilpotent, altough it can be infinite if it not finitely generated.
Every group of exponent 3 is nilpotent of class at most 3, and this bound is best possible. The question whether finitely generated groups of exponent $n$ are finite is also known as the Burnside problem. There is an excellent historical overview of this problem, along with a list of relevant references.
The result I have seen is that every finite group $G$ of exponent $3$ such as $3$ does not divide $o(G)$ is abelian.
It generalises the following way : every n-abelian group (such as $(xy)^n=x^n y^n$) that has got no element (other than $1$) whose order divides $n(n-1)$ is abelian. One can refer to J.L Alperin A classification of n-abelian groups in Canadian Journal of Mathematics (1969)


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I'm leaving for holidays tomorrow, and there's a good chance that I'll be able to be by night on a field with no artificial light around, and no moon in the sky.
I'd love to take some picture of the landscape: the starry sky + the surrounding mountains' silhouettes.
Apart from bringing a tripod (duh), do you have any tips to yield the best possible results? Exposure, framing, etc. (sorry for the lousy tags, can't create new)


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Publications: Metcalf, Sarah
Metcalf, S.J., van Putten, E.I., Frusher, S., Marshall, N.A., Tull, M., Caputi, N., Haward, M., Hobday, A.J., Holbrook, N.J., Jennings, S.M., Pecl, G.T. and Shaw, J. (2015) Measuring the vulnerability of marine social-ecological systems: A prerequisite for the identification of climate change adaptations. Ecology and Society, 20 (2).
Metcalf, S.J., Putten, E.I., Frusher, S.D., Tull, M. and Marshall, N. (2014) Adaptation options for marine industries and coastal communities using community structure and dynamics. Sustainability Science, 9 (3). pp. 247-261.
van Putten, I., Metcalf, S.J., Frusher, S.D., Marshall, N. and Tull, M. (2014) Fishing for the impacts of climate change in the marine sector: A case study. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 6 (4). pp. 421-441.
Metcalf, S.J., Dambacher, J.M., Rogers, P., Loneragan, N. and Gaughan, D.J. (2013) Identifying key dynamics and ideal governance structures for successful ecological management. Environmental Science and Policy, 37 . pp. 34-49.
Metcalf, S.J. and Wallace, K.J. (2013) Ranking biodiversity risk factors using expert groups – Treating linguistic uncertainty and documenting epistemic uncertainty. Biological Conservation, 162 . pp. 1-8.
Fletcher, W.J., Shaw, J., Gaughan, D.J. and Metcalf, S.J. (2011) Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management: Case study report West Coast Bioregion. Fisheries Research Report No. 225. Department of Fisheries, Western Australia
Metcalf, S.J., Pember, M.B. and Bellchambers, L.M. (2011) Identifying indicators of the effects of fishing using alternative models, uncertainty, and aggregation error. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68 (7). pp. 1417-1425.
Stocker, L., Kennedy, D., Metcalf, S., Dambacher, J.M., Middle, G. and Wood, D. (2011) Modelling coastal planning in southwest Western Australia: Complexity, collaboration and climate adaptation. In: MODSIM 2011 - 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty, 12 - 16 December, Perth, Western Australia pp. 2996-3002.
Fletcher, W.J., Shaw, J., Metcalf, S.J. and Gaughan, D.J. (2010) An Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management framework: the efficient, regional-level planning tool for management agencies. Marine Policy, 34 (6). pp. 1226-1238.
Brown, C.J., Fulton, E.A., Hobday, A.J., Matear, R.J., Possingham, H.P., Bulman, C., Christensen, V., Forrest, R.E., Gehrke, P.C., Gribble, N.A., Griffiths, S.P., Lozano-Montes, H.M., Martin, J.M., Metcalf, S., Okey, T.A., Watson, R. and Richardson, A.J. (2010) Effects of climate-driven primary production change on marine food webs: implications for fisheries and conservation. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 16 (4). pp. 1194-1212.
Metcalf, S.J., Moyle, K. and Gaughan, D.J. (2010) Qualitative analysis of recreational fisher response and the ecosystem impacts of management strategies in a data-limited situation. Fisheries Research, 106 (3). pp. 289-297.
Metcalf, S.J. (2010) Qualitative models to complement quantitative ecosystem models for the analysis of data-limited marine ecosystems and fisheries. Reviews in Fisheries Science, 18 (3). pp. 248-265.
Metcalf, S.J., Gaughan, D.J. and Shaw, J. (2009) Conceptual models for Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) in Western Australia. Department of Fisheries, Western Australia.
Shaw, J., Fletcher, R., Gaughan, D. and Metcalf, S. (2009) Ecosystems based fisheries management; towards implementation in Western Australia. In: 8th Indo Pacific Fish Conference and 2009 ASFB Workshop and Conference, 31 May - 5 June 2009, Fremantle, Western Australia.
Metcalf, S., Gaughan, D., Shaw, J. and Moyle, K. (2009) Qualitative analysis of fisher responses to management and the impact on recreationally important species in Western Australia. In: 8th Indo Pacific Fish Conference and 2009 ASFB Workshop and Conference, 31 May - 5 June 2009, Fremantle, Western Australia.
Metcalf, S.J., Dambacher, J.M., Hobday, A.J. and Lyle, J.M. (2008) Importance of trophic information, simplification and aggregation error in ecosystem models. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 360 . pp. 25-36.
Metcalf, S.J. and Swearer, S.E. (2005) Non-destructive ageing in Notolabrus tetricus using dorsal spines with an emphasis on the benefits for protected, endangered and fished species. Journal of Fish Biology, 66 (6). pp. 1740-1747.
Morris, L. and Metcalf, S.J. (2004) Western Treatment Plant Conservation Management Program: Analysis of existing zoobenthos samples. Primary Industries Research Victoria Internal report series. PIRVic Internal Report No.11


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Calling all UB students to participate in the Pitch Competition
This is a preliminary / qualifying event to the Startup Maryland competition.
Start up Maryland's Pitch Across Maryland bus Tour is coming to UB on Friday, Sept. 27 from 10a.m. -12 p.m. The Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) has been invited to host this big event again this year.
This year we have partnered with the Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC), Emerging Technology Center (ETC) the Greater Baltimore Tech council (GBTC) and the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore. Each partner will identify their top two representatives who will have a chance
The competition will provide students from across UB the opportunity to increase their knowledge concerning starting a new venture while competing for $1,000 in cash awards.
The top two student winners will go on to represent UB by pitching their ideas during the Startup Maryland Bus Tour stop on Friday, Sept. 27.


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Thunderstorms, some heavy, Sunday evening through Monday afternoon
It's much easier to lose weight in the summer compared to the winter.
Do you live in one of these outdoor meccas?
When the U.S. Olympic team heads to Brazil in the coming weeks for the start of the Summer Games, some athletes will be studied to see if they become infected with the Zika virus.
Who says you have to limit your hiking trip to the closest national park?
Summer has a way of inspiring us to get a little more active than usual — often because we can take more of our activities outside.
Here are nine running routes so scenic you'll be glad you skipped the treadmill.
Summer is meant to be fun, not painful or itchy, and certainly not deadly.
Enjoy summer more than ever by eating smart as the temperature rises.
Dec 26, 2012; 5:00 AM ET When it's snowing or cold, most of us want nothing more than to keep warm on the couch. But Violeta Yas has some tips to help you sneak in mini workouts at the office, regardless of the weather.


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If you're a Canadian citizen, this is the place for you. Get information on applying to Calvin as well as application deadlines and admissions standards.
Steps to apply (in any order)
Choose ONE of the following ways to apply:
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Send a request to a teacher/recommender (online application) or download a paper form and give it to a teacher/recommender.
Submit your test scores from the SAT (code: 1095) or ACT (code: 1968).
SAT/ACT waived for applicants with cumulative average marks of 75% or above.
Test scores are often included on your high school transcript. (Test scores are not required if you've had two or more years of previous college experience, or if you're age 21 or older.)
If you've done any college course work, submit a transcript. An official transcript is required for admissions consideration and transfer credit evaluation.
Please note that if you are a US/Canadian dual citizen, you will need a US passport to enter the country.
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How did the Earth get its name?
The answer on Wikipedia is a bit short and unhelpful.
I was not just referring to its English name - in the few languages I know it translates to basically the same meaning. Even "Tu" translates to "earth; soil".
Maybe I should have asked: Was it named after its soil? Or did it get its name from a religion, legend, etc.?
Are there any other names (in any language) that have a different meaning?


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Reduce Veterans Benefits Delays
Veterans Day may not have been viewed as a symbol of our nation's commitment to those who have served in the military by nearly 900,000 of them – veterans who have been forced to wait, sometimes for many months, while bureaucrats decide whether they should be granted benefits for disability and other reasons.
It takes about eight months for the Veterans Administration to process the average benefits claim. That is two months longer than was required 10 years ago. Sometimes the wait stretches into years.
Veterans are filing more claims for benefits than in the past. Last year, about 1.3 million requests were received by the VA. The agency has added staff and attempted to streamline procedures to reduce the backlog, but with little success. "We're not gaining any ground here," admitted veterans affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki recently.
Shinseki, a retired Army general, seems to be trying. But either the VA has not been given enough resources or bureaucrats within the agency are not dealing with the problem effectively. Neither possibility is acceptable.
The VA is dealing with a massive increase in the number of claims, for various reasons. One is that better treatment of battlefield wounds means many troops who in the past would have died survive and require the nation's support to recover – or for those hurt badly enough, simply to survive.
Providing such support is an obligation. Veterans and their survivors have a right to expect reasonably timely answers to requests for help. If the VA needs more resources to do that, they should be provided. If it requires a shakeup in personnel, that, too, should be provided.


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The European Union is the only organization at the moment that exhibits a high level of integration amongst its member nation states, but is it the world's first supranational type organization? Are there examples of nation states in the past banding together in an EU like fashion?
International Telegraph Union 1865 as a result of the International Telegraph Convention predates the Universal Postal Union.
Attempts to claim the German Empire or the Catholic Church as supranational organisations flounder on the concept of "nationality" post dating the Westphalian state.
The earliest political body designed to harness the power of multiple independent sovereign states for trade and military purposes we have a historical record for appears to be the Awussa League.
The Assuwa League was an alliance of city-states and kingdoms formed to oppose Hittite influence in Anatolia, dating to just before the 14th century BCE.
The US Articles of Confederation may be an example. Each colony/state were considered sovereign under it while they ceded some powers, such as common defense, to the federal Congress. Since the colonies were never recognized by other powers as separate nations but as part of the US, it may not fit your question though.
There have been a number of international organizations meant to coordinate certain activities between nations, such as the previously mentioned International Telegraph Union and the International Union of Railways, but these only affected a narrow area.
As Samuel Russell mentioned, the Catholic Church might or might not be considered such an organization. While not precisely like the EU, it did wield considerable political influence over nations for centuries before the modern nation-state era.


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17 Apr 2007 7:30 AM #1
Possible Bug with resizable when using constrainTo
I am playing around with a resizable image (that is draggable) and having it constrained to a container element.
If you goto this link: http://www.qwikioffice.com/forum-exa...inTo-test.html
you will notice the following:
1.) When the page loads you can drag the image around, and it is constrained to the container (light grey backround).
2.) But if you resize the image and then drag it around the container, you can see that the constraint is tied to the original dimensions of the image.
Is this a possible bug?
I have been able to listen for the resize event and simply call constrainTo again to fix this, but is this the proper way to do it.
17 Apr 2007 1:01 PM #2
constrainTo operates similar to the other constrain functions. If something changes, you have to let it know. There is a post in the forums wih a simple 2-3 liner that sets it to reconstrain on each drag.Jack Slocum
Sencha Co-Founder, Ext JS Founder
Original author of Ext JS 1, 2 & 3.
Twitter: @jackslocum
2 Mar 2010 1:30 PM #3
[3.0.0 Fix available] - [REOPEN in 3.1.1]
[3.0.0 Fix available]
[FIXED-103][3.0.0] DD of Resizable does not listen to constrainTo
[REOPEN in 3.1.1]
[OPEN-670] DragDrop constrainTo after container resize


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More precisely, does there exist an unbounded sequence $a_0, a_1, ... \in \mathbb{N}$ of primes such that the function
$\displaystyle O(z) = \sum_{n \ge 0} a_n z^n$
is meromorphic on $\mathbb{C}$?
[A previous version of the question also asked about the exponential generating function of $(a_n)$. However, such a function can trivially be entire. - GJK]


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So let $D\subseteq \mathbb{C}^n$ be a bounded connected open set with a transitive action of its group of biholomorphisms (which we denote by $Hol(D)$). Note that I'm not assuming that $D$ is symmetric. We thus have that $D$ is "homeomorphic" to $Hol(D)/K$ where $K=Stab(d_0)$ for some $d_0\in D$.
In the special case where $Hol(D)$ is a real Lie group and that $K$ is a maximal compact of $Hol(D)$ then by a theorem of Elie Cartan we have that $Hol(D)/K$ is homeomoprphic to $\mathbb{R}^m$ and thus contractible.
Under my assumptions:
(1) Is $Hol(D)$ always a Lie group?
(2) Is $K$ always a maximal compact?
(3) In general is $D$ always contractible (or simply connected)?


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Which variant is better?
We have a chance to get new experience talking to new people.
We have a chance to get a new experience talking to new people.
Which variant is better?
The first one sounds better. But try to express the idea in a different way, if possible.
This means you have a chance to have new experiences in general, to gain experience with new things, by talking to new people. It's the same as saying:
This can be interpreted as the same as the first, but it has an alternate meaning: you could be saying you have a chance to have a singular, specific new experience by talking to some specific new people.
However, these phrasings are a little unusual. Typically we say either gain experience or grow experienced to refer to the process of becoming experienced in general, while to have an experience refers to a specific event. I would rephrase your example to what you most likely meant, the general case:
It is a matter of what you are trying to imply.
If you are attempting to gain experience in talking to people (in general), then "... get new experience..."
on the reverse, if you are trying to convey that this is a new opportunity that you have not yet experienced, "... get a new experience..."
I would not use new with experience when using experience to mean "knowledge or practical wisdom". You can gain valuable experience or more experience but saying "new experience" in this situation is redundant. You can use new with experience when using it to mean "a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something". For example, "I've seen animals in the wild before, but tripping over an python was definitely a new experience."


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10 Old Toys That Made Sense In Their Era (And Nowhere Else)
#5. Juden Raus! (Jew Out!)
The Era:
1930s Germany. If you need some context as to what the "vibe" of 1930s Germany was, please stop reading this site and go pick up a history book. Skip to the part about the Nazis. That's where we are.
The Ridiculous Toy:
Enter the most notorious of the board games, Juden Raus! (Jew Out!).
Ironically, this is how we picture Klan members when they take off their hoods.
The game was published by a German company named Gunther & Company, Dresden, probably in an attempt to please Hitler and absolutely no one else. The rules are pretty simple. The players roll the dice and move the Jews out of their homes and to Palestine, because this is a very bad board game.
There is no html tag to stress that sentence enough.
A Jew figure is awarded to every player who reaches a Jewish storefront, and the first player to collect and subsequently get six Jews off the board is the winner! If you want to purchase a copy of the game because you want a wacky conversation starter to put on your coffee table, because you're horrible, tough luck: Only two known copies of the game still exist today, one in the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York and one in the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library in London.
This is the Internet. So we'd guess two weeks at most before someone builds a replica.
If your game ends up in a museum as a testament to how terrible a certain time period was, that's a pretty bad sign. You might as well have called it "Racism: The Board Game."
#4. Racism: The Board Game (AKA Blacks & Whites)
The Era:
The 1970s was a time when the civil rights movement was still going on. Black Americans were trying to gain equality in society with their white counterparts (but so was every minority). A lot of people were pushing for social equality, tolerance and understanding of their fellow man, so ...
The Ridiculous Toy:
Psychology Today released this board game to spread tolerance, and so the dominant white race could understand what it was like to be black. Sounds fun and not racist in any way to us!
Alternate name: Afros and Comb-Overs.
Just look at the cover to the game itself. The white man is dressed in fine clothes and is clearly upper-class, whereas the black man looks like he can't even afford a shirt. The game was pretty much Monopoly, but way more racist. Let's check out the rules:
"Whites started out with $1 million, blacks with $10,000 and each race had different opportunity decks. While whites could buy property in any part of the board, blacks were limited to certain areas until they had accumulated at least $100,000 and were outright banned from property in the 'suburban zone.'"
And they had five times as many "Go Directly to Jail" cards.
The game was intended to show how unfair life was for the minority races living in America at the time by letting the players experience it without having to actually live it. The irony is that everyone probably still hated each other after the game because, at the end of the day, everyone always hates everyone else by the time a game of Monopoly is done.
The game was probably well meaning, but "well meaning" and "successful at getting the point across without being totally racist" are very, very, very different things.
Yin-yang imagery be damned.
#3. Adultery
The Era:
In the 1960s, sex became a much less taboo subject. Everyone was having sex with everyone in new and exciting ways, which is why today scholars refer to the 1960s as "The Decade of Really Awesome Ideas."
The Ridiculous Toy:
Enter Adultery the board game, a game that completely epitomizes everything about the term "free love."
Now that's the look of a man who's about to put a clock in his ass.
The object of Adultery (the game) was to earn tokens worth two, three or five minutes. When everybody has three time tokens, players are paired up at random to go "use their time tokens" in some other part of the house. For example, you might be assigned three minutes, in the kitchen, with your sexually experimental neighbor, which sounds like an awful time, or like a game of Clue that went really off the rails. The game ends when everybody's had a chance to have sex with two different players.
We're all for the un-taboo-ification of sex (really anything that increases the likelihood that people will be more open to having sex with us), but this game may be taking it too far.
And by "may be" we mean "is without question."
It strangely combines all of the fun of swinging and sexual promiscuity with the public shame of having to go to a store and physically purchase this game in front of people, so they'll all know exactly what you're up to. One of the best things about an orgy is that you don't have to go to Target and announce via your purchases "Yes, I am about to go home and have sex with between three and six of my personal friends."
"We all smell like Edward's balls. We win!"
#2. Earring Magic Ken
The Era:
The '90s were so naive. It was one of the first truly self-conscious decades, a 10-year span that was all about looking at the past (the tacky, horrible '80s) and coolly laughing while distancing themselves from their predecessors wherever they could. "The '80s were so embarrassing," the '90s said. "We'll never be that lame. We're cool. We're new. We're updated."
The Ridiculous Toy:
Speaking of updates, let's meet the brand new Ken (of "Barbie" fame).
Warning: There's magic in there.
According to the makers of Barbie, Ken "mirrors what was 'in' at the moment," from "MTV to hip activism." Little girls apparently "wanted Ken to look a 'little cooler.'" And we get that, we just don't understand why the toy designers made him look like the horrible baby of Jersey Shore and Twilight.
"Come on, guys, kids don't want Ken to be a guy they can marry; they want someone they can rave with, I think, though I've never personally met a child before." We like to imagine someone said this at one point in the meeting that resulted in Ken getting earrings, a purple mesh shirt and a hoop necklace.
Just out for a night on the town with a ... "special friend."
Earring Ken actually sold quite well, but probably not for the reason that the makers of the doll originally intended. According to ManBehindTheDoll.com, "By Christmas time in 1993 most stores were completely sold out of Kens, largely due to the gay community's interest."
Huh. We don't see it.
#1. Nuclear Toys
The Era:
The '50s and '60s were a big time for nuclear power. America had dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan, and the Russians soon got a hold of it as well. It was the future of all technology everywhere!
The Ridiculous Toy:
Toy manufacturers evidently thought kids really wanted to play with mini atomic power plants -- three different companies made them. They looked ... well, we don't want to say fun, exactly ...
"Merry Christmas. Here's a bunch of metal shit."
They looked like work. Or a school project of some kind. It's the kind of toy you play with if you hate your imagination.
Oh, wait, steam comes out of it? Well, why didn't you say so?
They also sold nuclear engines, because no nuclear power play set is complete without holy shit these toys are boring.
We guess they can double as a dehumidifier?
They even made nuclear cars!
That ... sure is ... nuclear? We guess?
Enough! How many freaking nuclear toys do we have to sift through before we find an atom bomb, literally the only nuclear thing a child might actually want?
The package doesn't even address the most important question: Can we ride it?
Oh, fucking finally ... wait ... "Safe, harmless giant atomic bomb?" You don't really get nuclear power, do you, toy companies?
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S. Lang gives a statement on page x of his 'Algebra':
Most of our diagrams are composed of triangles and squares as above, and to verify that a diagram consisting of triangles and squares is commutative it suffices to verify that each triangle and square in it is commutative.
If we want to prove this statement the problem arises of defining precisely what 'consisting of squares and triangles' means.
The most obvious definitions of such diagrams (every vertex (arrow) belongs to a triangle\square) turn out to be unsatisfactory (the Lang's statement is wrong then, think of a pentagonal diagram with a commutative triangle on each side (all suitably oriented)).
How could the intuitive notion of a 'diagram consisting of squares and triangles' be strictly formulated such that the Lang's statement is always true?


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I've been following the instructions and code available at: https://zuttobenkyou.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/latex-saner-source-code-listings-no-starch-press-style/
I would like to add notes (and style) to lstlisting environments similar to those in No Starch Press publications:
Unfortunately it depends on XeTeX and I've added conditional support for it in my document, but this is problematic with pgf/tikx since the xetex driver isn't very complete, and I also have issues with monospace fonts such as DejaVu Sans Mono, which results in (very) weird invalid kerning.
How can I avoid the xetex dependency using a similar approach for notes and pdftex?
Update: Check my answer for tikz-based solution with support for unlimited sidenotes.
Thanks to Mike Renfro for the input!