Catholics believe Jesus is a Mama's Boy.
John 2:4 Jesus saith unto her [Mary], Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
Romanists do not worship the Mary of the Bible but one of their own imagination who is based on an ancient pagan goddess. Catholics call their Mary, "The Queen of Heaven". This pagan goddess is found in Jeremiah chapters 7 and 44. God hated worship of the queen of heaven.
Papists say that you can only be saved by grace. That sounds good don't it? Well, you can't trust the Great Whore of Revelation to tell you the truth. You have to go deeper after hearing each statement. The grace that they speak of must come through Mary, not Jesus! She is called the Mediatrix of all Graces. Look at this creepy graphic that shows MARY WITH SCARS OF CRUCIFIXION IN HER HANDS! Sick, sick, sick! Hell, hell, hell to all that go along with this. Take notice of the titles given to her.
There was a Romanist newspaper ad that had a huge picture of the Catholic Mary lookin' pious. It said something like "He hasn't said no to her in 2,000 years." They think Jesus takes His instructions from Mary! They think that the Lord of Lords and King of Kings is a mama's boy! They can't ask Him for nothing directly, gotta go to mama. This is totally unbiblical--but it is consistent with pagan goddess worship including ROMAN mythology where you can beg lesser gods to help you out. God hates this and every time a Catholic chants the rosary (vain repetition) or prays to Mary, it is an abomination in His sight.
I went out to EWTN, that bastion of Romanist wickedness and found a writing by Mr. William G. Most, a priest. As I read the article, the term "mama's boy" popped into my mind. In Romanism, Jesus is simply a child of Mary that was victimized (they call Him, "The Victim"). They pray to her so she will tell Him what to do because she is His mother. They actually believe Jesus is a "mama's boy." This in no way resembles the Jesus of the Bible. They eat Jesus and pray to Mary. That's messed up. In their idols/abominable images, you often see a dead jesus (like on a crucifix) or a funny lookin' baby Jesus in Mary's arms like she gotta protect him and speak for him. At Christmas, that Romish holiday, you see a baby Jesus with the sun around his head--why? We are never commanded to remember His birth. Salvation was a man-sized job and it was His total purpose in coming here.
"... in suffering with Him as He died on the cross, she cooperated in the work of the Savior, in an altogether singular way, by obedience, faith, hope, and burning love, to restore supernatural life to souls. As a result she is our Mother in the order of grace."
This motherhood of Mary in the economy of grace lasts without interruption, from the consent which she gave in faith at the annunciation, and which she unhesitatingly bore with under the cross, even to the perpetual consummation of all the elect. For after being assumed into heaven, SHE HAS NOT PUT ASIDE THIS SAVING FUNCTION, but by her manifold intercession, she continues to WIN (telling Jesus what to do) the gifts of eternal salvation for us. By her motherly love, she takes care of the brothers of her Son [so we are just all her little children--Jesus included!] who are still in pilgrimage and in dangers and difficulties, until they be led through to the happy fatherland. For this reason, the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Auxiliatrix, Adiutrix, and Mediatrix. This however it to be so understood that it takes nothing away, or adds nothing to the dignity and efficacy of Christ the one Mediator [what?!??!! They just said she is Mediatrix! Satan has bewitched papists so that they won't even see the blatant contradictions in this one paragraph]. For no creature can ever be put on the same level with the Incarnate Word and Redeemer [that's what you have just done, you heretick and blasphemer!]...."
Neither is there salvation in any other; for there IS NONE OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN WHEREBY WE MUST BE SAVED!
A papist may say to me, "We don't worship Mary". Yes you do. You worship at your creep show of icons, images, and relics continually. If you have disregarded the Bible for Roman tradition, you willingly worship according to a lie. You willingly kick the Bible to the curb and the judgment of God is on you.
They always show a dead Jesus. I suppose that this is fitting as their Jesus is indeed dead. In fact, he never lived. He's just some flour and water.
The argument goes like this. Since Mary gave birth to Christ and cooperated ill [sic] salvation, would it not be logical for her to play a role in the distribution of her Son's graces? The Catholic Church says yes, to the point of maintaining that all graces that come into the world from the Godhead, flow through her exclusively.
This concept is called the "Marian Prerogative." All is the operative word here. All graces means actual grace, habitual grace, infused grace, sacramental grace, the gifts of the Holy Spirit and charisms. All people means that every person without exception in every age, including those living before the Redemption, received saving grace in recognition of the future merits of Mary.
Whether or not we acknowledge the fact of Mary's dispensatrix role is irrelevant. All grace flows through her nonetheless.
If they don't worship Mary--then HOW IN THE WORLD can they claim her to be a co-redeemer with Jesus Christ and NOT WORSHIP HER? Everything they do points to the fact that they do indeed worship Mary and kick Jesus to the curb.
Although there has yet been no solemn definition of Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces, there seems to be enough support from Sacred Tradition and the teaching office to qualify this title of Mary as a de fide divina--a truth formally contained in divine revelation. Father Carol gives further evidence to undergird this claim: 1) The doctrine is taught categorically by the modern popes; 2) is taught by them in public documents as well as private letters; 3) has been instituted as a liturgical feast (Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces, Benedict XV); and 4) papal teaching is seconded by theologians.


LSU announced Sunday night that it has reinstated suspended basketball coach Will Wade , two days after he met with school and NCAA officials.
LSU athletic director Joe Alleva released a statement that said Wade "answered all questions and denied any wrongdoing in connection with recently reported allegations of irregularities in college basketball recruiting.
… Coach Wade's explanations and clarifications offered during the meeting, absent actual evidence of misconduct, satisfy his contractual obligation to LSU.
Wade and Arizona coach Sean Miller have been subpoenaed by defense attorneys to appear in the second of three federal trials of college basketball figures, which is scheduled to begin April 22 in New York.
Instead, a verbal commitment to LSU was being delayed because Wade theorized the third party hadn't been given a big "enough piece of the pie in the deal" and instead "tilted" the offer toward the player and his mother.
"[Wade] is communicating to Christian Dawkins that he can get him what he needs – meaning money – if a player in Florida, Balsa Koprivica, agrees to play for LSU," said Casey Donnelly, one of Jim Gatto's attorneys.


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In the course of a multiple assignment by the company Grün Berlin GmbH, different designs were developed for a new open-air stage in the "Gardens of the World " located in the Berlin township Marzahn-Hellersdorf. The stage is designated as a permanent construction in the expansion of the park.
Our design integrates all components of the open-air stage, creating an expressive solitaire in the landscape which can be experienced as a spatial sculpture. The curved design runs through all elements of the structure. Above the scene, a dynamic membrane roofing spans between two inclined arch constructions. The stage roof appears detached and floating, providing view into the greenery of the park.
The design of the lightweight tensile roofing is based on a rational and economical bearing structure. The prestressed textile membrane adopts a saddle-shaped anticlastic curvature and withstands wind and snow loads. In the textile membrane ridge cables are routed, creating a slight polygonization of the surface`s shape and providing a fail safe for the structure. The proposed fabric is made of glass fibers coated with PTFE. This material is highly translucent and of high life expectancy.


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The Singing Body*
Birds sing. There is no other way to say it. They make a harmonious sound, with rhythm, structure, and they repeat those phrases. Many animals use pitch and tone to express themselves. For instance, frogs blow air out of a special sack calling for a mate. Crocodiles, sensing a nearby female, bellow internally. They do this with such force it causes the water around them to ripple exquisitely. Elephants make a similar sound – a note so low humans can't hear it, but elephants 4km away can. Insects have many kinds of songs.
Like much of human culture, our singing has become formalised and complex, but much of what singing means to humans means the same to other animals – especially intelligent ones. These things would include: Self expression, claiming territory, sexual selection, enforcing social bonds, working up to a fight, and so on.
At what point singing becomes music is a different matter – and I think many of my examples would fail that test. All of them? I'm not so sure. When humans make melodious sounds to a child sleeping, accompanied by instruments or not, this human singing is music. Whales also deliver a great example. Their songs are long and complex – there is phrasing. It must surely be music to them; as it is to people who sleep with the recording playing in the background.
Animals use sound to warn others to stay out of their territory and also to attract a mate.
Crows are highly intelligent birds that have a complex language system. They make at least twenty-five different sounds, which include growling, squawking, squealing, cooing, and rattling. They use these different calls to identify themselves and communicate with other birds. They also have an emergency call to have other crows come quickly to help.
For a bird, singing can be draining. It is both energetically expensive and alerts predators. So then why do birds sing? Evidence suggests that in part, it is to proclaim and defend their territories
. Studies have also shown that songs play a crucial role in attracting and impressing potential mates and may signal the overall health of the singer. As in humans, singing in birds is often a chance to show off.
heir repertoires include songs and calls
Why are some bird sounds referred to as songs and others as calls? Typically a song is defined as a relatively structured vocalization produced while attracting a mate or defending a territory. Calls tend to be shorter, less rhythmic sounds used to communicate a nearby threat or an individual's location. Each species and individual has a variety of songs and calls used in different contexts that together make up its repertoire
. While the distinction between calls and songs is not always clear, it can be quite ear opening to explore the full repertoires of your favorite songbirds.
Hear a bird singing? It's probably a male
Chances are when you hear a bird singing it's a male. The majority of female songbirds in temperate zones use shorter, simpler calls
while the males produce the longer and more complex vocalizations we think of as song
. The story is different in the tropics where females commonly sing, and many species engage in duetting
"… Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there," writes Daniel Levitin "….weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep and college students studying with music as a background…." He continues to note that, ….music is and was [always] part of the fabric of everyday life. Only relatively recently in our own culture, five hundred years or so ago, did a distinction arise that cut society in two, forming separate classes of music performers and music listeners. Throughout most of the world and for most of human history, music making was as natural an activity as breathing and walking, and everyone participated. Concert halls, dedicated to the performance of music, arose only in the last several centuries. Understanding why we like music and what draws us to it is therefore a window on the essence of human nature…." (This is Your Brain on Music, 2006)
music as communication
We humans are a musical species no less than a linguistic one. We integrate all of these and 'construct' music in our minds using many different parts of the brain. And to this largely unconscious structural appreciation of music is added an often intense and profound emotional reaction to music."
What is music?
Moby] One of the really fascinating things about music is that technically- in a very literal way- it doesn't exist. A painting, a sculpture or a photograph can physically exist, while music is just air hitting the eardrum in a slightly different way than it would randomly. If you were a space alien trying to define music- you would define it as humans manipulating the way in which air molecules hit someone's eardrum.
Somehow that air- which has almost no substance whatsoever- when moved and when made to hit the eardrum in tiny subtle ways- can make people dance, cry, have sex, move across country, go to war and more. It's remarkable that something so subtle can illicit profound emotional reactions in people.
Music provides us with a strange self-generated celebration of the human condition in the face of a universe that is ancient and vast beyond our understanding.
music goes beyond the words and sentences of our language
Music transcends the limits of language. The English lexicon is vast, but still is limited. Music comes in to fill the gap. It looks at the way we can't express ourselves through the spoken or written word and makes up for the lack.
WHY HUMANS SING
No doubt people have always sung — people everywhere, at all times and in all cultures. Young people, old people, children. Even babies sing. Happy people, sad people, people in crisis, people in prison, people about to die, people about to give birth. All aspects of human culture involves singing from religious rites to rites of passage, acts of debauchery to acts of devotion. People sing to their children, to their spouses, to their pets, in the shower, in church, at baseball games, in concerts, when no one is listening, and for no particular reason. People sing because it makes them feel good. People sing because it's fun.
Singing is an integral part of cultural identity. Indeed, a culture can often be identified by its song literature. Bruce Richman, states in the journal, Contemporary Anthropology: "… group singing gives … a strong, direct feeling of social cohesion and solidarity." Every culture has a body of folk song which identifies the culture as strongly as the language, dress, food, and social customs.
Ethnic cultures not withstanding, micro-cultures also identify themselves with song: clubs, fraternities and sororities, unions, religious groups… People sing because it helps them feel like an accepted member of a group.
Singing is part of human biology:
…different fields of science provide evidence that music has deep biological roots, from the organization of the brain. If music is a biological imperative, then its importance in human life is considerably greater than is commonly thought. As research in music expands, we can expect the findings to greatly enlarge our understanding of the roles of music in human development and behavior, and perhaps to provide new insights into our nature. [See Music: Cultural Add-On or Biological Imperative? by Norman Weinberger]
Singing helps people understand who they are.
Singing can help people experience a transcendent state of mind. "Transcendent" has several meanings including:
1. extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience
2. being beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge (Kantian philosophy)
3. being beyond comprehension
(from Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online)
Many religious traditions have used vocalizations as a means of achieving a transcendent state of mind. States of ecstasy are also often achieved through practicing (participating) in some kind of musical activity — usually singing, chanting, intonation, etc. People sing because it helps them experience worship.
2. To create identity.
Singing together creates solidarity among groups of people. It is one of the ways we forge a definable identity as a community or tribe.
3. To express emotion.
Whether singing makes us feel or feeling makes us sing, singing connects to the emotional part of our humanity, and we sing, in part, to express this aspect of ourselves.
4. To express words.
Singing words is different than speaking them. It opens up a range of expression of words not possible if they were spoken and not sung. Singing the same words differently (to different tunes, tempi, and chord structures) allow us to more tangibly see the many facets of a single statement.
5. To revisit the past.
Singing, for better and for worse when it comes to congregational song, triggers nostalgia. Singing can have the power of re-immersing ourselves in a past event or time in our lives.
6. To tell stories.
We sing to pass on the content of our history and beliefs from one generation to the next. This was especially the case in aural cultures.
N.M. Weinberger writes:
… singing is present early in life, exhibits regular developmental stages and serves bio-social roles. Thus, singing may be a biological imperative with both individual and group functions. Quite apart from issues of its biological bases, singing appears capable of promoting several cognitive processes and even motor coordination. [See Sing, Sing, Sing! — published in the Music & Science Information Computer Archive, MUSICA]
SIngen als Lernkatalysator
Karl Kimmel writes:
A song is probably the best all-around mnemonic device for facilitating a student's recall of facts, definitions, and concepts. It is most useful when students are faced with a lot of novel material to remember or within groups of students who have difficulty remembering. A song is a mnemonic because its melody, rhythm, rhyme, imagery and other poetic devices provide a structure for the acquisition of new knowledge, an organization of this knowledge in long-term memory, and cues for retrieval of this knowledge. [See Pedagogy.]
Dass wir dem Singen so zugewandt sind, hängt auch damit zusammen, dass wir Klänge bereits im Bauch der Mutter wahrnehmen.
Noch vor der Sprache haben wir schon Klänge vernommen. Wir sind darauf anders und früher sensibilisiert. Die Art und Weise, wie ein Säugling sich verständigt, ist dem Singen näher als dem Sprechen. Das Singen ist aber nicht nur für Babys eine besondere Form der Kommunikation. In den Bergen beispielsweise, wenn Nachrichten gleichsam vom Tal auf den Gipfel oder von Berghang zu Berghang übermittelt werden mussten, half das Jodeln.
Charles Darwin sah den Ursprung des Singens in der Partnerwahl. Wer Vögel beobachtet, wird ihm sicher Recht geben. Aber dass Singen auch beim Menschen ein Thema in der Partnerwahl zu sein scheint, dafür gibt es auch statistische Hinweise: In einem Viertel aller Heiratsanzeigen der Wochenzeitung "Die Zeit", so hat der Musikpädagoge Heiner Gembris herausgefunden, die Musik erwähnt wird.
Singen erleichtert aber auch schwere Arbeit. Dafür sprechen beispielsweise die Gospels und Spirituals afroamerikanischer Sklaven. Sie waren ein Sinnbild des gemeinsamen Leidens, ein gesanglicher Ausdruck der Schicksalsgemeinschaft. Das gilt nicht nur für Sklaven, das gilt auch in Fußballstadien. Was sind Fangesänge anderes als der Ausdruck einer Schicksalsgemeinschaft? (sk)
– singing words makes a different meaning – widens the spectrum

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Q: How to use cursor fetch method by taking the advantage of PDO? I need to fetch every single dataset row with the cursor fetch method in PHP. But in modern times I would like also to take the advantage of PDO. In my example it is combined with a classically group changing:
I have the following tables:
create table profile
(
    id int not null auto_increment,
    email char(50) not null,
    password char(100) not null,
    name char(100) not null,
    surname char(50) not null,
    street char(50) not null,
    homeno char(5) not null,
    group_id int not null,
    primary key(id)
);
create table usergroups
(
    id int auto_increment not null,
    name char(30) not null,
    primary key(id)
);

create table actions
(
    id int not null auto_increment,
    name char(50) not null,
    primary key(id)
);

create table group_rights
(
    id int auto_increment not null,
    action_id int not null,
    group_id int not null,
    allowed int(1) not null,
    primary key(id)
);

So, in the 3rd normal form.
And my PHP Code looks like this (at the moment it works, but I think I should take the advantage of using PDO in a better way):
class AuthModel extends BaseModel
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public function load()
    {
        $sSQL = <<<SQL
select `usergroups`.`name` as `group`, `actions`.`name` as `action`, `profile`.`name` as `user`, `allowed`
from profile
inner join usergroups on usergroups.id = profile.group_id
inner join group_rights on usergroups.id = group_rights.group_id
inner join actions on group_rights.action_id = actions.id
order by profile.group_id;
SQL;
        $arRightList = array();

        $pdo = $this->_db->getPdo();
        $stmt = $pdo->prepare($sSQL, array(PDO::ATTR_CURSOR => PDO::CURSOR_SCROLL));
        $stmt->execute();

        $arRow = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC, PDO::FETCH_ORI_NEXT);

        $auth = new AuthList();
        if ($arRow)
        {
            $sGroup = $arRow['group'];
            $sGroupNew = $sGroup;
            $arActRights = array();
            $arActUsers = array();
        }

        while ($arRow)
        {
            while ($sGroup === $sGroupNew && $arRow)
            {
                if ($arRow['allowed'] == 0)
                {
                    $arActRights[$arRow['action']] = AuthList::ACTION_DENY;
                }

                else
                {
                    $arActRights[$arRow['action']] = AuthList::ACTION_ACCEPT;
                }

                $arActUsers[] = $arRow['user'];
                $sGroupNew = $arRow['group'];

                $arRow = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC, PDO::FETCH_ORI_NEXT);
            }

            $auth->addGroup($sGroup, $arActRights);

            foreach ($arActUsers as $sActUser)
            {
                $auth->setPrimaryUserGroup($sGroup, $sActUser);
            }

            $arActRights = array();
            $arActUsers = array();
            $sGroup = $sGroupNew;
        }

        return $auth;
    }
}

... And the class AuthList for completion:
class AuthList
{
    const USER_ALREADY_SET = -1;
    const USER_GROUP_CHANGED = 0;
    const USER_SUCCESSFULLY_ADDED = 1;

    const ACTION_ALREADY_ALLOWED = -1;
    const ACTION_SUCCESSFULLY_ALLOWED = 0;

    const ACTION_ALREADY_DENIED = -1;
    const ACTION_SUCESSFULLY_DENIED = 0;

    const GROUP_ALREADY_EXISTS = -1;
    const GROUP_SUCCESSFULLY_ADDED = 0;

    const ACTION_ACCEPT = 'OK';
    const ACTION_DENY = 'NOK';

    const LIST_KEY_NAME = 'list';

    protected $_rights;
    protected $_list;
    protected $_groups;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->_list = array();
        $this->_groups = array();
    }

    public function addAction ($sAction)
    {
        if (is_callable($sAction))
        {
            $this->_list[] = $sAction->__toString();
        }
        else
        {
            $this->_list[] = $sAction;
        }
    }

    public function addGroup ($sGroupName, $rights = array())
    {
        $iRetCode = -2;
        if (in_array($sGroupName, $this->_groups))
        {
            $iRetCode = self::GROUP_ALREADY_EXISTS;
        }
        else
        {
            if (empty($rights))
            {
                $this->_groups[$sGroupName] = array();
            }
            else
            {

                $this->_groups[$sGroupName][self::LIST_KEY_NAME] = $rights;
            }
            $iRetCode = self::GROUP_SUCCESSFULLY_ADDED;
        }

        return $iRetCode;
    }

    public function setPrimaryUserGroup ($sGroupName, $sUser)
    {
        $iRetCode = -2;

        foreach ($this->_groups as $sKeyGroupName => $users)
        {
            if (in_array($sUser, $users) && $sGroupName === $sKeyGroupName)
            {
                // User already are in the requested group, finish working
                $iRetCode = self::USER_ALREADY_SET;
                break;
            }

            elseif (in_array($sUser, $users) && $sGroupName !== $sKeyGroupName)
            {
                for ($iUserPos = 0; $iUserPos < count($users); $iUserPos++)
                {
                    if ($users[$iUserPos] === $sUser)
                    {
                        $iUserNo = $iUserPos;
                        break;
                    }
                }
                unset($users[$iUserNo]);
                $this->_groups[$sGroupName][] = $sUser;
                $iRetCode = self::USER_GROUP_CHANGED;
                break;
            }

            else
            {
                $this->_groups[$sGroupName][] = $sUser;
                $iRetCode = self::USER_SUCCESSFULLY_ADDED;
                break;
            }
        }

        return $iRetCode;
    }

    public function allowAction ($sGroupName, $sActionName)
    {
        $iRetCode = -2;
        if ($this->_groups[$sGroupName][self::LIST_KEY_NAME][$sActionName] === self::ACTION_ACCEPT)
        {
            $iRetCode = self::ACTION_ALREADY_ALLOWED;
        }
        else
        {
            $this->_groups[$sGroupName][self::LIST_KEY_NAME][$sActionName] = self::ACTION_ACCEPT;
            $iRetCode = self::ACTION_SUCCESSFULLY_ALLOWED;
        }

        return $iRetCode;
    }

    public function denyAction ($sGroupName, $sActionName)
    {
        $iRetCode = -2;
        if ($this->_groups[$sGroupName][self::LIST_KEY_NAME][$sActionName] === self::ACTION_DENY)
        {
            $iRetCode = self::ACTION_ALREADY_DENIED;
        }
        else
        {
            $this->_groups[$sGroupName][self::LIST_KEY_NAME][$sActionName] = self::ACTION_DENY;
            $iRetCode = self::ACTION_SUCESSFULLY_DENIED;
        }

        return $iRetCode;
    }

    public function isAllowed ($sUserName, $sActionName)
    {
        $rw = false;

        foreach ($this->_groups as $users)
        {
            if (in_array($sUserName, $users))
            {
                if (array_key_exists($sActionName, $users[self::LIST_KEY_NAME]))
                {
                    $rw = $users[self::LIST_KEY_NAME][$sActionName] === self::ACTION_ACCEPT;
                }
                break;
            }
        }

        return $rw;
    }

    public function dump()
    {
        var_dump($this->_groups);
    }
}

I use the database connection class as singleton pattern. So,
$this->_db

is just a reference to the singleton which holds the PDO class object. By calling
$authmdl = new AuthModel();
$authlist = $authmdl->load();

You´ll get the ACL.

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I entered the Android world with a Nexus 7 (2012) edition recently.
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Now, I heard that Google Chrome is a HTML5 browser. But I am unable to open my html file in that when I open it from File Manager. I tried Dolphin Browser, but it crashes the moment it opens.
So, is there any other HTML5-only browser I can use for this purpose?
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I'm a beginner android developer and thinking about making a decently big game. I know that Flash air is only available to android 2.2 and future releases, but should I still make the game using Flash? Using Java would imo be so much more difficult and time consuming, but I suppose all android versions would be able to run it. Also, how efficient can android 2.2 run Flash Air? Can a game made in Flash Air run almost as fast as the game made with Java?
set the default Facebook layout in UC Browser as the old layout. Here I'm referring the old layout (wap) to the one as seen on Opera Mini.
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It is possible to flash a Samsung phone with a Google Nexus firmware?
Is there a list where I can check which model can be flashed or something like that.
I'm getting two duplicate Facebook notifications, one typically several minutes after first one. I'm using a Nexus 4 with the FB App installed. I assume one notification is from the FB website and the second is from the FB App? Anyway, I temporarily deleted the FB App and second notifications stopped. So how do I configure to receive just one notice, preferably the late arrival.
Last week, I flashed my LG Nexus 4 (16GB) phone with stock Android 4.4 (Official Image), before that I was on CyanogenMod 10.1.3 Stable.
Now, for some reason I didn't like the stock 4.4 and tried to Flash back my CyanogenMod 10.1.3 from CWM "Install ZIP" but the problem I'm facing is that it CyanogenMod doesn't boot, hangs on "Spiral Splash Screen". Then I tried Flashing CM 10.0 stable, still loops into boot forever and at times boots (after 15-20 minutes of booting on spiral splash screen) and doesn't recognise SIM card, Camera, Storage, WIFI or anything.
Then after getting fed up with this I tried flashing MIUI V5. This also takes a 15-20 to boot and fails to recognise - SIM, WiFi, Camera etc.
So lastly like a loser I flashed back my Android 4.4 it works fine.
I've my boot-loader in unlocked state.
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The Beatles Take Top Two Spots in 2017 Vinyl Sales
Jeff Giles
The vinyl revival continued in 2017 — and people clearly needed more Beatles records for their turntables, because the band took the top two spots on the year-end sales chart for the resurgent format.
Citing Nielsen data, Billboard reports that vinyl sales hit another peak in 2017, moving 14.32 million units and edging up 9 percent over last year's previous high. That total represents the largest number of vinyl albums that's been purchased in a year since 1991 — the year the company's SoundScan sales data was incorporated into Billboard's chart methodology, starting a new era in the process.
The year saw healthy vinyl sales for a variety of acts — the report notes that nearly 80 albums in all moved more than 20,000 units in the format — but the top of the charts remains unsurprisingly skewed toward rock. The Beatles took the top two spots, with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band selling 72,000 copies and Abbey Road close behind with 66,000 copies. Catalog titles took up a fair portion of the Top 10 overall — Pink Floyd's perennial bestseller The Dark Side of the Moon placed seventh, joined on the list by long-running favorites like Prince's Purple Rain (No. 6) and Michael Jackson's Thriller (No. 10).
All in all, vinyl accounted for 8.5 percent of all album sales in 2017 — a two-percent jump over 2016 — and grew to 14 percent of all physical sales, up from 11 percent the year before. The format continued to be a bright spot in a changing market, shoring up numbers as consumers migrated away from digital album sales (down 19.6 percent) and toward streaming (up a whopping 50 percent, according to a report published by data firm BuzzAngle Music). You can take a deep dive into the numbers in Nielsen's year-end report, posted at this PDF.
2017's Top Selling Vinyl Albums
1. The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 72,000 copies
2. The Beatles, Abbey Road - 66,000
3. Soundtrack, Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 - 62,000
4. Ed Sheeran, Divide - 62,000
5. Amy Winehouse, Back to Black - 58,000
6. Prince, Purple Rain (Soundtrack) - 58,000
7. Bob Marley and the Wailers, Legend: The Best of... - 56,000
8. Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon - 54,000
9. Soundtrack, La La Land - 49,000
10. Michael Jackson, Thriller - 49,000
Next: Top 50 Beatles Songs
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Agelena suboculata es una especie de araña del género Agelena, familia Agelenidae. Fue descrita científicamente por Simon en 1910.

Distribución
Esta especie se encuentra en Botsuana.

Referencias

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"Open Water Swimming: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly!!
So, I have less than a month for my very first tri and I'm not going to lie, I am a little worried...worried and scared.
Let's start with the GOOD...hmmm, lake water is refreshing!! That's it...that's all I have on the positives of swimming in a lake. I can now move on to the Bad and the Ugly.
Workout gear...you're either a junkie for it or not. The question is; is it necessary for ones performance?
Being a Newbie...Exciting or Nerve Racking?
So it's been a couple weeks since I joined the Mommy's/Babes in Motion. I must say I'm getting more comfortable with my abilities and also realizing I'm training with a group of women who genuinely want to support me, and willingly share their stories, struggles and accomplishments.
Hmm, so where do I start?
Growing up I've always been pretty active; participated on many school sports teams, rowed for my university, and enjoyed going to the gym. I continued this in my twenties and thirties, got really interested in yoga, spinning, and beach volleyball... tried it all! My down fall...CONSISTENCY, CONFIDENCE, TIME, POOR EATING....really, a whole lot of excuses!!
Let me just start out by saying how much I have loved working with Moms and Babes in Motion over the past few years! What an amazing group of women and an awesome sport to take up. One of the best decisions I ever made was signing up to do my first triathlon with Nancy Hastings at the Flamborough YMCA in January of 2010.
What one little thing will you change 2016??
I know for some or most of us we all set New Resolutions. I have done this and tried several ways over the past few years. Sometimes, to create less pressure, I carry over a resolution to the next year.


The Pearl heats up for the holidays, hosting special burlesque and cabaret performances on December 2 and December 3. Presented by Qi-POW!, 'All That Glitters' is definitely gold, with showgirls donning sequins, rhinestones, and sparkles galore for the tease and shimmy. Cozy up with The Pearl's international cast as they present their gifts for dance, aerial arts, circus, drag, and song. Hosted by Barney Rivera (Shanghai Comedy Club) and featuring special guest artist Lady Wildflower (UK), this is the kind of joyous revue that only comes around once a year. Dress Code: Christmas chic.


If you live in Washington State or Portland OR area, "NoCord" is available now. If not, the DIY version will be here THIS Summer.
Very interesting! Is it actually NEC compliant? The videos on his site (nocord.com) make it a bit easier to understand. Looks like you have to provide your own EVSE as well, so definitely not cheap, but worth it for some. Makes a lot of sense for anyone with a garage.
No details on certs or anything like that but guessing Stuart has his t's crossed and what not. It is a rather safe design since it relies at least partially on the J-1772 protocol.
As far as spendy? If you want an expensive automated charging system, I have one!
WOW! Looks like Doc Brown from Back To The Future has been working on this... Seems like a lot of hardware and work to save not plugging in..
I think that the future is more an inductive pad on the ground of some kind of connect that is low to the ground.
powersurge wrote: WOW! Looks like Doc Brown from Back To The Future has been working on this... Seems like a lot of hardware and work to save not plugging in..
Induction sounds good but lower efficiency is an issue. It would matter little around here (last bill 8.6 cents/kwh) but no so much in areas that see over 25 cents per kwh.
Besides, talk of inductive charging has been going on for a while now. Know anyone who is using it?


A Temple University Libraries team has digitized 1,500 photos, film clips, newspaper articles and other priceless gems to create Civil Rights in a Northern City.
Brenda Galloway-Wright, associate archivist and principal investigator, (left) explores images that were digitized for Civil Rights in a Northern City, with DeNece Dugan, student assistant on the project.
Temple has long been home to a vast collection of materials related to the civil rights struggle in Philadelphia, which as a northern city is often forgotten in the history of that era. And civil rights is increasingly a topic of interest among scholars of all ages, as the focus sharpens on understudied groups and issues in history.
This supply has now met demand thanks to a Temple University Libraries team that digitized the 1,500 photos, film clips, newspaper articles and other priceless gems that make up Civil Rights in a Northern City, an online repository that tells the story of the two seminal events in Philadelphia's Civil Rights struggle: the Columbia Avenue Riots (1964) and the Desegregation of Girard College (1954-68).
Now, anyone can access such items as "Case Study of a Riot," a 1966 pamphlet that, according to Margery Sly, director of the Libraries' Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), provides valuable sociological and statistical details but is out-of-print and was not widely distributed; newsreels, some never before seen, of Martin Luther King Jr. in Philadelphia in 1965; and internal memos exchanged between city officials and community leaders.
Cecil B. Moore speaks at "Opening of Opportunities Industrialization Center."
Civil rights demonstrators picket Girard College in protest of the school's segregationist admissions policy.
Looting during Columbia Avenue riots.
Woman recruits N.A.A.C.P. members (1944).
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. attends rally at Girard College.
"We wanted to present as much of the raw material as possible and let people make their own conclusions," said Sly, who worked with Hillary S. Kativa, a grant-funded project manager, and Matthew Countryman, associate professor of history at the University of Michigan and author of Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia, to give the site a narrative context that would help — yet not slant — users.
Before Civil Rights in a Northern City, individuals would have to physically go to the Libraries and visit different collections and departments to see photographs and pull newspaper clippings. The 16mm newsreel films presented particular concerns due to preservation and fragility, said Sly.
The items on the site were selected from the Libraries' archival collections, such as the Evening Bulletin newspaper and KYW-TV archives in the Urban Archives collections of the SCRC, and the John Moseley photograph collection in the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. As the project progressed, team members were thrilled to discover hidden gems among the libraries' other collections. The SCRC's Philadelphia Jewish Archives collections contained one of the most precious of those gems, a series of questionnaires of Jewish merchants conducted in the aftermath of the Columbia Avenue riots.
Matthew J. Countryman, associate professor of history, University of Michigan, consulting historian for the project; Hillary S. Kativa, project manager.
Student assistants who scanned and processed the materials, as well as created content for the website: Sara Borden, '11, DeNece Dugan, '12, Amira Rose Schroeder, '11, and Craig Scheihing, current student.
Temple University Libraries staff: Steven Bell, associate university librarian; Phil D'Andrea, digital library initiatives; Brenda Galloway-Wright, associate archivist, principal investigator; Delphine Khanna, head, digital library initiatives; John Pettit, assistant archivist; Margery Sly, director of special collections and Diane Turner, curator, Charles L. Blockson Collection.
Assessment volunteers: Jasmine Alinder, Laura Blanchard, Seth Bruggeman, Bill Cutler, Jack Dougherty, Tammy Gaskell, Trevor Griffey, Matt Herbison, Ang Reidell, Robert Sieczkiewicz, Courtney Smerz, Heather Thompson, Sharon White.
Sly said that Countryman was enthralled with the Community Relations Council-led questionnaires.
"He was not aware they existed and they really lifted up that aspect of Jewish-Black relations," she said.
In addition to being a resource to scholars such as Countryman, the site offers new insights to students of all ages. So far several high school teachers and Temple professors in both education and English have used it as a teaching tool for their students.
The project, a work in progress with additional modules planned on the Black Panthers and the 1960 selective patronage campaign, was partially funded with federal Library Service and Technology Act funds administered by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, part of the Pennsylvania Department of Education.


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Q: What does the arrow mean in a function's argument in Swift 3.x? some_function(y_array: [Double], f_array: [(([Double], Double) -> Double)]) -> [Double] {

//some code

return some_array

}

I'm new to Swift and don't understand this notation. What does the first arrow mean in this context? This is an argument to a function.

A: It means f_array is an array of clousers.
Closures are typically enclosed in curly braces { } and are defined by a function type () -> (), where -> separates the arguments and the return type.
([Double], Double) -> Double )

It means clouser takes two arguments one is array of double and another is double and returns a double element.
Eg:
let average = {(val1: [Double], val2: Double) -> Double in

   let sumOfAllValues =  val1.reduce(0, {$0 + $1})

    return sumOfAllValues / val2
}


Car transporter Beamish Transport has ceased trading due to the downturn in the car industry and uncertainty surrounding Brexit.
More than 200 drivers and warehouse staff at white goods manufacturer Indesit UK could be about to walk out, after Unite members voted overwhelmingly for industrial action in a recent ballot.
Union Unite remains optimistic that most of the jobs under threat as a result of a restructure at TNT Fashion Group UK can be saved, regional officer Nick Halton told Motortransport.co.uk after an initial consultation meeting with the company.


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Q: ¿Por qué tengo este error al importar una clase en typescript? Estoy importando una clase a index.ts y obtengo este error:
[run] import { Sorter } from './Sorter';
[run] ^^^^^^
[run]
[run] SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module

el archivo indes.ts es:
import { Sorter } from './Sorter';
import { NumbersCollection } from './NumbersCollections';

const numbersCollection = new NumbersCollection([10, 3, -5, 0]);
const sorter = new Sorter(numbersCollection);
sorter.sort();
console.log(numbersCollection);

y la clase se está exportando desde aquí Sorter.ts:
interface Sortable {
  length: number;
  compare(leftIndex: number, rightIndex: number): boolean;
  swap(leftIndex: number, rightIndex: number): void;
}

export class Sorter {
  constructor(public collection: Sortable) {}

  sort(): void {
    const { length } = this.collection; // this.collection.length

    for (let i = 0; i < length; i++) {
      for (let j = 0; j < length - i - 1; j++) {
        if (this.collection.compare(j, j + 1)) {
          this.collection.swap(j, j + 1);
        }
      }
    }
  }
}


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In order to take advantage of the convenience and ease of navigating the open roads – try considering the benefits that comes with auto global positioning systems, such as Pioneer GPS systems. Over the years, Pioneer has made its mark in the world of digital entertainment products. With a history dating back to 1938, the former radio and speaker repair shop has now developed into one of the most well known participants in the consumer electronics industry. Today, their cable televisions, DVD players, plasma displays, and Pioneer car GPS systems continue as favorites with the public.
Choosing the Right Pioneer Auto GPS
Before you scan the Pioneer GPS systems product line, a few suggestions can make this process much easier. For starters, you should know that there are four major kinds of GPS vehicle tracking systems to consider. Joining the auto GPS systems are portable outdoor units, marine systems, and PDA/GPS hybrids. In the end, you will become concerned with locating an in-car GPS navigation system that allows you to pinpoint your exact location – eliminating the need to bother with maps.
To get the most out of a GPS unit, choosing a model with voice instructions is highly recommended, especially if you plan on doing a lot of driving on your own. Some models only provide visual location maps, which becomes rather difficult to decipher while traveling on the road. A convenient feature to seek out includes real-time tracking, which permits verification of street turns.
Additional perks offered with GPS units includes speed limit monitoring, tracking capabilities (for younger drivers taking the car for a spin), and user-friendly design. Overall, it is important to view a GPS system as a valuable investment. Overlooking quality for price is not always the wisest decision.
As you browse the Pioneer brand of GPS systems, you will find that the more features offered – the higher the price tag rises. However, the advanced technology associated with Pioneer GPS models is too impressive to ignore. A few to keep your eye out for includes:
· The Pioneer AVIC-Z2 GPS offers powerful navigation and multimedia capabilities with a suggested retail price of $2,200. The 10 GB- HDD Music Library equipped with Voice Command is an alluring feature of this model. Overall, the hard disk drive is furnished with 30GB – allowing the convenient delivery of information, ease, and entertainment during travel. A couple of enhancements that set the AVIC-Z2 from the Z1 includes Point Addressing (new mapping feature), 3D landmark icons, traffic flow lanes, and Bluetooth Voice operation.
· When looking for something a little less demanding on your wallet – the Pioneer Portable Smart GPS Navigation with 3.5" Touch Display costs only $400 and comes with a host of exciting features. A 1 GB SD card is preloaded with TeleAtlas Map Data. With coverage of the United States and Canada, you can listen to the built-in MP3 player as you travel the continental U.S. and its outskirts. The convenience of the portable pioneer GPS navigation system shows through in the ability to transfer the unit from your car to another, as well as tote it around during travel as a portable unit. The sleek, compact design offers a 3 ½ inch touch screen interface with easy-to-follow operation. Hands-free calling is also possible with the built-in Bluetooth wireless technology.
· The Pioneer AVIC-N4 In-Dash DVD Multimedia Navigation Receiver (~$1,600) offers a 7" motorized touch screen display and Bluetooth-enabled technology. The latest Pioneer GPS navigation systes provides the ultimate convenience with detailed traffic alerts for major cities provided by the XM NavTraffic service and optional XM Radio tuner. A larger screen situated in a compact chassis brings consumers the best of both worlds. This model comes highly recommended for those looking to accommodate their love of music and video within a GPS system, as the N4 can also connect to an iPod.
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Secondary Curriculum Linked
Inclusion Exclusion
How many integers between 1 and 1200 are NOT multiples of any of the numbers 2, 3 or 5?
How many dry days did Aisha have on her holiday?
Using words and trial
Think about the people in both clubs. Suppose that there are 10 people in the maths club who are in both clubs. Then those 10 people are also in the science club. And there can't be any other people in the science club who are in both clubs, because if there were, then they would be in the maths club - but we have already counted the 10 people in the maths club who are in both clubs!
So if there are 10 people in the maths club who are in both clubs, then there are also 10 people in the science club who are in both clubs - and they are the same people.
If there are 10 people who are in both clubs, then there are 15$-$10 = 5 people in just the maths club, and 12$-$10 = 2 people in just the science club. That is a total of 7 people in only one club, which is 6 less than 13.
10$-$6 = 4, so what if there are 4 people in both clubs? Then there are 11 people in just the maths club, and 8 people just in the science club. That is a total of 19 people in only one club, which is 6 more than 13.
So we could try half-way between 4 and 10 - what if there are 7 people in both clubs? Then there are 8 people in just the maths club, and 5 people in just the science club. That is a total of 13 people in only one club - perfect.
Using trial on a venn diagram
In this first Venn diagram, the 15 students in the maths club and the 12 students in the science club are all shown as dots, and all shown as being in only one club.
Putting a student into the overlap is the same as moving one student from each side, since the student in the overlap is in both clubs - there are still 15 students in the maths club and 12 students in the science club.
So for every student put into the overlap, the number of students in just one club goes down by 2. We can keep going until the number of people in one club is 13.
There are 7 people in both clubs.
Using algebra on a Venn diagram
There are 15 people in the maths club and 12 in the science club, so 15 people in the red circle and 12 in the blue circle.
The two circles can be overlapped to form a Venn diagram, where there are 13 people in the area shaded purple, because there are 13 people in just one club. We are asked for the number of people in the green area - in both clubs.
The total shaded area is 13 + green area.
Adding the red circle to the blue circle gives the same number, except that the overlap is counted twice, giving 13 + 2$\times$green area instead of 13 + green area.
So 15 + 12 = 13 + 2$\times$green area $\Rightarrow$ 14 = 2$\times$green area, so there are 7 students in both clubs.
Using a two-way table
This two-way table is filled in in terms of $x$, the number of students in both clubs.
Maths club
Yes No Total
Yes $x$ $15-x$ $15$
No $12-x$
Total $12$
We know that $15-x$ and $12-x$ add up to $13$, so $15-x+12-x=13$.
Collecting like terms, $27-2x=13$, so $27=2x+13$, so $2x = 14$ so $ x=7$.
Can you see where each of these terms would go on the Venn diagram?
You can find more short problems, arranged by curriculum topic, in our short problems collection.


In this post I share the recipe for my Blueberry, Banana & White Nectarine Smoothie. This smoothie is really filling and great for breakfast. I use all fresh fruit for this recipe.
Place fruit in blender and add orange juice. Blend until desired texture is reached and serve! Enjoy!


Nominations are due by June 12th. If Mr Rajapaksa is not allowed to stand for the SLFP, he could choose to lead a new alliance made up of breakaways and various parties representing his nationalist allies. It would be an uphill fight, but not necessarily a futile one. He is a powerful orator and would once again tout his wartime victory while drumming up fears of a Tamil Tiger revival—a proven formula for firing up his base.


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Vietnamese Rights Lawyer Stripped of His License to Practice
Vietnamese human rights lawyer Vo An Don is shown in an undated photo.
Vietnamese human rights lawyer Vo An Don has been stripped of his license to practice law in a ruling received on Thursday from the national Vietnam Bar Association, Don told RFA's Vietnamese Service today.
The decision upheld a ruling made last year by the local Phu Yen Lawyers' Association striking his name from its lists for posting a comment on his Facebook page saying lawyers in Vietnam regularly use payoffs to win cases for their clients.
Don, a lawyer based in Vietnam's coastal Phu Yen province, has defended defendants in high-profile cases including blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, also known as Mother Mushroom, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in June 2017 for "spreading propaganda against the state."
Speaking to RFA, Don said that the decision made against him at the national level followed moves made locally last year.
"On November 26, the Phu Yen Lawyers' Association issued the decision to punish me by removing my name from the association," Don said.
"I filed a complaint with the Vietnam Bar Association, and after six months I got a response from them that upheld the Phu Yen Lawyers' Association decision and said that the Ministry of Justice would revoke my license."
Though he is now allowed to lodge an appeal with the Ministry of Justice in his case, Don said he feels nothing would result from this as he believes orders are coming down "from the top" to punish him for his work.
Another concern is that he can no longer open a law office, Don said.
"But even though I am no longer officially a lawyer and my license has been revoked, I will continue to use my knowledge to help others, because in accordance with Vietnamese law I can still work in civil cases such as marriage, family issues, and trade," he said.
In addition to his work defending Mother Mushroom, Don has represented defendants in other politically sensitive cases, including four Vietnamese citizens who were jailed in December after sailing to Australia in search of work and the wife of a criminal suspect who was beaten to death by police in 2012.
Don has reported regular harassment by authorities in the past, including audits of his law practice and death threats from police and state-linked hired thugs.
Reported by RFA's Vietnamese Service. Translated by Viet Ha. Written in English by Richard Finney.
Extradition Protests Continue in Hong Kong Amid Calls For International Support
US Citizen Held in Vietnam Given 12-Year Prison Sentence
Thousands Surround Police Headquarters in Downtown Hong Kong in Renditions Protest
Hong Kong People Demand Withdrawal of Extradition Bill in Massive Protest
Hong Kong 'Suspends' Renditions Bill as Campaigners Insist on Total Withdrawal
Hong Kong Officials Call For Rethink of China Renditions Law After Protests
Hong Kong Extradition Protests Spark Fears in Democratic Taiwan
Hong Kong Legislature Shuts Down After Mass Protests Over China Renditions
Hong Kong Police Use Rubber Bullets, Tear Gas to Quell Extradition Protests
Vietnamese Victims of Toxic Waste Spill File Suit Against Taiwan Firm
Hate Communist
from ghet bac Ho
LOL...is that his picture?
Never seen a lawyer with a hoe before...not even a good hoe at that!
Got to love his attitude, never give up. But why...there are so much to do.
These goons only fear educated, knowledgeable, and patriotic people.
Since each citizen is a weapon or a voice for freedom; hence; we need to unite and stand up for all causes to break the communism bondage and chains.


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Department of Mathematics

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore 560 012

SEMINAR

    Speaker

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Prof. Arup Bose

    Affiliation

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    ISI, Kolkata

    Subject Area

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    Mathematics

    Venue

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    Lecture Hall - I, Dept. of Mathematics

    Time

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2.00 pm

    Date

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Oct 21, 2009 (Wednesday)

    Title

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Limiting Spectral Distribution of Large Dimensional Random Matrices: Another Look at the Moment Method

    Abstract

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C Methods to establish the limiting spectral distribution (LSD) of large dimensional random matrices include the moment method which
invokes the trace formula. Its success has been demonstrated in several types of matrices such as the Wigner matrix and the sample variance covariance
matrix. In a recent article Bryc, Dembo and Jiang (2006) establish the LSD for random Toeplitz and Hankel matrices using the moment method. They
perform the necessary counting of terms in the trace by splitting the relevant sets into equivalence classes and relating the limits of the
counts to certain volume calculations. We develop this method further and provide a general framework to deal with symmetric patterned matrices with
entries coming from an independent sequence. This approach can be extended to cover matrices of the form Ap =XX'/n where X is a pxn matrix with p
going infinity and n = n(p) going to infinity and p/n going to y between 0 and infinity. The method can also be used to cover some situations where
the "input" sequence is a suitable linear process. Several new classes of limit distributions arise and many interesting questions remain to be answered.

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Actor Bradford Dillman, who starred as Edmund in the original Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night and had an impressive film and TV career, died on January 16 in Santa Barbara, CA. He was 87 and suffered complications from pneumonia, according to Ted Gekis of Gekis-Ribera personal management.
Dillman was also known as the co-star with Dean Stockwell in the 1959 crime drama Compulsion, where he played killer Arthur A. Straus, a role modeled after the Leopold & Loeb case from the 1920s, where two teens killed a child in an attempt to create the perfect murder. One of his career highlights was sharing best actor honors with Stockwell and Orson Welles (who played their attorney) at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.
He was Robert Redford's best friend in 1973's The Way We Were, and also appeared in the Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry series, playing in The Enforcer (1976) and Sudden Impact (1983). He also had a major role in 1973's The Iceman Cometh, playing Willie Oban in an adaptation directed by John Frankenheimer for the American Film Theater.
Dillman won a Theater World Awards for his Broadway debut in 1956 in Long Day's Journey into Night, creating the role of the author's alter ego, Edmund Tyrone, for 390 performances.
The lanky actor was born April 14, 1930, in San Francisco, the third of four children, spending summers in Santa Barbara acting in local theater productions.
He later attended Yale University, then entered the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a lieutenant in the Korean War. After his honorable discharge, Dillman auditioned for Lee Strasburg and entered the Actors Studio alongside fellow classmates James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.
Following Long Day's Journey Into Night and a later role in Katharine Cornell's Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning There Shall Be No Night, Dillman signed to 20th Century Fox.
He appeared in the 1958 films A Certain Smile and In Love and War, scoring a Golden Globe for most promising newcomer — male in 1959.
In addition to his many film roles, Dillman became a TV staple in the 1960s and 1970s. He had a recurring role on the drama Dr. Kildare and starred with Peter Graves in the short-lived series Court Martial. He also appeared on such shows as The Name of the Game; The Wild, Wild West; Mission: Impossible; The Man From U.N.C.L.E.; Columbo; Ironside; Barnaby Jones; and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
His autobiography, Are You Anybody?: An Actor's Life, was published in 1997. He wrote a book himself, penning Inside the New York Giants, published in 1995.
Survivors include his children Jeffrey, Pamela, Charlie, Christopher and Dinah and stepdaughter Georgia. He was married to Frieda Harding McIntosh. He was married to model/actress Suzy Parker from 1963 until her death in 2003.
The family is requesting donations in his memory to the Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care in Santa Barbara.
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Ford Foundation announces new president
Read coverage of the announcement from The New York Times.
Darren Walker, who emerged from small-town Texas to an international career in law and finance before becoming a leader in the nonprofit and philanthropic worlds, will become the 10th president of the Ford Foundation this September, succeeding Luis A. Ubiñas, the foundation's Board of Trustees announced today.
The Ford Foundation, with offices in the United States and ten regions worldwide, is among the world's largest private philanthropies, with more than $11 billion in assets and over $500 million in annual giving.
"In Darren we have found a president of powerful and diverse ability, deeply committed to our mission and tradition of leadership in the social sector," said Irene Hirano Inouye, chair of the Board of Trustees. "With extensive experience in both the private and non-profit sectors, a strong command of the substance of our work, and an engaging leadership style that relies heavily on collaboration and partnership, he represents the best of all worlds. He's an excellent leader for a global organization with grassroots sensibilities, and we're very proud that he emerged from within Ford's own pool of talent."
Mr. Walker's appointment follows a broad national and international search that began when Mr. Ubiñas announced in March that he would step down after nearly six years of service.
"Our search included an extraordinarily high number of strong candidates and we are extremely grateful for the feedback, recommendations and ideas we received from across the world," Hirano Inouye said.
Mr. Walker was recruited by Ubiñas in 2010 to serve as vice president for Education, Creativity and Free Expression, one of the foundation's three major programming areas. Immediately prior to joining Ford, Mr. Walker was vice president for foundation initiatives at the Rockefeller Foundation, where he oversaw the execution of a broad range of programs in the United States and internationally. Prior to joining Rockefeller in 2002, Mr. Walker served as chief operating officer of the Abyssinian Development Corporation, a leading community organization in Harlem. There he guided efforts to develop housing for low and moderate-income families, was involved in two of Harlem's largest privately financed commercial projects in 30 years, and led the development of the first public school built in New York City by a community organization.
"Leading this institution is the opportunity of a lifetime, and I am so very honored and humbled," Mr. Walker told Ford staff this morning. "I pledge to work with energy and integrity, to lead while listening and learning, and to give my all in service of our mission: to build a world that is fairer and more just."
Mr. Walker is a 1982 graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, and a 1986 graduate of its School of Law. He has taught housing, law and urban development at the NYU School of Law and Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and is a fellow of the Institute for Urban Design.
Deeply engaged in community affairs and widely respected for his gifts of both substance and style, he is a member of the boards of the Arcus Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Friends of the High Line, the New York City Ballet, and the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He began his career in 1986 at the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. In 1988 he joined the Union Bank of Switzerland, where he spent seven years in its capital markets division. After leaving UBS, Mr. Walker worked for a year as a full-time volunteer at The Children's Storefront, an elementary school serving low-income families in Harlem.
Mr. Ubiñas has served as Ford Foundation president since 2008, when he succeeded Susan Berresford.
"Luis leaves behind an institution that is even more focused in pursuit of its mission, operationally efficient and strong, and filled with remarkable people and purpose," Ms. Hirano Inouye said. "Thanks to Luis, we're well-positioned for a new generation of accomplishment, and Darren is the ideal leader to guide us into that future."
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"I am delighted that the Board has selected Darren as my successor," said Mr. Ubiñas. "Darren will lead the foundation with thoughtfulness, style and energy. I know that under his leadership the core social justice values this organizations stands for will continue to be strong."
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Ahh, the dreaded Friendzone. He likes you lots, but you just can't figure out how to move past thinking he's just "nice." Or — even worse — you're totally feelin' it after a few dates, but your crush is making it pretty clear that they're not super interested in moving the relationship forward. Ugh, amirite?
But there's another brand of Friendzone — the kind that happens after you've survived the other potential downfalls of dating and said "I do" to your dreamboat (yay!). This is the Friendzone that happens when you begin to consider your spouse your BFF. Is this what you're supposed to expect from a marriage? If so, what happens to your other close friendships? How do you balance friendship with that romantic flame that we all so desperately want to keep alive? If it's possible, this Friendzone may bring up even more questions than the one we're used to worrying about!
Turns out, relationships experts are pretty divided on the subject too, and since all of these pros deserve a shot to share their best marriage advice with you, we decided to give both sides a chance to argue their opinion.
If you dream of sharing the coziest and most intimate of friendships with your spouse, there are plenty of experts out there who think that being besties is the ideal setup for marriage.
Hershenson notes that being BFFs with your spouse doesn't necessarily mean that you spend every waking moment together. That level of face time, after all, could be the reason some people find the marriage/best friendship combo potentially unhealthy (more on that later!). If, however, you define your best friendships based on emotional intimacy, there's no reason your hubs or wifey can't take on both jobs.
Best friendship isn't always the perfect arrangement for marital bliss, though. People who try to wrap up a life partner and a bestie in one package are putting a lot of pressure on a singular relationship. Your spouse is probably already working hard to be the best husband or wife ever, and expecting them to always be on point as the BFF as well might be too much.
To be clear, this doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with being close friends with your spouse. Problems can arise, however, when an intense friendship becomes a prerequisite within the marriage, and when you begin to expect your spouse to fill the BFF role.
To toe this tricky line effectively, licensed professional counselor Shannon Battle suggests that couples be mindful of boundaries in communication. Determining which topics can be discussed without judgment and figuring out a reasonable cadence for these conversations (e.g., not talking to your spouse about work drama every. Single. Night.) is key to staying friends with your S.O. — without using them to fill other roles in an unhealthy way.
As with so many of life's tricky combos (work and life, chocolate and vanilla, etc.), it seems that the key to this great debate is in maintaining balance. And while most of us have learned the hard way that achieving said balance is a whole lot easier said than done, understanding the upsides and challenges of being BFFs with your spouse is a good first step. With time and practice, it may be possible to learn how to tend to multiple levels of your relationship — and it could be the best thing that ever happened to your marriage.
Therapist Melissa Divaris Thompson echoes Drenner's thoughts on striking that perfect balance. Solidifying your relationships with the other important players in your life may help ensure you're establishing the best dynamic at home.
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Eleanor Lansing Dulles (June 1, 1895 – October 30, 1996) was an American writer, professor, and United States Government employee. Her background in economics and her familiarity with European affairs enabled her to fill a number of important State Department positions.

Early career

Dulles graduated from Wykeham Rise School in Washington, Connecticut, and attended Bryn Mawr College, graduating with a B.A. in 1917. She spent two years working for relief organizations in France. When World War I ended, she continued her schooling. Still convinced European studies were useful to her, in 1921–22 she took courses at the Sorbonne. She returned to the U.S. for a radical change of pace, taking odd jobs in the real world including running a punch press at the American Tube and Stamping Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and working as a payroll clerk for a hair-net company in Long Island City, Queens, New York.

Beginning in 1923, she studied at Radcliffe College and Harvard University, earning her M.A. from the former in 1924 and a doctorate in economics from the latter in 1926, writing her thesis on the French franc. She taught economics at Simmons College during the 1924–1925 academic year. For the next ten years she taught economics at various colleges, including Simmons, Bryn Mawr, and the University of Pennsylvania. As a student and college professor she made frequent trips to Europe to study and conduct research on European financial matters. Though she married in 1932, she always used her maiden name professionally.

In 1933, she argued against the supposed benefits of inflationary government policies in The Dollar, the Franc and Inflation.

In 1936, Dulles entered government service. Her first position was at the Social Security Board, where she studied the economic aspects of financing the Social Security program. In April 1942, she transferred to the Board of Economic Warfare where she spent five months studying various types of international economic matters.

State Department

In September 1942, she joined the Department of State, where she worked, aside from a short stint at the Department of Commerce, for almost twenty years, beginning as an Economic Officer in the Division of Postwar Planning.

During her first three years at the State Department, Dulles was involved in post-war economic planning. She helped determine the U.S. position on international financial cooperation and participated in the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 at which the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development were established. After the end of World War II, in the spring of 1945 she went to Europe, where she became involved in the reconstruction of the Austrian economy as the U.S. Financial Attaché in Austria.

In 1949, Eleanor transferred to the German Austrian Division at the State Department, where she took an active interest in the affairs of Berlin and became a member of the informal 'Berlin Lobby' in the United States.

She worked for the Commerce Department for several months in 1951–1952, and then returned to the State Department Office of German Affairs shortly before her brother John Foster Dulles became Secretary of State. She successfully resisted his attempts to remove her from her position.

She made many trips to Berlin and was involved in planning the construction of the Berlin Medical Center. The Berlin Congress Hall, the U.S. contribution to the International Building Exhibition was nicknamed the Dulleseum (Dulles plus Museum) for the role of Eleanor and her brother John Foster in its financing and construction. Later, she was hailed as "the Mother of Berlin" for helping to revitalize Berlin's economy and culture during the 1950s.

In 1958, she described the working environment at the State Department:

In 1959, Dulles transferred from the German Desk to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, where she became involved in a study of economic conditions in underdeveloped countries. As part of the study she traveled extensively in Africa, Latin America and South Asia.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk requested her resignation on September 21, 1961, at the insistence of the Kennedy Administration following the April Bay of Pigs Invasion, a foreign relations disaster for the U.S. that her brother Allen had overseen as head of the CIA. She resigned in January 1962.

Academia and publishing
She returned to teaching, first at Duke University and then at Georgetown University.

She authored several books on U.S. foreign policy. In 1963 she published a study of her brother's final year at the State Department, John Foster Dulles: The Last Year, with a foreword by President Eisenhower.

She continued her trips abroad, sometimes as a representative of the U.S. Government. In 1967, she represented the United States at the funeral of Konrad Adenauer. She also wrote several books describing conditions in Germany.

In 1978, she criticized Leonard Mosley's biography of her and her brothers, Dulles. She had given the author several interviews, but said his "implication that three people could connive to produce a foreign policy is a schoolboy approach". She said it contain 900 errors, twice as many as Townsend Hoopes' hostile study The Devil and John Foster Dulles.

She wrote a study of Dean Acheson and John Foster Dulles that found commonality in their approaches to deterrence. It remained unpublished at her death.

Awards
Radcliffe gave her its Distinguished Achievement Award in 1955. In 1957 the Free University of Berlin gave her an honorary doctorate and she received the Carl Schurz Plaque.

In 1993, Dulles donated a collection of her documents to the Mount Vernon College for Women, which merged with the George Washington University in 1999.  The collection contains a variety of materials that document both her professional and personal life.  It is currently cared for by GWU's Special Collections Research Center, located in the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library.

Family and personal life
Eleanor Lansing Dulles was born on June 1, 1895, in Watertown, New York, one of five siblings born to Allen Macy Dulles and Edith ( Foster) Dulles. Her grandfather, John Watson Foster, served as United States Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison, for eight months. Her mother's sister married Robert Lansing, Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson. Her eldest brother, John Foster Dulles, was Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Her other brother, Allen Dulles, served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1953 to 1961. She had two sisters, as well, Margaret and Nataline. Her nephew Avery Dulles was a prominent lay Catholic convert, who was made a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Eleanor Lansing Dulles married  David Simon Blondheim (1884–1934) on December 6, 1932. Blondheim had been a Medieval Studies fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1926 and then a professor at Johns Hopkins University from 1929 to 1932. He was Romance philologist with a specialty in Judeo-Romance, a field that in many ways he invented. Blondheim committed suicide on March 19, 1934. Dulles and Blondheim had a son, David Dulles (born 1934, after his father's death). She later adopted a daughter, Ann Welsh Dulles (1937-2006), who was known after her 1962 marriage as Mrs. Anne Dulles Joor. Her children survived her.

Dulles died on October 30, 1996, aged 101, in a retirement home in Washington, D.C., and was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery there.

Henderson Harbor
Throughout her life, Dulles spent summers in Henderson Harbor, New York. She was first introduced to the area as a child through her maternal grandparents who maintained a cottage there. Dulles maintained a summer residence there as an adult and in 1963 publicly campaigned against the construction of large cement plant that would endanger the ecological beauty and serenity of the area.

Ancestry

Writings
Author
The French Franc 1914–1928: The Facts and Their Interpretation (1928, reprinted 1978 by Arno Press)
The Bank for International Settlements at Work (NY: Macmillan Co., 1932)
The Dollar, the Franc and Inflation (NY: Macmillan Co., 1933)
Depression and Reconstruction (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1936)
Financing the Social Security Act: A report made for the Bureau of Research and Statistics of the Social Security Board (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Research and Statistics of the Social Security Board, 1937)
John Foster Dulles: The Last Year (NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963)
Berlin–The Wall Is Not Forever (University of North Carolina Press, 1967)
American Foreign Policy in the Making (NY:  Harper & Row, 1968)
One Germany or Two (Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1970)
The Wall: A Tragedy in Three Acts (University of South Carolina Press, 1972)
Eleanor Lansing Dulles: Chances of a Lifetime, a Memoir (Prentice-Hall, 1980)

Co-author
Détente: Cold War Strategies in Transition (1965), with Richard Crane Dickson
Dominican Action–1965: Intervention or Cooperation? (1966), with Willard L. Beaulac, Karl H. Cerny, Jules Davids, and Joseph S. Farland

Notes

External links
Eleanor Lansing Dulles Papers at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
Papers of Eleanor Lansing Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
Guide to the Eleanor Lansing Dulles Papers, 1867-1993, Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University

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United States Department of State officials
American centenarians
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_ I'm not sure if every little girl was as obsessed with horses as me, but I was pretty keen. I did lessons and even lived the dream of having my own pony, short lived by being bucked and being too scared to ride again, but really, deep down, I think I would have preferred to be a centaur. How cool to be able to keep your human brains and emotions but to be able to run and jump like a horse?
Centaurs are part of Greek mythology, with the head and torso of a human and the body of a horse. Centaurs are followers of the god Dionysus, known for his raging parties where centaurs could get raging drunk and then the unfortunate side effect of carrying off helpless maidens, since the Greeks saw them as wild as untamed horses. Despite this flaw, there are a few wise centaurs that were teachers of ancient Greek heroes.
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The fight with the Lapiths is where centaurs get the most fame, when the centaurs attempted to carry off Hippodamia (and all the other women) on the day of her wedding to Pirithous, who was also the son of Ixion. This fight serves as a metaphor between the base instincts of animals and the higher civilized thinking of humans.
Though centaurs are mostly seen as male, there are some female centaurs called Kentaurides which appeared later in history. Kentaurides are seen in some Roman art and Ovid mentions a female centaur who killed herself when her husband was killed in the battle with the Lapiths. And of course, who could forget Disney's Fantasia?
Though centaurs hail from ancient history, they still have an impact on people today. Creatures will always fascinate and creatures that are part human give an even more intriguing glimpse at the possibilities another world, another time, another reality might hold.