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> Oh, certainly. The interesting question in my mind is how does
> one distinguish observable effects that matter from those
> that don't matter?
If you're in a language which deals in abstractions of state changes (ie. an imperative language, or a non-pure functional language) especially, all the observable effects matter. The uncertainty principle applies in spades. And I would pause to enquire, if an observable effect doesn't matter, why is it there ?
[ snippage about, presumably, debugging activities ]
> I have not observed that the use of "referential transparency"
> and "purity" is entirely consistent. If we go by what wikipedia
> says at the time of this writing, referential transparency means
> side-effect-free and pure, side-effect-free means no outputs
> other than return values, pure means return values depend
> solely on parameters.
Given that the Wikipedia entry for referential transparency is currently under dispute, I would tread carefully there (I can approve of the opening gambit - that an expression is referentially transparent if the body of the function can be replaced in line with no change to meaning - but it's not comprehensive enough for some, it seems).
> I also find it funny that *all* outputs are called "side-effects"
> regardless of whether they are of primary concern or not:
> it seems disingenuous to me to call the fact that
> "printf("hello, world\n");" writes to standard out
> a *side* effect. I mean, what is it to the side *of*?
Aside from 'printf("hello, world\n")' being a procedure call rather than a function (that a value is left lying in a register was, at least initially, just a happy (or otherwise) accident of the way C was implemented), if we assumed that the return value of printf() was some integer, then the emergence of text on an output device would be considered a side effect of obtaining the return value.
> Yes, this gets at another point that is often glossed over:
> what is an observable effect is entirely dependent on
> context.
Hmm. Explanation ? When is the net effect of a computation observable and when not ?
> Since that's true,
I'm not taking that step with you yet ;)
> it means that if we go by the
> above definitions, then if we have a pure function,
> whether it is referentially transparent is a matter of
> context! We could for example have an entirely pure
> program that performs no output (only returning a
> value at exit) and be able to run it on a virtual machine
> that writes to a log file at every function entry point.
> Is it referentially transparent?
> From the viewpoint of the program itself, yes; from the viewpoint of the
> entire system, no.
This is an issue of the virtual machine, not of the function itself. Therefore the function is still referentially transparent.
> However if you point out to people
> that their definition of referential transparency is
> context dependent, some of them will get very angry.
I don't see why they would get angry; they would point out you were wrong though, explanation of your earlier assertion regarding context sensitivity of referential transparency notwithstanding.
> The fact that raising these points gets so many people
> so riled up indicates to me that not everyone is thinking
> entirely clearly about the issues, and that indicates that
> there are opportunities to advance the state of the art.
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studio albums in the stunning boxed sets "Genesis 1976 - 1982" and "Genesis 1983 - 1998" in 2007, and "Genesis 1970 - 1975" in 2008, on September 29, Rhino will release "Genesis Live 1973 - 2007", a boxed set gathering the four live albums recorded by the legendary British group from 1973 to 1992. Featuring brand new stereo mixes, the boxed set also includes the long-awaited release in stereo and 5.1 of "Live At The Rainbow 1973" only available with this collection.
"Genesis Live 1973 - 2007" is a sumptuously presented boxed set that includes:
Genesis Live, the band's first Top 10 album in the UK, recorded in Leicester and Manchester and issued in 1973, and featuring the classic line-up of Tony Banks (keyboards),
Phil Collins
(drums, vocals),
Peter Gabriel
(vocals, flute), Steve Hackett (guitars) and Mike Rutherford (bass, guitars). Genesis Live, for this box-set release, has been extended to feature five bonus tracks recorded at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles on January 24, 1975 and the full album is also presented in 5.1 for the first time.
The double set
Seconds Out
, a Top 5 entry in 1977 that documented the group's Paris dates as a quartet with Collins on lead vocals following Gabriel's departure in 1975. The tour featured touring drummers Bill Bruford and Chester Thompson. Exclusive to this boxed set, "Seconds Out" is presented in stereo and 5.1 versions.
Three Sides Live
, a #2 album in the U.K. in 1982, mostly showcasing the Banks-Collins-Rutherford incarnation augmented by Thompson and guitarist Daryl Stuermer.
"The Way We Walk", finally sees these two live albums re-sequenced as per the original show's set list. Originally released separately and entitled
Vol I: The Shorts
, which made the Top 3 in Britain in 1992, and
Vol 2: The Longs
, this was the band's sixth # 1 album, and their only concert recording to top the charts in 1993.
First formed in 1967, Genesis have sold 150 million albums worldwide and have influenced the likes of
Flaming Lips
, and
Jeff Buckley
. In the early '70s, their ambition in the studio was matched by groundbreaking live shows as they presented such classic albums as
Nursery Cryme
Selling England By The Pound
, and
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
to audiences across Europe and the U.S. Following Gabriel's exit in the mid-'70s, Collins stepped up to the microphone and the group scored Top 5 albums with
A Trick Of The Tail
Wind And Wuthering
. Hackett left in 1977 but the "remaining three" had their first Top 10 single with "Follow You Follow Me" and their first U.S. Top 20 album with
Wind And Wuthering
...And Then There Were Three
the next year. A simpler, more direct approach to songwriting worked so well that Banks-Collins-Rutherford scored consecutive # 1 albums with
, and
Invisible Touch
in the '80s, and with
We Can't Dance
in 1991, and became a stadium act without losing any of their sophistication and attention to detail. This was evidenced again when they returned to the stage after a ten-year hiatus.
When In Rome 2007
, the DVD of the free concert they gave at the Circo Massimo in Rome in front of 500,000 spectators topped the DVD charts in the U.K. last year.
Recorded at Leicester De Montfort Hall and Manchester Free Trade Hall in February 1973, Genesis Live was not originally intended for release but rather mixed to be broadcast on the King Biscuit Flower Hour show on US radio. It comprises versions of the melodramatic set opener "Watcher Of The Skies" and "Get 'Em Out By Friday" from Foxtrot, the band's fourth studio album - which had reached # 12 in October 1972 - "The Return Of The Giant Hogweed" and "The Musical Box" from 1971's Nursery Cryme, the first album featuring Collins and Hackett, and the tour de force quiet-loud dynamics of "The Knife", from Trespass, the group's 1970 debut for the Charisma label. Given the band's growing reputation for its theatrical shows, it is no surprise that Genesis Live spent ten weeks in the charts in 1973, paving the way for the release of Selling England By The Pound later that year. The album's iconic cover features Gabriel wearing one of his many costumes, in this case the "Magog" mask and black cape he donned during "Supper's Ready."
Bonus material includes five tracks from the celebrated concept album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, a Top 10 release at the end of 1974, recorded at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in January 1975.
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Recorded at the Palais des Sports in Paris with the Manor Mobile studio in 1976 and 1977, Seconds Out stayed on the British charts for four months. The double set was much more in keeping with the times, the increasing availability of bootleg recordings and the phenomenal success of
Frampton Comes Alive!
King Crimson
drummer Bill Bruford had joined Genesis for the 1976 dates and features on "The Cinema Show", one of two tracks from "Selling England By The Pound". The other, "Firth Of Fifth", and the rest of the album, features Chester Thompson, a drummer best known for his work with
Frank Zappa
and Weather Report at the time. Collins tackles Gabriel-era material like "The Musical Box", "Supper's Ready", "The Carpet Crawlers", the title track from "The Lamb Lives Down On Broadway", and "I Know What I Like (in Your Wardrobe)," the group's first hit, with aplomb. "Squonk", "Robbery", "Assault & Battery," "Dance On A Volcano" and "Los Endos" came from "A Trick Of The Tail" while "Afterglow" originally featured on "Wind And Wuthering". Hackett left while "Seconds Out" was being mixed. The album's distinctive cover and the other pictures used were shot by Armando Gallo, the band's biographer.
Recorded in Germany in 1981, "Three Sides Live" was originally released in 1982 as a double vinyl set with a fourth side of studio recordings-basically the 3X3 EP and two B-sides - in the US while the European version contained three more extended live tracks. The studio versions of "Turn It On Again", "Behind The Lines," "Duchess" and "Misunderstanding" featured on 1980's "Duke" while "Dodo," "Me And Sarah Jane" and "Abacab" first appeared on "Abacab" in 1981. "Follow You Follow Me" came from "...And Then There Were Three" and "Afterglow" and "One For The Vine" were originally recorded on "Wind And Wuthering". "The Fountain Of Salmacis" harked back to "Nursery Cryme" and the "In The Cage"/"Cinema Show"/"The Colony Of Slippermen" medley slotted a track from "Selling England By The Pound" between two slices from The Lamb while "It"/ "Watcher Of The Skies"-recorded in 1976 with Hackett and Bruford - spanned "The Lamb" and "Foxtrot".
Recorded in 1992 in arenas including London's Earls Court, the two instalments of "The Way We Walk" were first issued in quick succession at the tail end of 1992 and the beginning of 1993, with "The Shorts" concentrating on the band's run of hit singles, and "The Longs" delving into the medleys and the more extended pieces from their repertoire. "Genesis Live 1973-2007" takes the opportunity to reconcile the two albums and recreate the "We Can't Dance" tour experience in sequence. Hits from the group's MTV-friendly era include "Mama", "That's All", "Invisible Touch" - which charted again in its live version in 1992 - "In Too Deep", "Land Of Confusion", "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight", "Throwing It All Away", "No Son Of Mine", "I Can't Dance", "Hold On My Heart" and "Jesus He Knows Me." "Driving The Last Spike" and "Fading Lights" came from "We Can't Dance", "Domino" originally appeared on "Invisible Touch" and "Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea" on "Genesis". The "Old Medley" rounded up nine tunes from the band's early days and Collins and Thompson's "The Drum Thing" did just that. "Turn It On Again" is exclusive to this release.
Recorded in London by the Banks-Collins-Gabriel-Hackett-Rutherford lineup, "Live At The Rainbow 1973" expands on the live material first issued on the Archive 1967-1975 boxed set in 1998 and will delight die-hard fans of that period in their lengthy career. The concert from October 1973 features most of "Selling England By The Pound" at the time of its release, along with the conceptual piece "Supper's Ready" and "Watcher Of The Skies" from their breakthrough album "Foxtrot", and "The Musical Box" from "Nursery Cryme", the last two titles on 5.1 version only. It captures the band at a crucial point in their history, before they left the Lewis Carroll-like universe of their early albums behind, before the departure of Gabriel and Hackett, before their time as ubiquitous hitmakers of the '80s.
"Genesis Live 1973 - 2007" has been designed to incorporate space for the most recent live Genesis release - the 2-CD set "Live Over Europe 2007". All albums feature brand new stereo mixes created by Tony Banks, Nick Davis, and Mike Rutherford, while "Genesis Live", "Seconds Out" and "Live At The Rainbow 1973" all feature 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound versions.
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"Genesis Live - 1973-2007" Track Listing:
Live (Stereo/5.1):
1. Watcher Of The Skies
2. Get 'Em Out By Friday
3. The Return Of The Giant Hogweed
4. The Musical Box
5. The Knife
Bonus "The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles - 01/24/75" tracks:
6. Back In N.Y.C.
7. Fly On A Windshield
8. Broadway Melody Of 1974
9. Anyway
10. The Chamber Of 32 Doors
Seconds Out (Stereo/5.1):
1. Squonk
2. Carpet Crawlers
3. Robbery, Assault & Battery
4. Afterglow
5. Firth Of Fifth
6. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
7. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
8. The Musical Box (closing)
9. Supper's Ready
10. The Cinema Show
11. Dance On A Volcano
12. Los Endos
Three Sides Live (Stereo only):
1. Turn It On Again
2. Dodo
3. Abacab
4. Behind The Lines
5. Duchess
6. Me And Sarah Jane
7. Follow You Follow Me
8. Misunderstanding
9. In The Cage (Medley: Cinema Show/Slippermen)
10. Afterglow
11. One For The Vine
12. Fountain Of Salmacis
13. It/Watcher Of The Skies
The Way We Walk (Stereo only):
1. Land Of Confusion
2. No Son Of Mine
3. Driving The Last Spike
4. Old Medley (Dance On A Volcano/The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway/The Musical Box/Firth Of Fifth/I Know What I Like)
5. Throwing It All Away
6. Fading Lights
7. Jesus He Knows Me
8. Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea
9. Hold On My Heart
10. Domino (In The Glow Of The Night/The Last Domino)
11. The Drum Thing
12. I Can't Dance
13. Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
14. Invisible Touch
15. Turn It On Again
16. Mama
17. That's All
18. In Too Deep
(Space in the boxed set for "Live Over Europe", sold separately)
Live At The Rainbow 1973 (Stereo/5.1):
1. Watcher Of The Skies (5.1 version only)**
2. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
3. The Cinema Show**
4. I Know What I Like(In Your Wardrobe)
5. Firth Of Fifth
6. The Musical Box (5.1 version only)**
7. More Fool Me
8. The Battle Of Epping Forest**
9. Supper's Ready
**Previously unreleased
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Well I got to supply lines and got stuck, and the breaking point came when i killed all five delivery boys and was flying home and ran out of fuel. I decided to attempt a button cheat to put this ugliness behind me. Well, destroy all cars didnt work, nor did "vehicles wont stop for anything" (hoping traffic might mow them down for me), then i tried the time cheats. Slowing gameplay down cheat had an odd effect: I ran out of fuel before I could fly to the furthest delivery vans. Then i realized the plane and world was slowed down, but the fuel consumption (more like a timer) was not. Then i put in the speed up gameplay cheat and I was able to wipe out all five vans before i was at half fuel. It was like doubling the fuel supply! The plane handling was kinda crazy, but for some reason the delivery guys went down easy. The two doods on the motorbike, which i hate the most, went down in a good strafe. I hope this helps somebody and ill post news if this one cheat kills my game somehow. I saved it in a different slot, so if the worst happens ill have to start over in San Fierro. Curse you Berkley!!!!!!
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These three missions are easiest and fun to do, i did this mission in first attempt with more then half fuel left without using any kind of cheats. If you have played Vice City and can control RC Baron well then there is no way having trouble with it.
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The first step to viewing these results is to perform the analysis of the model successfully. Select Analyze from the Staad.Pro top menu bar followed by the Analysis option.
A dialog box by the name Select Analysis Engine will appear. Click on the Run Analysis button of this dialog box. After the analysis of the file is completed, click on the Done button.
The next step is to go to the Post Processing mode to view the deflection values graphically. To enter into the Post Processing mode, select Mode from the top menu bar and select Post Processing. Remember that if your analysis is not successfully completed (for reasons such as errors in your input data), you will not be able to access the Post Processing mode.
By default, the deflection diagram always opens up in the post processing screen of Staad.Pro.
From the top menu bar, choose Results - View value. Under Ranges, choose All. (The All button means the deflection diagram will be annotated for all nodes.)
Under the Node tab, you will see the options Global X, Global Y, Global Z and Resultant. Make the appropriate choice. Click on the Annotate button. Then click on the close button.
If you would like to see the diagram annotated for a different load case, select that load case from the load selection box.
The unit system in which results are displayed on the tables is set using the facilities available under the View - Options menu. These are known as the display units. To set the display units for the node displacements, please do the following :
In the View menu, select Options - Structure units. In the category called Displacement, select the units you desire and click on OK.
First, you have to ask STAAD to Annotate the drawing with the axial forces. For this, please go to the post processing mode after you have analyzed the structure.
Click on the "Beam" tab on the left side and then click on the sub-tab labeled "Forces."
Click the right mouse button on the screen and select "Structure Diagrams."
From the "Loads and Results" tab, click on "Axial" under the "Beam Forces" heading.
Uncheck the "bending zz" box and click "Apply" followed by "OK."
Maximize the screen and then go to the "Results" pull down menu and select "View Value..."
Click on the "Beam Results" tab and then check the box under the "Axial" heading labeled "Ends."
Click "Annotate" and then "Close."
The axial loading values should be displayed on your screen.
Annotation labels, although applied to beams, nodes, plates and solids, are not altered by the associated options (i.e View | Options | Beam Labels). In order to change the display of the annotations, go to View | Options from the main menu and choose the Annotation tab. To remove the display of the units for each annotation, simply choose the option "123.4" instead of "123.4 kN" under the Style list box in the Annotation tab. This will write the unit in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen for force, length and moment. If the units are not shown, go to View | Structure Diagrams and choose the Labels tab. Check on the option "Show Diagram Info" under the General box.
In order to see the annotation (from Results->View Value in the post-processing mode) for a particular force or moment, the corresponding diagram must be on. For example, if one was to select maximum bending under the Beam Results tab, the bending moment diagram must be on (either MX, MY and/or MZ). Also, under the Ranges tab, make sure that the "None" option is not selected. Obviously, this would not annotate anything if it were selected. As a final note, once the annotations are visible, the size and font can be changed from the Annotation tab under View->Options in the main menu.
If a member is drawn with its longitudinal axis (local-X) from left to right, and the local Z axis coming out of the page towards you, a positive MZ would cause tension on the top fiber, and a negative MZ would cause tension on the bottom fiber.
The sign conventions are as follows:
Axial (FX) : Positive = Along local X axis, Negative = Opposite to local XaxisShear-Y (FY) : Positive = Along local Y axis, Negative = Opposite to local YaxisShear-Z (FZ) : Positive = Along local Z axis, Negative = Opposite to local Zaxis
Torsion (MX) : Positive = Along local X axis, Negative = Opposite to local XaxisMoment-Y (MY) : Positive = Along local Y axis, Negative = Opposite to localY axisMoment-Z (MZ) : Positive = Along local Z axis, Negative = Opposite to localZ axis
For axial forces,
Positive at the start node indicates compression at the start node.Positive at the end node indicates tension at the end node.
Negative at the start node indicates tension at the start node.Negative at the end node indicates compression at the end node.
The unit system in which results are displayed on the tables is set using the facilities available under the View - Options menu. These are known as the display units. To set the display units for the bending moments and torsional moments, please do the following :
In the View menu, select Options - Force units. In the category called Moment, select the units you desire and click on OK.
This is another way to display the bending, shear and axial force diagrams on the screen.
In the post processing mode, select the Beam page from the left side of the screen. Then select graphs.
The right side portion of the screen will display the Bending diagram (MZ), shear diagram (FY) and the axial force diagram (FX) with values. In the drawing area, if you select a member by clicking on it, MZ, FY and FX ofthat member will be displayed on the right hand side. To display the diagrams of another member, select that member.
First you must Analyze the file. Select Analyze from the Staad.Pro top menu bar. Select the Analysis option. After this, click on Run Analysis at the bottom of the small window dialog box.
After the analysis of the file is completed, click on the Done button.
Next, we go to the Post Processing mode to view the forces and results graphically.
To enter into the Post Processing mode, select Mode from the top menu bar and select Post Processing. Remember that if your analysis is not complete, you will not be able to access the Post Processing mode.
To view the Bending Moment Diagrams, select the Beam page from the left side. From the top menu bar, choose Results - View value. Under Ranges, choose All. (The All button means the Bending moment diagram will be displayed for all members.)
Under the Beam Results tab, you will see the options Bending, Shear, Axial, Displacement and Stresses.Make the appropriate choice.
Click on the Annotate button. Then click on the close button.
There is no direct way to change the size of the picture from within STAAD.Pro. However here are a few options that you may find useful
1. Open the start-up window of STAAD.Pro and go to the Configuration option.
2. Choose "File Options" tab and tick the "Remove Bentley Logo from Report" box. This will remove the Bentley logo from your reports
3. Open the STAAD.Pro file. Go to the Report setup page and click on "Name and Logo" option.
4. Go to file option and choose the path where you have stored your logo. The logo should be in .bmp format.
5. Write the company name. You can orient the logo and company name by the Alignment option.
Note, Ram Elements, Connection and Ram Structural System have similar options. For Elements or Connection go to the upper left menu - General Configuration - Print tab. For RAM Structural System you just have to replace the logo.bmp file in the program directory with your own logo.bmp or logo.jpg file. it tends to work best when the log has roughly a 1:1 aspect ratio.
STAAD.Pro does not report stress due to Torsion but here are a couple of items which you may find useful.
The beam end forces table that you can get from Postprocessing mode Beam > Forces page, reports the torsion ( MX ) in a beam member.
STAAD is also able to account for stresses due to torsion during the design phase. In steel design for example, the torsion stresses are converted to normal and shear stresses and added to existing normal/shear stresses following guidelines laid out in AISC Design Guide 9. When it comes to the new AISC 360-10 code, currently the software can account for the torsion for HSS sections only although work is under progress to account for torsion for Non-HSS sections too and this should be available in a couple of months.
You need to go to the top menu and click on View > Options > Choose the appropriate item and change the corresponding number of decimal places as desired > Click Apply > OK.
The design code version which is being used by STAAD.Pro during the design phase is written in the Output file
1. Analyze the model and go to the Postprocessing mode, Node -> Displacements page.2. If needed, turn on the node symbol (click Shift + K on your keyboard) and node numbers (Shift + N).3. Go to the Results -> View Value menu.4. In the Ranges tab select Ranges and enter the node number(s) for which you want to see the displacement.
5. Then go to the Node tab and select Nodal Displacement which you want to see. Click Annotate.
Now the displacement of only selected node will be seen on the screen. Similarly, beam force diagram values, beam maximum displacements, beam combined stresses and support reactions can be set.
Figures (1) and (2) show the local and global deflections of the beam #2 which is a part of the beam joining 2 columns:
Figure (1)
Figure (2)
Global deflection is the largest distance between (a) and (b) where:
(a) is the line joining the ends of the member in its un-deflected position (named as 'Original shape' in the figure (3));
(b) is the elastic curve of the member representing its deflected shape.
Local deflection is the largest distance between (c) and (d) where:
(c) is the line joining the ends of the member in its deflected position;
(d) is the elastic curve of the member representing its deflected shape.
Figure (3)
The Mz and My would not simply get interchanged when you apply a beta angle to 90 for every situation. The same would be true if you are analyzing a beam in isolation without considering any effect from the rest of the structure. However when a beam is part of a bigger structure, the beam's local stiffness in each direction would affect the global stiffness of the structure along each DOF. Depending on that there will be a redistribution of the forces which will result in different moments/shears.
The procedure of specifying the commands to report the member end forces is described in STAAD.Pro Help manual chapter 1.5.12:Alternatively, one can use a Report Setup with specified Ranges (by group or simply typing in the member numbers in the Ranges field):
The units of items reported in the analysis output file are based on the unit settings in the input command file ( editor ). The unit that is current at the time the relevant command triggering the output is processed, is used for the reporting. One can set the units appropriately using the editor ( Edit > Edit Input Command File ) as explained next. For example to get the support reactions and member forces reported in Newton and mm units one needs to enter the unit command before the print commands as shown next
Any other output printed in the ANL file following the above commands, would also be printed in the currently set units of Newton and mm.
As of now there is no way to save the 3D rendered view as a Saved View. However here are a couple of options that you may find useful
Right click on the 3D Rendered View and choose the Take Picture option. The picture is then saved and can be accessed from within Report Setup ( File > Report Setup ) and can be included as part of the report.
Instead of using a 3D Rendered View, you can plot a full section view ( right click inside the whole structure window and choose Labels > Structure > Full Sections ). This would be similar to the rendered view but the difference is, you would be able to save it through View > View Management
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Oklahoma House approves more lottery funds for mental health
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma House has passed legislation to increase the amount of unclaimed state lottery prize money that's distributed to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
The House voted 84-5 for the bill on Thursday and sent it to the Senate for consideration.
The bill by Rep. Gary Banz of Midwest City increases distribution of unclaimed lottery prize money to the mental health agency from the first $500,000 to the first $1.5 million. It requires the next $2.5 million to go to the Board of Education for public schools.
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Lord God, the light of the minds that know you, the life of the souls that love you, and the strength of the hearts that serve you: Help us, following the example of your servant Augustine of Hippo, so to know you that we may truly love you, and so to love you that we may fully serve you, whom to serve is perfect freedom; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
6 Upon your walls, O Jerusalem,
I have posted sentinels;
all day and all night
they shall never be silent.
You who remind the Lord,
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until he establishes Jerusalem
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8 The Lord has sworn by his right hand
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I will not again give your grain
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and foreigners shall not drink the wine
for which you have laboured;
9 but those who garner it shall eat it
and praise the Lord,
and those who gather it shall drink it
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10 Go through, go through the gates,
prepare the way for the people;
build up, build up the highway,
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lift up an ensign over the peoples.
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Say to daughter Zion,
'See, your salvation comes;
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and his recompense before him.'
12 They shall be called, 'The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the Lord';
and you shall be called, 'Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.'
1 On the holy mount stands the city he founded;
2 the Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God.
4 Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon;
Philistia too, and Tyre, with Ethiopia*—
'This one was born there,' they say.
5 And of Zion it shall be said,
'This one and that one were born in it';
for the Most High himself will establish it.
6 The Lord records, as he registers the peoples,
'This one was born there.'
7 Singers and dancers alike say,
'All my springs are in you.'
22But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, 23and to the assembly* of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. 28Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks, by which we offer to God an acceptable worship with reverence and awe; 29for indeed our God is a consuming fire.
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Agencies at every level of government have a wealth of information in legacy databases that needs to be accessed or shared. Whether the agency wants to share this information internally or externally, the problem is essentially the same: making the information available in a secure, accessible way that minimizes development time and keeps application maintenance costs to a minimum.
As the world races toward universal acceptance of the World Wide Web, many are looking to the Web as the way to solve this problem. Admittedly, the Web offers some powerful advantages: Access is nearly ubiquitous; it is platform independent; existing infrastructures can be used, often with few or no changes; and the same technology can be used for internal as well as external applications.
Despite these advantages, the protocol that makes the Web work (Hypertext Transfer Protocol or HTTP) leaves much to be desired when building robust client/server applications. HTTP is a rather simple protocol:
* The client, typically called a browser, requests a file from a program called a Web server. Usually, the Web server is running on another computer so the request is done over a corporate network or via the Internet. The requested document usually includes embedded Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) "tags," which describe how the document should be displayed. Some tags may also include references (links) to other documents or images.
* The Web server looks for the document and, assuming it finds it, sends it to the requesting client.
* The client reads and formats the document in accordance with the embedded HTML tags.
If the client later wants another document, the above cycle is repeated. The fundamental problem with using HTTP as the basis for robust, interactive applications is that it has no memory. HTTP doesn't provide a means for knowing whether the same user has made one request or a thousand requests. This approach works perfectly for the original intended purpose: to provide a simple way to organize research data and make it accessible. However, it does not work for most database-related work that requires a "session" -- an ongoing connection between the database program and a particular user.
For example, suppose a user is looking at an alphabetized list of people in a mailing list and wants to scroll down to see the "next" group of names. In order to provide the "next" group, the application program needs to know which query produced the list of names and which names are currently displayed. HTTP isn't capable of this kind of interaction -- as soon as a document is delivered in response to a request, HTTP forgets everything related to the request and the requester. In more technical terms, this lack of session continuity is called a "stateless connection," meaning the server does not keep track of the "state" of the client.
Due to the statelessness of HTTP, Web-server software can operate very quickly and, with very few exceptions, doesn't need to know anything about the content of the documents it provides: It simply finds the requested document, checks file permissions and, if allowed, returns it to the requester.
Expanding the capability of Web-based applications are programmers and vendors who have devised ways to create what might be called "pseudosessions." These solutions all amount to different ways of keeping track of values between HTTP requests. For example, these techniques can let a user enter his name in a Web-based form, store the name so that the next time he requests a document (whether six seconds or six weeks later), the Web-server software appears to remember the user's name.
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ok, what do we all want to see on the next patch ?
not songs...that is a different wish list.
here is my list, feel free to add.
New audience...nuff said
Practice mode - full song speed and or level control
Some videos from pros about bad habits and how to avoid them
ok, this one is a long shot.....first time you get a new song or bring it up from
the song list, you have the option to play a video by a pro who goes over some tips for playing
that song. video never mandantory
mini game covering apegio
that's my list please add more


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European 'Austerity' Update
As we highlighted a few months back for Spain, the word 'austerity' appears to mean something different than we thought. Portugal just announced:
and to help cover that anti-austerity 'rise' in spending:
Hhhhmm, well at least the deficit reduced modestly thanks to some chicanery transferring pension benefits. We are sure this 'diligent austerity' is why the bonds have rallied 100bps this week and everyone is patting the Portuguese on their back for 'following the Troika program'!
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We are so F*cked
Don't give up hope yet...
Rumor has it Intergalacitic Space Aliens are working out a top-secret global bailout through the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Denver Branch.
Cut or die. Austerity is required.
Note that Weidman said this morning the ECB's help in the Greece situation can only be advisory.
Everyone is making positive noises while they each and every one of them say they won't allow the items that HAVE to happen for the positive noises to actually mean anything on Monday.
The European way is to sprint for microphones and say reassuring things even as Greece starts to miss payments and is declared in default. The quotes that day will be "this is not a serious matter and there is no question that Europe will soon reach a decision on a plan."
Then Greece has no money and gunfire starts in Athens, and the guys will run for the microphone saying "we are going to have another meeting and everyone is confident we will reach an agreement."
It has "worked" for the last 2+ years, so why not? Sometimes, I think maybe they will actually pull this off and instead of a collapse, this will just drag out for 20 or 30 years until the demographic shifts and other issues work themselves out.
What's a collapse?
Is the only delimiter bullets in brains? Or maybe it's 50% cuts in pension payments (which have happened).
I love it when the Government cuts spending. To see what it's like you humans would need to come and visit my planet, which actually uses to logic to solve problems. It's the planet Vulcan.
Vulcan must have very productive old people then. Pretty soon the idea that the pension scam that sunk Hostess and is sinking USPS will sink this country will gain real traction ... either because of foresight or inevitability ... and the younger, still-productive majority will go Hostess on that lockbox.
Spain is just a very large first domino.
Didn't know that Portugal used baseline budgeting.
Live and learn.
You keep repeating this dumb argument. Why? In any country with a social security system, spending will go up when times are bad and people need more help. That doesn't mean they're not cutting in other areas, where they have more control over expenditure.
I have no idea what Portugal specifically has or hasn't cut, so I'm not praising their austerity as such. I'm just refuting your flawed argument that increased spending means there hasn't been any austerity.
So your argument is that when times are bad, you can keep spending more in order to maintain your lifestyle and use the bad times as an excuse to convince your bank that you are austere?
Banks may be immoral, but they are not stupid.
"I have no idea what Portugal specifically has or hasn't cut, so I'm not praising their austerity as such. I'm just refuting your flawed argument that increased spending means there hasn't been any austerity."
We have officially declared austerity! This will require 2 trillion euros per year in increased expenditures (to be paid by someone else).
Suppose times are going to be bad perpetually from now on. Then what?
What is more importantly 'austerity' is not the ZH meme and theme, but more in destroying the pensions and minimal incomes of workers and the poor
ZH favours a definition re the alleged goal of government economising overall, that is something different
This is a word game, we need to be clear
Yes it is generous bailouts for banks and bondholders, adding to government spending and total debt
But it is brutal 'austerity' for the workers and common people that leads to economic death spirals, suicides and strikes and riots and, upcoming
It appears their knowledge and interpretation of math is a little different from what I learned. But then again, what the hell do I know.
it was bad maths in Govt (and banking) that got them into this dire/stupid situation and it's bad maths that also don't add up to anything like the word "austerity"
...so both maths and the dictionary trashed.. par for the course of Govt's throughout history
Stop Paying Tax ....do the maths for the parasites and what austerity means
• More people walking and living off the land...
• More people not working...
Welcome back to the "stone age"...
Once they're done raiding pension funds, whatch them raid everything else, in the name of prosperity and beyond.
If a choice has to be made between paying the bankers or paying the pensions we know damn well who is going to get clipped.
yes because "democracy" is all about the people
and the bankers puppets, sorry public representatives, cheer for the people in policy decisions
as we see in Greece and Ireland the Govts are really sticking it to the parasites that cause all the problems
Thank heavens Christine Lagarde has pinpointed the problem though Buzz, taxpayers not paying enough to bailout the politicos and bankers from their errors. Fab IMF problem-solving that.
"you keep using that word. i don't think it means what you think it means."
Inigo Montoya
Well Surprise,Surprise! This is not just a couple of countries in the EU they are all at it. Take the so called best boy in the class Ireland, they have done nothing and have no intention of doing anything. I meet these F**Kers all the time and its the same song all the time, its the Micawber defence that "something will turn up" and thats all they have. Well that and stealing everything that is not nailed down. Because if you have Gold, Cash or indeed anything of value these guys are going to come after it mouthing some pious platitude
Of course they forget Micawbers advice to David Copperfield
My other piece of advice, Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and and, in short, you are for ever floored. As I am!
- Charles Dickens
Where is that boy... that would bring balance to the farce...
Government: An asset stripping mechanism. Most common theme promulgated prior to full on attack, "We are from the government and we are here to help"
Known defence: If confronted by one Government worker, Stick gun in their face and remove their wallet, write down their address and tell them "you know where they live now too"
If confronted by two, tell them your brother works for DHS. You are not lying, (the brother hood of man and all that, blah, blah.
If confronted by many, pretend to be a Obama voter and drool, that you favor confiscation of wealth, show them your ID, tell them you love drone attacks, wish they would drone attack you so you can feel loved. Have them photo your tatoos and describe your significant others tatoos.
Banksters taking down EU just like they did Argentina in the past. Greece looks identical to Argentina's low point. Next Spain and Portugal.
Low point?
Don't you get it? This is forever. It's all downhill from here. Argentina has not seen its low point because the points will continue to descend.
This is what happens when it requires more and more joules to get oil out of the ground. There is no fix for this.
If that was the case the crisis would be hitting people who use more fossil fuels first. Don't buy that bullshit greenwashing excuse for ponzinomics. Europe has always used far less oil than the U.S. France is on 90 percent nuclear with very very effective public transport systems they are still taking a beating. Iceland will be full geothermal and hydrogen by 2025 they were the first to go. Even OPEC countries who would be gaining leverage are taking a beating because in 2007 energy use dropped for the first time ever in human history. This is a debt crisis not an energy crisis. Peak whatever you want it CAN be worked around perhaps even with minimal loss of life or economic slowdown. Peak Oil, Peak Uranium, Peak phosphorous its all Newspeak for peak humanity and an excuse for whatever horrors the criminals that caused this have planned for when the SHTF.
Well said. Mr. Crashy likes to repeat his PO theory here on ZH.
Portugal: interesting to see that, earlier this week I was wondering how come their yields were falling. Now we know, things are going great just like Merkel and euroclowns said.
It doesn't matter who uses more oil. You either need to produce oil (Norway does, some other places but Europe is mostly importer) or provide something the oil people need. The United States produces food for something like 2 billion people extra, in addition to its own population.
The Arab populations have increased 10-fold in the last hundred years. Do you think the desert suddenly provides ten times as much food? Since they need food and America needs oil, trade happens.
The only reason there is a debt crisis is because energy production and consumption is not growing by 7 percent each year, as it did from around 1870 until about 2005.
If you still believe that there are a small group of people in charge, that have a plan, and that they actually have the competence and capability to pull off such a plan, I don't know what to say. I used to think the same, but recent events have persuaded me that the all powerful wizard is an illusion, and the whole thing is being ran by an old man sitting behind a curtain.
1) Not use. Depends on. And not fossil fuels. Oil. Not energy. Oil. Only oil puts food on your grocery store shelf. Not nuclear power. Not solar. Not anything but oil. As for 'depends on', Argentina's oil production was generating serious tax/royalty revenue for the government and all of a sudden that flow reversed. They are an oil importer now. That's why they raged about the Spanish oil company. The oil output slowed and destroyed their budget.
2) Europe is more compressed. They transport food shorter distances. Iowa to NYC is 1000+ miles. Refrigerated trucks and trains that run on diesel. France is only 250 miles across the whole country.
3) Know the intricate specifics of peak oil. Don't let the words hit you as some sort of amorphous ideological thing because it's not at all that. It's a very precise mathematical definition. It's not price dependent. It's not conservative or liberal. It's math. The production of an oil well rises, peaks, and falls in terms of barrels/day. That is very precisely and specifically what it means. It doesn't mean anything else. It's extremely popular for articles to start out saying "The Peak Oil theory says as price rises that demand . . . " or "The Peak Oil theory says we will run out of oil by 2015 . . .". It doesn't say anything other than the very specific mathematical description of the graph -- oil output from the ground -- for an oil well -- or an oil field -- will rise, peak, and then decline. Period. And full stop. Nothing more or less than that. It can't be argued with. All wells and fields DO do that.
What they say:
and to help cover that anti-austerity 'rise' in spending:
What they don't say:
It will lower Portugal's deficit to 4.5 percent of gross domestic product in 2013 from a previous 5.0 percent of gross domestic product. With a GDP of 170 billion that's still deficit spending of $7.65 billion. However, with fall in revenues then no doubt they will actually be back at 5% which is the threshold they are not supposed to hit.
When the stakes get too high it seems the thing that matters is who has the cash, not who owes whom, it is good to be owed money, but you cant spend it. Same idea applies to physical assets. When the stampede begins to prevent firther losses of what you have instead of further pursuit of future, promised, paper, income...well, it's gonna be a heck of a stampede.
These PIg economies cannot & will not be allowed to adjust as their spending is directed towards foregin inputs and goods , destroying all internal commerce.
Cork citiy streets were full of cars today and yet the pubs are empty.
This is a massive monetary and subsequent physical misallocation when looked at with Irish eyes.
When personal spending rise and taxes received are lower it means people are tapping their matress, their spare money to pay for normal expenses, while the ever slowing economy produces and sells less, hence the lower tax receipt by the govt.
the beast is on the gobble
and all that matters is we're all headed for it's belly
This is what "Austerity" really means:
"..the word 'austerity' appears to mean something different than we thought.."
think Jabba the Hut saying he's going on a "diet" ...then ordering his usual 24 Big Macs for his lunch.
Words and actions almost never correlate amoung the political (parasite) class ..same as it ever was.


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The 1%: RIM's Global Tablet Marketshare
Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie are a part of what the Occupy movement calls "the 1%." It's not a bad place to be. But as for their company? Turns out, RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook is in a different kind of 1%—global marketshare. Not so good.
Indeed, market research firm IDC released a report today revealing that—despite myriad insane price cuts that cost RIM $500 million—the tablet's marketshare still shrunk considerably, from a paltry 1.1% to a pathetic 0.7%. The discounts, which tore up RIM's balance sheet and share price at once, couldn't even retain the device's already nominal marketshare.
Meanwhile, Android tablets are finally gaining ground on Apple's legendary iPad. Combining the dozens of Android tablets, Google's platform is poised to capture up to 40% of the global tablet market by year's end. A major driving force for this growth is Amazon's Kindle Fire. At $199, it's value is undeniably high, although it's currently limited to America.
RIM shipped 500,000 PlayBooks in its opening quarter, a promising start. But this number tanked to just 200,000 in an anemic second quarter, and—again, despite 60% off sales at nearly every retailer—shipped an embarrassing 150,000 units.
RIM was recently named, alongside the equally wounded Netflix, as one of five brands likely to die by 2015.


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