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Second Thoughts Game #39: Indians 4, Blue Jays 5
The Cleveland Indians lost to the Toronto Blue Jays last night by a score of 5-4. Justin Masterson couldn't figure out a couple batters and exited having given up 5 runs. The Indians fell behind 5-1 and in the midst of scratching back to a one-run deficit, they lost many chances to complete the comeback, but didn't get it done.
Masterson didn't pitch all that bad, but rather the Blue Jays offense performed quite well, and in particular, they performed well in the sixth inning which would eventually lead to runs three, four and five and Masterson's departure:
- Walked Melky Cabrera on five pitches, the only strike being a get-me-over fastball on a 3-0 count.
- Jose Bautista scorched a single to Carlos Santana that he was able to glove, but unable to make the play. The pitch was at the absolute bottom of the zone and still sinking. Masterson got the groundball he wanted, it was just too far away from Santana to induce the double-play.
- With men on first and second, Adam Lind stroked a double to left center on a pitch that was about two inches outside, tailing away and at the bottom of the zone: this doesn't typically happen. Typically, a guy rolls over that pitch and grounds out weakly, or misses entirely. Here is a screen capture from the game showing Masterson looking surprised and bewildered as to how things went so wrong on such a good pitch:
Screenshot courtesy of MLBAM Gameday.
Though the pitching ended up producing mediocre results, and concerns about Masterson's capabilities as a #1 starter were not exactly laid to rest, the really interesting part of the game came in the Indians quest to tie things back up.
After the sixth inning was over, the Indians were down 5-1 and had to go back to work against R.A. Dickey. They came back strong and produced three runs of their own to get within one. To lead off the eighth inning, Carlos Santana ripped a single to center and advanced to second on a passed ball. After Asdrubal Cabrera struck out (failing to advance the runner), David Murphy came to bat and also struck out on this pitch:
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So, it came to pass that Carlos Santana was on second with two outs in the eighth inning with his team down by a run. He was going to be running no matter what and he absolutely had to score on any single that got out of the infield. He has below-average speed, but he would get to take off on contact and should be able to beat even the best of throws.
Yan Gomes roped a single to left and Melky Cabrera gunned down Santana by about a quarter of a step, maybe less. It effectively ended the game as the Indians had the bottom third of their order coming up and Casey Janssenis a quality closer.
You have to give credit to Cabrera for such a strong throw, but when you look closely at the play, you can't help but think about what could have been. Let's break down Santana's, ultimately, failed attempt to tie the game:
This is the first frame of the cutaway following Gomes ripping the ball to left:
You can see Santana is about 2/5's of the way down the line and already at full-sprint. Things are looking good so far.
Santana is one-step away from third as Cabrera fields the ball. He is at the 'cut' of the turf and bearing down on third, and he should be able to make a hard-turn and take a pretty straight path to home:
This is where he ends up in just a few short steps:
Uh-oh. He is very far away from the line and his momentum is still carrying him away from home plate. As you can see, Cabrera is still in his wind-up and hasn't even released the ball yet.
A few steps later and things haven't corrected themselves, Santana is taking an extremely wide turn and giving the Blue Jays a few extra fractions of a second to get the ball to the catcher:
In this next frame, Santana and the ball have arrived at equal distances from the catcher. Santana is still very far away from the plate and will have to cut-across the catcher to even reach home plate. Also, he has placed himself closer to the catcher, which obviously makes applying the tag that much easier.
As Santana is getting tagged, he is finally getting back to the basepath and is correctly called out as he is just inches from the plate:
Sure, Cabrera made a great throw; but with the jump that Santana got, there really shouldn't have been any chance to get him at home. Poor base-running, not from a mental standpoint, but from a technical one, led to the out and eventually the loss.
Had he ran down the base path, the throw would have A) been too late or B) hit him. Either way, he is safe and the Indians would have had new life. It isn't a mistake commonly noticed, and nearly impossible to quantify, but it mattered last night and one can only hope that it won't be made again.
The Indians continue their series against the Blue Jays tonight with Corey Kluber going against Dustin McGowan. Let's hope that Kluber stays hot and the Indians can piece together runs easier than last night.
All screen capture courtesy of MLBAM Gameday highlights and can be found at MLB.com
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I agree with Hermie that this isn't the first time a dubious decision by Francona has cost us; it would seem to indicate the weakest part of Francona's managing: Being too loyal to his guys at times. While it can be a good thing to an extent, it can also be a bad thing when taken to extremes. That's the main reason why he kept Swisher, Kipnis and Santana batting 2-3-4 well into April even when none of those three were producing anything and weren't even producing quality at-bats 75-90% of the time, yet kept running them back out there night after night, while the guys in the lower part of the order were putting up quality at-bats and producing - Brantley, Gomes, and eventually Murphy, Chisenhall, and Aviles. He did finally put Chisenhall in the 2-hole (but only when Swisher was out, never when Swisher was in).
I just think this bares watching- Francona is not quick to make adjustments. Being that it is May and we are at that 40-game mark, guys should be hitting their stride. If they are not, adjustments need to be made more quickly- it's no longer early in the season anymore, which magnifies last night's "braincramp" even more. Too many games have been given away already- we need to start making up for those early-season mistakes and making up some of those games, or those postseason aspirations may be just dreams come October.
That said, if Santana runs the bases right, he goes into home standing.
If Ramirez is in there, he scores easily, and he's the tying run. First, there's no guarantee Santana's next time at the plate occurring, since it's already the eighth inning. Second, Santana hasn't hit or had the offensive performance in terms of walks and OBP as we are used to seeing, so taking his bat out of the line-up should have been an even easier decision than if Santana had been playing well offensively to this point.
Ramirez goes in to play 2B, upgrading the defense there, while Aviles shifts over to 3B. Even if Aviles is a downgrade from Santana, it's likely not much. To me, it would seem a no-brainer as soon as Santana was aboard, you pinch-run for him with Ramirez. If he's in there, it's no contest, as Cabrera has NO chance of throwing him out. If I remember correctly, that hit was of the bloop variety; it's quite possible Cabrera doesn't even throw through to home plate if Ramirez is running, but rather throws to 2B to keep Aviles from getting into scoring position with the go-ahead run.
If Francona has one weakness as a manager, it's that he sticks too much to his guys sometimes. While that's usually a good quality, in this case (and in a few other cases, including extending Masterson, just as he did in this game), it's cost the Indians. If Ramirez pinch-runs, this game is tied, and with the recent late surge the offense has been showing of late, quite possibly a win. Instead, they lose ground to DET, KC, and MIN because of not utilizing the bench in what I think is an automatic situation, especially with Santana's underwhelming offense to this point this season.
Losing his offense isn't as much of a concern until he starts producing as he has in the past, and that hasn't happened, especially when he plays 3B ( I've noticed some of his better offensive performances have come when he is playing 1B or DHing).


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"For newer Radeon GPUs, we are also still waiting for the stack to even reach 80% the speed of Catalyst. Besides the performance, the open-source driver stack still needs to catch up with supporting modern revisions of OpenGL (i.e. OpenGL 3.0+), better power management, and other features being sought after by desktop Linux users." The whole 6 pages condensed to a couple sentences.
If you do not use your computer to run high-end games, as is the use case for the vast majority of desktop/notebook/netbook computers in actual use, then the performance of the open-source driver stack is already entirely adequate. The open-source driver stack runs a modern composited desktop (such as kwin or compiz) just fine, thanks, with oodles or performance to spare.
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After ATI/AMD has discontinued support for r300 devices I had to switch to open-source drivers in my old laptop. While the performance was adequate, there were quite a few stability issues and my laptop got hotter and noisier. Perhaps by now these issues are all resolved but at the time I didn't like the fact that I was forced to use OS drivers at all.
Now I have a new laptop with a NVidia chip (that's not a coincident). Proprietary driver is better but open-source one (Nouveau) is not far behind and it does a good job in mode-setting, 2D and basic 3D. Considering that things like suspend to memory "just work" with the Nouveau driver, I chose to use it instead of NVidia's one.
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Diya Aur Baati Hum 28th March 2015 Written Episode Update
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The Episode starts with Sandhya leaving to find the babies. Ankur apologizes to Babasa and says he argued with Bhabho, and did not care for Vansh, he wish he controlled his anger. Babasa says no, don't blame yourself, it was not by any bad feelings, it was love for Vansh and anger was natural. He says we will do anything to get babies back. Ankita says Sooraj called and said they found the kidnappers place. Ankur says we will also go there. He sees Bhabho crying and apologizes to her. Bhabho says its fine, it was my mistake too, we should find babies soon, I can't get peace till I take them in my lap. They all leave.
The lady gets the call and comes to know that police is finding them and she should take babies and leave the city. She tells the man that they have to take babies and
Sandhya sees the man and woman having one baby each and thinks which one to get. She runs after the woman seeing her slow speed. Ankur's car hits the woman. She falls along with the baby and everyone is stunned. They all cry and go to see the baby. Sandhya takes the baby and cries. The lady dies and bleeds. Sandhya sees the baby fine and they all get relieved. Sandhya and Sooraj take the baby and smile. The baby cries. Sandhya says my baby and hugs him.
Sooraj gives baby to Bhabho. Bhabho checks the hands and legs, is he fine or any wound. She thanks Lord that he did not get hurt. She says if anything happened to him, she would have died. Ankur says where is Vansh and worries. Ankita cries for Vansh. Sooraj and Bhabho ask for Vansh. Sandhya says the man took him, I was running after them and then a point came when they ran in two directions and I came after the woman. She says they will get him, she will find.
Kohli comes there and she asks him about Vansh. Kohli is silent. She asks him where is the old man and Vansh. He says we followed the man till long but.. she asks what but, did he get caught. He says we were catching him, but he jumped down a cliff. They get stunned. Kohli tells them how the man jumped off the cliff. Bhabho says this can't happen. They all cry and Sandhya sits in shock crying. Sooraj hugs her and cries. Ankur hugs Ankita and they cry for Vansh.
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No Christmas party without Gløgg!
This boozy hot drink has lots of memories attached. Skating on the ice rink around Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen in my mid twenties, without a care in the world – not even the fact that alcohol and ice skating probably isn't the best mix! And walking around a snowcovered, and to-the-brim fairylight lit Tivoli with my husband, the year we spent Christmas in Denmark.
Add a Nordic touch to your Christmas with this traditional Danish Gløgg. Mine has snaps in it, as it did in Tivoli, and I've added some cool garnish too! Merry Christmas!
makes 1 litre, serves 6
1 bottle of good quality red wine (I like Central Otago Pinot Noir)
1/3 cup snaps/akvavit
1 cup port wine
1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
1 cup water
1 tablespoon cardamom pods
2 cinnamon sticks
6 whole cloves
3 whole all spice
2 star anise
orange peel of 1 orange
275g sugar
1/3 cup raisins
¼ cup sliced almonds
Place the port wine in a bowl with the raisins and leave to soak for 24 hours. Pass the port wine and raisins through a sieve, and set the raisins aside. Place the port with water, orange juice, spices, orange peel and sugar in a pot and simmer on low heat for 30 min. The Gløgg mix can be made ahead of time, and kept to use at a later time.
Pass the Gløgg mix through a sieve and remove (and discard) the spices. Add the wine to the Gløgg mix and heat over a gentle heat, do not boil (as this will burn off the alcohol). Add the soaked raisins and sprinkle with almonds. Serve hot, decorated with a cinnamon stick and dried orange slice!
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PARK, James. Current Mapuche-Huilliche Discourse and Poetics: Generational Shift and Territorial Difference. Alpha [online]. 2007, n.24, pp.139-162. ISSN 0718-2201. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-22012007000100009.
The ethnic-cultural (re)naissance in Chile is currently undergoing an expansion as well as a diversification along lines of minority cultures and gender differentiations. Since the explosion onto the Chilean literary landscape, in 1989, of the bilingual poet Leonel Lienlaf Lienlaf, Mapuche-Huilliche writers have come into the spotlight of academia, State and popular culture critics. Among other current distinctions, a younger generation of huilliche poets are distinguishing themselves through a hybrid, reflexive, and literary expressiveness. In opposition to the poetry that is tied to indigenous cultural institutions, orality, and traditional rural forms of existence, these poets thrive and strive for a pluricultural and complex way of living and expressing themselves. This work explores a selection of poets and their individual circumstances in an attempt to delineate the differences, and profile a greater cultural change that is coming about in south Chile
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The current number one power couple in America caused a security scare at JFK airport on Tuesday, according to TMZ, when Kanye West and Kim Kardashian were allowed to skip getting checked out by the TSA. Allegedly an American Airlines employee allowed the pair to bypass getting frisked.
According to ABC News Kim and Kanye were led:
…through a non-public area in order to provide expedited access to their domestic flight…
The couple were catching a flight to California but when they boarded the plane, a TSA official arrived on the scene to pull them back to the security checkpoints. No TSA official would want to miss the opportunity to give Kim a pat-down, I'm sure.The Daily News were told by a TSA spokesperson:
TSA officials learned of the violation and conducted a private screening of the two passengers in the area of the jetway. The passengers were cleared to board their flight
Eventually, and I'm sure in no-way p!ssing off the rest of the passengers on board, Kim and Kanye were allowed back on the plane and headed to the West Coast.
TMZ have updated the story to state that the incident is under investigation by the TSA. American Airlines have said:
This was a lapse in judgment by one of our employees. We're working closely with the TSA and speaking to the individuals involved to better understand what happened.
Kimye, as the couple have become known as in the tabloid media, were pictured over the weekend at Will Smith's place in Brazil.
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The state Senate is in session, although there's no immediate timetable for voting on the governor's budget extender, which must be approved by midnight to avoid a state government shut-down.
But the two Bronx Democrats who were holding back their approvals last week, have since diverged.
Pedro Espada, who had initially said he'd vote no, is now more conciliatory, saying he's satisfied that lawmakers have been brought into the process. He also believes a final 2010-11 budget will pass within 7-10 days. "We are close," he said, even though that statement is at odds with Gov. Paterson's more pessimistic view, which he expanded on during a press briefing last night.
On the other hand, Ruben Diaz Sr., pictured here, said he plans to keep on voting "no" as long as there are cuts in the budget extenders and the final budget.
"I'm not here to negotiate. I'm here to protect the constituents who send me here," he said.


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Years ago, I read an article in Quilting Arts magazine in the Fall 2004 issue called Art Quilting Made Easy that caught my imagination. It incorporated vintage photographs, vintage looking fabrics and embellishments into small wall quilts, measuring 9"x14" or so. Of course, I scanned the article and paid no attention to the actual instructions, but ran with the look of them and made my own.
Here are my efforts. I really like them. They were very easy to complete, the hardest thing to do is figure out the best embellishments to use. (Sorry that the photos make them look misshapen, they really are correctly proportioned!)
So, after I made those, I was rummaging around in a bag of things my friend Shirlee had given me. This bag originally came from another friend, Betty Bryant's stash. After Betty had passed away, her husband gave permission for her friends to go through her things and most of her fabric was sold by our guild as a fund raiser. Shirlee had taken this bag of unfinished items home and recently found it when rearranging her studio. She offered it to me, knowing that I like to make art quilts, as Betty did.
In the bag, I found many fun things, but all would take more effort than I was willing to put in at the moment. I dug deeper until I ran across a sample block that Betty had made for her quilt Confusion. Confusion was made for a Loose Threads (art quilting group) challenge, in which each participant was given an emotion to use to create a quilt.
I recognized it right away. Betty had used this block to test her quilting idea. She did random lines of stitching, interspersed with a couple of decorative machine stitches with a varigated thread in primary colors. There were scraps from her borders, a black and white and primary colored narrow inner border. I used the scraps to piece a new back, since she had used muslin for the sample and the back is just about as confused as the front! I added a primary colored stripe from my stash for the front border and bound it in black. I love how it turned out, I didn't have to work hard to do it either!
This last one is a project done for a group on Quilt With Us by Connecting Threads. It is a fun community of quilters, who share their work and their lives with others, whom we may never meet in person, but who are friendly and giving.
There are many small groups to fit anyone's taste. I belong to several and recently a new group called UFO Swap was formed. Diane, the group leader, assigned partners and we were to trade UFO blocks and each create something new and return it to the original owner.
Gwen sent me these (I had already partially dismantled the left block before I remembered to take a pic):
And I created this:
It is 4" wide and about 28" long. The poem says,
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Good day everyone,
I'm looking for a specific UI that i've used back in vanilla and i think early TBC aswell. The name of the UI was called RebornUI.
Pure for nostalgic reasons i would love to have this UI available again.
I remember there were a few versions of this UI but to narrow it down the biggest 2 differences were the Blue and the Red UI.
One person did remake the UI here: wowinterface.com/downloads/info20761-RebornuiKaponesfanupdate.html
However this is i thought the last version of it and it is the one that i never liked.
I tried to dig up a few pictures on the web to show which one i mean:
imageshack.us/photo/my-images/299/119fw.jpg <---- This is one looks the most like the one i mean.
If anyone is willing, or able to remake this UI for some of us that used it back then, it would be greatly appreciated.
The biggest issue i think doeing it will be the textures for the 10-25 man raid groups but im sure someone can figure it out.
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The Truth About "Healthy" Cereals
By KIRAN DHILLON
You might be surprised to learn that many adult cereals are actually worse than children's cereals.
According to a May report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), "Eating a bowl of kids' cereal every day would add up to eating 10 pounds of sugar a year." The report also stated: "Cereals that pack in as much sugar as junk food should not be considered part of a healthy breakfast or diet."
Let's repeat that: "Cereals that pack in as much sugar as junk food should not be considered part of a healthy breakfast or diet."
But while unhealthy kids' cereals featuring frosted goodies and hyper characters aren't difficult to spot, many unhealthy adult choices hide behind misleading claims about nutritional value and healthy alternatives.
[Read More: Foods to Keep Out of Your Kitchen]
To help illustrate just how bad some "healthy" cereals can be, research engine FindTheBest measured sugar content in five popular adult choices and compared them to a few of the most blatantly sugary kids' cereals.
Since few people eat what qualifies as one serving -- typically between three quarters and one cup -- FindTheBest measured a more realistic serving size: one-and-a-half cups.
The worst kids' cereal, Honey Smacks, has the same amount of sugar as the worst "healthy" adult cereal. But not only do the "healthy" cereals above compete with the kids' cereals, but they outpace the sugar content in Coco Roos, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Froot Loops and Apple Jacks by one to 11 grams.
To put it all in perspective, the World Health Organization recommends consuming no more than five percent of your calories in sugar per day.
For an adult of a normal body-mass index, five percent is equivalent to around 25 grams of sugar -- or six teaspoons. So if you eat any of the cereals above for breakfast, you'll surpass, or almost surpass, your intake of sugar for the entire day.
[Read More: Why Just Eating Healthy Won't Guarantee Weight Loss]
But there is a bright side: Not all cereals are poor choices. The EWG recommends that parents give their children cereals with no more than four grams of sugar per serving (a recommendation that is wise for adults as well), and there are plenty of options that fit this criteria. The next time you go to the grocery store, be sure to check the nutrition info before you take the "heart healthy" or "high in fiber" label at face value.
In the meantime, see some of the healthier options below:
Readers -- Do you eat cereal for breakfast? Why or why not? Which are your favorites if you do? Are you concerned about the sugar content in your cereal? Did you find this article helpful? Leave a comment below and let us know.
Kiran Dhillon is a writer for FindTheBest.com, a research engine dedicated to helping consumers find all the information they need on thousands of topics. She works in the health space, seeking to expose common nutrition misconceptions and share new discoveries based on insights from the data.


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Thread: How do you sue someone?
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Well thanks everyone, especially Samuel, even if it was reluctant.
I guess I should've rethought the question to be, "Where should I start looking?" but I think the answer is pretty obvious. And thus, this was a waste. :(
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That's cool. I'd rather be that then like the guy who ran around naked at the throwdown and then challenged people to grappling matches, professing that I was in fact, not gay and that this was how we did it at my Dojo, and it only hurts for a few seconds.
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Wtf throwdown was this?! I might have to rethink going to these throwdown things..
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11/13/2005 12:47pm, #16
Actually illegal to just give legal advice might be two strong a term, in some juristictions the dividing line is probably when money is charged for services, or the services involve actual actions, i.e. attempting to appear in court on someone's behalf without law license.
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It's often cheaper to kill people than to sue them.
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^If you published a newsletter, I'd send a SASE for it.
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Haley Joel Osment and Stephanie Szostak sandwich in veteran actor Ron Perlman while attending the Screen Actors Guild Foundation's 2nd Annual New York Golf Classic held at the Trump National Golf Club on Monday (September 29) in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.
The event was a benefit for the Foundation's Catastrophic Health Fund and Assistance programs, supporting performers facing life-threatening illnesses and severe economic hardship.
"Many people aren't familiar with the SAG Foundation, which is a philanthropic nonprofit dedicated to serving SAG-AFTRA performers, but they have so many resources to help my fellow actors when they're at their most vulnerable and run out of options," Ron, a SAG Foundation board member, said. They're there to help lift you up and get you back on your feet. It's a cause that's very close to my heart and it makes me realize how lucky I am and how lucky union performers are that we have the SAG Foundation."
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Date: 06/19/98 at 22:49:09 From: D.J. Subject: Infinite Multiplication Can you multiply infinities? I know that you can add infinity to infinity to get infinity, but what happens when you multiply infinity times infinity? And could you please tell me some other properties of infinity? Thanks.
Date: 06/22/98 at 13:33:52 From: Doctor Tom Subject: Re: Infinite Multiplication Yes, you can multiply infinity by infinity, but you have to be very careful. You can't just slap the number "infinity" into your collection of integers or real numbers without saying exactly what you mean by infinity. For purposes of doing mathematical operations, you probably want to consider the set of ordinal numbers. You can read about them in books on set theory. The trouble is that there is not just one infinite ordinal - there are infinitely many of them. The smallest, usually written as the Greek letter "omega," is usually defined to be the set consisting of all the finite ordinals: omega = {0, 1, 2, 3, ...} The finite ordinals are defined as follows: 0 = {} - the empty set 1 = {0} = {{}} - the set containing the empty set 2 = {0, 1} 3 = {0, 1, 2} 4 = {0, 1, 2, 3} and so on. There are rules for addition and multiplication of the ordinals, and these are described in books on set theory. The one rule that makes ordinals more interesting than just the integers is that the union of any number of ordinals is an ordinal - that's how you got to omega. So you can also have: omega+1 = {0, 1, 2, ...} U {omega} -- "U" means "union" omega+2 = omega+1 U {omega+1} ... omega*2 = omega U {omega, omega+1, omega+2, ...} ... You can get to omega*omega, and on, and on, and on. But beware - some common rules that you're used to don't hold: omega+1 is not equal to 1+omega omega*2 is not equal to 2*omega It's a big, complicated subject and there are books written on it but this should give you some idea of what's involved. -Doctor Tom, The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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Menopause and perimenopause are times of transition for women, when hormonal fluctuations result in many changes—some welcome and others not so desirable. Among the latter is weight gain, which drives countless numbers of women to seek ways to lose weight during menopause.
Why do many women gain weight before and during menopause? A combination of factors are the culprits, including:
- Hormone changes. Menopause is marked by a dramatic decline in estrogen levels. Low estrogen is associated with an increased risk of obesity. In fact, menopausal women are three times more likely to become obese and develop metabolic syndrome (which often leads to type 2 diabetes) than premenopausal women. Lower estrogen levels also can reduce metabolic rate, which contributes to weight gain.
- Poor sleep. One of the most common features of menopause is poor or insufficient sleep. Numerous studies have linked insufficient sleep with weight gain.
- Depression. Mood swings and depression are common in perimenopausal and menopausal women. When you're depressed, you can lose your motivation to exercise, eat right, and take initiative.
- Poor insulin resistance. During perimenopause and menopause, women often experience insulin resistance, which means although the body produces insulin, the cells do not absorb it effectively. The result is a build up of sugar (glucose) in the blood since the insulin is not doing its job. Weight gain and development of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes can result.
- Loss of lean muscle mass. We all tend to lose muscle mass as we age, and with it comes a lower metabolism rate, which then makes it easier to gain weight.
How to lose weight associated with menopause
1. Don't adopt a very-low-calorie diet. I know that sounds counterintuitive, but if you dramatically reduce calories, you will send starvation signals to your body. It will respond by going into survival mode. That means your metabolic rate will drop even more, making it even harder to lose pounds, plus you will lose more muscle mass.
2. Think Mediterranean. The Mediterranean diet is one of two dietary programs that can help menopausal women not only lose weight, but enjoy an eating plan they can live with for the rest of their lives.
In a new study (April 2016) published in the American Journal of Medicine, researchers reported on a comparison of the Mediterranean diet with a low-fat diet, a low-carb diet, and the American Diabetes Association diet.
They found that those who followed the Mediterranean diet experienced greater weight loss than the low-fat diet at 12 months or longer. The Mediterranean diet produced similar weight loss with the other two diets.
Other advantages of the Mediterranean diet is that it is also associated with improvement in cardiovascular risk factors and a reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease. Another plus of the Mediterranean diet: it's easy to follow because it includes a wide variety of readily available foods, which makes it convenient when eating at home or away.
3. Go veggie. Another option is a vegan diet, which has been shown to promote and support weight loss, as well as be associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease, arthritis, and other health issues. In a study of postmenopausal women, 62 overweight volunteers followed either a low-fat vegan diet or the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) diet for 14 weeks.
Researchers checked weight and adherence to the diet at 1 and 2 years. Women in the vegan group lost more weight at both 1 and 2 years than did the women in the NCEP group. In another study that compared the same two types of diets, women who followed the vegan diet lost more weight, even though they had no restrictions on portion size or calories consumed.
4. Practice mindful eating. One practice that is not limited to menopausal women is mindless eating. If you engage in mindful eating, you are likely to eat less, enjoy your food more, and feel full before you even finish what's on your plate.
5. Include protein at every meal. Unlike sugary foods and fats, protein is metabolized more slowly, which helps you feel full longer. Foods high in protein also boost your metabolism and help prevent the loss of lean muscle.
Adding protein is easy to do; a handful of beans in your salad, chia seeds to top your cereal, a cup of yogurt for dessert.
6. Join the resistance. Resistance exercise that uses weight or resistance bands can preserve or increase lean muscle mass while also reducing belly fat. A new study (April 2016) reports that doing more repetitions is best for chasing away abdominal fat among postmenopausal women.
7. Embrace aerobics. Along with resistance exercise, you need to enjoy aerobics (cardio). Not only can aerobics (e.g., jogging, spinning, jumping rope, rowing, tennis) reduce belly fat, it also can help you preserve muscle while you are dropping those excess pounds.
8. Don't skimp on sleep. Insufficient sleep is associated with elevated levels of ghrelin, a hunger hormone, and deficient levels of leptin, which is associated with satiety. If you are having trouble sleeping, try meditation or deep breathing before going to sleep, drink chamomile tea, listen to soothing music, try a white noise machine, keep your room in complete darkness, and turn off your computer, TV, and cell phone.
Menopause is a whole new chapter in a woman's life. Don't let that chapter be marked by excess pounds. You can lose weight during menopause by embracing a few healthful tips.


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A strong fourth-quarter effort by host East Anchorage couldn't derail the Juneau-Douglas High School girls basketball team Saturday in the Lady T-Bird Classic consolation round.
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The Crimson Bears (9-2, 2-0 Southeast) carried a 39-20 lead into the final eight minutes and held on for a 48-37 victory.
"We came out and stayed focused and controlled the first half," JDHS coach Leslie Knight said. "Into the third quarter, we maintained. But in the fourth quarter we had some serious slippage in terms of blocking out. The last minute they got some very important offensive boards. We lost a little of our lead but we were able to take better care of the ball and not turn it over as much."
The Thunderbirds struggled to score against Juneau's defense throughout most of the game. JDHS held East to only nine points in the first half as it built a 15-point halftime lead.
Juneau extended its lead to 39-20 after three quarters. East chipped away in the fourth but the Crimson Bears persevered through the surge to win.
Talisa Rhea led JDHS with 18 points and 10 rebounds. Juneau showed its offensive diversity in Saturday's win as six different players scored.
Andrea Doerflinger poured in seven points, Hannah Buck and Veronica Lietz scored six points each, Corey Mulder had five while Kayla Harrison and Nicole Fenumiai chipped in three points each.
"Hopefully that helps give confidence to other people," Knight said of the balanced scoring. "Today I think Talisa did a great job of involving her teammates. She hit Hannah Buck twice and she finished both times. We're growing."
Fenumiai was named the game's MVP after helping limit East's star forward, Jazzy Gaddy, to nine points and 10 rebounds.
Saturday's win came off the heals of a gut-wrenching 63-56 defeat to Chugiak on Friday.
Juneau-Douglas blew a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter as the Mustangs outscored the Crimson Bears 32-14 in the final eight minutes.
"Every turnover we had, they converted," Knight said. "We like to hold a team to 32 points, just not in one quarter."
Friday's loss overshadowed a terrific performance from Rhea. The two-time state player of the year was named the game's MVP with her 30-point effort. Harrison added nine points in the win.
On Thursday, Lietz earned MVP honors in a 69-40 rout of South Anchorage. The senior had 14 points, seven rebounds and five assists in the win.
JDHS travels to Ketchikan next for two conference games on Jan. 19-20.
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Meet Jake Waters, the Best-Kept Secret in the Big 12May 7, 2014
Bill Snyder has a knack for finding the best-kept secrets, just ask Collin Klein or Darren Sproles.
Jake Waters is the next one you'll be asking about.
Waters has been successful everywhere he's gone. In high school, he won two state titles and went 37-2 as a starter. He won a national title at Iowa Western Community College, and he became the first quarterback since 2002 to win a bowl game at Kansas State.
So why has Waters been so overlooked in his career?
Well, in high school, he was a three-sport star at a small-town school in Council Bluffs, Iowa, an area not seen as a hot-bed for blue chips.
So in the age of recruitment rankings, Waters was never able to fully commit himself to the recruiting process.
"Because he was a three-sport star he wasn't able to go to all these camps," said Scott Strohmeier, Waters' head coach at Iowa Western. "He felt a little bit that people were missing out on him. They thought he didn't play high enough level of ball."
Iowa Western gives Waters a chance
Waters was forced to go to JUCO route to pursue his football career. Scott Strohmeier noticed immediately that Waters came into his team with something to prove.
"Once he got here, he had a chip on his shoulder," Strohmeier said.
In his first season at Iowa Western, Waters went 9-2 with the Reivers. But he was still getting adjusted to the college game that first year in 2011.
So Waters decided to fully dedicate himself to football for the first time in his life—pouring over film and attacking the weight room.
"He prepares the way Peyton Manning prepares. That's the approach he took," Strohmeier said.
After his first season, the dam blew and Waters exploded.
The Reivers went undefeated and won the NJCAA National Title in 2012. He was the National Player of the Year and set the national JUCO record for completion percentage (73.3 percent), a mark previously held by Heisman winner and NFL superstar Cam Newton.
Still overlooked, Waters chooses Snyder
Christian Corona of The Dallas Morning News called Waters the nation's best JUCO quarterback after that 2012-13 season. But still, according to 247sports, Waters was rated as just a three-star prospect. His only three offers from BCS conference schools were from Kansas State, Penn State and Houston.
"He was under recruited," Strohmeier said. "But I'll tell you what, if I was ever in the situation I could start a team, he's the guy I want. If you're trying to start something, the guy that does absolutely everything, outworks everybody and its pretty dang talented, it's him."
Waters' choice came down between the Wildcats and Nittany Lions. In the week before Waters' commitment, he hosted Bill O'Brien at his house.
Uncertainty overcame Waters during his recruitment. Strohmeier says that shortly before he chose Kansas State, he sat with Waters for hours to try and make the right decision.
"The big thing was that K-State recruits JUCO kids, that's a huge benefit of what maybe steered him a little bit," Strohmeier said. "I know it came down to the wire, and I didn't know two nights before he announced, I'm at his house with his mom and dad till 11:00 at night going over different things."
They walked away with the Wildcats in mind, but there was still waffling.
"He made the decision pretty much that night, but he was going back and forth," Strohmeier said. "That night when we left, the next morning I texted him and asked are you still good, and he was pretty much set."
So on December 13, 2012, Waters selected Kansas State. He enrolled that following spring and immediately began competing with Daniel Sams for the starting job.
The competition dragged on all the way until the week leading up to Week 1 of the 2013-14 season, when Snyder announced that Waters would be the starter.
But Waters didn't get off to a great start in Manhattan.
Growing pains
In Waters' first start for K-State, the Wildcats fell to FCS North Dakota State at home. After two wins against bottom-feeder FCS teams, Waters and Co. dropped the first three games of the Big 12 season.
In Week 6 against Oklahoma State, Snyder had seen enough and, although he "started," Waters was benched for most of the game in favor of Sams. The same was true the next week against Baylor. Both games, though, were losses.
Up to that point, Waters had just four touchdown passes, five interceptions and was throwing for fewer than 175 yards per game.
"At the beginning of the year last season...I was trying to get that home run ball," Waters said.
He was trying to do too much. Waters wasn't letting the game come to him like he had in high school and with the Reivers.
"It wasn't that he wasn't confident, he was unsure of some things," Strohmeier said. "He tried to do too much early on."
Snyder echoes Strohmeier's sentiments, saying that if Waters was going through a rough adjustment process to the college game, that it was his fault and not Waters'.
"If he was trying to do too much, that's because we put too much on his plate," Snyder said.
The waters calm
With Kansas State sitting at 2-4 and at risk of missing a bowl game, they squared off against Big 12 bottom-feeder West Virginia. It was that game that saw Waters slowly but surely come out of his shell.
He completed 10-of-13 passes that afternoon for 198 yards and also had three touchdowns in the 35-12 win.
"I am proud of him," Snyder said after that game. "When things don't go your way that is what you are supposed to do. We are all supposed to do that. That is what life is all about."
The Wildcats went on to win four of its next five games, giving the team bowl eligibility. Over that span, Waters took more and more control of the offense away from Sams. His best game arguably came in the team's only loss in the second half of the season: a 348-yard, three touchdown showing against Oklahoma.
The reason for Waters' turnaround? He wasn't going for that home run ball anymore. He started to let the game come to him.
If anything, that opened up the deep ball for Waters. Against TCU, he had two touchdown passes of over 70 yards. Against the Sooners, he found Tyler Lockett for a 90-yard score.
In the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl against Michigan, Waters continued to find his stride and torched the Wolverines to the tune of 271 yards and three touchdowns on 21-of-27 passing. He became the first quarterback to win a bowl game for the Wildcats since Ell Roberson back in 2002.
"It was my feeling going into the bowl game that Jake is gonna have a breakout day," Strohmeier said. "He was starting, and I just had a feeling that that was gonna be the start of it."
"Now, his confidence is rolling over."
The next step
It was Waters' second season at Iowa Western that saw him breakout. So is he poised for the same type of season in 2014, his second year in Manhattan?
Snyder thinks so.
"I like his approach right now," Snyder said. "He really is all business, he's dedicated to continuing the improvement that he has made."
Not only does Waters have a year of experience under his belt, but he has one less person nipping at his heels this year.
Sams, the guy who was vying for playing time over Waters, is switching to wide receiver after it became apparent that Waters had taken the reins over for good.
"Having me kind of be the guy, I can take that next step and leadership role," Waters said. "That gives me a little bit more confidence in knowing that if I make a bad play here or there, we're not going to bring me out or something. I'm just trying to take control and get us where we need to be."
That hasn't necessarily hurt the connection between him and Sams. The two connected on a pass in Kansas State's spring game, and the two were best friends last season, high-fiving each other after one took the other out.
Now Waters is the team's ambassador. When Snyder put in Kaiden Schroeder, a 9-year-old battling cancer, to run the ball in for a touchdown in the spring game, it was Waters that guided him.
Waters is trying to put last season's acclimation to the Big 12 behind him, and he appears well on his way.
"You've got to settle down and just play," Snyder said. "He's just made headway throughout, and I don't anticipate it will be any different other than he's got a great foundation to build on based on last year."
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I am a C# developer, new to ruby. I still can't understand many of the method call examples in the book up to this point. For example, the @validates@ call
validates :title, :description, :image_url, presence: true
validates :price, numericality: {greater_than_or_equal_to: 0.01}
What are exactly passed in these calls? Initially I thought the first one it seems that it is passing several symbols and a hash table at the end. But in the second one, there is only one symbol, and numericality has weirder syntax than presence.
What parameters can I pass when calling validates? How can the symbols get translated to what I want (e.g. validating whether the object has certain attributes)
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We have now proven in a court of law, beyond a reasonable doubt, NOT ONLY that there is a mafia, but that there is a commission, that it runs the mafia. – Rudolph Giuliani
FMR US Attorney
Southern District
The narrator on what should be regarded as one of the finest documentary series on TV, National Geographic's Inside the American Mob (6 episodes), made the following concluding remarks, with final input from participants quoted:
By 2003, the sun's finally setting on the American Mob. After 70 years as the most powerful organized crime force in the United States, Cosa Nostra is decimated.
The Mob first stumbles in 1970 when mafia boss Joe Columbo steps out of the shadows and into the public eye, and is gunned down shortly thereafter by a mob-hired hitman.
It continues with the landmark infiltration of the Bonano family by FBI agent Joe Pistone, and the prosecution of the leaders of the five families in the commisssion case by US Attorney Rudolph Giuliani in the 1980's.
Publicity-hungry don John Gotti turns out to be another nail in the coffin in the '90's.
But, it all culminates with the betrayal by the last Don Joe Messino, when he becomes the first boss of a family to cooperate with the Federal Government.
Joe Massino's conviction really was the end of an era for the five families in New York. – Mitra Hormozi
Federal Prosecutor
Eastern District New York
That's the real deterioration of all their values, all their principles . . . – Rudolph Guilianni
FMR US Attorney
Southern District
The underworld – as I knew it – has been pulverized, pummeled! What there was then, certainly I don't see, now. – Salvatore Polisi
Gambino Associate
They're on the run, because the justice department and local law enforcement in those regions, have gone after the mafia with a vengeance! – Edward McDonald
FMR Federal Prosecutor
Eastern District New York
Too much technology. Too many people talking. Too much law enforcement. Too many cameras. You know? Too many people taking pictures. – Jimmy Calandra
Bath Avenue Crew Member
Organized crime still exists. But, it's not the same. There's still thugs that hijack, sell dope, and run prostitution and gambling rackets, but it's nothing like it was. – Jim Kallstrom
Supervisory Special Agent FBI
Is there a handful of real tough guys out there? There's a handful of guys out there that have good schemes going on? Yeah. To compare it to anything of what it USED to be? Those days are over forever! – Thomas Dades
Retires NYPD Detective
The mob's downfall is a culmination of a determined, decades-long campaign by law enforecement.
The goal that government had was to denude the Cosa Nostra of all its armaments. They have succeeded. – Bruce Cutler
Principal Attorney to John Gotti


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Columbia, SC (WLTX) One of the most popular shows in the Midlands is called "Bull." It chronicles the life of a trial consultant, loosely based on Dr. Phil McGraw.
But the Midlands has our own real life "Bull." He's Trial Consultant, Carey Crantford. Even though he says the show might be a little full of it, it's still entertaining.
Cranfort says what the show portrays, is not exactly how it is in real life. "You know there is a veneer of reality in the "Bull" show. But its entertainment." Crantford says his job is a little more complex. He tells News 19, "Because of there are so many restrictions involving interaction with cases and who you can talk to, and what have, that it in no way shape or form, really mirrors the true reality of what happens. Its exciting, and it's interesting and fun but ultimately it's entertainment."
Crantford says the real trial consultant's job is helping their clients get the best possible outcome. He says "Our job is really about helping attorneys, clients, understand what messaging works, how they can frame things for people to understand them and who among a jury profile, is likely to hold biases or different opinions about the case depending on what the fact pattern is."
Knowing the jury and how to present arguments often takes both qualitative and quantitative research and knowledge. Crantford says that part of the job might not translate so well for TV. He says, "in the show he's a character. He's not an academic sitting there pouring over data, and then coming up with kind of arcane observations about things. Which is more to our world. So they've taken a jury consultant and they've kind of made him a CSI type of character which is a wildly popular show it captivates people in terms of the puzzle that is being presented."
Crantford wasn't always a trial consultant though. It was a plane crash that pulled Crantford into this career. Before he was a marketing and political researcher. He was first hired as a trial consultant in the trial for U.S. Air Flight 1016 that crashed on July 2, 1994, killing 37 and seriously injuring at least 16 others in Charlotte.
Crantford was hired by the plaintiffs, the families' attorneys. He says, "That was the first, very large case that involved multiple victims and because it was interstate commerce, it was a federal case."
Crantford's task was to help the attorneys figure out how to best present technical information to the jury in a way they could understand it and, based on a jury survey, what in their personal backgrounds might help in that.
Crantford says this career is still developing and the show will most likely raise its popularity. He says, "It's been a lot of fun. It's always something different. We work from death penalty cases, to medical malpractice, to significant aviation cases. Its always something different."
Most recently Crantford was hired in the initial trial for the North Charleston Police Officer who was charged for murder in the shooting of an unarmed man as he ran away. He says the Michael Slager case presented some significant issues. He says, "Issues were how much the public had already made up their mind because of the over playing of the cell phone video showing a portion of the incident, not the entire incident."
The thing Crantford's real life job and the show "Bull" do have in common is that the trial consultant is figuring out a puzzle and using that information to help his clients. Crantford says, "Everything is a puzzle. This matters and that matters. How does this fit in?"
Although he says his real life may not be as exciting as Dr. Jason Bull's, Crantford says his career is fascinating and extraordinarily rewarding because it's real. He says, "What we do connects with real people's lives on both sides of things. And so to play a role in that is absolutely fascinating and rewarding. Win or lose."
"Bull" airs Tuesday nights right here on WLTX.


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Nigeria seeks talks with Islamist group Boko Haram
Nigeria's government is to inaugurate Tuesday a negotiation panel to engage with the Islamist sect Boko Haram.
Over the weekend the government of President Goodluck Jonathan announced it wanted to start negotiating with the Islamist group, which has been blamed for a series of recent attacks.
The government said the panel would open talks with the group and report back by 16 August.
There was no immediate reaction to the statement from Boko Haram.
The group is fighting to topple the government and create an Islamic state.
In recent weeks it has been blamed for a series of bombings and shootings in Nigeria's north-east.
Army excesses
The government statement said President Jonathan had appointed seven people, including the ministers of Defence and Labour, to the negotiation committee.
It said the panel's role would be to act "as a liaison between the federal government ... and Boko Haram and to initiate negotiations with the sect".
It would also work with Nigeria's national security adviser to ensure that security forces acted with "professionalism", the statement added.
The governor of the Nigerian state of Borno has admitted that the army has been guilty of excesses during operations to counter Boko Haram.
Most of Boko Haram's recent attacks have been carried out in the Borno city of Maiduguri.
It also claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing of the police headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, in June.


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Traffic Jam - Agya Koo pulls more crowd than Amissah-Arthur [Video]
According to GhanaSky.com analyst, Agya Koo's visit at the weekend caused a mighty traffic jam everywhere. The crowd could not move because of Agya Koo's traffic.
Kofi Adu was originally from the Ashanti Region of Ghana, but lived in a suburb in Accra Newtown called Asantewaa. He worked as a shoemaker.
Adu was discovered on a Ghanaian comedy show on GTV (Ghana National Television) at the National Theater in Accra, where he worked as a comedian warming up the crowd. In July 2008, he was awarded a National Award by then-Ghanaian President John Agyekum Kufuor.
Although he originally journeyed to Accra to sing, Agya Koo has been featured in over 90 Ghanaian movies, 15 of which remain his favorite.
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Forever Came Too Fast
She took one step towards the threshold and never looked back.
She knew she was one step closer to getting her life back on track.
He grabbed her by the arm and tried to pull her in.
She swears this is some game that she's never gonna win.
As tears rolled down her face and she begged to let her go.
He said "I've made too many mistakes. I'm never letting go".
She took another step towards the backdoor and slowly turned around.
There he stood in silence, He never made a sound.
She said "I thought you said forever, but forever came too fast.
I'm sorry I cant do this, this love will never last".
So she gave him one last kiss and before she said goodbye.
She put on that fake smile and tried so hard not to cry.
She let go of the one man who captured her heart.
She acts like she's ok but its tearing her apart…


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On Mar 30, 2004, at 11:11 AM, Rigo Wenning wrote: > Nice draft! > > Am Wednesday 24 March 2004 21:23 verlautbarte Lorrie Cranor : >> I propose changing it to say: >> > >> policy. However, a site MUST make compact policy statements in good >> faith. User agents that are unable to obtain enough information from > > This sentence is ambiguous as it can read: > 1/ a site MUST make compact policy statements > 2/ if a site makes compact statements, it has to do so > in good faith. > OK, how about: However, if a site makes compact policy statements, it MUST make these statements in good faith. >> >> User agents that use compact policies as part of their decision making >> MUST include a mechanism that allows users to determine that a >> particular decision was made based on a compact policy and to view >> that compact policy. However, user agents that provide general >> information about a site's P3P policies to users MUST use the full P3P >> policy and MUST NOT use the compact policy for this purpose. > > The first requirement sounds really strange. It is raw access to > the tokens as arrived at the user agent. This is normally done > by experts using telnet or perl tools. But I think this was the > consensus > we had. We should be clear that it is really only raw access. I don't so much care about whether a user agent gives me an ascii string or whether it formats it in a pretty way, as long as all the information is there. I think the current wording captures that. In what way do you think it might be misinterpreted? > >> >> I propose adding a section 4.2.10 Compact STATEMENT >> > >> >> Section 4.5, fourth paragraph, change MUST to MAY (as in "All of the >> purposes, recipients, and categories that appear in multiple >> statements in a full policy MAY be aggregated in a compact policy...." > > Why transform? The whole paragraph does not make too much sense > anymore. For backwards compatibility, the aggregation is still legal. We could change this paragraph to say: The P3P 1.0 specification required that all purposes, recipients, and categories that appear in multiple statements in a full policy be aggregated in a compact policy, as described in section 3.3.1. With the addition of the compact STATEMENT element in P3P 1.1, this is no longer necessary, although it is still permitted. When performing the aggregation, a Web site MUST disclose all relevant tokens (for instance, observe Example 4.1, where multiple retention policies are specified.) > > Another thing is, does P3P 1.1 use mandatory extensions? In this case, > the third paragraph is an issue too: > Full policies that include mandatory extensions MUST NOT be represented > as compact policies. I believe we only include optional extensions in P3P 1.1. If we used mandatory extensions it would introduce backwards compatibility problems. > >> >> Section 4.6 Transforming a Compact Policy to a P3P Policy should be >> dropped. >> >> > In the same direction, 4.7 could be integrated somewhere instead of > having > an own point. I also wonder why we said SHOULD NOT while the above > indicates that by inference it is supposed to read MUST NOT. 4.7 is entirely repeated as the first paragraph of section 6.4, so I think we could drop 4.7. (Rigo, here is one typo in 6.4 - a ] that should be removed.) At the time we wrote this we agreed to SHOULD NOT. However, I think MUST NOT may be appropriate given our other changes. So I would propose that the first paragraph of 6.4 say: P3P user agents MUST NOT rely on P3P compact policies that do not comply with the P3P 1.0 or P3P 1.1 specifications or are obviously erroneous. Such compact policies SHOULD be deemed invalid and the corresponding cookies should be treated as if they had no compact policies. The following guidelines are designed to reduce the chance that a P3P user agent will accept an invalid compact policy.Received on Tuesday, 30 March 2004 12:23:05 UTC
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Updated 9:28 pm, Sunday, May 13, 2012
SCHENECTADY — A city man is in serious condition after police say he attempted to commit suicide by jumping off a building.
The incident occurred at 104 Jay St. at 4:30 p.m., when a 34-year-old man jumped 40 feet from the roof of one building onto the lower roof of another, said Sgt. Matthew Dearing. Emergency crews were able to get to the man through a vacant apartment, Dearing said. The man was rushed to Albany Medical Center by helicopter.
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Creating a matrix report
A matrix is an interesting representation format with a two-dimensional view of the data, allowing capabilities to consolidate by row and column. This recipe will discuss how to add and use a matrix data region in reports. Also discussed is the totaling capabilities in matrix reports.
How to do it…
This recipe is broken down into two sections. In the basic report design section we will build a simple RDP that will be used in this recipe as well as in other recipes found in this article and the actual recipe is in the second section.
Basic report design
- Before we start on this recipe we will build an RDP class that can be used as a source for all the recipes in this article. This RDP will be used as the source of a dataset for all the following reports.
- Create a query as seen here. The InventItemGroupItem table uses the exists join and is added for the purpose of limiting the sales lines data to certain item groups.
- The goal of the RDP is to run across the sales line in the system and then retrieve the item, item group, and the shipping date confirmed. The shipping date confirmed is also split into multiple parts such as years, months, and days.
This RDP can be time consuming if you have a huge database of sales orders, so limit your data to certain item groups or a certain period as required in the RDP's processReport method.
- This RDP will fill a temporary table shown here:
- The RDP shown here will fill the temporary table by running through all the sales lines in the system.
The general approach for analysis like this is to use OLAP so that it is faster and provides multiple dimensions of consolidations but using an OLAP to demonstrate these report controls might stop several from practicing. This is because the majority of AX developers are not BI experts. Keeping this in mind this RDP has been used to demonstrate the examples.
[ //bind query - shows in the report dialog SRSReportQueryAttribute(queryStr(PktSalesLine)) ] class PktItemSalesHistoryDP extends SRSReportDataProviderBase { PktItemSalesHistoryTmp salesHistoryTmp; } [ SRSReportDataSetAttribute(tableStr(PktItemSalesHistoryTmp)) ] public PktItemSalesHistoryTmp getItemSalesHistoryTmp() { select salesHistoryTmp; return salesHistoryTmp; } private void insertTmpTable(SalesLine _salesLine) { Qty qty; date shipDate; InventItemGroupItem groupItem; qty = _salesLine.QtyOrdered; shipDate = _salesLine.ShippingDateConfirmed; groupItem = InventItemGroupItem::findByItemIdLegalEntity( _salesLine.ItemId, _salesLine.DataAreaId); salesHistoryTmp.clear(); salesHistoryTmp.ItemId = _salesLine.ItemId; salesHistoryTmp.ItemGroupId = groupItem.ItemGroupId; salesHistoryTmp.Price = _salesLine.salesPrice; salesHistoryTmp.Amount = _salesLine.SalesPrice * Qty; salesHistoryTmp.Qty = qty; salesHistoryTmp.Year = year(shipDate); salesHistoryTmp.MonthOfYearId = mthOfYr(shipDate); salesHistoryTmp.Days = dayOfMth(shipDate); salesHistoryTmp.insert(); } [ SysEntryPointAttribute(false) ] public void processReport() { Query query; QueryRun queryRun; SalesLine salesLine; InventItemGroupItem itemGroup; query = this.parmQuery(); queryRun = new queryRun(query); while (queryRun.next()) { salesLine = queryRun.get(tableNum(salesLine)); this.insertTmpTable(salesLine); } }
Creating a matrix report
- Create a report in Visual Studio named PktMatrixReport and add the RDP provider as a dataset.
- Set the Dynamic filter property to false.
- Create a new precision design and name it matrixDesign, and then double-click to open up the editor.
- Right-click and insert a new matrix data region:
- Use the field selector to set the fields as shown in the following screenshot. Choosing Qty in the data section will automatically add the Sum function to it:
- To add the total quantity for each row, on the Row Groups option at the bottom, click on the small arrow and then navigate to Add Totals | After.
- To add the total quantity for each column, on the Column Groups option at the bottom, click on the small arrow and then navigate to Add Totals | After.
- There are three total boxes in the design. Each represent the row total, column total, and the grand total. Grand total tallies the sum of rows and sum of columns.
- As you can see in the following screenshot that the grand total block in the title row is colored and the font is also set to bold. This will give a better appearance for the matrix:
- The header for the row is present but there is no similar header for the column group. So right-click on the first column and navigate to Insert Row | Outside Group – Above. This will give a header for the column. Enter the expression string ItemGroupId using the label ID or the static text. The design appears as shown here:
- Save the report and preview it:
How it works…
A matrix data region is actually a Tablix control behind the hood. The Tablix control combines the behavior of table, list, and matrix reports. Though the UI has table, matrix, and list controls, they are the same controls under the hood; they open up with a different configuration. The matrix data region has both row and column group, whereas a table control has only column group. Matrix helps create summary type reports.
Creating a multicolumn matrix report
This recipe will show how a multicolumn matrix can be implemented. Here we will expand our report to see how we can dissect it into detail where the rows are further split by months following years and the columns will also show the average price other than the quantity.
Getting ready
This recipe requires that you complete the recipe Creating a matrix report in this article.
How to do it…
- Create a new design as in the previous recipe or extend the design created in the previous recipe with the steps detailed here.
- From the Report Data toolbar, drag the control MonthOfYearId1 to the Row Group control next to Year. When you drop it a blue bar appears and it must face the Year column as shown here:
- From the Report Data toolbar drag the control Price to Column Group next to Qty. A vertical blue bar appears and it must face the Qty column as seen here:
- The price field, by default, gets placed in as a Sum operation. Change it to Average by right-clicking on the cell and choosing Expression. In the expression field modify the sum and set it to average.
- Since price can have decimal values it is important to set the decimal ranges; otherwise, it ends up in an improper formatting. Right-click on price control and choose Textbox properties .
- On Textbox properties set the Formatting to Number and ensure Decimal places is set to 2:
- If you are extending the previous recipe drop the column totals before doing this; otherwise, directly move to the column group at the bottom and click on the arrow button and then navigate to Add Totals | After. This will add the totals for the quantity and price fields.
- The report design appears as shown here. Save the report and preview it.
- The first screenshot shows preview with limited data (the Load dataset fully option is not activated):
- The second screenshot shows the preview with the full dataset loaded:
How it works…
Here in this report, the summary is broken down by years and months while the columns summarize multiple values than just one value. In this way, a matrix can be used to build detail-drilled summary reports.
The report preview option in Visual Studio always loads a limited sampled data and doesn't bring the entire data behind the system. This is not realized in the case of small datasets. When using big datasets, as in the case in this article, you will notice that data changes every time. In this case, to confirm if everything is loaded, activate the Load data set fully option available in the right corner of your preview window.
Creating a column chart report
This recipe will guide you to create chart-based reports in Dynamics AX. Charts are interesting pictorial representations of data and the SSRS reports support a multitude of chart types. It is v to switch between chart types in SSRS. In this recipe we will create a column chart that represents the total sale of quantity over a couple of years.
Getting ready
Complete the RDP defined in the Getting ready section of the recipe Creating a matrix report in this article.
How to do it…
- Since the RDP class can return a large number of item groups, it is ideal to limit it to two item groups to test this recipe. This will make it faster and easier to work through this recipe.
- Modify processreport in the RDP to add ranges for the item group in the query.
- In Visual Studio create a new report PktColumnChartReport and link the RDP class to it. Remember to set the Dynamic filter property in the dataset to false.
- Create a new precision design and name it ChartDesign.
- Open the editor, right-click and then navigate to Insert | Chart. In the prompting dialog window that shows the different chart types available, choose the Column chart:
- Resize the chart to a required size and double-click on the chart area. This will show additional square boxes around the chart image for category, series, and data as seen in the following screenshot. Drag the following fields to the specified region accordingly:
Drop area
- As fields are dropped in the chart area you can see the report changing at design time. Though this may not reflect the exact data, it will give you a feeling of how it looks at runtime.
- Modify the chart title and the axis title. Save the report design.
- The report preview appears as seen here:
How it works…
The report seen here is a multi-series chart, which means the category is applied across the series. A static series is where we represent a single series item; for example, item group. In this case if the item group is not restricted, then each year would be showing up for all the item groups in the system. Care has to be taken in what is added to the series so that the comparison makes sense to the user.
Creating a line chart
This recipe will discuss another chart-based report. Here we will try to show the monthly quantity trend for the item groups over the years. The line chart is the best option to reveal trends. This recipe will also focus on the aesthetical properties of charts, such as color and axis design.
Getting ready
This recipe requires the Creating a column chart report recipe in this article to be completed beforehand.
How to do it…
- Create a new precision design for the report. Call it line design.
- Open the editor and insert a new chart.
- Double-click on the chart area to open up the field editor. On the field editor drop the following fields as specified:
Drop area
Year, MonthOfYearId
- The next few steps will deal with how the aesthetics of a chart can be made better. On the General Properties window, set Palette to SeaGreen. This will apply a different set of colors for each series.
- To set up markers for the series on the value points, right-click on the chart area and select Series Properties. On the Markers tab set the type of marker as Square.
- The axis may not show all the labels for the category axis. To make sure that it shows all the months as labels right-click on an axis and open the Axis properties form. In the property form on the Axis options tab under Set axis scale and style, set the interval to 1. This will ensure that all the labels are visible.
- Right-click on the Legend option and choose Legend properties. On the General tab under the Legend position choose from the circular radio buttons the position of the legend:
- To disable the quantity axis right-click on any axis, uncheck Show Value Axis, and then the design should be similar in style to the screenshot here:
- Save the report and preview it.
How it works…
This recipe details how the appearance of a report can be controlled through the various associated properties. This recipe discusses only limited options while there are tons of more options that you can explore.
There's more…
Though the chart design shown here is from precision design, auto design also supports charts.
Chart reports in auto design
In auto design the category, series, and data appear as group nodes as seen here. The chart type can be changed from the Properties node of the chart control. The fields can be dragged into it to from the datasets.
Precision design is more flexible and convenient than auto design for the following reasons:
- Modify and preview the chart in design time
- Clarity to understand the field and its corresponding axis
- Extent of customization and visibility of the available charts
- More control on where and how the data is rendered, such as the marker and legend
Prefer using precision design over auto design when it comes to charts.
This article dived in to using the other types of report formats, such as chart, lines and matrix reports.
Resources for Article:
Further resources on this subject:
- Types of services in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 [Article]
- Testing Workflows for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Administration [Article]
- Installing the Dynamics AX Base Server Components for Microsoft [Article]