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A multi autonomic objects flexible workflow and its knowledge acquisition supporting engineering design process
Wang, Dong-Bo and Yan, Xiu and Guo, Ningsheng and Li, Tao (2010) A multi autonomic objects flexible workflow and its knowledge acquisition supporting engineering design process. Advanced Materials Research, 97-101. pp. 3341-3344. ISSN 1022-6680
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In order to support the dynamic and creative Engineering Design Process (EDP) comprehensively, after a detailed literature review, a multi autonomic objects (AO) flexible workflow is applied into the supporting and management of EDP, its support for decision making, EDP evolution and design activity granularity is explained, finally and most importantly, a genetic algorithm-based AO knowledge learning method is proposed, the algorithm is demonstrated by a MATLAB simulation that it can satisfy the knowledge acquisition in EDP satisfactorily.
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Keywords: | autonomic, engineering design process, knowledge acquisition, workflow, Engineering design, Engineering(all) |
Subjects: | Technology > Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) > Engineering design |
Department: | Faculty of Engineering > Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management |
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Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2012 10:59 |
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When we last left our intrepid "Survivor: Caramoan" castaways, the Fans were coming apart at the seams, mostly because Shamar is being kind of insane. Can the Fans get their mojo back and even things up?
After Tribal, Eddie and Reynold are … basically mad that they got played. Their argument about Laura vs. Hope is valid — Laura is pretty weak. But the other people have an alliance and you aren't a part of it. Which is mostly your own fault. You guys made your Cool Kids alliance on day one and failed to count that four people is not a majority on a tribe of 10. Yes, Eddie, you are screwed. Stop being such a sore loser. You got played. Be a grown up.
Phillip decides it is in his best interest to dole out nicknames and welcome the outsiders to Stealth R Us. Basically, this alliance contains everyone at this point. It's pretty silly, but Brandon is over the moon. He thinks he has "infiltrated" Phillip's alliance. These two are just ridiculous.
Reward Challenge
It's a pretty cool race that involves transporting tribe members on planks that other members hold, then getting everyone up on a small platform. The reward is a local bushman coming to camp to help them learn how to survive better, plus bringing with him a chicken and fruits and veggies.
The Faves sit out Cochran, which seems kind of silly. Why would you sit out one of your smallest tribe members when you all have to cram onto a platform together? They would still have enough strong people for the plank portion of the race.
The tribes are pretty even, until Laura gets in the mix. She's terrible at going across the planks. Have some guts, girl. Push yourself. At the platform, the Faves go for a circle of standing people, while the Fans go for a weird pile on Shamar. That was a terrible idea, his mass was taking up the entire platform. He should've been in the middle like Phillip, with people clinging to him, but with room on the platform for their feet.
Bikal's Reward
The bushman is this hilarious, tiny man — Malcolm calls him a Filipino gollum. We aren't sure we'd go that far, but he's definitely a character.
Meanwhile, back at Gota, Shamar is back to lying in the shelter all day long. It really does look like he just does absolutely nothing. Just because you're big doesn't mean you're having a harder time than the rest of them. And you don't get to be some bully who demands that people feed you in exchange for not quitting. Sherri — do not give in to him! Laura is absolutely right. Shamar is a baby.
That night, a terrible storm blows through and it leaves the Fans' morale pretty low. Shamar decides he's had enough because he scratched his eye, so he calls in Probst and medical. The medical team tells him he has a scratch on his eye and that he should leave the game. Hmm.
OK, it's not like you want to take a risk with your eyesight, but he's such the Boy Who Cried Wolf. It's hard to summon up any sympathy. Plus, we're sure he's fine now. So, blech — good riddance.
Immunity Challenge
It's a swim to the platform, smash a tile, retrieve a key for five of the tribe members. Then the last two use the keys to unlock sandbags and then throw the sandbags at some blocks to knock them off. Corinne and Dawn sit out for the Faves.
The Fans get a bit of a lead because Sherri doesn't smash her tile all the way on her first try, so the Faves have a one-key lead the entire way through the race portion. Phillip and Cochran are going to unlock and throw the sandbags.
Laura and Reynold are the sandbaggers for the Fans — Laura struggles with the locks because of course she does. Reynold manages to make up a ton of ground for the Fans, as Phillip struggles to get his last couple blocks knocked down. But Phillip pulls it out, as Reynold only has five blocks left. That's hard.
So, Sherri really blew that. The Fans would have had that in the bag if they hadn't missed that first key.
Now comes the typical "Survivor" conundrum — keep the tribe strong (boot Laura), or keep your alliance fully intact (boot Eddie).
For us, it depends on if you think Eddie and Reynold will be loyal when there's a merge. If you think they'll flip, get rid of them, no matter how much Laura stinks at challenges. If you think they'll be loyal, boot Laura and try to win some Immunities.
Pre Tribal
Matt gets with Mike and says they have to win challenges, which means Laura needs to go. Mike isn't sure he's down with that, since it's taking out someone who is loyal to them. Meanwhile, Reynold doesn't know if he can trust this plan, so he feels like he should play the Idol just in case.
Sherri's pretty nervous about this plan because it leaves the women very outnumbered. Yeah, it doesn't behoove her or Julia to vote out Laura. As long as she's around, they always have a vote and they always have a person to keep the target off their backs. That's key. Mike is really the swing vote here and we would wager he sticks with the alliance.
Tribal Council
Jeff gets all the perspectives about who is the best person to vote our. Sherri maintains that they have Eddie and Reynold and STILL haven't been winning challenges. There's not much to it — we know where everybody stands. It's really all down to how Mike votes.
During the vote, we only see Eddie vote for Laura and Laura vote for Reynold. Then Reynold plays his Idol. Ruh-roh. The votes go Laura, Laura, Reynold, Laura and Laura. So Mike went with the men. Interesting.
This could be a great move for them, if they can all stay loyal after a merge. Time will tell.
Next week: Brandon loses his ever-loving mind (if he ever had one to begin with).


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I guess this goes back to the C&C Society map which was also based on North America. From what I understand, Gary's campaign was marked off on that map around Lake Geneva, while Arneson's Blackmoor game was marked off on the spot corresponding to St. Paul, MN. I've been doing some research from the Blackmoor side of things here: http://odd74.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=blackmoor&action=display&thread=2768
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I was wondering, if there are 50 states in Greyhawk, why not should they correspond each to one of the 50 states of the USA ?
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First Generation Problems slash Why My Family Hates My Life
My Guyanese family, especially my grandparents, are surprisingly the biggest brand ambassadors of Canada. Though they have visited three of the world's 196 countries, they have the audacity to claim that Canada is the BEST one. Are they hanging with Rob Ford smoking the c-rack?! Maybe not. Here's how they broke it down to me.
"Do you know how hard we worked to come to this country?" They asked me with scowling dark eyes. " Do you know how many people are dying to get into Canada, and you.. you! You can't wait to leave!"
How does one respond to that?
Normally, I feel no more or less Canadian than my whitey compatriots even though I am the first generation from my fam to be born in this country. So what if I didn't grow up listening to Rush? I like hockey, I'm polite and a strong liberal and say 'sorry' and 'about' in ways that foreigners find off ( or cute?).
Yet, when my family plays the ol' Guilt Trip playlist with hit songs like 'Responsibility to the Nest' and 'Ungrateful Child of Mine' I quickly remember that in fact, I am different. I am not only Canadian, I am Guyanese. You hear a lot about ABCs and CBCs (American/Canadian Born Chinese), but do you know anything about why there are so many people from West Indies (Guyana, Trinidad) here?
Once I understood the sad history of Guyana and my family as orated by my family I started to understand why my incessant wayfarer-ness is a life choice they cannot accept.
Asian first-gen problems are not so different..
A Brief History of Guyana
Just look around Toronto and Queens New York. These places are rife with people who look indian but sound like a cross between Bob Marley and a songbird. The Guyanese and Trinidadians all showed up in the 70s because shit was going down in the homeland after the ruling British power decided they couldn't handle their colonial empire no mo'. Typical colonial bullshoi around the globe at the time.
The West Indies' brand of strife was between the Indians and the Africans—the two main groups the British brought over to work the sugar cane fields. Over time different social economic statuses developed between the two, creating a class tension that burst like a pus-filled pimple once the Brits left. Scape-goating and targeting of the Indians took place. Riots were brutal, no one felt safe. It was during this period my grandfather had his house burned down and had to hide in fields holding my uncle, a mere baby at the time.
In Guyana, my grandpa George at 26 (my age now!) owned land and a shop but there was no way in Zeus's lightening was he going to risk his family through the volatility that Guyanese politics were at the time. He decided it was time to make like a cricket ball and bounce. And that's when the universe smiled at them and a golden gate opened up. The golden gate was Canada's Open Door Policy of the 1970s and the gate keeper— the revered prime minister Pierre Trudeau. A legend for Canadian immigrants, making faithful Liberals out of them for life. It was a golden gate indeed for so many people who needed it in the terrible global fall-out of post-colonialization in the context of a divisive Cold War. Never doubt an immigrant Canadian's patriotism. I get their vigour. I hope it makes sense to you even if you ain't an immigrant.
My mom and three of five siblings in the early days of Canada life.
But swinging into that open door wasn't easy at all. My gramps had SIX children that he needed to import to Canada from Guyana. And he had had a lot of his assets destroyed in the riots. What the hell was he going to do, right? But he was determined and hardworking. As such, him and my other grandparents worked menial jobs earning meagre wages in order to bring their whole family over to Canada—a stark contrast to the lifestyle they had in Guyana. My grandmother dragged buckets on her feet as she collected worms for fishing bait here, earning 5 cents for every worm she collected (this is the same grandmother who gave me a Versace handbag and a fur scarf..!). My grandfather worked in a hospital as a cleaner. You know how expensive flights were in those days?! My grandfather was also divorced, so he was a single father with those six immigrant children trying to support and shape into what would be the new faces of Canada.
The new faces of Canada. My Mom in the 80s
He lived like a bottom-feeder and slaved away to leave third world's instability so his family could build a better life, one of both security and freedom. And they succeeded, my whole family is in Toronto. Now they all have massive homes and everything they want, they can obtain. It makes me fiercely believe that a country that has a strong presence of these sorts of immigrants has a vein of strength and perseverance pulsing through it that those without can possibly imagine. Sure, there are risks of crime and instability that comes with reintegration, but the longterm effects build the foundation of people that will drive the country… aka us first-generation kids.
Anyways, fastforward to tomorrow. Grandpa George's granddaughter is leaving Canada heading to Southeast Asia, to a country still stiff with political tensions, underdevelopment, corruption and more. By following my dreams like an old Canadian (re: white), I have veritably slapped him in his face.
All I can say is that I agree. Toronto and Canada may indeed be one of the sweetest places. Thanks to them I am the holder of one of the best passports in the world—able to travel anywhere, grew up in a just society with good values and an education that has enabled me to go to the places I have. Toronto is an amazing city with great music (Metric, Feist, Austra, The Diamonds) film life (James Cameron, Ryan Gosling, Michael Cera, Ellen Page), food (it's the foodcourt of the world), universities (U of T) delicious tap water and greenery that will make you cry in the presence of its beauty.
It's only because they left Guyana I have any of the opportunity I have today. I wish they would realize that.
Anyways, in a very Canadian fashion I will apologize. Sorry for the extremely boring post. Below I've posted some pictures that highlight my love of the city. I am sad to say goodbye to all my friends and family, but honestly so excited to get back! I love Asia. I love the adventure and hope to see you soon!
Wearing my Autumn hat because I needed it and not because I was forcing fall fashion in hot Asia.
Chinese Checkers with my bro at Grandpa George's house on his 75th birthday.
Trinity College at University of Toronto. Amazing school. Brought me where I am today.
Things like this happen. Canadians love Halloween. Will miss friends. Obvi.
Wide open spaces. Suburbia has its charms.
Access to vegan and organic everything in life does not exist in Asia.
Is your family like this? Any advice on how to win their acceptance? Be a bro, share below.


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A federal court judge in Hartford has dismissed a lawsuit filed by fourteen seniors, including seven from Connecticut, who were seeking Medicare nursing home coverage.
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In their lawsuit, they argued that there is little difference between observation and admitted patients, except when it comes to paying tens of thousands of dollars in nursing home bills. They asked the judge to eliminate the `observation care' designation or at least set up an expedited appeals process so that their observation status would be reviewed. They also wanted the judge to order Medicare officials to require hospitals to tell patients if they are receiving `observation care' and have not been admitted.
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Do you have the perfect forex trading strategy? I have not found it. To me, a perfect strategy wins all of the time and has minimal trade drawdowns. I hate to burst your bubble but a 100% win ratio strategy does not exist.
Therefore, learning how to trade in an imperfect world is very important. Trend trading is a simple way to cover up some strategy imperfections by identifying the strongest trends in the market.
For example, if the market is moving up in a strong trend, it isn't as important what the strategy is used to time entries, you simply need to be buying. When you trade in the direction of the trend, the rest of your trading approach can fall right into place. This doesn't mean that all your trades will be winners. It does mean that you don't have to be exact in your entries and exits once you find a strong trend to trade.
Learn Forex: Timing Entries with CCI
(Created using FXCM's Marketscope 2.0 charts)
When you see a strong trend in the market, trade it in the direction of the trend. For example, we've seen strong up trends recently in the Japanese Yen pairs (USDJPY, GBPJPY, EURJPY, AUDJPY, and NZDJPY).
Let's assume you use the Commodity Channel Index (CCI) as a tool to time entries. Notice how each time CCI dipped below -100, prices responded with a rally. Not all trades will work out this way, but because we were following a strong trend, each dip caused more buyers to come into the market to push prices higher.
[If you are interested in learning more about trading with CCI, register to take this free 20 minute course. At the end of the course you can receive the strategy buy/sell rules for an advanced trading strategy that incorporates trend and CCI. Register here.]
Therefore, experienced traders seek out more strong trends to repeatedly take advantage of them.
Which Pond to Fish In
If you were going fishing and had a choice of ponds to fish in, which pond would you choose? How about the pond with more fish!
Identifying strong trends allows us to see which pond is offering more potential fish to catch (pips). Assume for a moment, you are the perfect trader that can catch the exact top and bottom of each wave.
Learn Forex: More Pips Available in the Direction of the Trend
(Created using FXCM's Marketscope 2.0 charts)
Now, divide your trades into those with the trend and those against the trend and your chart may look similar to the above.
Notice how more pips are available on the long trades relative to the short trades.This is because this is a strong trend to the upside. By aligning with the direction of the trend, you align your strategy to the momentum of the market and expose yourself to more opportunities at pips.
Determining the Trend
To determine the trend, pull a price chart on a currency pair of your choice with between 100-200 candles. Then answer the question of which direction prices are generally moving?
If the trend is up, then confirm the direction by looking for a series of higher highs and higher lows on the chart. A valid up trend would look similar to the above chart.
Learn Forex: Higher Highs and Higher Lows in an Uptrend
(Created using FXCM's Marketscope 2.0 charts)
Eventually, all trends will end. So this uptrend changes to a downtrend when a series of lower highs and lower lows are established as noted below.
If the trend is down, confirm the downtrend by looking for a series of lower highs and lower lows on the chart. Below is a chart of a valid downtrend.
Learn Forex: Lower Highs and Lower Lows in a Down Trend
(Created using FXCM's Marketscope 2.0 charts)
This downtrend changes to an uptrend when a series of higher highs and higher lows begin to form as noted below.
It is important to note that there are no specific rules for identifying high and lows to use for trend analysis. The idea is to pick the most obvious examples of an uptrend or a downtrend to trade.
There are several advantages to trading strong trends such as allowing the trend to bail you out of an imperfect strategy and aligning yourself in the direction the pips are available. This explains why many experienced and well known traders follow that strategy.
Look for the most obvious trending moves. There are over 30 different currency pairs to choose and look for the strongest trend of those pairs.
Filter your trading signals in the direction of the trend. Take only entry signals in the trend direction and ignore those entry signals that are counter trend.
This is why we talk about trend trading in our DailyFX EDU courses quite often. Now, that you have found strong trends to trade, follow the "3 Ways to Trade a Strong Forex Trend" and "3 Step Guide to Determining Your Trade Size."
---Written by Jeremy Wagner, Head Trading Instructor, DailyFX Education
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Love the heads and torsos, but the legs and feet seem a little small... or maybe I've just gotten used to GW's oddly scaled figs.
I have the same problem....I'm pretty sure it me not the figs, but I can't get over how thin the legs are. they're gorgeous though.
I think it's because the torso is encased in bulky pieces of armor, but the legs are not.
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Thursday, August 9, 2012
New Research: Is Yelling at Kids Worse than Hitting?
Yesterday my daughter was in one of those moods. She was deliberately trying to irritate everyone. I take that back...she was trying to be funny and in the process was being super annoying. For example, when it was time to brush her teeth, she went into the bathroom and said, "Watch this, Mommy!"
These are good parents saying these things. They just get frazzled and don't think about what they're saying. Like me, I'm sure they regret it when they say mean things, so this research does make me pause and think about how I interact and speak to my kids on a daily basis. Here are a few examples that I thought of:
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1. Given challenging projects and activities through the week to stimulate their active little brains
2. Given lots of quality time with Mom or Dad, where they are praised for their actual accomplishments, such as painting or something creative.
3. Given appropriate punishments for unwanted behavior, but the punishment should be done without belittling and when they've paid their price, it should be over and parents shouldn't hold a grudge.
4. Given lots of opportunity to sleep!
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Congrats on publishing your book!! Soooo exciting! I will be recommending it to my families :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this. Just yesterday, I was screaming at my 2 yr old son (it seems like the only way he listens to me lately-that he got me to crack and mommy's yelling so she must mean business now...), and I stopped myself thinking, OMG. I sound just like my father. This is NOT right (Not fun childhood times). I really appreciate your examples of alternatives-I've never belittled my son "with what is wrong with you?, Why are you so stupid?" but I've definately done the "Can't you stop being annoying? Mommy needs a break, and you need a nap." Hopefully, I haven't scarred him too badly, but I'm definatly re-evaluating how I talk to him now. Thanks again for the post.
ReplyDeleteGreat post (and I say that because you actually offer some good advice to us frazzled moms)! Also--I'm about halfway through your book, and it's a true gem in my quest to figure out how to yell less and enjoy my boys more. I'm glad I found your blog.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great post!! Congrats on the book as well. Thank you for sharing such interesting info.
ReplyDeleteJust stumbled on your site through pinterest. Immediately purchased your book on Kindle. My impulse is to be a yeller (though I don't typically use belittling words), but I'm working to overcome that. I'm sure your book will help in my quest for more engaging and stimulating activities.
ReplyDeleteI actually pin this the other day , thank you so much, sometimes we as parents have to step back and see the whole citrus and remember we used to be children too. I have a 9 yr old ADHD child and it s sooooooo hard at times , but it does help thank you. marjorie
ReplyDeleteI love my child to death but their are some days were I have been in situation one because the whining drives me insane I would rather have my child scream then whine. I think sometimes parents crack we are only human. Thanks for awesome post
ReplyDeleteHi, I happen to stumble upon your blog via 733 blog design recently finished work. I love your blog by the way. I'm definitely going to be a new reader. I'm having the same trouble trying to deal with my older son and also my second son. The constant fighting, whining, crying. And because I was emotionally abuse by being called "Fat as a child." The only thing that I know how to do is yell or hit. I've watched myself and try to do the things above since becoming a preschool teacher in 2009. But it's hard, but doable! Congrats on your book :)
ReplyDeleteHi, I happen to stumble upon your blog via 733 blog design recently finished work. I love your blog by the way. I'm definitely going to be a new reader. I'm having the same trouble trying to deal with my older son and also my second son. The constant fighting, whining, crying. And because I was emotionally abuse by being called "Fat as a child." The only thing that I know how to do is yell or hit. I've watched myself and try to do the things above since becoming a preschool teacher in 2009. But it's hard, but doable! Congrats on your book :)
ReplyDeleteGreat article! I completely understand this. My mom was a yeller and once she started, it went on forever. I remember saying to her on many occasions that I wished she'd just hit me and get it over with. I'm always careful about what I say to my kids & I very rarely ever yell at them out of anger although I have done that and then I've felt horrible afterwards. I put their behaviors down, but never them (ex: I don't speak whine, can you ask again with words I understand?).
ReplyDeleteAwesome blog post! There are so many tricks of the trade when it comes to interacting with children, and I LOVE learning them. Time I've wasted by yelling and belittling makes me cringe. It is simple to follow research approved ideas, like diverting a childs' thoughts to get thru a headstrong hurdle, showing respect while disciplining, etc. They just need to be learned! I am grateful for these kinds of helpful reads. :) Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHi there, I followed a pin on Pinterest to your blog, and you have some great parenting ideas! I wanted to comment, however, that I find the graphic "Is Yelling Worse than Hitting?" to be a bit problematic. I read the study that you linked to, and while it says that psychological abuse is "the most challenging and prevalent form of child abuse and neglect," nowhere did I read a qualitative remark that verbal abuse is "worse" or more damaging than physical abuse. In fact, the authors note that exposing children to physical violence, even if they are not themselves physically harmed, is extremely damaging psychologically. (See "Determinants of Psychological Maltreatment" http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/2/372.full)
I've worked with abused children and was abused as a child myself. I think it's important to highlight the fact that ALL forms of abuse--sexual, verbal, physical, emotional--are damaging and hurtful, and none are better or worse than the other. When I read your post, I knew this was not what you meant, but I just wanted to put out there that abuse is abuse, even if it takes different forms. Thanks for reading, I do enjoy what I have read of your blog so far!Honestly... Wish this came out when my mom was raising me and my sisters. My mother's responses to our misbehavior sounded exactly (word for word!) like the "What I want to say" portions of this article... Come to think of it, her responses /still/ sound like that. It's very draining and as a result my sisters and I have much shorter tempers and lower tolerance for BS than most other people our age do.
Yelling as a form of punishment has honestly damaged my relationship with my mother... Mostly because she yelled/yells all the time. Any mothers out there reading this comment: please don't yell at your kids, no matter what stupid crap they pull. Yelling makes it seem like it's ok for your kids to yell back and then you'll just pull yourself into a world of crazy.
If/when I have kids, I will make a note to refer back to this. I don't want to parent my kids with yelling because my absolute worst nightmare is to catch myself acting like my mom to my children.All awesome ideas. Do you happen to have any ideas on how to get your kids to stop whining and screaming long enough to hear you actually say those things? I feel like I am in a never ending screaming match with my kids because I have to scream to be heard over THEIR screaming *sigh* I would love to be more patient and passive, but I am never given the chance. Sometimes I think I need a megaphone so I can keep my cool and still be heard. I try waiting for them to calm down so I can talk calmly and explain what needs to change/happen, but they never let me get a word in, they don't hear me until I get loud. It's exhausting :(


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Marilyn Monroe
"Marilyn Monroe? A vacuum with nipples"
Otto Preminger
"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on."
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PIXIES BEST OF TRACKLISTING, ANYBODY?: Even if the band falls apart during its reunion tour, the Pixies best of is unstoppable. (Actually, haven't we already had a Pixies best of before? Death to the Pixies?. Anyway, it doesn't matter, because Wave of Mutilation is probably going to be better, or different, or something. Here's a side-by-side comparison* of what's on offer
Wave of Mutilation
01 Bone Machine
02 Nimrod's Son
03 The Holiday Song
04 Caribou
05 Broken Face
06 Gigantic [single version]
07 Vamos [Surfer Rosa version]
08 Hey
09 Monkey Gone To Heaven
10 Debaser [Doolittle version]
11 Gouge Away
12 Wave Of Mutilation
13 Here Comes Your Man
14 Tame
15 Where Is My Mind?
16 Into The White
17 Velouria
18 Allison
19 Dig For Fire
20 U-Mass
21 Alec Eiffel
22 Planet Of Sound
23 Winterlong [Neil Young]
Death to the Pixies
1. Cecilia Ann
2. Planet Of Sound
3. Tame
4. Here Comes Your Man
5. Debaser
6. Wave Of Mutilation
7. Dig For Fire
8. Caribou
9. Holiday Song
10. Nimrod's Son
11. U-Mass
12. Bone Machine
13. Gigantic
14. Where Is My Mind ?
15. Velouria
16. Gouge Away
17. Monkey Gone To Heaven
* - well, one on top of the other, actually...
As we can see, in the new album time has been judged to make us all feel happier about Planet of Sound - which I'm far from certain is actually the case...
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Project by Roman - THE BOOTMAN | posted 09-09-2011 02:10 AM | 1660 views | 0 times favorited | 18 comments |
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#1 posted 09-09-2011 02:33 AM |
Wow, Roman, you'd better put a net over it before it flies off! -- LittlePAW - The sweetest sound in my shop, next to Mozart, is what a hand plane makes slicing a ribbon. |
#2 posted 09-09-2011 02:50 AM |
Beautiful carving! It's very realistic and I love the wake on the base. -- Hal, Tennessee http://www.first285.com |
#3 posted 09-09-2011 02:58 AM |
WOW, That's Beautiful, so life like, Your carving talent is a pleasure to behold, All Your work is wonderful, this piece I like extra special since we have so many loons up here in Maine, You are a Real Artist, Thanks for sharing -- It's Mic Keep working and sharing |
#4 posted 09-09-2011 03:58 AM |
Nice loon, i can almost hear its call. |
#5 posted 09-09-2011 04:10 AM |
Very nice carving! |
#6 posted 09-09-2011 06:02 AM |
Your title fits th bill perfect Roman, it has a great little Wake going on, great job :) -- Pete G: If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got |
#7 posted 09-09-2011 06:06 AM |
Very nice. The base does it for me. |
#8 posted 09-09-2011 06:41 AM |
Wow, beautiful job, very nice craftsmanship. Even the base is beautiful. -- Tom D |
#9 posted 09-09-2011 06:55 AM |
When I started the piece I wanted to show an alert attitude. I got that with a gentle twist of the neck and head pointed slightly upward. The base had to follow with ripples, showing some action. Thank you all for the nice compliments. -- Roman:... These Boots Were Made For 'Talkin'! |
#10 posted 09-09-2011 01:49 PM |
Beautiful carving -- skip I'm a maine maniac |
#11 posted 09-09-2011 01:59 PM |
That is beautiful and so is your workmanship. -- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau |
#12 posted 09-10-2011 01:49 AM |
I love it! -- MAD F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect. Democraticwoodworking. |
#13 posted 09-11-2011 04:30 PM |
Really nice piece Roman. Along with the others I have to say that the base sets it off very well. Birds and boots are a rather strange combination…. but you have them both down. -- I just got done cutting three boards and all four of them were too short. (true story) |
#14 posted 09-11-2011 04:55 PM |
Thanks for the comment Spoon. I love playing with shapes and watching the interactions with light- our great and glorious Solar System! -- Roman:... These Boots Were Made For 'Talkin'! |
#15 posted 09-13-2011 06:36 PM |
What a beauty!! The base is perfect, the bird is gorgeous…........SUPER!!!!!!!!!! -- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it. |
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Before the introduction of USB ports and devices, many computers shipped with PS/2 or serial mice. Many computers stores still stock PS/2 mice; however, serial mice are rare these days, as most new computers have no ports for them. Until USB negated the need for them, Microsoft produced several versions of its serial mice. Connecting a Microsoft serial mouse to an old PC with serial ports is relatively straightforward. If you want to connect the serial mouse to a new PC, though, you must use an adapter before Windows can detect and initialize it.
Things You'll Need
- USB-to-serial adapter cable and installation disc
- USB mouse
Legacy PCs
Shut down the computer.
Connect the Microsoft serial mouse to the 9-pin serial port on the rear of the PC. Use the thumbscrews on the end of the mouse cable to secure the connection to the serial port.
Restart the computer and log in to Windows. Wait a few seconds for Windows to detect and initialize the mouse automatically. Use the mouse as you normally would.
Modern PCs
Start the computer with the USB mouse connected. Alternatively, start the computer without a mouse if you are comfortable using the keyboard only to navigate in Windows.
Insert the installation disc for the USB-to-serial adapter cable into the optical drive. Click the "Setup" or "Install" button when the installation wizard window opens on the screen. Follow the prompts to install the adapter cable driver, and then restart the computer when prompted.
Insert the flat end of the USB-to-serial adapter cable into one of the empty USB ports on the computer. Wait a few seconds for Windows to detect the adapter cable and initialize it using the driver you installed from the setup disc.
Connect the serial mouse to the 9-pin male port on the USB-to-serial adapter cable. Secure the mouse cable to the end of the adapter cable with the thumbscrews.
Shut down the computer and disconnect the USB mouse. Restart the computer and log in to Windows. Use the serial mouse just as you would a USB mouse.
Shut down the computer and restart it. As soon as the computer starts and you see the company logo or BIOS screen, press the "Delete" key or other key needed to access the system BIOS. If you don't know which key you need to press to enter the system BIOS, refer to the motherboard or system user guide.
Select the "Peripherals," "On-Board Devices" or other similar menu option in the BIOS. Ensure that the "Legacy USB" or similarly named option is set to active. Save the changes and exit the system BIOS to restart the computer.
Click "Computer" on the desktop, and then click the "Manage" icon on the Computer window toolbar. Click "Device Manager" in the Computer Management pane.
Click the "Ports (COM & LPT)" category in the Device Manager list. Ensure that the USB-to-serial adapter device name appears in the list, and that it does not have a yellow exclamation mark next to it.
Right-click the USB-to-serial adapter device name if it has a yellow exclamation mark next to it, and then click "Uninstall" on the pop-up menu.
Click "Action" on the menu bar, and then click "Scan for Hardware Changes." Wait a few seconds for Windows to redetect the USB-to-serial adapter cable and reinstall its driver. Close the Computer Management window and restart the computer.
Reinstall the driver for the USB-to-serial adapter cable using the installation disc if removing and reinstalling the device in Device Manager does not fix the problem with the computer not detecting or initializing the Microsoft serial mouse.
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In Dawn's Prelude, CBA best-selling author Tracie Peterson whisks listeners away to 1870s Alaska, for a breathtaking tale of intrigue, romance, and faith. When 28-year-old Lydia Gray inherits her late husband's fortune, she tries to escape unscrupulous family members by seeking refuge with an aunt in Sitka. But as Lydia savors the serenity of her new life—and the unselfish kindness of sawmill owner Kjell Lindquist—an unexpected twist forces her to rethink her future.
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"Well known for her adventurous romance tales ... Peterson knows how to create independent female heroines who gather strength through difficult circumstances. Her legion fans will want this series launch." (Library Journal)
"Read the book"
The reader is so bad I could not finish the story even though it it is not bad and I kept trying.
Whoever decided to publish must not have listened to the result.
"Hard to listen to but I persevered."
Maybe I would have liked the story better with a different reader. I didn't care for her. I don't know if I will try another Tracie Peterson book or not.
Listening to stories as I drive to and from work is the best, making the drive a little more tolerable.
"Great story"
I enjoyed the story and look forward to more. I hope someday these stories become a movie; movies full of hope...we need these now!
I think Tracie Peterson is a wonderful author. This book was good and an easy listen. Linda Stephens is sometimes hard to listen to, but this time it was not so bad.


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Anything followed by a -
My problem is that it's good for small projects, but not much more. But then in that context you're working with Boost. So, if you're working with Boost on a small project, chances are - Boost is going to be multiple times larger than your project. So why use Boost? Because you want to use LuaBind.
If your logic is that you want to use LuaBind for LuaBind, and you don't care what the expense is to do that, then okay that's fine. Otherwise, you sacrifice some flexibility using it that would be important to have on larger projects, such as extending types in Lua and using them across multiple modules.
I used it way, way back. About 2 years ago. The entire HL2:SB codebase was going to rely on it. I remember somewhere saying Garry would have used it or something had he the chance to redo things. I'm not sure if he has since changed his position on that, but I definitely did. After seeing what the C API is capable of on its own, I'm not sure I'd want to use anything else.
That and it uses Boost, which I'm not the biggest fan of due to the work you have to go through to use it, but otherwise I won't complain about it since I haven't really utilized it.
Okay. I know that the physics world is being updated, and my entities have the necessary bodies, shapes, and fixtures, yet they still refuse to do anything.
I think this might have something to do with how when I try using Body:setMassData, it doesn't change anything.
Throw us a bit of your code, TheLinx or I can help you out.
The flexibility of LuaBind is directly related to how good you implement it. Also isn't boost a modular library?
I like to consider Boost the most useful headache on the planet.
If I'm using the headers only, it's pretty smooth sailing. Can't say the same for compiled versions of it.
Amidst WAYWO drama.. Content!
I re-did the downward's walking animation and made a gun firing animation. They both use my super-awesome animation system, obviously. The upwards one is in progress but I thought it looked funny enough and therefore deserved to be left in for hilarity's sake. This was recorded on my PC and the dude on the bottom is also me, playing on my iPhone.
Also I updated my automagic GIF screen recorder/uploader to work with ImageMagick to do a more optimized conversion from frame data -> GIF.
Outdoor screenie.
That's really gonna confuse me in the future when I actually get around to learning regex. In Lua, there are things called Lua patterns, and not regex, and using (.-) would result in something like this:
Sample data:
Pattern:Code:TestFormat: Text here!
Output:Code:TestFormat: (.-)
Edited:Code:Text here!
I don't really know regex, but I fooled around on http://regexpal.com/ and it looks like I would've had to have used this to get the same output:
To me that's a bit of a generic statement, because LuaBind has one way of doing things. You can't use it, and the Lua C API in tandem. You just outright lose functionality by using it.
I was using the compiled versions. :( What a pain.
Wouldn't that be the same as just "TestFormat: (.*)"?
Doesn't match for me, try it here: http://regexpal.com/
I don't know how to get the trailing space after the colon, but it's closer than what was provided:
With the FRC kit of parts came like a stack of 100 dreamspark activation code cards. Now I can use a legit install of VS.
Boost isn't really hard to use. Sure, it's big (100 MB of code), but only 12 libraries out of 84 need compiling, and those aren't used very often (well, maybe filesystem). Just uncompress it somewhere, set the BOOST_ROOT and you're ready to roll. My main reason for not using it was the size, but I can see now that's not really a concern; my DLL weighs about 800 KB in release, with Lua, LuaJIT and LuaBind statically linked.
With my only reason for not using it gone, I gave it a try and I'm not disappointed. It's a really helpful addition to C++.
As for LuaBind; it took about a day to convert my old progress to it, but it's a massive boost to my coding rate, not having to write wrappers for everything.
I can do this by writing three functions
local ccc = cvar.CCommandCallback( function( cmd ) print "cmd called" end ) local cccc = cvar.CCommandCompletionCallback( function( partial ) print( "P", partial ) end ) testc = cvar.ConCommand( "ir_test", ccc, "HALP", 0, cccc ) local lua_run_c = cvar.CCommandCallback( function( cmd ) local f = loadstring( cmd.ArgS ) if f then f() else print.error["lua"]( "Error or something" ) end end ) local lua_run = cvar.ConCommand( "ir_lua_run", lua_run_c ) sv_cheats = icvar:FindVar("sv_cheats") local oldflags = sv_cheats.Flags local oldval = sv_cheats.string sv_cheats.Name = "not_sv_cheats" sv_cheats.Flags = 0 sv_cheats.int = 1 new_cheats = cvar.ConVar( "sv_cheats", "0", oldflags, sv_cheats.Help) new_cheats.Name = "sv_cheats" new_cheats.string = oldval
No. Lua's (.-) is the same as regex' (.*?)
An easy way to deal with shapes, bodies and fixtures
The base class for entities. Ent is a manager of sorts.
I've checked and World:update(dt) is getting called as it should be, and that's about it.
I've also checked in my console about Body:setMassData. No matter what I set it to, Body:getMassData always returns four 0s.
Also; ignore PhysRect, I haven't worked on updating that. And feel free to judge my coding style and use of 1 letter variables.
Sweet thanks for the heads up!
Great pun there.
Maybe I'm blind or something (I haven't worked with LOVE in a while, but this type of issue should look obvious) but it doesn't look like you're setting mass anywhere.
It's the third argument for newBody.
That's exactly how it's meant to work. ? after * or + makes the match lazy, so it only matches as little as it needs. In this case nothing. But having something else in the group can force it to match, like (\s.*?\s) would match " Shit ". Without the ? modifier, it would be " Shit here " (assuming whitespace at the end)
I can't remember if Lua's .- works like that though...
Three strings separated by a spaces and ending in a newline. The source could be "first second third\n" for example.
Also, a question about the FP Lua SDK: connectors/luacurl.lua line 43:
string.match( r, "(.-) (.-) (.-)\n" )
What is this supposed to find? Apparently it's supposed to contain the status code, and the session token...
Ah yes, very important question. That would be represented with output that looks like this:
Where stuff in bold is (.-) and is the output you receive and nothing more, and underlined spaces are the spaces represented in the pattern, which are discarded. (The newline is also ignored as it is not in parentheses.)
I was implying such a pattern should highlight "Shit here", as it would in Lua.
Wouldn't it be easier to do something like:instead of finding every 3 word line?Code:HTTP/1.[0-1] ([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|[1-9][0-9][0-9]) -something for the status string-
The first argument is the world, the second and third are x and y, and the fourth is the bodytype, which defaults to static. I'm guessing I might need to put "dynamic" or something there. (It takes a string.)
Time to split myself into multiple threads and look for clues
Body types are static, dynamic, and kinematic. That wasn't very hard to find
Huge success. I just had to make the fourth argument "dynamic"
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I'm already making huge progress, I just wish that 0, 0 was the origin of objects instead of their center
Can't you just make some sort of function that automatically grabs the origin or something?
You've pretty much answered that yourself. What's shorter and returns the same data, three (.-) matches or several numeric sweeps?
Also, those numeric sweeps don't compensate for the "timeout" return.
not a bug: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60682
Code:/HTTP\/\d\.\d \d{3} .*/
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My project?
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I'm making a pixel coord system thingy, but I probably need some sort of api for it since Java's built in graphics functions ain't good :(
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Brightness² is relative magnitude, orange is left channel only, blue is right only.
I'm running the simplified Goertzel algorithm on the piano key frequencies, the block size is adjusted for each pitch.
I'm using NAudio for decoding MP3. The image width is clamped to a maximum of 65000, otherwise .NET's PNG encoder would crash when saving.
wow php is worse than i remember. it's like they're actively trying to make the language worse! Not to mention that representative guy can't spell to the point where his own name looks like a typo -- "laruence" vs "laurence", anyone?
Running out of memory on the stack is hardly a bug, it's something that exists in pretty much every language when you try to allocate memory on the stack and there's not enough to go around. Dying without proper error messaging is a bug, though, but it's not really that big of a deal. You should be wary of the memory you're utilizing in any language to avoid issues like this in the first place.
The script should crash, not the VM. If you run that test script, it takes out the entire PHP runtime. That's a massive bug, no?
I know nothing about php but
outputs Segmentation fault like it should.
except the expected behavior isn't a segmentation fault
Don't forget to check if they're part of MSDNAA, it's even better. Having access to every version of Visual Studio starting from 2003 and Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Servers is awesome.
Oh sorry. I read the bug report wrong.
Goddammit, you're right
Well, i just came up with this:
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December 3, 2009--The world's smallest known orchid (pictured)—just over 2 millimeters (0.08 inch) across and nearly see-through—has been discovered nestled in the roots of another flower in Ecuador, scientists announced this week.
Lou Jost, an ecologist with the EcoMinga plant-conservation foundation, has studied the plants of the South American country's mountainous forests for 15 years.
Earlier this year he'd collected an orchid of a larger species to study in his greenhouse. "Several months later I saw this tiny plant," he said.
(Also see: pictures of orchids discovered in Papua New Guinea.)
Ecuador's mountains are havens of biodiversity, where plants on one mountain may be entirely different from those on a neighboring peak.
In the region where the tiny orchid was found, Jost also recently discovered 28 new orchids in the Teagueia genus, a group previously thought to contain only 6 species. Ecuador as a whole is home to 4,000 known orchid species—a thousand of them discovered in the past 12 years alone.
(Related: orchid pictures from National Geographic magazine.)
The newfound orchid, part of the Platystele genus, hasn't yet had the type of scientific review that would lead to its official designation as a new species. But, Jost said, orchid expert Carl Luer, a researcher affiliated with the Missouri Botanical Garden, agrees that the plant is a unique species.
The bloom has, for now, no name. "It's just sitting here with lots of others that need to be described," Jost said. "These forests are just filled with new things."
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The Akron Zoo has a new giant Pacific octopus to replace Cora, who died July 6.
The new octopus has taken up residency in the zoo's popular Journey to the Reef exhibit.
Zoo officials said the results of a necropsy performed on Cora produced "no significant findings" and the cause of death appears to be age related. The life span of a giant Pacific octopus is about 3 years.
The new octopus is smaller than Cora, weighing about 8 pounds. Cora weighed about 20 pounds. The sex and age of the new octopus is unknown.
The zoo plans to hold a naming contest for the new octopus.
A contest to name Cora attracted 2,200 entries submitted from the United States and Canada.
The zoo garnered national attention when officials lowered the final three names into her exhibit using shrimp-filled balls inside a large plastic container.
It took five minutes for the octopus to unscrew the lid from the container and pull out the ball with the name Cora on it.
Giant Pacific octopuses are found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and live in rocky areas, caves and kelp forests. They eat fish, shrimp, crabs, scallops, clams and other shellfishes.
The arrival of the octopus comes in the midst of a busy week at the zoo as workers prepare the new $7.7 million Grizzly Ridge exhibit for visitors on Saturday.
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It is believed that cyber thieves then used that data to crack accounts at Tesco.com, relying on the habit of some people using the same usernames and passwords for various websites.
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Manuel Cortes, general secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association, said he would tell Mr Miliband that prices should be frozen when the Trades Union Congress holds its annual conference next month. "If he gets elected we don't want him to raise prices at all," said Mr Cortes. "It's time that rail passengers got a break. Ed Miliband has pledged a cap, but we want him to go one step further and freeze fares. We think this is a vote-winner."
Louise Ellman, the Labour MP who chairs the Transport Select Committee, added to the pressure on her party leader yesterday. She said: "Raising rail fares puts an increased burden on people's budgets, and in some case is a tax on people getting to work. A freeze now would be helpful."
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The Nepal Telecommunications Corporation issued emergency bulletins warning people not to pick up the telephone if there is a long, insistent ring. Anyone who does could get zapped by 'an accidental connection between the telephone and a power line' of more than 600 volts.
The city-wide alert was sounded after one man, Shyam Krishna Dawadi, was electrocuted by picking up his receiver. Kathmandu newspapers said he did not die instantly; Mr Dawadi, a devout Hindu, dragged himself to a nearby temple before he died. Over the past few weeks, five other telephones have burnt and a fax machine was rendered to the consistency of yak butter.
Yug Gauchan switched on his fax machine in his travel agency before leaving for lunch. 'I'd locked my office, and my staff heard the telephone ring continuously for about 30 seconds. There was a loud bang, and smoke. They broke into my office and my new fax machine was in flames. It melted,' he said. 'I was lucky. If I was there, I would have picked up the receiver.'
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It was bound to happen, given the importance of Port Canaveral to RCI. They also have to keep things going with new-build ships going to Miami and larger ships being moved to other ports. And of course let's not forget what happens later next year - the first Genesis ship is set to begin revenue service.
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