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Crown Prince addresses 12th Islamic Summit in Cairo
February 7, 2013
Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz led the Saudi delegation to the 12th Islamic Summit, which began its works in Cairo yesterday. The meeting was chaired by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and was attended by representatives from 56 countries, including 26 heads of state. The motto of the summit is "The Islamic world: New challenges and a growing opportunity."
On behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince Salman delivered a speech to the gathering. He focused on the crises in Palestine and Syria, stating, "The conflicts in the Islamic world represent an obsession haunting all OIC member states."
At the forefront, the Crown Prince said, is the Arab-Israeli conflict. He condemned the continuous expansion of Israeli settlements, as well as the frequent military attacks against Palestinians. "This matter requires all of us to oppose it and intensify efforts to mobilize a unified international stance to mount pressure on Israel in order to halt its aggression," he said, "We have to work for the resumption of [peace] negotiations in accordance with known international references – the Arab Peace Initiative, the Road Map plan – and ending the suffering of the Palestinian people."
Addressing another major crisis in the region, Crown Prince Salman called for action in Syria. "The Syrian regime commits heinous crimes, including abusing, torturing, systematic killing and displacing of the Syrian people," he stated. "These crimes are so provocative to the extent that our silence cannot be justified and sitting hand-cuffed cannot be accepted." The Crown Prince called upon the international community, particularly the U.N. Security Council, to "take necessary measures and decisions to deter these crimes and violence against the Syrian people and achieve the transfer of power by all possible means."
However, he warned, if the Security Council fails in its duty to bring about international peace and security by taking action in Palestine and Syria, "We have to turn our backs against it and work to build our capabilities to solve our problems by ourselves." The Crown Prince noted that Saudi Arabia has exerted a great deal of effort to provide political, financial and moral support to the Palestinians and the Syrians.
In the remainder of his speech, Crown Prince Salman denounced extremism, calling terrorism "an international plague that belongs to no religion and no nationality and a threat that endangers international security and peace." He also called for action to counter religious hatred, calling on the OIC states to support a Saudi proposal submitted to the U.N. to "issue a resolution condemning any state, group or individual who defame the divine religions or prophets and messengers, including the toughest deterrent punishments of such acts."
After delivering his speech, the Crown Prince attended a luncheon hosted by President Morsi for heads of state and delegation leaders. The Saudi delegation to the meeting includes Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal; Supervisor of the Crown Prince's Office Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz; Minister of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance Sheikh Saleh bin Abdulaziz Al-Asheikh; and Minister of Finance Dr. Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf.
The summit was concluded today, with the selection of Iyad Madani as the new Secretary General of the OIC.


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CFOs around the world are feeling good--good enough to start spending some money.
But they're going to do so carefully.
Posted by Stephen Taub in Standard & Poor's, Risk, default rate, default, Deals, Cash
In the past week alone, two companies completed distressed exchange offers--US-based Liz Claiborne and Canada-based Cinram International.
This brings the total number of corporate defaults so far this year to six, including four based in the US, according to Standard & Poor's.
Posted by Stephen Taub in Risk, ethics, Dow Jones, Deals, compliance, bribery
Potential ethical issues are playing a major role among US companies that conduct business overseas.
According to a new survey, the number of companies claiming to have lost business due to competitors acting unethically has surged to 40 percent from just 10 percent as recently as 2009.
Posted by Stephen Taub in Moody's Investors Service, default rate, default, debt-rating agencies, Deals, credit-rating agencies, Credit Ratings, Cash
Limited Brands said it will sell $750 million in 10-year notes. The company said it intends to use the proceeds to repurchase $500 million of stock under a new share repurchase program and for general corporate purposes.
The move seemed to surprise some commentators. But investors applauded the move, bidding up the stock by more than 1 percent when it began trading Tuesday morning.
Posted by Stephen Taub in sharkrepellent.com, proxy fight, hedge funds, dissident, Deals, annual meetings
Three-way proxy battles are very unusual. In fact, they are so unusual dissidents frequently go out of their way to avoid them.
This is what happened in a single day last week.
Posted by Stephen Taub in Risk, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., FDIC, Deals, compliance, Cash
It seemingly happens every Friday evening.
Federal regulators announce that some small bank cannot continue on its own and a rival is brought in to take over the assets and continue as if nothing had happened.
Posted by dbedell in mergers and acquisitions, Deals
As the US outlook brightens and US companies look to spend some of their hoarded cash on acquisitions abroad, they have many things to ponder and prepare for, not least how takeover rules differ in other jurisdictions.
This came to the fore again recently when two UK takeover targets managed to give their respective suitors—one from the US and one from France—the cold shoulder.
Posted by Stephen Taub in split, spin-off, dividends, divestitures, Deals, CFO, Cash, Careers/Management, Capital, activist investors
Sara Lee is the latest company to break itself into two or more separate companies.
The split announcement comes in the same month that Motorola divided into two separate companies.
Posted by Stephen Taub in venture capital, VC, Dow Jones VentureSource, Deals
It is not exactly happy days here again in the venture capital world.
Sure in 2010 the number of deals rose by 6 percent, to 2,799 over 2009 and the amount of capital invested in those transactions climbed 11 percent to $26.2 billion, according to Dow Jones VentureSource.
Posted by nicklord in Deals
Li Ka-Shing's Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa (known locally as Hutch) always tops the list of the best managed companies in Asia. This is less to do with its operational management and always to do with its financial management. Its success also flies in the face of conventional wisdom that conglomerates dilute shareholder value through a lack of focus.

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7 Oct 2012 7:27 PM #1
4.1.1a and Ext.Loader broken?
I made a fresh Ext JS application with Ext JS 4.1.1a and latest cmd v220.127.116.11. Out of the box everything works fine but when I add store to controller
stores: ['Bookings']
As you can see the path for loading the store is prefixed with the controller's path for some reason.
9 Oct 2012 3:04 PM #2
Is this the compiled version only?
the filename should not be there /BookingSearch.js/
You may need to provide more info on your setup. You have not provided much to go on.
9 Oct 2012 7:04 PM #3
Scott, this happens with dynamic loading only(ext-debug.js, ext-dev.js etc). You can check other thread http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...s-load-problem


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The Bridgeport Boy Scouts are sponsoring a chili supper from 4 until 7 Saturday, Jan. 12 at the Bridgeport Grade School to help the May family. The cost will be by donation.
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Pirate Fluxx - The Ever Changing Pirate Card Game for $11.38 + free shipping
Yarr. Grab yer Cutlass. Pirates have taken over Fluxx, the ever-changing card game, and their rules be new and strange. There'll be times ye must Talk Like A Pirate, and rules about how ye can Plunder from yer mates. But the most excitin' treasure fer Fluxx fans new and old is the Surprise. A new card type that you play out of turn. Your trusty Monkey can watch over the Gold Doubloons while you commandeer Ships on the high seas, but only Fruit can protect you from Scurvy. You'll enjoy the privileges of wearing the Captain's Hat but watch out for Mutiny amongst the crew.
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These games are amazing! Though, the talk like a pirate for extra draws card in this deck, gets old... quickly.
I take it we are having woot like a pirate day? Fluxx games are great. I think Zombie Fluxx is the best of the lot, with the original Fluxx close on its heels. But Pirate and Chthulu Fluxx are loads of fun as well.
@moondrake: They have Ninja Fluxx too, but they did such an amazing job making it that it vanished in a puff of smoke and has never been seen since. Competitors of Looney Labs have been found mangled in their own homes with severe cuts that appear to have been made by cards, but no evidence and no trace of the culprit has been found.....
The fluxx games are great for a large age range and multiple people.
Pirate is our favorite, but the Wizard of Oz is a close second. Highly recommended!
I have the Monty Python version. Lots of fun!
@benyust2: I think the Monty Python version is only fun for those with an intricate knowledge of Monty Python. Some of the other Fluxx games have jokes that transcend knowledge (like Zombie Fluxx).
Lately we've been playing "Mega Fluxx" games by combining decks. It's a hassle to shuffle them all, but it makes for some truly interesting and long games, and the addition of the "blanxx" cards to make your own rules allows us to make it into a cohesive game rather than a cacophony of fluxx cards.


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7 Secrets Only Two Living People Know (For Some Reason)
#3. The Farmer's Almanac Weather Formula
What is it?
The Farmer's Almanac has interesting facts, stories, light humor, charming woodcuts and much, much more. Hell, we don't need to tell you. You probably own several copies already.
This is great and all, but other almanacs have that stuff, also. How can Farmer's keep its edge over classics like Poor Richard's? By being the best at what farmers care about: predicting the weather.
Just look at that farmer. He is fucking all about the weather.
This super-special formula was devised in 1792, by the Almanac's founder Robert B. Thomas. A "top secret mathematical and astronomical formula, which relies on sunspot activity, tidal action, planetary position and many other factors," to do what science believes impossible: predict long term patterns in weather. This in turn helps farmers, you know, farm.
Who Knows:
Farmer's Almanac editor Sandi Duncan and an anonymous meteorologist.
They call him The Mysteriologist!
How it is Kept Secret:
The formula is kept locked in a black box somewhere in the Almanac's headquarters in New Hampshire. In this video, Duncan shows how the box can withstand almost any attempt to open it.
As crazy as it seems, they keep it secret for good reason. The average seven to 14 day weather report, using up to the minute information and state of the art Doppler radar systems, is often no more accurate than what you, the Cracked reader, could predict.
This 200-year-old formula has an 80 percent accuracy rate even though predictions are made 2 YEARS IN ADVANCE. How do we know that? The Almanac told us. How do we know they're right? We just told you. They're accurate 80 percent of the time.
#2. The Subject of "You're So Vain"
What is it:
As we pointed out previously, Carly Simon's "You're so Vain" is one hell of a revenge song.
The list of people it is rumored to be about is at least a dozen men long, including such luminaries as James Taylor, Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson and Warren Beatty. Whoever the guy is, he did Carly Simon bad, and worse for him it's now considered the 72nd best song of all time.
To put that in perspective, "Billie Jean" is #71.
All we know for sure is 1) Simon is never going to tell us who it's about and 2) we're real assholes if we think it's about us. Which it totally is. Bitch.
Who Knows:
Carly Simon and Dick Ebersol.
How it is Kept Secret:
Despite being asked in virtually every interview she has ever given, Simon has never admitted who the song is about. In 2003, an auction was held on Martha's Vineyard where one of the lots was the chance to know just who "You're so Vain" was referring to. Dick Ebersol, president of NBC won with a bid of $50,000. To be fair, he's loaded, it was for a good cause and he was also given a private performance by Simon.
The stipulation to Ebersol's winning bid was that he had to sign an agreement promising that he would never reveal the identity of the person to anyone, ensuring that no one who doesn't have $50,000 to spend on the answer to a trivia question will even know the truth.
He was, however, allowed to give the least useful clue of all time: The person's name had the letter E in it. Thanks, Dick.
#1. How Do Sea Monkeys Work?
What is it?
If you ever saw the back pages of a comic book growing up, you know what Sea Monkeys are. For generations kids around the world have experienced the profound disappointment of ordering Sea Monkeys, dumping the dried powder into water and watching the tiny things squiggle around, doing nothing interesting.
They still sell what you, as a jaded adult, now know are nothing more than freeze dried brine shrimp.
Harlod von Braunhut developed the process in 1957. The solution the eggs are soaked allows the small, sperm-like animals to survive the shipping process, come to life within minutes and stay alive long enough to not entertain a child.
It may seem a bit ridiculous, but compared to some of his other inventions this was Nobel Prize winning science. Braunhut held 193 patents for such gems as X-Ray Spex (that didn't see through anything) and invisible goldfish (guaranteed to remain invisible, which is good, because we'd be pissed off if we found out we'd paid money for a temporarily invisible animal instead of, you know, NOTHING).
Oh fuck, please turn invisible again.
Braunhut continued to tinker with the formula for his entire life, trying to get sea monkeys that would grow larger and live longer. Even at the age of 75, Harold was still involved in the day to day running of his company.
Who Knows:
Until his death in 2003, only Harlod von Braunhut and his wife, Yolanda.
How They Keep it Secret:
No matter how many times he changed the formula to Sea Monkeys, or how huge the operation grew (to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year) Braunhut never told anyone but his second wife about it.
Not even his most trusted associates at his company were told, no matter how many times they asked. Harold was very, very good at keeping secrets.
This might have something to do with the fact that he might have been a Nazi.
We don't mean that in a metaphorical sense. There is strong evidence that money from many of his inventions was funneled directly to the Aryan Nation. Braunhut, who was ethnically Jewish, wrote for their newsletter, was keynote speaker at their rallies and even lit a burning cross.
We're not saying the Sea Monkeys were a result of a failed experiment to breed aquatic Nazi super soldiers. But we're not saying they weren't, either.
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This question was inspired by this question dealing with finding the probability of rolling a $7$ of a kind with $10$ dice.
Is there a general method for finding the chance of rolling a $k$ of a kind with $n$ $m$-sided dice when $k\leq n/2$? When $k>n/2$ the probability is found relatively easily with the Bernoulli distribution, but when $k\leq n/2$ there's the possibility that one may roll a second, or third, etc., $k$ of a kind with the other $n-k$ di(c)e. I don't see a clear way around this possible over counting.


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The Most Difficult Movie Drinking Games Ever
While any drinking game can be hard on your liver, CRACKED decided to create some movie drinking games that are just plain hard.
Drink once: Every time the word "fuck" is spoken.
Drink again: Every time someone is spitting while they talk.
Finish your drink: Every time Tony speaks louder than any reasonable human being would ever speak.
Fuck your sister: At the end when Tony' sister says, "You want to fuck me, Tony?" If both siblings follow the first three rules this should actually feel pretty natural by that point.
If you're black, drink: Every time you laugh and your white friend doesn't.
If you're white, drink: Every time your black friend laughs and you ask him if he' choking because you're unaware that a joke has been told.
Everyone drinks: When you both realize that the white friend is just fake-laughing every time Ice Cube speaks.
Finish your drink: When the white friend laughs way to hard at a joke involving the N-word.
Continue drinking: Because you'd be taking awkward slugs of your drink if you were watching Barbershop together even if you weren't playing a game.
Die Hard
Drink once: Every time John McClane says something that is probably too witty for someone who is being shot at.
Example: "An emergency? What does it sound like I'm ordering a fucking pizza?"
Drink again: Every time John McClane says something that is probably too witty to say to someone who' trying to kill you.
Example: "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.."
Finish the drink: Every time John McClane says something that' probably too witty for someone to say when no one else is within ear-shot.
Example: "Who the fuck' driving that car, Stevie Wonder?"
Vandalize your house: Every time John McClane causes property damage to the Nakatomi Tower.
Try to punch the news reporter: Who has shown up at the scene of your now flame engulfed home.
Bonus points: If after you punch him you grab his microphone and scream, "There' your fuckin' landing light, Holly!" A line from Die Hard 2, but nevertheless another example of McClane saying something despite the fact that no one' even close to being within earshot.
Forrest Gump
Chug your beer: Every time something completely ludicrous is happening on screen.
Try to stay upright: Through the part where Jenny, the hot blond stripper, decides to fuck a retarded guy she hung out with in elementary school.
After an hour straight of chugging, experience the terror: Of watching Forrest Gump from a cognitive vantage point that is as impaired as Forrest'.
Realize quickly: That as a retarded person you now find the film offensive because despite all of the awards it won, Forrest Gump is really just one long retard joke.
Home Alone
Drink once: Every time a black person appears on screen.
Start to drink: During the fake party scene but then stop once you realize that a cardboard cutout of Michael Jordan doesn't count as a black person.
Try not to kill yourself: While watching Home Alone completely sober.
Bonus points: If you're white and are watching it with a black friend and have to navigate the always tricky: "A cardboard cutout of Michael Jordan should count because I value you all equally"" argument.
Dazed and Confused
Take a drink: Every time you or your buddy says something like, "man I wish high school was still as cool as it was back in the days of Dazed and Confused."
Take another drink: Every time Matthew McConaughey or Ben Affleck says, "man I wish my career was as cool as it was back in the days of Dazed and Confused." Note: In the unlikely event that either McConaughey or B-Affs is not present, just assume that whichever one is missing would say this every single time their character appears on screen.
Finish your beer: Every time the kid playing Mitch Kramer touches the bridge of his nose.
Have your stomach pumped: After finishing 237 beers.
A Time to Kill
Take a drink: Every time a character in the film sweats profusely or comments on the heat despite the fact that it takes place at a time when air conditioning is readily available.
Drink again: Every time someone in your group makes the "Jack Bauer used to be an asshole," joke when Kiefer Sutherland is on screen.
Chug: When someone in your group makes the "Jack Bauer used to be old" joke because they're too drunk to tell Kiefer Sutherland apart from his father Donald.
Finish your beer: Just because everyone in the movie looks so goddamned hot and it' making you thirsty.
Now imagine she' black: At the end of the movie when McConaughey tells you to, even though you're too drunk to even know what he' talking about and you remember not being very sure that the line made sense when you were sober.
Million Dollar Baby
Drink once: Everytime you check the back of the box to make sure that this movie about women' sports was directed by the same guy who made Unforgiven.
Drink again: Every time you check the back of the box to make sure this movie won the Best Picture Oscar.
Finish your beer and open another one: When the sadistic fucks who wrote the movie start making your girlfriend cry just because they can.
Keep drinking: After the movie has ended and your girlfriend decides that she wants to "talk about what the movie meant."
Fail to enunciate your words: As you argue that it' best not to dwell on what was clearly one of the most horrific movie-viewing experiences of either of your lives.


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I have an individual article page; to return back to the article listing page, I'd like to use a back button. Where should a back button typically be positioned? Is it in the top left hand corner?
Your first guess is in general a good guess. Yet there are some "details" you need think of.
First, it has to follow the overall structure of your website (e.g. when you're in your list of articles, where is the "back to home" button?). Generally, once a user went through 3-4 pages in your website, he will get a mental model of how it is structured and how it should work. Of course, the best (read "for the user") would be to create a website where the user is not creating a new mental model because he already has one (e.g. create a website that looks like amazon).
Then, it will also depend on who your users are? And on what kind of device they are using (computer vs. smartphone). On a computer, as Kayo suggested, a good approach is to have a top and a bottom button. On smartphones, it is more appropriate to have a navigation bar that is always displayed (either at the top or at the bottom, again depending on your entire project).
If you don't have a particular website with an already defined structure, I would go for the top-left (and bottom) side button since it will follow the mental model people have of the browser itself which always has the back and forth button on the left of the navigation bar.
Finally, always try to think not only about one particular button, but to stand back and think about all needed navigation buttons. Imagine for example adding the
I would put a back button at the top left and bottom left of the article content.
This way, if the user reads just a little and decided they do not want to continue reading they can immediately return.
Alternatively, if they read to the bottom of a very long article, they do not have to scroll back to the top in order to return.
I would also consider not labelling the button 'Back'. But perhaps 'Back to articles' or whatever would be appropriate to the content. As 'back' is relative to where the user came from, someone might of followed a link to an individual article from outside of your website.
Also if you do implement a back button I would suggest to give the users more information, so rather than just saying "Back" it could say "Back to [insert subcategory page here]". Just so that it better orients your users.


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Rated: R
Starring: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry
Directed by: Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, Andy Wa
Run Time: 2 hr. 44 mins.
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WEIRTON - The Weirton Area Water Board is moving closer to establishing an online bill pay program, Utilities Director A.D. "Butch" Mastrantoni said.
On Thursday, Mastrantoni told board members they need to "make sure a test file is set up and it's tested thoroughly."
"It's taking a little longer than what we'd thought," he said, adding that if the tests pan out "we could conceivably turn the switch in August and make it happen. That's our hope, anyway."
In other matters, department staff was able to finally dispose of filtrates.
Mastrantoni said they'd had bids ranging from $243,000 to $300,000 for the project, "and that didn't include the permits or landfill fees associated with dumping it."
"We've been trying to figure out how to get it out," he said. "We had a lot of discussions, did a lot of research ... and then (adapted) equipment so we could" get it out of the tank, load into a truck and took it to the landfill in compliance with federal regulations.
"We did it all in house," he said. "And through that effort, we saved a sizable amount of money. We kept the board from spending a whole lot of extra money on something that had to be taken care of."
The work ended up costing the board $26,016.52, substantially less than the $243,000-plus contractors had wanted.
The board met behind closed doors to discuss litigation and matters of negotiation.
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While this may be a very subjective question I was wondering if there's a place (or many places) on the web where one can read up about good coding and performance tips for different languages and how they may compare with others?
For example in AS3 it's faster to multiply rather than to divide, is this the same for JS? What other tips are there to really make our code run lightening fast? And where are these tips?


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A bibliography of books
informed by the experiences
of Peace Corps Volunteers
In 1965 Rhoda and Earle Brooks (Ecuador 1962–64) published The Barrios of Manta: A Personal Account of the Peace Corps in Ecuador [New American Library], and shortly thereafter Arnold Zeitlin (Ghana 1961–63) published To the Peace Corps with Love [Doubleday]. By doing so these three Returned Peace Corps Volunteers began what has become one of the most impressive Peace Corps Third Goal achievements — the publication of nearly 300 books written by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers about people and cultures in developing countries, all to be shared with their fellow Americans in an effort to further international understanding and world peace.
Peace Corps Worldwide is delighted to recognize and promote these books through our "Bibliography of Peace Corps Experience Books."
The books are listed alphabetically by country or region of Volunteer service.
Afghanistan, Africa, Albania, Azerbaijan
Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria
Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire
Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala,
India, Ivory Coast, Indonesia, Iran
Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Kyrgyzstan
Latin America, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya
Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Marshall Islands,
Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco
Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria
Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland
St. Vincent, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland
Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan
In addition there are other books of interest:
Collections of Stories, Photos & More from around the World
Being There: Applying, Training, In-country
The Peace Corps Experience: Staff and Their Families
If you have additional titles . . .
. . . for the Bibliography, send the following information to firstname.lastname@example.com
Author name
Author country and years of Peace Corps service
Full title and subtitle
Publisher and year of publication
Indicate which category is appropriate for your book:
Peace Corps — about the agency
Peace Corps memoir
Peace Corps letters/journals/blogs
Peace Corps biography
Peace Corps graphic novel
Peace Corps history
Peace Corps humor
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Is there any formulated lagrangian (density) for M-theory? If not, why is there no lagrangian?
If not, is this related to many vacua existing?
Is there any formulated lagrangian (density) for M-theory? If not, why is there no lagrangian?
If not, is this related to many vacua existing?
This is not a bad question. I'd appreciate it if you expanded some to give context and explain what you're thinking about.
Short answer: No, there isn't. It's not clear that M-theory has a description in the Lagrangian framework.
Longer answer: The nature of spacetime in M-theory is radically different from the nature of spacetime in classical & quantum field theory. Exactly how different is still under investigation. But it is not clear that spacetime is infinitely divisible in this theory. If short distances don't exist, then it is not clear we should be using the Lagrangian framework to describe fundamentla physics, since these implicitly associate degrees of freedom to all distance scales.
That said: Lagrangians do play a role in the physics of M-theory. They are used to describe worldvolume QFTs, which are effective QFTs which describe how strings and branes see the classical spacetime around them: The matrix model of D0-branes. The D3-branes of AdS/CFT are described by N=4 gauge theories. The basis of perturbative string theory is a nonlinear sigma model. A stack of 5-branes in M-theory is described by a (2,0) theory.
There is a candidate for M-theory lagrangian for coincident M2 branes. This lagrangian may provide the first M –theory lagrangian describing the quantum dynamics of membranes. http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0611108


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5 Superhero Movie Scenes They'll Never Let You See
It's a tricky business adapting comic books to film. The screenwriter has the unenviable task of cramming decades of backstory into two hours, and difficult decisions have to be made.
These cuts, however, are not the difficult ones. Here are five story lines from upcoming comic book films that the studio won't let within a thousand miles of the screen.
#5. The Incredible Hulk Nearly Gets Man-Raped
In this 2008 sequel/reboot of Ang Lee's Hulk, Bruce Banner (played by Edward Norton) attempts to keep his anger in check while accosted by the US government and his archenemy, the Abomination (Tim Roth). Previews indicate they have figured out what the first film did wrong, and set about doing completely different things wrong.
What We Probably Won't See:
How about this little vignette from '80s Hulk #23 in which Bruce Banner attempts to keep his anger in check while being accosted by two marauding homosexuals at the YMCA.
Evidently, Luellen and Dewey here aren't the friendly dudes the Village People sang about, so Bruce Banner has to think fast! In comic books, as in life, honesty is always the best policy:
We readers may laugh at Dewey's naivety, but remember, when you live in the Marvel universe, you run into crazy shit every day. You never know when you'll spot Galactus at the Cinnabon or catch the Juggernaut stealing your mail. And not even the most depraved locker room rapist will feel good about himself the next day knowing he anally violated, say, Captain America.
So better safe than sorry. If the guy says he's a superhero, just walk away.
#4. The Submissive Wonder Woman
A live-action Wonder Woman film has been in the works since 2001, but is currently on hold until the Justice League film finishes production in 2009. Australian supermodel Megan Gale is rumored to be the babe behind the bullet-proof bustier in what seems destined to be an unavoidably terrible movie.
Before we go any further, if you think we're going to pull a bunch of Wonder Woman panels out of context and mock her as some kind of bondage-loving super-lesbian ...
... you're wrong, because they're not out of context. Wonder Woman was created in 1941 by psychologist Dr. William Marston, who believed that bondage had a leveling effect on gender relationships. We're thinking his bedroom saw its share of Wonder Woman costumes over the years.
But still, that would hardly fit under the category of things we "won't see," because we're actually guessing you will see at least one hot woman get tied up on screen, if not several. Hell, Catwoman has nothing going for her but fetishism, and the studios didn't hesitate to write the check for that one.What We Probably Won't See:
The film will likely not give us the early version of Wonder Woman, who was the kind of cringe-worthy, air-headed stereotype that was still acceptable in the '40s.
In fact, when Wonder Woman first appeared as a member of The Justice Society in 1941, the group made her their secretary (we're not kidding).
It was years before Wonder Woman got revamped as a badass feminist hero. So if they ever do a "back to its roots" reboot on this franchise, we're guessing they won't go all the way back.
Wonders indeed, Wonder Woman. Wonders indeed.
#3. Ant-Man Has a Way With the Ladies
This dinky superhero fought alongside Captain America, Iron Man and the Hulk as member of Marvel Comics' premier super team, The Avengers. Ant-Man's powers unsurprisingly revolved around ants. He could shrink to the size of an ant, communicate with ants, and wore a chrome hat that sort of made his head look like an ant's head. OK, it's not the greatest idea for a superhero.
Director Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) recently announced that he has completed a first draft of an Ant-Man feature film. If Simon Pegg isn't tapped to fill those tiny ant-pants, we'll eat our hats.
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Ant-Man's arch-nemesis was curiously existential. Instead of battling the Orkin Man or a pair of size 10 Keds or something, Ant-Man (who in real life was scientist Henry Pym) constantly grappled with his own insecurities. Such a small man complex is to be expected when A) you have shrinking powers and B) you hang out with the Hulk, whose penis is the size of a fire extinguisher.
Rather than drown his sorrows in alcohol (like Iron Man) or an endless supply of nubile tail (like Wolverine), Pym dealt with his self-esteem problems in the least superheroic way possible: he beat his wife.
Mind you, the "Ant-Man is a spousal abuser" subplot was not something future writers ignored--it became the hallmark of the Ant-Man character, so much so that when The Avengers were relaunched as The Ultimates in 2002, Ant-Man was still doing the Ralph Kramden routine:
On the other hand, Ant-Man's marital bliss was pretty damn disconcerting too. Feast your eyes on this tableau from Avengers #71:
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Just finished building the 4x4 Crawler and it was a fun build but as a remote control car it is . . . in a word . . . SLOW! I know it's powerful and can climb over stuff but sometimes there is nothing to crawl over and I'd rather it be faster. Are there any other gear configurations that would make it a bit more exciting?
The simplest way to get different speeds is by changing the gears. The instructions get you to build it with a 12:20 gear down in the portal axles, so the easiest way to change the speed is to flip those to get 20:12. From memory that will not work because it interferes with other parts of the model.
You can fit two 16 tooth gears in there instead, giving a slight speed increase. Or you can put an 8:24 gear down for even more torque (but even less speed). There two options are shown below.
It's important that you keep all four wheels geared the same, otherwise you will be making the front and rear motors fight each other. That's not great for the motors and gears, and it will drain your batteries very quickly.
Deeper inside the model there is another 12:20 gear pair that you can also swap for 16:16 (two sets of this, one each end).
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You're gonna have to do some after-market mods but those are very powerful , I have them from the 8366 set. But as you can see in the review, there are pro's and con's on every engine.
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It has 2 different outputs which makes it so fun to make something that can use them both. Speed or torque. They will drain your batteries for sure anyway you use it.
You can switch 4 pairs of gears on each end of the crawler (2 pairs in the portal hubs and another 2 pairs inside the gearbox infront of the motor) do this on both ends or you run the risk of broken gears or premature motor wear. I ran 12 tooth gears all the way from the motor to my hubs for a dramatic increase in speed however the torque suffered severely, I would only recommend doing my gearing with xl motors. Cheers :)


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BNC's 21st Century Choreography Competition 2008On YouTube
Posted 27 December 2007 - 04:26 PM
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Posted 28 December 2007 - 09:37 AM
Has anyone been checking out the video entries for the Choreographic Competition that BNC is hosting this year? What are your thoughts?
Competitions YouTube Site
I viewed part or all of each entry. Is this really what passes for choreography? It is more of what what one sees at virtually every performance of so-called contemporary ballet. Most of it is dim and formless. God forbid anyone should actually use real steps to music. It puts me in mind of Balanchine's response to what is lacking is most choreography: namely, skill. Some day there will be a backlash to all this meaningless writhing and flopping. Choreographers would be well advised to work harder and develop a modicum of craft.
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I admire your fortitude, koreografiti. I didn't view nearly as much as you did, but each of the three pieces I viewed had a moment or two that seemed original. Unfortunately, nothing surrounding those moments justified a whole (even if very brief) ballet.
I viewed part or all of each entry.
I agree that the aspiring choreographers would do well to learn first the concept of craft and then its application.
I'm glad you finally delurked, koreografiti, and look forward to hearing from you more often.
Posted 30 December 2007 - 10:27 AM
I very much identify with this. I wonder what the implications will be as more and more people get their art in on-line formats. Programs consisiting of 30-second ballets?
I generally really like dance. I realized right away how I take the artform in differently when I am at a computer instead of sitting in a theater with nothing else to do but watch. I was surprised at how willing I was to say next and click on to the next one if nothing grabbed my attention in the first 30 seconds.
As for the competeition: am I correct in assuming that these are students who are interested in choreography and are using this competition as a chance to work on ideas that may have occurred to them in an unorganized fashion in the studio or while watching dance videos? I hope that the judges -- Trey McIntyre, whose work I like very much; Gil Boggs; and Wendy Perron -- can give some guidance to those who are competing.
In the pieces I looked at, I missed a sense of structure and development. The failure of several of these pieces to engage on any serious level with the music surprised me the most.
One piece, danced to a score that consisted of simple percussion rhythms accompanied by a tooting trumpet, reminded me of doodling on scrap paper, rather like 19th-century stick-figure dance notation. I was surpised by how many conventional ballet steps and poses were included, alternating with bits like walking on hands and feet. When invention failed, out came arabesques or pirouettes again ... and again. The finale consisted of 20 or more dancers doing a synchronized version of what smaller groups had done earlier. The lights dimmed and the music stopped, which is how -- I suppose -- one was supposed to know it was over.
P.S. Welcome to Ballet Talk, koreografiti. I love your name!
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posted at 1:01 pm on April 24, 2007 by Allahpundit
He's willing to compromise. Unlike some Democrats, he'll hear Petraeus out; he'll just simply refuse to believe anything he says that doesn't fit the left's narrative. If that "reasoning" sounds familiar, that's because it's exactly what Eric Boehlert and various nutroots morons accused the right of doing during the Jamil Hussein episode. Allegedly we couldn't accept that conditions in Iraq were dire so we concocted a sourcing scandal to explain away a dubious AP report about Shiites lighting Sunnis on fire, which, once discredited, would call into question the totality of reporting from the country. Sheer, unadulterated horseshinola, but that's What Warbloggers Believe according to non-warbloggers Boehlert et al. Now here's the Senate majority leader doing precisely the opposite, willfully turning a blind eye to any signs of progress, however "modest," to protect his own quasi-religious conviction that nothing but nothing good has ever come from the war and nothing ever will. Wouldn't be the first time the left has done that, either.
I included a bit at the beginning of the clip to show how absurd are the Clintonian semantics he's resorted to in order to spin his recent declaration of defeat. Petraeus doesn't believe, as Reid apparently does, that "the war is lost"; he believes that military force alone can't win it at this point. Reid says he doesn't grasp the distinction, but of course he does — he's just worried about losing some of those extra Senate seats he expects to pick up from an American defeat. All other consequences be damned.
Next stop: veto of the new compromise bill that orders Bush to begin withdrawing by October 1. Please note that the clip has been edited slightly for brevity.
Update: Meanwhile, there are conflicting reports about swelling and disintegrating support for Maliki among Iraqis. Parliamentarians think he's finished, having been unable to broker any compromises among Sunnis and Shiites, but his decision to cancel the wall in Adhamiya and the prospect of Sunni areas receiving oil revenues from the central government might be giving him a bit of new support among Sunni citizens.
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To the editor: The Indian Creek Local Board of Education decided to again place the levy on the May 7 ballot. Didn't we just have a levy vote (March 6, 2012, and Nov....
I agree except on one point; When the old elementary school was sold Mr. Huber was superintendent, not Mr. Watkins. Mr. Watkins kept a pretty tight fist on the system and ran it well.
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Thank you for your comments - very true - just leave us alone - no new t.axes - how many times do we need to vote against the same issue?
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I remember last time Mr.Rochi told the wayne elementary parents that he had no plans to close their school, so he needed them to rally behind him to get the levy passed. Mr. Rochi now claims that he would have closed the school even if the levy passed, he lied to the wayne parents and was going to close down their school no matter what the outcome, I hope every parent and resident in wayne township remembers the lies when they vote. You have to wonder what other lies and tricks the Indian Creek school board has planned for the taxpayers of the district. I think the state should pass a rule for schools when it comes to levy harrassment, if taxpayers vote down a levy, it can not be proposed again for 1 year and if it is voted down a second time they have to wait 2 years before they can try to pass it again, even if they change the amount of levy. "NO MEANS NO"
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First off, this levy is for operational costs. We missed our chance on the extra state funding for a new school. Secondly, looking at the JCC on Fernword NOW would be completely inaccurate. The school board didn't say it should be condemned, it actually WAS CONDEMNED. Not a choice made by the district. The purchaser made millions of dollars of repairs to bring the building back up to code, something the district couldn't do because the voters wouldn't pass a levy. Secondly, Mr. Rochi made no promises. If you have children in the district and are properly informed, you would know that he has always tried to do everything in his power to save the closing of any buliding and saving of those jobs. It's terrible that tax payers cannot see what they are doing to the community. It's sad really.
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Keepinginformed, what school district do you vote in? You are on here telling people to vote for levies in every school district in the county. State your school district then stay out of the other districts business.
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Keepinginformed,. I think you may have misspoken. The levy is for a new school. Article written by Jess Looman January 30, 2013 in this paper titled Indian Creek levy for new school on ballot. WINTERSVILLE – "Voters in the Indian Creek Local School District will be asked to go to the polls in May and vote "yes" for a levy for a new high school. The school board approved a resolution at a special meeting on Tuesday to proceed with the issuance of bonds for the new high school." If you wish to read the complete article, here is the link. ***********heraldstaronline****/page/content.detail/id/582668/Indian-Creek-levy-for-new-school-on-ballot.html
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@richard67: my apologies, what i failed to include in my statement is that it's not ONLY for a high school. that it is ALSO for operational costs. the money is badly needed for operational costs and that we WOULD BE missing out on millions of state money to go toward the buidling of a new school. i did not proof read before i hit "post". @moteman: indian creek is my district, but the last time i checked this is a free country and this site is an opinion forum. you don't have to agree with me, but it is not your place to tell me where i am or am not allowed to have or speak my opinion.
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Keeping you do have the right post in any forum you want, but now we know your opinion will not mean a thing and will be ignored.
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I would like to know how much money the schools get from the lottery. I think the taxpayers are getting ripped off. Vote no on all levies.
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@moteman: i feel sorry for you that you feel the need to belittle someone you do not know. my opinion matters the same as yours and lashing out at me in such a childish fashion is a waste of your engergy. you can ignore me, that's fine. i'm good with that.
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If an ideal gas is flowing with a velocity $v$, how is the equipartition theorem applied.
Normally, we can say that $\frac{1}{2}mv_{x,rms}^2=\frac{1}{2}k_BT$. We can do the same thing for $v_y$ &c. But, when a gas is flowing in the x direction, I don't think that $v_{x,rms}=v_{y,rms}$. I'm not too sure of this, the distribution may be such that the rms velocities are preserved. If the rms velocities aren't preserved, obviously we cannot use $\frac{1}{2}k_BT$ as the temperature is the same (or is it?). So how does one analyse such a situation with the equipartition theorem?
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Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal held a press conference in Jeddah today, during which he stressed the Kingdom's absolute rejection of foreign interference in its internal affairs and steadfast opposition to any infringement upon its Islamic principles. The Foreign Minister maintained that the Kingdom's laws and regulations are based on Sharia (Islamic law) and are meant to ensure the country's security, stability and integrity.
Referring to the declarations put out by the Council of Senior Ulema [Council of Senior Scholars] and the Grand Mufti prohibiting public protests, Prince Saud said, "These statements stressed the necessity to stand by the interests of society and emphasized that reform and advice can not be made through demonstrations and methods that raise sedition and cause disunity. These statements forbade demonstrations that violate the applicable regulations, which are based on the Holy Qur'an and the teachings of the Prophet. I hope that this stance is clear."
Asked about the unrest being witnessed in a number of Arab countries, Prince Saud replied, "I think each country has its characteristics and each country is different than the other; thus, we cannot treat their circumstances collectively as if it is a common phenomenon. There are twenty-two Arab states. For four or five of them to face similar events in some aspects should not be out of the ordinary, but the method of treating them should be different."
Questioned about whether events in the region are being instigated by foreign intervention, Prince Saud said, "The external intervention is obvious . . . whether it is the main cause or not, I think each country has its peculiar conditions in this context." Regarding reports that there are "foreign fingers" intervening inside Saudi Arabia, Prince Saud declared, "We will cut off any finger that comes into the Kingdom." He added, "Change comes by the citizens of this country and not through [foreign] theories . . . This nation knows its interests and needs and the way to achieve its goals and will continue to maintain its independence."
Asked about reports that Iran is trying to stir unrest inside the Kingdom, Prince Saud said: "As for Iran, we hope it deals only with the demonstrations in its country. We do not have demonstrations like those in Iran, and I repeat what I have said before that we will not tolerate any interference in our internal affairs by any party whatsoever . . . Had the Kingdom spotted any interference, we would have dealt with them decisively." He denied reports carried by the
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Alleged victim hopes case sheds light on crimes
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STEUBENVILLE — The 16-year-old Weirton girl allegedly raped in August by two Steubenville High School student-athletes hopes the national attention her case has received will encourage other victims......
justice for the victim, no mercy for the rapists and their enablers.. 100000 minimum in steubenville feb 2 2013!!!!! ***********occupysteubenville****/... *****://****facebook****/wedonotforgive.wedonotforget.expectus?ref=ts&fref=ts... *****://****facebook****/OffiziellAnonymousPage?ref=ts&fref=ts
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Rape is rape. This victim deserves justice. Those who refused to speak out about what they saw and those who are covering it up need to be prosecuted too.
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As with any other crime relating to rape or kidnapping, You can say that the trial will be fair, but in a small town there are the elite fe that seem to remain above the laws. Such as letting a 16 yr old go to ca. on vacation while at house arrest. He should have been back in juvi when his "extended" family went. I do believe that it is entirely those people that are against seeing this stuff come to light that are feeding the frenzy of its about Steubenville or Big Red. This has always been about the rape, and the possibility of it being covered up as has happened in the past.It was said once, where there is smoke there is fire. Most rumours have some amount of truth to them. The rumors of other rape cases in the same light is telling. There is at least some truth to this.. regardless of who decides to flame it..
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She is a very brave young lady to go forwards with this case - those who committed and those who watched this rape happen should be very ashamed of themselves. The young ladies amongst them should think, the next time it could be me (what a sobering thought)
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Is the trial an alledged trial; presuming nothing happened; or that maybe all the info and pictures were made up in Hollywood???????
She is a victim of all kinds of stuff.
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And those who do not want to step forward with information because they do not want to find their name on the internet in years to come need to only walk in this girl's shoes a minute, while she will do it the rest of her life.
Think about it boys and girls who stood idlely that night and for the past several months.....man-up!
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I was taking a snap on a sunny day, and the subject was in front of light source and subject was shadowed out(or blackened) In this case is it better to use partial/spot metering mode (zoom in to face lock exposure zoom out, reframe, click) or increase exposure compensation. Or are both the same ? If not what's the difference between these two approaches?
Short answer: what you want to do is to switch to spot metering mode, place the face of your subject in the exact center of the frame (no need to zoom in unless the subject's face is really small in the picture), press exposure lock, reframe and take the shot - now the subject will be properly expose and the background will be over-exposed.
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Metering modes:
Exposure compensation is a different but somewhat related concept, after the camera decides what the "right" exposure is based on the metering mode you can override it and tell it the picture should be brighter or darker - this is useful if whatever you are spot metering on is not medium brightness or if you just want to make the picture brighter or darker (just because you think it makes it look better).
And finally, there's manual mode, in manual mode you set the exposure in absolute terms and not relative to the camera's decision - it sounds a little scary at first but usually in difficult lighting it's just simpler to switch to manual mode and set everything yourself (you can usually see the camera's metering when in manual mode - so you can set your initial values based on the camera's meter and then you don't care if something bright or dark suddenly crosses your frame or if your subject is really in the spot metering area or not and if your exposure lock is on or off)
Either of these approaches will work fine. You should use whichever works more naturally for you.
With the spot metering approach, what you're doing is looking for something which has the tone which you would like to make the middle/neutral key for the image. That's what the metering system does. If you want the object you meter from to be brighter or darker than middle-gray, you would combine this with positive or negative exposure compensation.
Your workflow when using exposure compensation in other metering modes will depend slightly on the mode used and your knowledge of it. With center-weighted or full frame average metering, you can fairly easily judge if the scene as a whole is brighter or darker than average, and particularly whether your key subject is brighter or darker than that average. Then, you use exposure compensation to tell the camera what you want.
With matrix metering (also called "evaluative" or "zone" metering), the camera tries to be smart. It will recognize patterns in the scene and automatically decide if a higher or lower exposure is appropriate. A very common one is recognizing a bright strip across the top of the frame as the sky, and effectively ignoring it while exposing for the rest of the frame. Until you become very familiar with what your make and model of camera will do in a particular situation, it's hard to know when compensation will be wanted. Here, you can take test shots and watch the image histogram, eventually learning to "feel" what the camera will do. Usually, one learns to either a) trust one's camera's matrix metering and only apply EV compensation in particular, known circumstances where it gets it wrong (for example, a snowy landscape), or b) not trust it at all, and use center-weighted instead.


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Baby Ruthy Delites
Isn't it amazing that you can create a healthy dessert with such tasty ingredients as peanut butter, chocolate syrup, and chocolate and butterscotch puddings?
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- 2 tablespoons + 2 teaspoons reduced-calorie margarine
- 1/4 cup Brown Sugar Twin
- 1/4 cup Peter Pan reduced-fat chunky peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup (3 ounces) quick oats
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- In a small saucepan, combine margarine and Brown Sugar Twin. Cook over medium heat until margarine melts. Stir in peanut butter and vanilla extract. Continue cooking until peanut butter melts, stirring constantly. Add oats. Mix well to combine.
- Pat mixture into an 8-by-8-inch baking dish. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Place baking dish on a wire rack and allow to cool.
- In a medium bowl, combine dry pudding mixes. Add dry milk powder and water. Mix well using a wire whisk.
- Spread pudding mixture evenly over cooled crust. Refrigerate until set, about 30 minutes.
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I frequently want to say "If you made a certain change to this answer, I'd upvote it". But I don't say that, because it would be a lie, because how would I remember to come back and check?
So how about introducing the idea of a "conditional upvote"?
It could be associated with a comment, so when adding a comment to an answer, you could check a box to say "Conditional upvote". The comment then explains what changes would need to be made to the answer in order for it to qualify for an upvote from the commenter.
The significance would be that I'd be able to go to my profile and see listed all the outstanding conditional upvote comments I've made, and I'd get a notification when the associated answer was edited.
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Regarding agile, I don't think any team can do without "Agile retrospectives". Retrospectives are the backbone of any team and running them properly is far from trivial.
I also recommend "Coaching agile teams". I'm currently reading it and about half-way. It can be a bit fluffy from time to time, but it provides many excellent insights - for me at least.
(Later edit: I meant "coaching agile teams", not "agile coaching".)
Agile Software Development with Scrum was the book I read for my CSM course. I've found it pretty useful so far (our team is just starting it's third sprint). I really recommend reading several books on the subject, preferably by a range of different authors. That should give you a nice idea of where the differences are, and thus what things you really need to think about and come to your own conclusions on.
Scrum and XP from the Trenches is a very good book on the subject. Unlike other books it describes how one company did scrum from scratch. It is more practical book, that gives you a flavor of HOW scrum can be done. And the book is FREE.
For Scrum, I'd go with Mike Cohn's "Agile Estimating and Planning".
It covers Scrum from the basics to some of the more complex topics and also addresses some of the more common questions than come up when starting with Scrum. For example:
Cohn also goes into some topics from the perspective of a Product Owner - how to prioritize a backlog, different approaches to arriving at a measure of that ever elusive "business value", incl. the Kano model for product development. Not all of it may be relevant to somebody in a strict dev role (I have a whole other rant for whether "strict dev role" is even a good thing), but it's always helpful to have some context. Indeed, I'd argue that context is essential for long term success.
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I have a task that is specific to inventory management that is currently driving me crazy. To summarize the problem: We regularly must monitor inventory settings to ensure that they represent true demand, to ensure that we are not overstocking nor understocking. The standard procedure is to schedule reviews, where high volume items get reviewed monthly, and low volume items quarterly. But the vast majority of SKUs don't get adjusted; less than 9% are adjusted after each review...meaning that 91% of SKUs do not have a significant change in their demand patterns to warrant any change in their inventory parameters. I'm trying to design a filter so that instead of reviewing every SKU, I only review the SKUs where demand patterns have likely changed from their previously implied demand.
To give background into the domain of inventory management:
1) Inventory SKUs have settings that manage their stock levels given a specified depletion rate and variability. There are practical parameters (eg. lead times) as well as calculated parameters (eg. avg daily demand), and often heuristic parameters (eg. targeted in stock rate).
2) Generally speaking, if I know all of the currently used parameters (or even n-1), I know the implied demand distribution that results in those parameters. For example, if I have a safety stock of 96 units, avg daily demand of 10, lead time of 5 days, and a target in-stock rate of 98%, and demand is normally distributed, then I know that the implied demand can be represented by a normal distribution with mean of 10 and standard deviation of 10.
I'm trying to find a method that can help me assign probabilities that a sample of demand came from an implied demand distribution with explicit parameters. Is there a way to calculate this probability? It sounds like a conditional probability problem, but I'm not sure how to construct a calculation to determine conditional probabilities using parameterized distributions.
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