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Happy Summer 2016! From The Truck Farm and Cannon's Sweethots.
Cannon's Sweet Hots is now a member of The Truck Farm, located in Las Cruces, NM, just up the road from the famous Hatch Chile Fields. The Truck Farm is a family owned and operated specialty food producer that has been manufacturing specialty chile products since 1998, and we are carrying on the tradition of southwestern flavors started by the Cannon's in 1977. We are pleased to have this opportunity to introduce ourselves and our unique chile products to the Cannons' many fine customers all over the world.
After months of effort we have finally been able to add our other products to the site including our Tia Rita's Southwestern Mixes, our Desert Farms Gourmet Condiments, and The Truck Farm's sauces such as Besito Caliente and Cherry A'More. These join the Cannon's line that was already here, such as our Sweet Hots Mild & Hot, Just Plain Green Chile and Cannon Green Chile Fire Salsa. We have also updated our gift basket page to provide a greater range of options for any gift needs you may have.
Our chile is so versatile, it can be used in appetizers, entrees and even dessert! Or, you can simply open a jar and pour over cream cheese. Here are just a few: (more available on the recipes page. Our loyal customers are always sending us new ideas).
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Reddit user BrazilianDanny filmed his recently-injured Yorkie, named Kiwi, trying (and failing) to catch a few balls thrown her way. ("She had both knees operated on just 4 months ago," Kiwi's owner explains.)
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Chess has two types of castling: kingside and queenside.
Which one is more advantageous near the beginning of the game?
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Neither method of castling is superior to the other. They are completely position-dependent. Neither method is advantageous at the beginning of the game relative to each other.
One of the major factors in Chess is position, so you have to choose where to castle based on the opening you're using.
There are two purposes for castling:
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Of course, you can see, it all depends on your opening. If you're moving a lot of queenside pieces then it may do you well to castle queenside, but it depends on your pawn structure. If you're doing a King's pawn opening, then you'll probably end up castling kingside.
In the "old" days, people preferred kingside castling. It was faster (only two pieces in the way instead of three). It also meant that you could use your pawns on the "long" (queen) side for maneuvering, without worrying about leaving your king unprotected. One obvious advantage of kingside castling was that it protected the rook pawn, castling on the other side, you need an extra move to do this. In an era when openings were "short" (about ten moves), this was an advantage.
Currently, people are beginning to pay more attention to queen side castling. That's partly because the methods of attacking on the kingside have mostly been worked out, but they are less familiar on the queenside. Another reason is that the rook lands on a center (queen) file instead of a bishop file, which could be more useful for in controlling the center.
Nowadays, the tendency is for longer openings. If you don't mind taking an extra move to move out the queen (and maybe a second extra move to allow the king to protect the rook pawn), the advantages mentioned in the last paragraph could argue in favor of queenside castling.
One thing that has not been mentioned is opposite side castling. (can happen in some variation of the Sicilian)
Players can then storm the opponent's castle with pawns which results in a wide scale fight.


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This question may be too elementary for this forum, but I have asked it on math stackexchange and didn't get an answer. I have now deleted it so there wouldn't be duplicates... Here is the question as it appeared on math stackexchange:
I know that this question is pretty elementary, but I'm still trying to grasp the basics of number theory, and I want to make sure I'm thinking about things correctly. Most likely, I am thinking about things in a way that is slightly off. Since it's so complicated, I would appreciate if you can point out for me any misconceptions that I have.
Let $X_{\mathbb{Q}}$ be a variety over $\mathbb{Q}$. I am trying to understand how to associate to $X_{\mathbb{Q}}$ an $L$-function. As I understand it (please correct any mistakes I make in my narrative) there's an $L$-function for every $i=0,1,2,...$ (for convenience call them $L_0, L_1,L_2, ...$). Starting at $2dim(X)+1$ the $L_i$'s are just $1$. The $L$-function'' associated to all of $X_{\mathbb{Q}}$, by which I mean the Hasse-Weil Zeta Function, is $\prod L_i$.
Let's fix $i$. The function $L_i$ is defined to be the product of $L$-functions $L_{i,p}$, where $p$ runs over all primes in $\mathbb{Z}$. Here things get murky again. We choose a model $X_{\mathbb{Z}}$ of $X_{\mathbb{Q}}$ over $\mathbb{Z}$. (How? It can't be that any model would work, can it?) Now we fix a Weil Cohomology theory (as I understand it, it shouldn't matter which. Is that true? Is it only a conjecture that it's true?). For example we can look at $l$-adic cohomology where $l$ is a prime coprime to $p$. Then we define $L_{i,p}(x)$ to be $P_i(x)^{(-1)^i}$ where $P_i(x)$ is the characteristic polynomial of the action of the Frobenius element on $H^i(X_{\mathbb{Z}/p},\mathbb{Q}_l)$ (or whichever Weil Cohomology theory we chose).
First of all I would like to know if the narrative above is accurate. If not, please tell me where. Particular things I am vague about are:
$1.$ How does one choose the model of $X_{\mathbb{Q}}$ over $\mathbb{Z}$?
$2.$ Is it true that we can choose any Weil Cohomology? Is that conjectural, or proven?
$3.$ As I understand it, it should be true that $\prod_{p \in Spec(\mathbb{Z})} L_{i,p}= e^{\sum_{l=1}^{\infty} |X_{\mathbb{Z}/p}(\mathbb{F}_p)|\frac{x^l}{l}}$. Is that right?
$4.$ Does this construction differ in any substantial way if we defined a Hasse-Weil Zeta function for a variety defined over a number field different from $\mathbb{Q}$?


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I have a bunch of site collections for my single web application and when I run Full Synchronization of users using the User Profile Synchronization service the information in each site collection's User Information List is NOT updated. The information is moved correctly from Active Directory to the User Profile DB because I see values like "Manager" and "Office" get updated but when I look at the user on any of the site collections those values are empty. I've also read an answer from Clayton Cobb on this Microsoft forum question stating that the User Profile Synchronization and User Information List are not related. Is there a way to correctly synchronize between these two locations?
There are two jobs, User Profile to SharePoint Quick Sync and User Profile to SharePoint Full Sync, that synchronize the User Profile database information with the UIL. Sometimes this stops working (properly) and in that case you need to run:
The first command will list Content Databases that haven't had the UPA -> UIL sync occur in 0 or more days. The second command will delete the records corresponding to those databases (it doesn't delete databases/end user data).
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Wikipedia article on automatic quartz watch describes the watch mechanism as follows: a rotating pendulum is attached to a pinion and when the wearer moves his hand the pinion is rotated at up to 100 thousand revolutions per minute and that pinion rotates an electric generator.
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Telerik is a leading vendor of tools and UI components for Silverlight and .NET.
In this video, Deyan Ginev, Software Developer in Telerik's Windows Phone team, gives us a very comprehensive preview of Telerik's upcoming control pack for Windows Phone.
Deyan also plugs in their blog, where they have been sharing some great Windows Phone tips..
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Microsoft SIlverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone is another great source for controls that compliment what you find out of the box in the SDK and platform.
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i have this app and loaded the ctp. It is fantastic. its very easy to work with.
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You can find the application on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Simply search for 'Telerik RadControls'.
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I don't understand... Are these free or are they apart of a larger package? Moreover, what is the diff between the controls that are given with Microsoft vs. Telerik?
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The other day I got dockblocked at 14th and Harvard when I was about to dock my bike when some douche came out of nowhere and took my spot.
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A situation in the board game Puerto Rico, when during the Captain Phase of the game, a player opts to ship his goods in such a way as to prevent another player from having access to one of the three allotted ships.
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The 5 Miserable VFX Jobs That Make Movies Possible
#2. Render Wrangler
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Staring at a progress bar on a computer monitor. Then occasionally the phone rings and somebody screams at you.
So picture the actual VFX artists, drawing the CG Garfield riding his skateboard. They are inputting this into software and telling it how they want Garfield to look and move. But rendering photorealistic fames of CG takes a gigantic amount of computer horsepower, so it's at this point when the render farms get busy.
Render farms are literally piles of computers gathered in some room that turn data files into images. But even with Hollywood's supercomputers doing the work, each frame often takes an hour or two, and jobs are usually a few hundred frames each.
This brings us to the Render Wrangler. His or her main job is to monitor the render farm and the projects they're rendering, 24 hours a day, and tell people when something goes wrong while the machines do their slow, painstaking computery work. So being a Render Wrangler is really the closest you can actually come to getting paid to watch paint dry.
That is, when people aren't yelling at you. Because the computers work so slowly, you have various artists sending jobs in at the same time. How the jobs are prioritized determines how long the artists have to wait, and nobody is ever happy with the prioritization except the people who get priority #1. Knowing how long the jobs take, and how much pressure is on everyone to meet deadlines, you can imagine this causes angst bordering on "killing spree" level.
All of that angst lands on the Render Wrangler. The artists call or sometimes sic their production dogs or their managers on the render wranglers, jockeying for higher priority on the farm. Unfortunately, this favor-seeking tends to involve more negative reinforcement rather than positive (yelling, cursing, threats, possibly small electric shocks).
#1. Everyone Else
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Everyone in the industry knowing they will almost certainly be out of a job soon.
But rest assured, it's gonna happen.
So I talk a lot of shit about how VFX studios are built on the backs of these hard-working peons, but it's only fair to step back and look at the bigger picture.
Keep in mind when you have one of these jobs, you're not working for a film studio--VFX studios are just vendors who bid and work on productions at their behest. So, even the number one executive at a VFX studio is at the mercy of the film studio who hired them. And those studios are becoming increasingly merciless.
With movies needing more and more CG and more and more pressure to keep costs down, it's almost physically impossible to meet the budget and deadlines demanded without violating some human rights, and sometimes even then.
But rest assured, it's gonna happen.
There are a lot of VFX shops out there, and if one of them pleads for some kind of plausibly realistic deadlines or budget, the Hollywood film studio can easily find someone else who can work their peons harder and longer and for less pay. And if the peons don't like it, the VFX exec can just reach out the window blindly and grab a replacement.
Pictured: The right way to pick up a roto artist without damaging him.
Not that the ones who stay will be there long anyway. To win these contracts, VFX studios make promises they can't keep, which eventually leads to the whole studio going belly up when their costs wind up being more than the movie studio is paying. One studio, Meteor, went under and stiffed their employees of three months' pay.
To try to keep some kind of handle on costs, VFX studios hire most of their people project-to-project, so even great VFX workers can expect guarantees of about six months of work at a time. What happens after that? It's a surprise!
So, clearly if you didn't want to work in the VFX industry before, you do now! For the rest of you, as you're watching Tony Stark strap on a suit of CG armor this summer, take a moment to thank the peons.


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With a career in the performing arts spanning 30 years, Leonard Matczynski has worked as a concert violist, teacher and arts administrator. As director of the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music (New Hampshire), Matczynski oversees Apple Hill's performance and administrative structure, its concert and touring programs, the Playing for Peace Program and long-term goals, including the development of new programs. He is the spokesman for Apple Hill's mission and serves as its representative to the music community, patrons and general audience.
As a concert violist, Matczynski has studied with Martha Strongin Katz, Heidi Castleman and Karen Tuttle and has participated in chamber music studies with members of the Budapest, Cleveland and Guarneri Quartets. He pursued advanced studies at the International Musician's Seminar in Prussia Cove, England with Sandor Vegh. Matczynski has also been a soloist with many musical organizations and a guest artist at the Aspen, Tanglewood, Marlboro, Monadnock Music and Pepsico Summerfare festivals.
Throughout his career, Matczynski has been deeply involved in the training and mentoring of young performing artists. He has been on the faculty of The Walnut Hill School for the Arts, the New England Conservatory of Music and the Tanglewood Music Center, and he is currently on the viola and chamber music faculty of The Boston Conservatory and the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music. From 1993–2007, Matczynski was the founding executive director of Emmanuel Music in Boston (Massachusetts) and was responsible for the organization's development through the production of over 200 cantatas of J.S. Bach. He also founded Emmanuel Music's chamber series and expanded their innovative concert series. Matczynski has taken Emmanuel Music on tours of the U.S. and Europe with choreographer Mark Morris and stage director Peter Sellars and has co-produced six highly acclaimed compact discs with Emmanuel Music. Among them is a Bach Cantata disc with the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson released on the Nonesuch label to world-wide acclaim—it was named one of the top CDs of 2003 by The New York Times.
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Tomato Soup
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Type: Soups and Stews
Type: Soups and Stews
Tomato soup is a classic family-favorite that everybody loves.
Prep Time: 15M
Cooking Time: 50M
Serves: Serves 8
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 3 onions, finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 30 tomatoes (about 3lb/1.35kg), quartered
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tsp superfine sugar
- 1 tbsp tomato paste or purée
- 21/2 cups hot vegetable stock
- 2/3 cup heavy cream (optional), to serve
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- Heat the oil in a large, heavy soup pot, add the onions, and cook over low heat for 10 minutes, stirring so the onions don't burn. Stir in the garlic and tomatoes and season with salt and pepper. Add the sugar and tomato paste or purée, stir, and then cook over very low heat for 30 minutes.
- Pour in the stock, bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Transfer to a food processor or blender and process until blended and smooth. Taste and season again with salt and pepper if needed.
- Let cool completely, then transfer to a freezer-proof container, seal, and freeze for up to 3 months.
- To reheat, defrost overnight in the refrigerator, then transfer to a pan and heat until piping hot. Stir in the cream, if using, and serve with crusty bread.
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Raymond Brooks says, "She was a beautiful little lady. I thought she was real cute."
Mae Dean says, "I thought he was kinda handsome."
And when Raymond was called to serve his country they stayed in touch.
Mae Dean says, "We just stayed connected like that and through letters we wrote to each other when he was in the service."
Ramond kept a picture of Mae with him while he was overseas.
Raymond says, "I had it in my billfold and I never did take it out. I carried it all the way through."
But Mae met someone else and was married when Raymond returned from the war. Raymond also got married.
Mae says, "We were both in the same place after we were married and didn't recognize each other. And that's strange. I guess we just weren't supposed to."
After Raymond's wife passed away his sister suggested Mae call him in Indianapolis.
Mae says, "So she gave me his phone number and I waited 2 or 3 weeks and I'd think about calling. And then I'd think I told my grandkids Y'all are not supposed to call the guys- he's supposed to call you." But then I thought I'm gonna call him!"
They both distinctly remember that phone call.
Raymond says, "I was sitting there watching TV one night and the phone rang and she said you don't know who this is, and I said no I don't recognize the voice."
Mae says, "I said do you remember the stringy-haired girl that lived in Dogpatch? And he hollered out my name-MaeDean Weaver!"
After that...
Raymond says, "We got to calling one another every other day and then it wound up everyday. We'd just talk about everything."
On Raymond's first visit back to Bowling Green.
Mae says, "When he turned around, I would have known him if he'd been in a crowd of people. His eyes."
Raymond says, "I never did forget about her. We weren't together that much, but something held us together."
Not long after that visit they started hearing wedding bells.
Raymond says, "Before I left I asked her if she would marry me, and she didn't turn me down. We've been happy ever since!"


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Take a break with your toddler and create these simple crafts using items found around the house. Find more crafts to create in a cinch with your tot at our Craftivity Corner blog!
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Homemade Frog Bank
In this fun hands-on activity, children make piggy banks that aren't pigs!Cover an old shoe box or cereal box with green construction paper. Cut a small slit in the front to put your money in. Draw around the slit to make it part of the frog's mouth. Cut two cups from an egg carton, paint them green, add googly eyes, and glue them to the box for the frog's eyes. Finally, use green construction paper to cut front and hind legs. Attach the hind legs to the sides of the box, and add the front legs to the front of the box under the mouth.
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May 25, 2009
Saudi Arabia participated in the conference of the energy ministers from the Group of Eight (G-8), which concluded today.
Speaking at a multilateral energy conference in Rome yesterday, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Al-Naimi reiterated Saudi Arabia's determination to work towards a future of clean, abundant energy supplies. Energy ministers from the Group of Eight (G-8) states, plus Saudi Arabia, China, India, Brazil, Egypt and South Africa, participated in the two-day conference.
During the first session, Minister Al-Naimi told the delegates, "Saudi Arabia shares the global concern regarding potential climate change and will do its part in mitigating and adapting to it." He noted that the Kingdom is a party to both the Climate Change Convention and its Kyoto Protocol.
Minister Al-Naimi insisted that a comprehensive, global solution to climate change must include four key pillars: a fair distribution of the emissions-reduction burden, taking into account the special needs of developing countries; full recognition of the fact that fossil fuels will continue to dominate the energy mix for decades to come; research and development that gives equal attention to all safe energy sources, including oil and gas technologies; and the use of carbon capture and storage technologies on a global scale.
During the conference's second session, entitled "Energy Investments for Security and Sustainable Development," Minister Al-Naimi stressed that the Kingdom's energy investment policies are characterized by far-sightedness and are not affected by temporary market turbulence. However, he warned that long-term market volatility can undermine global energy security. In order to combat this uncertainty, he said, "Consuming and producing countries need to intensify the efforts to better understand the workings of oil markets and to improve their transparency."
Speaking today at the conference's third session, "A Program of Action to Address Energy Poverty: Focus on Africa," Minister Al-Naimi declared, "Saudi Arabia recognizes assisting the energy poor as an objective firmly in the interests of the international community." He noted that over the past thirty-six years, Saudi foreign aid "has averaged to about 2 percent of our Gross Domestic Product, exceeding the U.N. target of 0.7 percent."
Regarding energy assistance, Minister Al-Naimi pointed to the "Energy for the Poor Initiative" announced by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz at the Jeddah Energy Summit in June 2008. "This two-part initiative addressing the energy component of the food, fuel and finance crisis consists of rapid financial assistance to help deal with price volatility, and financed energy projects supported by co-financiers and parallel investment," he explained.
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Undoing the Industrial Revolution
Summary: The last 200 years have driven centralization and changed the human experience in ways that conflict with evolution. The Internet will reestablish a more balanced, decentralized lifestyle.
For the last 200 years, humankind has lived and worked in ways that conflict with evolution. The primary culprit, industrialization, harks back to Watt's steam engine in 1769, but truly picked up steam in 1801 with Jacquard's loom, which used punched cards to automate the weaving process. A vast number of nineteenth-century engineering innovations followed and literally changed the world.
Before I start tearing it down, I should acknowledge the industrial revolution's positive outcome: it has generated unprecedented wealth during its 200-year run. In most industrialized nations, the biggest health problem today is that people get obese because there's too much food and it's too cheap. My own discipline of usability exists because material needs are so amply cared for that society can devote resources to making things easy and pleasant as well.
Implications of Industrialization
For the sake of this discussion, I don't differentiate between classic "industry" (manufacturing plants) and other industrialized operations, such as mechanized agriculture or companies run according to the classic book, " The Organization Man."
Industrialization had the following consequences:
- Mass-produced products streamed off the assembly line, giving everyone the same thing, with few variations.
- Centralized manufacturing and business emerged due to the cost of establishing efficient factories.
- Big companies emerged in response to these economies of scale.
- Distance between decisions and execution increased as companies grew and thus required several management levels between executives and workers.
- Employment and jobs became the predominant way to make a living.
- Centralized cities (and later suburbs) attracted most of the population, concentrating it within a very small percentage of each country's landmass.
- Work and leisure separated, with each occupying fixed times and places.
- Mass media (TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, motion pictures, and so on) emerged and began broadcasting a small set of messages to a large number of people.
- Mass marketing used mass media to sell mass-produced products to the working masses.
- Image building became a primary means of sustaining market position in a mass-marketing environment crowded with similar products.
Together, these developments have driven unprecedented centralization in human affairs. This effect is contrary to our dominant historical experience as a species, wherein we lived in places where we knew everyone; worked either for ourselves or directly for the leader of a focused team (as on a hunting expedition or farm, or in a crafts shop); and had work and lives that were tightly integrated (typically, our homes doubled as our workplaces).
The Pastoral Internet
This subhead is somewhat in jest: I neither expect nor desire a return to the shepherd lifestyle (the dictionary definition of "pastoral"). But I do think the Internet can revive many of the pre-industrial era's positive, but lost, aspects:
- Custom-built products instead of mass-produced ones. With a computer controlling the equipment, a company can manufacture each item to the individual customer's specifications. The Internet allows for efficient transmission of these specs to the factory, and an easy-to-use website lets users quickly state what they want. Example: CardStore.com (disclosure: a consulting client) lets you get customized greeting cards manufactured individually or in quantity.
- Niche products. Example: 57% of Amazon's sales come from 2.2 million non-best-selling books. Individually, such books sell so few copies that they're not even carried by real-world superstores with 130,000-title inventories. At Amazon, each of these books sells only a few copies per year, but there are a lot of them.
- Virtual companies instead of big firms in centralized locations. Sorely needed improvements in collaboration software will let people better work together, even if they're in different locations and work for different companies. Teams will come together for projects based on the required expertise, and then disband. Example: my own company is relatively small, but nonetheless has people in five U.S. locations and operates worldwide.
- Geographically dispersed companies and services. Offshoring is the most dramatic example of this trend, but it's also occurring within individual countries, where highly productive people can work at home and live far from big cities. Not only is this good for the environment (less commuting), but the dispersal also reduces terrorists' ability to strike big.
- Work/life integration. Not only will more people work from home, but personal life will also permeate more traditional offices through IM, e-mail, and other communication forms. Conversely, people will never really leave work, because mobile technology will let them take their offices wherever they go.
- Narrowcasting and one-to-one media are what the Web is all about: providing exactly what individual users want in each individual moment. Narrowcasting is also what makes search marketing so effective. Rather than blast uniform messages randomly, a search ad is seen only by people actively looking for the exact thing being sold. Traditional mass media will diminish in importance: TV networks, for example, are irrelevant when you're picking shows from a menu.
- Reputation replaces image as the way to build a company, product, or brand position. This is partly because you can't establish an empty, slogan-based brand through mass marketing when there's no mass media. Also, reputation becomes more salient in the virtual world where it can be stored and aggregated. Example: reputation manager systems like Google place the most highly rated offers first, regardless of the vendor's size.
These trends drive decentralization and reduce the advantages of being big.
The Experience Switch
In the physical world, you win by being big, with economies of scale in manufacturing, worldwide distribution, and branding. Most of these benefits accrue even if you're mediocre, and in fact, you usually benefit from targeting the lowest common denominator.
In the virtual world, you win by being good: Automation reduces the benefits of scale, the Internet equalizes distribution, and reputation follows from quality rather than incessantly repeated slogans.
I'm talking here about a level of experience that goes beyond the concept of user experience that I usually write about. The switch from centralization to decentralization goes to the heart of the human experience. And because the switch will drive up quality, it will tend to be a force for good.
We typically overestimate what can be done in the short term. Improvements seem so close we can smell them, but human behavior and social institutions are slow to change. At the same time, we underestimate what will happen in the long term, because changes accumulate and accelerate.
Of course, we haven't undone 200 years of history in the Internet's single decade as a commercial environment. We are changing aspects of the human experience that have great inertia, however, such as the size of cities and the nature of the corporation and entrepreneurship. These changes can easily take thirty or forty years, but the eventual outcome will be dramatic.
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The bond for the man accused of murdering a former Tompkinsville Police Chief has been raised after it has been determined he's a threat to the community.
Police spoke about several threats Charles Hammer made about Monroe County public officials.
Last week, Charles Hammer's daughter Patrice Peterman showed up with cash to pay her dad's $150,000 bond.
But, the court ordered Hammer to stay in custody until today's bond hearing where the court decided he was too much of a risk.
"He would be a danger not only to the public but to himself," 16th District Circuit Court Judge David Williams decided.
Hammer's bond was increased to $5 million cash.
"We were expecting that he would raise the bond, but we were shocked when we found out $5 million," Hammer's public defender, Crystal Thompson said.
Previous interviews with police indicate Hammer has threatened others.
"He makes statements about Mr. Proffitt the deceased Darrell Jackson, a constable, Darrell Ford, a former police officer, Chief Dale Ford about how they had done alleged acts against individuals here in the county and he was going to 'clean-up the county'," Monroe County Commonwealth Attorney, Jesse Stockton about former interviews with police.
After the court heard about several alleged threats Charles Hammer made about Monroe County public officials including the Tompkinsville Police Chief the court decided he was a safety hazard to the community.
"He said lets put it this way if 'Frog' Ford provides that gun it will be from the other end of it," said Kentucky State Police Detective Ricky Brooks in court.
"I just don't feel like there could be a justifiable punishment in this case," Tompkinsville Police Chief Dale "Frog" Ford said in an earlier interview.
"He kind of gave the impression that he didn't care what he did because of his age and health, and if he is released, he is a very dangerous man," Stockton said in court.
The possibility of the death penalty for hammer has been taken off the table.
Hammer will appear in court for a motion hearing on May 9th.
The defense expects to request a change venue to ensure Hammer will get a fair trial.


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I was wondering. What do you guys think about ASP.NET future on linux? I dont know much about IIS and i know some things about linux. I dont want to program anything in php and while searching for host i have a difficult time finding a host i like on windows.
I would like to develop apps without thinking too much about the platform hence the question. What do you guys think about ASP.NET future on linux? Do you think its going to catch on and more then 25% of linux (shared) host supporting ASP or do you think ASP.NET will be on windows for a much longer time before anything will happen?


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Let $I = [0,1]$, $\phi, \psi: I \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ functions. Does $\phi$ exist such that any $\psi$ adhering to the following inequality is non-measurable: $$\sup_{x \in I} |\phi(x) - \psi(x)| \le 1?$$ Assuming so, is it possible to replace 1 with $C$ representing a non-negative constant (and are there any bounds on what value $C$ can take)?
In particular, taking $\psi = \phi$, this criterion should force $\phi$ to be non-measurable itself. Besides risking this observation, I am at a loss for establishing such a $\phi$. I was trying to work with characteristic functions (i.e.,for non-measurable sets) since these can afford surprisingly-useful examples; nothing crystallized, though, so perhaps I went in a bad direction. I hope that someone visiting the site could assist me here. The second question is more of a personal question/ "philosophical" question for edification. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give (it seems really curious that measure theory could yield a function with such a property)!


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12 Sep 2012 6:59 AM #1
Passing the value to server
Inside a panel there are multiple fields present.
On clicking of submit button, i have to pass each value to the server.
How Can i achieve this?
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If you are using a Ext.form.Panel you can use the submit function: http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-1/#!...-method-submitSencha/Java evangelist
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You could also Ext.Ajax.request on the handler of a button


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5 Things Record Labels Don't Want You to Know They Do
#2. Manipulating the Charts to Make a Song Look Like a Hit
Believe it or not, the Hot 100 part of Billboard charts used to be compiled by calling up record stores and asking them how many of each album they sold. Needless to say, fuckery abounded, and 1991 saw tracks in the Hot 100 (Paula Abdul's "The Promise of a New Day" and Roxette's "Fading Like a Flower") that held much higher places than their Nielsen-monitored sales and airplay figures would justify. To try to clean up such blatant bullshit, a point-of-sale tracking system called SoundScan was implemented. But time and time again, even SoundScan has been thwarted using sometimes shockingly low-tech techniques like having clerks scan sales more than once.
"Can you please tell him to stop? I've been here for 35 minutes."
See, there are actually sleazy consultants that work with labels to figure out ways to alter sales figures and get the free publicity that comes with placing high on the charts -- giving out free and discount copies, focusing on independent stores that weigh more heavily in the system, and even switching bar codes on products. It's been claimed that such techniques can nudge a single as many as 10 spots on the Billboard chart, which could be just the boost a track needs to hit the top 10.
One classic technique that's used to make album sales seem more impressive than they are is to put out a double or sometimes even a triple album and price it like a single disc. Why? Well, for RIAA certification and record sales purposes, double albums count as two sales, no matter the price. This exact ploy was used on country sensation Shania Twain's fourth studio album, Up! It was released as a two-CD set featuring the exact same album presented in a "pop" version and a "country" version -- and every time somebody buys it, it counts as two copies sold. Now it's twice as easy to get the free publicity and accolades that come with going "platinum."
"And I'd also like to thank my criminally dirty record label. Without their moral corruption, none of this would be possible."
No artist has mastered the art of inflating sales numbers quite like Prince, though. For his 2004 Musicology album, the diminutive singer announced that he was going on tour to "play the hits" one last time and then, brilliantly, included a copy of his new album with the ticket price. Fans came out in droves at the promise of hearing Prince play the songs he's famous for (something he's been reluctant to do on several occasions), and every one of them was handed a copy of his album when they arrived at the show. Every one of those albums counted toward his Billboard and SoundScan totals. Of course, new rules were immediately put in place to prevent other artists from exploiting this tactic in the future.
Undeterred, Prince kept the experimental distribution tactics around for his next album, Planet Earth, which he gave away for free in a London newspaper.
Shit, he's wearing his "go fuck yourself" outfit.
Though maybe it's hard to blame the guy for trying, considering the labels' reputation for ...
#1. Inflating Prices, Then Screwing the Artists
If you remember the ancient era when buying CDs was the only way to get your favorite songs, you remember how overpriced they were. This isn't just opinion -- there was a class action lawsuit that charged the music industry with illegal price fixing and ended with a payout to consumers to the tune of $67.4 million in cash and $75.7 million in free CDs, all of which probably sucked. This is why people started desperately downloading tracks that would take an hour over a 56K dial-up connection.
You would suspect that the situation would have just righted itself as downloadable files began to overtake physical discs as the medium of choice, but surprisingly, things only got worse once that change happened. This time, the various record labels conspired to set an artificial price floor for downloads. Fortunately, these were pre-iTunes problems that only happened with dinosaur music services like Pressplay and MusicNet, which would have both been just as useful not existing at all.
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"Please note: Each song will be accompanied by a five-minute commercial. Each play constitutes a new purchase."
But that has forced labels to get creative. For instance, in the wake of the untimely death of pop legend Whitney Houston, fans noticed that less than 30 minutes after news of the singer's death broke, her album prices skyrocketed on iTunes and Amazon. The price for her 2007 album The Ultimate Collection, for example, jumped from $4.74 to $12.62 in mere hours.
But isn't this sort of fuckery all so that greedy rock stars can live the rock star lifestyle? These are people who spend their downtime having snowball fights with bikini models, where the snowballs are made out of cocaine.
Nope -- for the most part, the artist doesn't make shit from record sales. Not only can the label wind up keeping all of the profits on even an album that goes platinum, but the band can actually wind up deeply in debt to the label. For instance, after selling over 2 million records and receiving precisely dick, the band 30 Seconds to Mars still owed EMI over $1 million.
And that was just their sunglasses budget.
How is that even possible? Easy -- the label makes the musician cover the cost of everything from recording the album, to promotion, to shooting the videos. It all counts against their cut of the record sales.
Courtney Love, of all people, walks us through how it works: Young artists find out they're getting a million-dollar advance from the label and think they've won the lottery. Then they find out that recording the album, promoting it, shooting the video, and other costs wipe out the advance, and then some.
And then they're contractually obligated to become a terrible heroin-addicted leech on society.
So, their debut album can go double platinum and they'll still be in the red, having to pay back the label with their cut of the record sales ... which is almost impossible, because the artist's cut is tiny. Lyle Lovett, after selling over 4 million albums during the course of his career, says he has not seen one goddamn cent. So if you want to build a cocaine snowman, don't start a band -- go work for the label. There's probably not as many groupies, though.
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A Gift for Planet BX63
This weekend, Off-Leash Area launches the second year of its garage tour, seeking to provide quality artistic programming to suburban communities that have less access to the arts. They will kick off their series of performances in Brooklyn Park, presenting A Gift for Planet BX63. The show, which premiered in 2007, is inspired by The Little Prince and The Gods Must Be Crazy, and follows the story of a girl living on a faraway planet. It's a visually beautiful piece, aided by a text of charming rhyming couplets by Max Sparber and movement by Off-Leash Area's co-artistic director, Jennifer Ilse, who also plays the little girl. Off-Leash's other co-artistic director, Paul Herwig, who designed the set, says the company decided to do a garage tour to expand their audience, and to reach suburban people who might only come to the cities to see pieces at the Fringe Festival, the Guthrie, or the Children's Theatre. "People in town are more willing to risk something," says Herwig. You can check out the group's website (offleasharea.org) for a full list of tour stops, which includes performances in Stillwater, Ham Lake, Eagan, Bloomington, and Lakeville, as well as Minneapolis, before the launch of their new show, The Picnic, at their own garage this fall. Call 612.724.7372 to reserve a seat. (Photo by Ashley Thimm)
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How to Deck Your Halls
This Season, Christmas Decorations Are More Than Just Baubles and Boughs
Rosa de la Cruz has been plotting her Christmas tree since October. "I'm obsessed with this holiday," says the London-based art collector and jewelry designer.
Last year, Ms. de la Cruz found the largest fir she could—almost four meters—from www.pinesandneedles.com, and went about decorating it in the traditional way. "We sat down and looked at it and said, 'This isn't us,' " the 42-year-old says. So she started again, this time using the lexicon of art—a vocabulary she knows well as a second-generation collector (her parents opened the de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space in Miami in 2009).
"I ordered large IKEA LED stars and a life-size Santa and reindeer rope-light silhouettes from Amazon, and we started all over," Ms. de la Cruz says, citing as inspiration the bare tree that hung at the Tate Britain in 2010 and fashion designer Stella McCartney's Bruton Street shop's Christmas window, which last year showcased rope-light silhouette figures of Santa and other Christmas fixtures.
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She says the end result, a simple tree with oversized star silhouettes, could just as easily sit in London's White Cube Gallery as in her living room. "Christmas really is installation art now," she says. "We've all seen how the artists use neon— Dan Flavin, Tracey Emin, Tim Noble and Sue Webster. Christmas isn't high art, but it has an appeal. It gives everyone an opportunity to take something normally over-the-top and turn it into a creative outlet."
For years now, design has mimicked fashion, with companies churning out several new homeware collections a year—the most important being Christmas. Denmark's Georg Jensen releases a new bauble each winter; for 2012, it's the "Mobile Star of Bethlehem" (£45/€44). Nordic peer Iittala, a fixture of holiday decorating, this year launched the "Kaasa" lantern/mobile fireplace by Finnish designer Ilkka Suppanen (from £295). Coming in red, gray and clear, the lantern gives the feeling of having a live fire in the room—but without the fuss. And nothing is better for creating a festive mood than the Finnish firm's red "Kivi" glass tea lights (from £9.50).
Now, with more people staying at home for the holidays but still seeking a change of scenery, décor is in the limelight more than ever. Where we once used the same baubles and tree lights year in and year out—which inevitably stopped working as soon as they were taken out of storage—we now theme trees to suit our moods or to follow fashions, taking a page from store window displays like Ms. McCartney's and decked-out hotel foyers. "We have to keep raising the bar," says Paula Fitzherbert, the public relations director at Claridge's. Last year, the London hotel hired Lanvin's Alber Elbaz to design its tree. It was John Galliano the year before. This Christmas, they are planning an elaborate tree made of weeping-willow branches. Created by British florist McQueens, it will include "forest murmurs," a woodland floor of peat moss, dusted with snow, with white hellebore (Christmas roses) underneath.
Christmas has become an opportunity for self-expression, and how one prepares a house can say a great deal about its owners.
Film director Richard Curtis, known for "Love Actually" (2003) and "The Boat That Rocked" (2009), hires large props to decorate the outside of his Notting Hill house each Christmas. German artist and designer Rolf Sachs, whom jeweler De Beers tapped to create its "Breathing Light" holiday window display, rejects the idea of decoration when it comes to his own home. Instead, he turns his London house into an installation, bringing five Christmas trees indoors to create a forest effect and placing only one candle on top of each. At Dracula, his private nightclub in St. Moritz, he hangs a Christmas tree upside down from the ceiling. "My next aspiration," he says, "is to make artistic Christmas cards like the ones [English designer] Thomas Heatherwick used to send out."
Designers and design companies are making it easier to create a seasonal home while avoiding tat overload, with furniture objects that are not only collectible and beautiful but also iconic (and ironic) enough to speak the language of art.
British designer Kit Grover's "The Wreath," a green inflatable life-ring with a bright-red ribbon (£15), is one of the best examples of this new approach. If hung on a white wall in a gallery, it would no doubt get noticed. Likewise Alessi, the maker of domestic objects, has launched an ironic set of 10 colorful hand-decorated baubles designed by Italian artist Marcello Jori and inspired by a nativity set (£139 for 10). London product designer Sebastian Bergne, meanwhile, has eschewed the usual Christmas kitsch in favor of minimalism, with his nativity set made of different colored wood that can be reconfigured a bit like a domino set (£85). And Baccarat has released a limited-edition reindeer, made from stainless steel with a mirror finish and crystal, by the Dutch designer Marcel Wanders (from £3,620). For a personal touch, British-Japanese designer Reiko Kaneko mounts photographs on bone-china ornaments that are so chunky they look like sculptures (from £22). Alternatively, pick up her Twiggy, a snowman made of bone china with real twig arms (£17.50).
"Christmas is the ideal time to focus on ensuring that the house is ready—and cozy—to welcome children, extended family, guests and friends," says Stephanie Betts, founder of U.K. luxury home accessories store Josephine Home, who uses cushions and throws to decorate her house. "This means adding new cushions on an old sofa, placing a gorgeous throw on a big reading chair or creating a bit of sparkle with a bright color like a pea green, coromandel red or orange throw, cushion or candle." (Josephine Home throws, in soft lamb's wool or cashmere, from £139.)
For cushion addicts, the holidays offer the perfect excuse to invest in seasonal finds. And Ian Mankin is making it nearly effortless, with its cushion-making service and ready-to-go red velvet and ticking cushions (from £55). They can also make bespoke cushions in time for Christmas if ordered before Nov. 30. Candlesticks can also add to the festive mood. Black & Blum's "Loop" candle holder (£25) is a long-standing best seller that can be easily adapted to seasons.
Decorations have become so important that time-poor homeowners with design aspirations are increasingly turning to professionals such as Rob Van Helden, Elton John's florist, to create a different atmosphere every Christmas. Mr. Van Helden will supply everything from baubles and candlesticks to a full grotto, if desired. All the client needs to supply is festive cheer.
But even for those with little time, wrapping provides an opportunity to become a graphic artist. To help get you started, Pedlars, the innovative British retailer, is doing a neon theme this year, with brightly colored paper pompoms (£24.50 for a box of three) and wrapping paper (£9.95 for six sheets), with matching tags. For Ms. de la Cruz, her obsession with Christmas extends to the cards. She says she decorates each gift tag herself, an arduously long process. "Why shouldn't it be?" she says. "It's so easy just to buy someone a gift. It's so much more important at Christmas to show you care."
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The law is interpreted – sometimes to our favor, and sometimes not.
For example, while the NCSF firmly believes that consensual SM activity between adults is legal, there are those that have a differing opinion and will intentionally interpret the law in an unfavorable way. Therefore, it is extremely important for the SM- Leather-Fetish communities to have an understanding of the laws that may affect us.
The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom has been fighting for your rights for the past 14 years, and we are changing the way society views kinky people.
NCSF has taken the lead in two vital projects:
Susan Wright of NCSF has helped Paddles, the BDSM nightclub here in NYC, tremendously in the various issues we have encountered over the last few years involving all applicable laws/policies and interfacing with the local community. With NCSF's resources and her own years of expertise, she has worked diligently with us to research the health code regulations in NYC and how they affect an alternative sexuality nightclub such as ours. She has also done extensive work with us towards the goal of the city removing and/or amending its "anti-sex club" policies which has created an environment which makes it challenging for Paddles, a legal BDSM nightclub establishment, to operate in. She has also helped us understand and stay in compliance with all other regulations that would affect a club such as ours. Susan is a great asset to have "on our side" who is always available to lend us assistance. Thanks for all the help, Susan!
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WASHINGTON, DC - The Supreme Court today denied an appeal by photographer Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) in the case of Nitke v. Gonzalez. The appeal challenged the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act on the grounds that the obscenity provision of the CDA is overbroad.
Last year, a three-judge panel in New York's Southern District had dismissed Nitke's lawsuit, ruling that there was "insufficient evidence" to show that the CDA was overbroad. In affirming that ruling today, the Supreme Court did not hear oral arguments in the case, instead issuing a four-word decision which reads simply: "The Judgment is Affirmed."
According to comments posted by attorney Alan R. Levy to his Live Journal blog, since the case had been decided by a three-judge panel, Nitke and the NCSF had an "appeal of right to the U.S. Supreme court," which meant that the court could not "deny certiorari and had to take the case." Levy is a senior associate with the law firm of Lester, Schwab, Katz and Dwyer in New York, and a member of the NCSF.
"Unfortunately, the Supreme Court's decision consisted of four words: 'The Judgment is Affirmed'," Levy wrote. "Hence, it appears that the 'Nitke' case is at an end."
The NCSF was clearly disappointed with the Court's decision and even more disheartened by the lack of any hearing or opportunity to present further arguments.
"The Supreme Court has affirmed the lower court's decision without hearing oral arguments, sending a clear signal that the court will not protect free speech rights when it comes to sexually explicit materials," the NCSF stated in a press release issued today.
While the NCSF stated their belief that the lawsuit "was successful in weakening the Miller standard of judging obscenity," a reference to the landmark decision in the 1973 case Miller v. California which established the "obscenity test" which courts have used ever since.
The NCSF, along with the Free Speech Coalition and many legal experts, has argued that the Miller test is no longer relevant, particularly where internet communications are concerned. Rather than take this opportunity to review and possibly update existing obscenity law, the NCSF worries that the court, by ducking the issue in this case, may have opened the floodgates to more obscenity prosecutions directed at sexually explicit websites.
"We have proven that Miller does not work," said Susan Wright, Spokesperson for NCSF in a press release today. "But the Supreme Court has declined to strike it down at this time. That means every website on the Internet can be judged by the most repressive local community standards in the U.S."
For her part, Nitke focused on gains made through the lawsuit, rather than on the negative outcome, and called on like-minded people to continue the "fight."
"I think we've achieved a great victory in drawing attention to how politicized our judicial system has become," Nitke said in the statement released by the NCSF. "Our obscenity laws are outmoded, especially in conjunction with the Internet. We've made a huge dent in how obscenity will be judged in the future, and I hope others will now stand up and continue to fight against repressive laws like this."
According to multiple reports from the Associated Press and other sources, the Bush Administration had actively urged Supreme Court Justices to steer clear of the case.
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STEUBENVILLE - Gloria Popp has never really "spun her wheels" in all her 32 years of selling Mary Kay Cosmetics.
But the Steubenville woman has done a lot of driving in free cars, courtesy of her sales achievements with the Texas-based company she has said helped open the door for women to experience success on their own terms.
It's certainly worked for her.
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TOPS IN SALES — Gloria Popp, executive sales director with Mary Kay Cosmetics, recently picked up her 17th vehicle for high sales with the keys to a 2014 black Equinox presented by Scott Medley, sales representative with TEAM Chevrolet-Buick-GMC-Cadillac in Wintersville.
-- Janice Kiaski
In recent days, Popp, an executive sales director with the company, picked up her 17th car awarded for high sales.
It's a 2014 black Equinox from TEAM Chevrolet-Buick-GMC-Cadillac in Wintersville, where a familiar face did the honors.
Through the years, sales representative Scott Medley has handed Popp the keys to eight new cars at different dealership providers, all because of her Mary Kay sales success that entitles its qualifying representatives to have vehicles on a two-year lease with insurance, tax and title paid.
This makes Popp's third Equinox but she's had everything from Grand Ams and Grand Prixs to Regals and Cadillacs calling her driveway home. It's the Cadillacs awarded for the highest sales that are the signature Mary Kay pink, she said.
Her new ride has a Mary Kay emblem in three places.
Popp came on board with Mary Kay in the early 1980s after losing her job at the phone company and heeding the encouragement of her sister, the former Cookie Bianco, and her husband, Paul, to give the independent beauty consultant opportunity a go.
And off she went, becoming the local area's pioneering Mary Kay representative, being the first to earn a car - a new 1985 Firenza.
"I was the first director, the first car winner, the first of everything," said Popp, who took out a small loan in the beginning to have products on hand.
Her initial strategy was booking three classes a week with three to six people at each. "I would say I have this product. How about you and some friends come over, and I'll show you how to use them."
It was in this at-home, fun-based atmosphere that Popp believed she had found her niche, along the way bringing other women on board to become consultants, too.
Today, her Sugar Popps unit boasts 75 representatives, and she has three offspring directors to her credit.
Although Popp was skeptical in the beginning about how she'd fare with Mary Kay, optimism and positive results prevailed.
"The first time I came into Mary Kay in 1981, I never thought I'd qualify for a car," she said.
"But there you go," says the woman who always wears black.
"This is No. 17."
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By Janice J. Heiss on Oct 05, 2011
Among the big news at JavaOne 2011 was the release of JavaFX 2.0 and announcement of its open source status. As Oracle's Chief Architect, Client Java Platform Richard Bair observed, "We think this is going to be a really big deal in the industry." JavaFX 2.0, touted as the next step in the evolution of Java as a rich client platform, is designed to provide a modern Java environment that shortens development time and eases the deployment of data driven-business and enterprise client applications.
Its key features include:
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JavaFX 2.0 enables developers to leverage their existing Java skills and tools to develop JavaFX applications. It offers a clean separation of application UI and logic and simplifies code maintenance while integrating Web content and media seamlessly in Java applications. Developers can more easily create scalable, graphics-rich applications without performance penalties, build sophisticated user interfaces, extend existing Swing applications, and deploy applications in the browser, as desktop, or Web Start applications.
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Perhaps the most annoying part about Uplink, is when you think you've gotten away with something but you really haven't. A couple in-game days later or so, you suddenly find your Gateway shut down and you're disavowed.
It's easy enough to find out who caught you - just log in as your disavowed user, and you'll see. But what I often can't figure out is how I got caught.
In the most recent case, the job I was doing was of the "find financial details" sort. It's easy enough that it could be done straight after the Tutorial, if they allowed such low-ranked players to do these.
I loaded up my usual route, which includes probably every server listed in InterNIC (and makes game failure that much more annoying to deal with). Then, I clicked twice on the target system - once to remove it from the loaded route, and again to put it at the end. After connecting to the bank, I entered in the target account as a username and let the Password Cracker have at it. A little bit later, and with the trace percentage still in single digits, I was in the account. I opened up my e-mail and sent a reply with the appropriate data. Then, I closed the connection and deleted my logs from InterNIC (InterNIC is always my first hop - I only delete my admin logon events, and the connection routing events).
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A typical wrap gets dressed up with cocktail-style shrimp and red pepper mayonnaise.
Prep Time: 20M
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- 3 red bell peppers: 2 coarsely chopped; 1 diced
- 4 tbsp mayonnaise
- pinch of paprika
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- 1 avocado, halved, pitted, peeled, and diced (toss with a little lemon juice to prevent discoloration)
- handful of crisp lettuce leaves, such as romaine, cut into thin strips
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
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- Pulse the 2 chopped peppers in a food processor until finely chopped. Process in the mayonnaise and paprika to mix well. Coarsely chop 4 of the shrimp, and stir into the mayonnaise. Season with salt and pepper.
- Lay the tortilla halves flat on a clean work surface, with the rounded edges facing you. Gently roll each tortilla into a cone shape, folding in a bit of the rounded edge on your first roll, so the filling will be enclosed.
- To fill the wraps, pack half of the lettuce into the 8 tortilla "cones." Top the lettuce with the shrimp-mayonnaise mixture, the diced avocado and bell pepper, and then the remaining lettuce.
- Garnish each wrap with 1 whole shrimp. Allow two wraps per person, and serve immediately.
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Is this "the modern mind"?
The British Museum is now showing an exhibition on Ice-Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind which displays sculptures and engravings from tens of thousands of years ago. A review in the Financial Times opens strikingly:
As you turn the corner in the British Museums Reading Room gallery, you find yourself face to face with a bison. Ambling towards you, her head drifting to one side, she hascome more than 2,500 kilometres, from Zaraysk in Russia and it has taken her more than 20,000 years to get here. Although she is only 10cm tall and made of mammoth ivory, she is so full of life that she short-circuits our day and hers, eight million days apart, into a single moment. We cant travel back to the Ice Age, but if we could, this is surely what it would feel like.
The review offers this explanation of the show's sub-title:
The shows curator, British Museum archaeologist Jill Cook, doesnt care to draw distinctions between prehistoric art and more recent works. For her, this is about the deep history of art, which affirms a fundamental human unity. We dont know what was going on in the minds of the people who made these images, but we can see instantly that their minds were modern, that as Cook puts it, This is not others, this is us.
But I found myself agreeing more with the review in the London Review of Books which insists on the incalculable distance that separates us from these artifacts, especially from the representations of the female figure:
I grew increasingly aware, going through the rooms at the British Museum, that all the concepts at my disposal to understand this world especially the speculative totality modern mind, which the exhibition seems to believe will reassure me dissolved as I looked.
The reviewer, T. J. Clark, said that he found himself lost: I seem to be back, for an instant, in a world where markers and stabilisers like man, woman and pregnancy are still to be invented.Thanks to Jean Raber, below, here's the link to the on-line page about the exhibit:http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/ice_age_art.aspx
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Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
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According to contemporary science, Homo sapiens dates back 250,000 years. Abraham didn't arrive for 246,000 years after that, and it's only been 4,000 years since Abraham. Was it God's will that humans remain unchurched for 12,000 generations? How many more generations until the next age of miracles?The only thing that makes me more dizzy than looking forward and contemplating what happens after the end is looking back and contemplating what happened before the beginning.- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach CA
http://www.amazon.com/Deep-History-Architecture-Past-Present/dp/05202746...Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present, by Andrew Shryock and Daniel Lord Smail, is available in paperback now and for Kindle. The Old Ancestors were not exactly "unchurched." Search Inside for "ritual," "religion," etc.
"Arrival of the modern mind?" Well, at least these artifacts illumine a human consciousness from before our species fell into the dark abyss of patriarchy.The caves at Lascaux and Chauvet in southern France, as well as other holy sites, are arguable the paleolithic Sistine Chapel. Images of the curvaceous fertility goddesses have been found all over Europe and Asia. All symbolize a human understanding and consciousness from before the Fall in the garden.No wonder God had to send a son to atone for our sins.
If these artifacts represent the arrival of "the modern mind," it arrived a lot earlier than we had thought.
The last profile is quite evocative of the pregnant bodyhttp://www.sciencepicturecompany.com/images/3732/Pregnant-Female.htmland of the reflective attitude of a pregnant womanhttp://digestivehealthguide.com/wp-content/uploads/photodune-2354669-pre...'s a little disturbing that the figure has no feet, but consider that photos will also happily crop the unimportant stuff and leave the woman's bottom legs out for that kind of shot.It is fascinating how the slight bend of the neck and the position of the arm suffice to evoke the meditative mood of the woman. In that way this is familiar, not alien.
It's chic to admire the primitive. Picasso said something like, "After Altamira, all art is decadence". Phoo.
I'm sure the art experts know best, but how do we know the figures were made by an adult? I'm not being snarky; or all we know, couldn't we be getting a glimpse of the mind of an 8 year old Ice Age Artist? That would certainly narrow the divide between then and now. I've thought that about those cavemen drawings in France; maybe it was teenage Neanderthal graffiti artists, defacing the caves when they had time on their hands. I
Irene, those are such fascinating questions. The context in which these things were made and judged in their own time is so hard to determine. An archaeologist friend of ours says that things found in burial mounds are assumed to have been viewed as among the best things, things found in dumps are no less interesting because they often reveal how the "good stuff" got made. The review doesn't explain much about the sites for the finds, but it does say that ceramic art seems to predate ceramic pots and practical utensils, which I think is another interesting angle. My personal view is that the creative urge--of an 8-year-old Ice Ager learning to whittle or teenage punk Neanderthals--is one that connects us with our Creator and fulfills the Creator's purpose that we enjoy Creation, as borne out in the Anglican catechism (which I presume echoes older RCC catechism):Q. What does this mean about our place in the universe?A. It means that the world belongs to its creator; and that we a recalled to enjoy it and to care for it in accordance with God's purposes....Q. How was this revelation handed down to us?A. This revelation was handed down to us through a community created by a covenant with God.Here's the splash page for the exhibit at the British Museum with lots of interesting links and sidebars: http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/ice_age_art.aspx
Sorry, meant also to add that before art became highly individualistic, it was communal ("handed down through a community"), a means by which revelation and wisdom was handed down in a society.
Jean: Thanks for the "splash-page" which I had meant to put into the initial post. I've added it now. It's the desired assimilation of these ancient artifacts to "the modern mind" that struck me in the subtitle. I love the dynamic grace of the bison pictured above, but don't know why it has to be interpreted in terms of modernity.
Komonchak: Check out the film "Cave of Forgotten Dreams." Nothing about paleolithic humans is primitive, crude or unenlightened. They're right up there with Michelangelo. To really appreciate these humans, all we have to do is leave our patriarchy and monotheistic religious sensibilities at the mouth of the cave.http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/cave-of-forgotten-dreams
Jenkins: Thanks for the lesson in art-criticism. Why did you think it needed? Who has said that the images I posted were "primitive, crude or unenlightened"?
Komonchak: You're reading into things again. In the spirit of this new Jesuit-gone-Fransican papacy, let's all try not to be so "self-reverential" and thin-skinned, okay?All too often (?), especially in the West, we have a tendency to assume that culture and society have always been marching "upward and onward" culminating in ourselves - a classic linear progression. Indeed, Western art believed for centuries that only certain classes of people of status and certain mythologies were even worthy of depiction. Thus, the shock of Catholic hierarchs when Michelangelo imbued his biblical mythic frescoes with such pulsating humanity caused them to demand that all those naked bodies Il Divino created be covered "with appropriate drapery" so not to exposed their very human "parts." In the early days of the modern artistic era, Picasso's genius [and indeed he is only one representative among many] was that he rescued the long lost so-called "primitive" shapes and forms from our archetypal past emerging into our modern consciousness.I believe that the Roman church has frequently forgotten [Or, is it "self deceived"] on occasion that it is not the "church triumphant" but the "church militant." Some popes and hierarchs have even been known to look down their long aquiline noses at what they considered their human cultural inferiors. You know, attitudes embodied in phrases like: "barbarians at the gates" and "dictatorships of relativism" in the "West."The real power of these ancient-in-the-extreme images that emerge from the human primordial past is that they reveal for us those humans who shaped and painted these images were indeed very much "us."
I imagine adults creating those figures to while away the hours during the winter.If I understand the curator's quote correctly, the "modern mind" means ourselves, plus whoever to whom we can relate to some extent. I'm not sure of the difference between the "modern" mind and the "human" mind.Is God modern?
"Im not sure of the difference between the 'modern' mind and the 'human' mind."Claire, agree. I'm not sure of the distinction, either. Is this art "modern" because we can still now recognize what is being represented? Or is it "modern" because it is not strictly photographic/representational but emphasizes (in the case of the women) something of their "essence"? On another thread about art, I opined that graphic novels enjoyed by Our Young People employ many of the same artistic conventions as medieval art. Does that make medieval art more "modern" now? I don't know whether this speaks to Fr. Komonchak's point or not.
So what is "modern man"? We can't answer how he/she is different from other men until we know what he/she is. So, go ahead, define the phrase.I think that some phrases can't be defined because they don't include any distinctive, specifying characteristic. They're family resemblance terms. So how useful are the questions which include such phrases? Not very, I'd say. Too mushy.
It seems some have misinterpreted my initial post to imply that I was critical that anyone could think these very ancient artifacts to be "modern" and must, therefore, think of them as, for example, "primitive, crude or unenlightened." That's the opposite of what I intended. My objection was to the idea that to speak of them as illustrating "the arrival of the modern mind" was to display what in other contexts is called a "presentist" bias, as if the only way one could validate such works was by saying that they anticipate "modern", that is, our, sensibilities. That's why I said I agree with the LRB review which emphasizes the "otherness" of these works of art.
Not only do I think that these works are not inferior to most of today's art, it seems to me that they are superior to most of today's junk. Contemporary art is in a bad way, especially considering what it was just, say, 80 years ago.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, howinfinite in faculties, in form and moving how express andadmirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how likea god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animalsand yet,to me, what is this quintessence of dust? - Hamlet, II, 2Leave to the Bard ...


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I'm sure you guys are extremely busy and have a ton of stuff on your plate as far as show ideas and priorities...but I think this topic would make a great series. I'd love to see Olson and Meijer talk, I'd love to follow the progress that Olson makes as far as creating different languages with unique feature sets and constructs.
These topics are VERY interesting and exciting, but all of us don't have the time/opportunity to pursue them, it would be fun to "learn vicariously" through Jason.
Just a thought....great show.
I like this idea! I will talk to Jason,
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