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V and Carlos Acosta. "Le Corsaire" PDD
V and Romel Frometa. Black Swan PDD (1)
Odette's transformation.
Posted 22 September 2009 - 10:32 AM
In Cinderella-(Strauss)
In Diane & Acteon
In The Magic Flute.
Posted 06 January 2010 - 01:42 PM
Giselle's entree, Act I.
Spessitzeva's Solo.
Giselle's Initiation, Act II. Myrtha is Primera Bailarina Sadaise Arencibia
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Odile's variation: ( , Cinnamonswirl!)
Giselle Act II PDD with Giuseppe Piccone.
Another Black Swan PDD, this time with Yoel Carreno.
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Posted 20 August 2010 - 07:55 AM
Thank you, cubanmiamiboy, for posting Viengsay Valdes's Rose Adagio. Her balances were amazing...the best I have ever seen...wow! Even though the choreography is a bit different in some places, it didn't go so far as to spoil the dance and the scene, for me, anyway...She was very sweet and charming in her demeanor, which is just so vital for this famous adagio. She was Aurora...not just a technical whiz. I love her!
I think so too, Gina. I've seen many Rose Adagios in my lifetime, and there have been many, many times where the ballerina didn't fill my expectations, either because:
1-She couldn't nail those balances-(which are definitely the technical highlight of the choreography.
2-She couldn't keep her arms up in couronne in between them.
3-Or she didn't convince me as being a tender teenager, due to real age issues-(something that for some reason Giselle can get away with)
4-For all of the above reasons PLUS getting lost in the character's interpretation.-(a la Somova)
Viengsay, even with her showing off element, does justice to all that...and still can make up for a very exciting performance.
Posted 27 August 2010 - 11:27 PM
and to compare...
Posted 28 August 2010 - 02:47 PM
Posted 28 August 2010 - 08:02 PM
I love the Magic Flute clip. She's not just a great balancer -- though her aplomb beats anything. There's a lovely delicacy in her dancing that makes her feats of control generous and gracious, and she's always dancing through the moments of stillness.
I agree. I would like to note that Miss Valdes' climbing has been a really hard one. I remember that while I was still living in Cuba she was just a First Soloist all while Miss Lorna Feijoo was everyone's sweetheart and favorite...the real reigning queen of the CNB. I also remember the early critiques from the most hardcore balletomanes about Valdes' said to be lack of artistic skills and refinement. It wasn't really until Feijoo and Alihaydee Carreno defected that she was able to be promoted to Primera Bailarina, and then she had the chance to show off her technical power. To be fair, I must say that I think she has come a long way on her artistic development, and as I said earlier, she's probably not the best actress of this world, but neither the very worst. I think she knows her limitations, and then she tries hard to make it up to her loyal fans with her fierce display of technical fireworks. As Paul noted, I think she was a hit in "The Magic Flute", DEFINITELY as Kitri and even not that bad in Giselle. Her problem seems to be at portraying regal or delicate characters-(Swan Queens, Fairies , Princesses and the like...). Still, I give her credit for always giving an exciting, HONEST performance to her audience, and at the very end, that's what really matters.
Just a thought...
Posted 29 August 2010 - 03:55 PM
i agree about her honesty. She's almost like a Balanchie dancer that way -- at lesat in the things I like -- Corsaire is simply fabulous, and Odette's transformation -- the dramatic sense is powerful, but it's not about herself, it's about hte choreography or the music, the natural BIG questions that the dance itself raises.
And of course in Corsaire she has a real consort in Acosta.
About Black Swan, I find the choreography rather threadbare, and her partner, though he is beautiful, is too refined for her.
What I find most extraordinary is the vehemence of the comments posted on youtube -- my Spanish is good enough to taste the contempt that posters have for those who disagree with them about VV. I've never seen such flames before....
Posted 29 August 2010 - 07:22 PM
I agree about her honesty. She's almost like a Balanchie dancer that way...
Interesting thought. I think she could be wonderful in some Balanchine ballets, like T&V...
What I find most extraordinary is the vehemence of the comments posted on youtube -- my Spanish is good enough to taste the contempt that posters have for those who disagree with them about VV. I've never seen such flames before....
Confession. Sometimes I pop in too...You know...that national pride.
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After running a GeoServer war file installation in Tomcat for some time in Windows Server 2008 x64, I've become increasingly unhappy with Tomcat's chronic memory issues and leaks. Now that the GeoServer Windows installer appears to run in a 64-bit environment as a Windows service when used in tandem with a 32-bit JVM, I'm looking into abandoning the war file in favor of the Windows installer. What are the pros and cons of the Windows installer versus the war file in a 64-bit Windows environment?
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We have attempted to install Geoserver using the windows installer but had issues getting it running. I never could get it configured properly. We then started using the WAR file with greater success.
Before giving up on the WAR file I would echo the previous posts. We ran Tomcat on a x64 bit windows 2008 machine and it was a problem. We had much better luck when I uninstalled 32 bit java and only installed the 64 bit flavor. Everything seems to like defaulting to 32 bit. I believe that in the past year tomcat has added support for 64 bit as well. I also noticed it is now up to version 7.
Lastly, I believe that Geoserver can run with Jetty, although I have never used it, it might be worth investigating.
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What are best practices for sharing hundreds of passwords among a few people? These passwords protect mission critical data, and cannot ever be visible beyond a small team.
I would probably write a custom web-based solution hosted on a corporate intranet. (take a look at http://lastpass.com for inspiration, or to use it. Sharing passwords is one of its features, though it may not work for your volume.)
EDIT: Sure, best solution, don't share them. Storing cleartext passwords in any medium is dangerous, particularly when the purpose of storing them is to share them. There is a nearly infinite number of solutions, each bringing an associated peril. Why not put them on an encrypted disk image, burn that image to a single CD, put the CD into a safe that only one armed guard can open, and have authorized people present photo ID to have it unlocked?
The point is we don't really know your scenario. Why are you sharing hundreds of mission-critical passwords? Are they for your backoffice intranet, VPN, or are they customer passwords that you keep around in plaintext for some reason? Are all the people you need to share it with in the same installation? Would a physical transference like an encrypted CD or a printed table stored in a safe actually work? Or are your sysadmins spread over the globe, making electronic means of sharing them the only solution?
Best practice is not to share the passwords. Use tools like sudo to allow the users to get the access they need from their own account. If you have a few users, each should have their own accounts where needed. LDAP (Unix/Linux) and Active Directory are a good solution for granting access to multiple servers from a common database.
When it is necessary to have a written copy of a password, seal it in an envelope signed and dated across the seal. Change the password when this is changed.
For passwords which really need to be shared, use one of the password tools like Keepass which can have their database on a network. Tools with clients for multiple platforms are better. Consider wether you need more than one database. Remember you need to really trust everyone who has access to this data.
We have gone with KeePass for this exact purpose. It's a great little program that stores all of your passwords in an encrypted database file. There are additional security features such as needing a key file along with the main password to access the passwords. This allows for multiple layers of security (separate the key file and the database), all the while keeping it convenient for everyone to work with all of the different passwords. For example, you can run the app and the key file off of a USB drive, but store the database on your network somewhere. That would require credentials for the network share, the main password, and the physical USB drive with the key file.
Easy, this comes in two flavors:
You should seriously consider a secure authentication service that integrates with a directory service to address the issue. The DS/AS combination creates a trusted "authority" that can act as an arbiter for all of your users and devices. User accounts can have their access abstracted away from the actual password used in authentication, making it easy to "disconnect" passwords from access policy. Control of passwords is by deactivation of the user's account; so if an admin leaves, you simply shut off their account, and their access is gone (because that person's password only grants access based on the validity of the DS/AS confirming the account valid).
This will only work when you are in an environment that allows your devices/programs to shunt their authentication requests to external sources, so it may not be a solution for you. If you have a significant percentage of devices/programs that can accommodate external authentication, then I would go ahead and do this, if just to consolidate several hundred passwords down to a manageable list of, say, a dozen. If you decide to go this route, there are several off-the-shelf, well-known and well-tested solutions to this.
There is also a question of how much security you need. You didn't specify if by "mission critical" you mean that nuclear warheads may rain down upon cities, or if "mission critical" means that the latest shipment of Furbies won't make it into town. It would really help if there was something that described a risk/threat assessment.
I know this is an old question but I just recently came across a opensource web based solution called Corporate Vault that may be interesting to some. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.
we use a program called Password Safe. it's nice and very secure, you can set the database on a networked drive and give everyone who needs it access and the password to the safe itself, which then stores all the usernames and passwords encrypted securely.
A few things:
You also need to go beyond the mechanical security measures of putting paper passwords in a safe or encrypting the passwords. Go read up on how organizations with mature security models secure keys and safe combinations. I don't recommend doing what you want to do, but if you do:
Procedures like this are a pain in the neck, but will serve as an incentive for people to adopt more sane practices. If you don't do something like what I described, don't bother going through the motions of locking up the passwords, because you'll just get breached someday anyway.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-pstore/ uses per-user GPG encryption for shared passwords (and any other data you might like to share). The server never knows about any passwords, it only holds the encrypted data. Everyone uses their own private key to decrypt the shared secrets.
The system includes rights management: not everyone gets full access.
We use https://passwork.me as self-hosted solution. But you can store passwords in their cloud as well.
SPB Wallet is a good one we used to use PW safe by ghost but SPB wallet lets you sync to a network share and also sync to your iphone if you get the app. It also has a built in password generator and you can generate them from simple passwords to extremely complex passwords. You can also copy the password while the password is still asterisked out so if someone is looking you can copy it and paste it without anyone seeing the password. The PC app auto locks out once there is no activity for a defined period of time.
Another option is Azure Key Vault which securely stores your secrets and allows you to permission access to them programmatically, easily rotate your passwords, etc. No nice UI for it, but if you're fine with command-line access this is good.
Our best practice is to share as little as possible amount of passwords.
Therefore we for example: - use my.cnf in root home dir for passwords to the database - use ssh keys to login to servers and have one root password that is allowed only via console (so you must have physical/bmc access to the server) - use ldap everywhere possible (ssh, bmc, switches, redmine, ....)
However, there are few situations where we are not able to use this approach (such as root password). Then we use keepass on our shared storage, but we keep as little as 10 passwords there needed.
Very good question. I'd be interested in other answers.
Here is what I do, but first I recommend using pre-shared keys where possible. I don't know if this is possible with Windows systems though.
Since the amount of passwords should be small (you are using keys where possible), I use an plain text file encrypted with gpg on a system that has no NIC. So (1) you need physical access and (2) a password.
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Advanced class system: how does Evented, eventedConfig, and fireAction work
I am trying to decipher some of the sencha touch components so I can extend them. It looks like they make pretty extensive use of a capability in the class system that I can't find documented anywhere. Namely how Evented, eventedConfig, and fireAction work together to to provide common functionality to components.
From what I have been able to determine so far, If an object derived from Evented has a config for 'eventedConfig', it will define configuration settings that are treated differently from normal class configuration.
It appears to override the setters for properties to introduce:
* calls applier to get value to apply
* if value has changed from old to new (value to apply)
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* Internally calls before and after listeners??
* Call doSet[Property] method to set the value
Is this accurate and is this documented more completely somewhere else? What else does it do beyond the capabilities of "normal" configuration properties?
What exactly does fireAction do and what does it cause the system to send out?
What can the user do with these capabilities? For example can we intercept some of the events sent by fireAction to change or abort setting values?
Sorry for all the questions, I am just trying to understand this area more completely so I can understand the base components better in the system.
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The Evented class is just an abstract class that mixes in the Observable mixin so it can work with events.
eventedConfig differs from the config object in that Evented generates the setters for it and uses fireAction. The config object doesn't use the fireAction for it's setters.
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Any "emo" band that is blown up by advertising and has fallen into the "mainstream" by MTV and the likes.
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A verb describing the small but strong population of people who love emo music, but also love other kinds of music as well. Mainstreamo people listen to Hawthorne Heights, The Used, My Chemical Romance, Senses Fail, Taking Back Sunday, etc. They do not paint their fingernails black, pierce their faces multiple times, die their hair, have lame haircuts, wear their belts with the buckle on the side, wear girls jeans, or sulk all day. You can love emo music and feel down sometimes without being full fledged "emo".
Max loves Hawthorne Heights, especially when they scream. He appreciate's when someone is that passionate about what their for, but that doesn't mean he's going to write sad poetry and tatoo the Used Heart on his arm. Max is Mainstreamo.
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Those kids you see in the mall (usually around Hot Topic) that have multi-colored hair and listen to trendy dime-a-dozen bands that they and only they define as "emo".
Derived from the words "Mainstream" and "Emo".
Derived from the words "Mainstream" and "Emo".
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emo or screamo that is mainstream also often has extremely bad new cd. term coined when jimmy eat world got there ovaries taken out. thank you www.emogame.com
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Write the following numbers as a sum of two squares:
$$(a) 13\times17$$ $$13\times17=221$$ $$m=13=(3^2+2^2) \space \text{and} \space n=17=(4^2+1^2)$$ $$[(3)(4)+(2)(1)]^2+[(3)(1)-(4)(2)]^2=14^2+(-5)^2=221$$
I had no problem solving this one. However, the next problem is giving me trouble because $19^{10}$ is such a large number.
$$(b) 13\times19^{10}$$
$$13\times19^{10}=79703861351413$$ I can only find this number using wolfram. My calculator wont display all the digits. Which is a problem.
$$m=13=(3^2+2^2) \space \text{and} \space n=19^{10}=(c^2+d^2)$$
Is there a easy / simple method I can use to find $c$ and $d$?


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My cabinet doors are tired and have many coats of ugly paint. Rather than strip all the paint off, I'm considering just chucking the old doors and making new ones. I like the plain style of just a simple, painted rectangle of plywood. But how can I finish the edges of plywood doors to conceal the plies so they don't shout "I am made of plywood"?
Try iron-on edge banding. Iron it on (you will have excess probably) and then trim the excess. You can usually get it pretty close to the color of your stain that you choose.
You could use MDF. Much cheaper than cabinet grade plywood, and will finish up just fine with paint.
A standard approach on shelving (which works on doors as well) is to glue a solid strip of wood to the edge.
What I have done in the past is routed the edges of the plywood with a round bit, then finish it with sandpaper and seal it with poly and/or stain. While it doesn't hide the layers, it ends up looking pretty good and it is safe. Sort of an industrial look. Just make sure you use a high RPM router with a sharp bit (and wear eye protection).


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Supposing I have a matrix, $\pmatrix{0&0&\lambda\\0&\lambda&-1\\ \lambda&-1&0}$.
Without question you can work out the inverse if this matrix. But since it is highly structured, I suppose there should be some quick way to find out the inverse of it?
Can anyone show me a quick way of thinking about this problem?


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In a few continuum classes I have seen indicial notation used to derive relations in Gibbs notation. However, Gibbs notation is valid for all coordinates while indicial notation is valid only for Cartesian coordinates. Is it safe to arrive at a relation in Gibbs notation based upon a proof in indicial notation? Is the result valid for all coordinate systems?
For example:
$\mathbf{u}\cdot \nabla \mathbf{u} = \frac{1}{2}\nabla(\mathbf{u}\cdot\mathbf{u})-\mathbf{u}\times (\nabla \times \mathbf{u})$
By using indicial/Einstein notation. I'm not at all concerned with showing the result above - just the generality of the approach of using Einstein notation in the middle.


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Despite a Fast Start, the Knicks Have Been Getting Outrebounded
HOUSTON—During the Knicks' surprising start to the season, the club did almost everything right.
The defense was stout in most cases, a point that was highlighted in second halves of games, when they held their first five opponents to 40 points or fewer. New York's free-flowing offense didn't miss a beat—and actually showed improvements from last year—despite entering the season without the injured Amar'e Stoudemire. And with what so far has been an NBA-record low turnover rate, they couldn't take better care of the ball if they nestled it under a pillow at night.
The Knicks have excelled in so many areas that it's actually obscured the thing that's been their biggest problem: They aren't rebounding.
The Knicks' rebounding deficiency has carried over from the preseason, when they collected the fewest rebounds and owned the NBA's second-lowest rebounding rate (46.5%) over six exhibition games. The Knicks entered Friday's game against the Houston Rockets—which the Knicks lost, 131-103—having been out-rebounded in eight of their 10 regular-season contests.
The numbers are an anomaly for a club that became just the third team ever to win its first five games by double-digit margins. After beating San Antonio on Nov. 15 to go to 6-0, the Knicks became the first team in history to win its first six games despite getting out-rebounded in every matchup.
Overall, they've lost the battle on the boards by an average of three rebounds per night, grabbing just 48.2% of all missed shots, the seventh-worst rate in the league.
"I think we really were doing a lot of things well from a defensive standpoint [to cover the flaw]," said coach Mike Woodson. "But the finishing touch is obviously rebounding the basketball. We've been doing everything right, but not securing the rebounds." He cited a number of reasons, including the team's small-ball lineup and its penchant for three-point shooting.
Woodson called the problem "glaring" in the Knicks' 114-111 loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday. The Mavericks got transition baskets off long rebounds several times, accounting for 20 fast break points. Similarly, the Memphis Grizzlies made the small-ball Knicks pay by picking up 22 second-chance points on 12 offensive rebounds in handing New York its first loss.
Defensively, Woodson said, New York often gets "cross-matched" in transition—meaning a smaller Knick guard might end up having to quickly defend a much bigger forward on a fast break simply to make sure the opponent doesn't get an easy layup. When the Knicks aren't able to switch defensive assignments before a shot goes up, it leaves them at a severe rebounding disadvantage when the attempt misses.
The Knicks' most pressing questions are whether they can continue winning games at a high clip if their rebounding doesn't improve, and if it doesn't, whether they'll stick to their small lineup. "We gotta do something [about the rebounding], because it will catch up with us eventually," said Rasheed Wallace, who won an NBA title with the Detroit Pistons in 2004. He expects to see more minutes at forward alongside center Tyson Chandler—and for the team to wean itself from the small lineup its been so successful with—to help with rebounding.
Poor-rebounding teams typically don't reside on the top of the standings in the NBA. The 2004-05 Phoenix Suns are the lone team to have won 60 or more games when finishing in the bottom-seven in rebounding rate. The 2009-10 Boston Celtics mark the only team in the last decade to make the Finals despite not also being a poor rebounding team. Only the 1972-73 Knicks finished in the bottom-seven, yet went on to win a title, according to Stats LLC.
"To me, [rebounding is] the thing that beats you over the course of a ballgame," said Woodson, vowing to spend practice time on the issue. "We've got to adjust and get better in that area, but we will."
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Is there a good formula/strategy for making monsters harder as characters level up without just throwing more of them? My kids, for example, love Kobolds but I just don't want combats of 30 of them.
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Just create more powerful higher level Kobolds. Monster creation is one of the things that was made easier in 4e.
Download and play with the Monster Builder if you have a subscription. It'll automate some of the things outlined in the DMG about creating monsters.
You can also make them smarter and more resourceful. Two levels ago, say five kobolds were a challenge. Now, consider:
None of that is to say that just boosting there stats isn't also a great option, and one that's especially easy in 4.0. But some variety can help stave off the feeling that no matter how strong the characters get, the kobolds just match them stat for stat.
I have a chart I used to individualize common monsters and make them more dangerous/effective. Some suggestions I would give:
Another technique: take a higher level humanoid monster, and rename it Kobold Whatever. If it has any traits or powers that are specific to its type, like the hobgoblin defensive abilities or the goblin ability to shift when missed by a melee attack, remove those. Then add the kobold Shifty ability. Bam, you have a higher level kobold.
Reskinning is a really useful 4e monster trick; once you identify the characteristic traits of a given type of monster, it's easy. See also the themes section of the DMG2 for more ideas of this type.
I can't comment on the 4e system itself but there are several ways of upping an oppenants threat. The least of which is to put a single more intelligent / powerful NPC in charge of them. Kobolds following the orders of a Mage or other smarter 'leader' can use better tactics and devices without ceasing to be Kobolds. Rather than just giving them more HP and more damage, change the way they actually challenge the players.
Look at the way your players handle the average encounter and give the Kobolds a way to negate thier most common tools. A well lit chamber to thwart sneak attacks, an anti mage shiled of some sort to thwart magic attacks. Or how about a new breed of Kobold descended from some ancient offshoot with altered abilities and powers? You can describe the Kobold physicality but use the template for soemthing else for the actual details.
I'd definitely recommend reskinning a different monster if you're looking at a level difference of more than 3 or 4. I've noticed some odd effects when leveling monsters up or down significantly, particularly in the damage dice.
I agree with cdtatro. Reskinning is the way to go. If you can justify tougher kobolds, storyline wise, then its easy to reskin most monsters to fit the bill. Reskinning lizardmen will take them up a few levels, or skulks... really, most martial humanoids work well for fodder. I'd avoid brutes and lean towards skimishers.
Also, don't discount terrain and tactically advantages. Kobolds are, after all, known for their trap making skills. Put the players in a hazard filled map, throw in a few brutes or soldiers of their level and surround them with some Kobolds throwing acid and alchemical fire (out of reach on a ledge). Half a dozen ongoing damage zones start adding up quick no matter what level the players are at.
Reskin an existing monster of the desired level. Alternatively, bump up the mook version of the creature so it's of the required strength. One of the neat things about D&D (any edition) is that it's pretty easy to scale up a monster; add some hit dice, perhaps give it an extra attack or two, and you're set.
Just remember to not overthink things. The simplest solutions are often the best.


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I have a table named tableA on which we have indexes and foreign keys and constraints.
I have to modify content in a column called column1. This being a production system, I want to
1) create a copy of tableA called tableA_temp
2) Perform the data change (some concatenation and regexp_replace)
3) Obtain validation that the change is correct
4) rename tableA to tableA_old
4) Rename tableA_temp to tableA.
Once renamed to tableA, would the constraints and indexes apply to the new tableA?
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Bai often explores issues of generational change in American politics and society. His cover articles in the magazine include the 2008 essay "Is Obama the End of Black Politics?" and a 2004 profile of John Kerry titled, "Kerry's Undeclared War."
Bai is also the author of ''The Argument: Inside the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics,'' now available in paperback. The book, which chronicles the rise of the first Internet-age political movement and the people who built it, was honored as a New York Times Notable Book for 2007. He is currently at work on a new book about the failed era of boomer politics.
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The Marine Corps Embassy Security Group turned out its largest crop of Marine Security Guards in recent history, including those who will soon stand up new security detachments at three diplomatic posts in Africa, currently devoid of any Marine presence.
About 150 new Marine Security Guards graduated from the group's schoolhouse here Friday, the largest class in at least four years. Included were those who have been assigned to three new posts where the State Department has called for a Marine presence: Juba, South Sudan; Casablanca, Morocco; and Freetown, Sierra Leone.
The new detachments follow a congressional mandate to boost the number of MSGs by 1,000, nearly doubling the group's current size. The new detachments will be the first of 50 such units going to diplomatic posts identified by State Department officials as places where they would like to add Marines. The push to identify gaps in diplomatic security occurred after September's deadly attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which left four Americans dead, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
Also included in the program's expansion is a new unit that will dispatch squad-size teams from its headquarters here at Quantico to diplomatic facilities wherever and whenever a need for reinforcement arises. It's called the Marine Security Augmentation Unit, and the teams can be summoned directly by an ambassador if intelligence indicates the threat of an attack.
Col. Michael Robinson, commanding officer of the Embassy Security Group, told the graduates that their class is the first to signify the program's expansion.
"The graduates that you see before you today play a new part in the history of this program," Robinson said. "This is the most dynamic time in the history of this program."
Robinson said the robust size of Friday's graduating class means they can stand up the Security Augmentation Unit's first three squads. Those Marines — already trained as MSGs — will complete an additional three-week training course this summer specializing in crisis response.
Robert Hartung, acting assistant director for international programs directorate with the State Department, told Marine Corps Times that diplomats face increased security challenges as the world becomes a more dangerous place.
"With the importance of diplomacy and the challenges the U.S. government is facing around the world, it's important to have diplomats operating in safe and secure environments," he said. "And the Marine Security Guards are one aspect U.S. diplomats rely on in order to do their job successfully overseas."
Creating a close tie between ambassadors and the Security Augmentation Unit, as well as adding guards to new posts around the world, only strengthens the already robust relationship between the State Department and Marine Corps, Hartung added.
Cpl. Christopher Dunn and Lance Cpl. Larry Gage have both been assigned to the new detachment in Juba, South Sudan. Gage said it was an honor to be selected by his instructors to help stand up a new detachment, especially as one of the most junior Marines in the class.
Knowing that he will be directly involved in the push to get more Marine Security Guards on the ground in new parts of the world makes the special duty assignment as Marine Security Guard feel even more important, Dunn said.
Also graduating were 15 new detachment commanders, the staff noncommissioned officers who will manage and mentor the MSGs deployed around the world. Gunnery Sgt. Mike Judge said that even though his new assignment is in Mexico City, which doesn't pose as high a threat as some other posts, it makes him feel more confident as a leader of small unit to know that the Corps is prepared to deploy Marines with the new Security Augmentation Unit in the event of an emergency.
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In PostGIS, we are importing various US census bureau shapefiles (with SRID = 4269) using shp2pgsql loader. I have medium-sized database with several tables containing fields of type geography (lat/lon points, polygons, multipolygons, etc) that span locations across the US on which we do various distance calculations, "within" polygon, etc type of geographic functions as well as display data using Google Maps Api. We currently have no geometry type fields (only SRID used in database is 4326 via geography type).
Because they cover a fairly large area and to keep things simple and consistent (avoid projection details etc), I would like to store the census shapes (ie boundaries for states, metros, counties,block groups..) in geography data type instead of geometry as well (unless there is a reason NOT to do this or someone can explain why we should store as geometry instead).
My question is, if I use shp2pgsql loader with –G option to create a MULTIPOLYGON geography field for these boundaries (and thus use a 4326 SRID) does the loader "convert" the data from a 4269 projection to 4326? Is a conversion really necessary? Do I need to first load into temp table with geometry type then perform update to transform/cast into geography type and then store that result?
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Which ciphers $c_k$ enable one to define a joining function $f_{c,k}$ such that:
$$ f_{c,k}(c_k(p_1), p_2) = c_k(p_1 + p_2) $$
That is, the result of joining some known ciphertext $c_k(p_1)$ with a plaintext $p_2$ produces the same ciphertext as the concatenation of the respective plaintexts? Whilst there is some flexibility to modify $p_2$ (e.g. with padding) it cannot be chosen entirely arbitrarily.
What terminology applies to such cipher/function/messages?


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People Suffer…Big Corporations Prosper!
We continue to hear how the economy teeters on the brink of another dip. Millions are still unemployed; have no healthcare; are losing their homes; in other words, the decline of the American Dream continues.
There is a bright spot, however: corporate earnings, supposedly indicative of a robust economy, continue to meet, exceed and even bust all previous records! One such star in the cloud-filled sky, is Exxon-Mobil. Is anyone surprised? Of course not! Big oil continues to prosper, while the Middle Class and poor have no choice but to help fuel the record profits.
Just announced:
"ExxonMobil Profit Tops Estimates, Posts 3Q EPS of $2.13, on Revenue of $125.33 Billion."
Ok, so what exactly does that mean? Let's break it down, so we can understand what seems to be a typical 'financialese' statement. When Wall Street talks about EPS, they're referring to 'Earnings Per Share.' Now, 'Earnings' is not the total revenue that a company takes in; it is the remaining PROFIT, left over after reducing its revenues by its expenses. According to Investopedia, 'Earnings' is defined as:
"The portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock. Earnings Per Share serves as an indicator of a company's profitability."
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So, ExxonMobil not only met expectations, but exceeded even their own predictions of how much revenue and profit they would make this past quarter (July 1 – Sept 30). Yes…I said QUARTER! ExxonMobil had net profit of $2.13 per share on total revenue (sales + other income) of $125,330,000,000, between July 31 and September 30, 2011. Since ExxonMobil had approximately 4.9 Billion Common shares of stock outstanding at the end of the quarter, we just need to multiply the earnings per share ($2.13) by the number of outstanding shares (4.9 billion), to come up with the total profit figure:
$2.13 x 4,900,000,000 = $10,437,000,000
Not bad for one quarter! Now, I am a former business owner and I appreciate profit as much as the next person, however, there is 'profit' and then, there is 'PROFIT!' When reasonable 'profit' becomes unconscionable 'PROFIT', there is something wrong with the picture. Who am I to determine what is 'reasonable' and what is 'unconscionable?' I don't think it takes a rocket scientist or even a Wall Street financial analyst to figure that one out.
It seems to me that reasonable profit approaches unconscionable profit when the profit-producing company is in a position that equates with a monopoly on the product or commodity being sold and purchased. Further, when the need for that product or commodity is a requirement for everyday living by a majority of the population. When these definitions are met, the product or commodity becomes a necessity, like electricity, water, food and shelter. People have no alternative but to purchase the product or commodity, whatever its price!
Is a profit of $10 Billion per quarter 'reasonable' or 'unconscionable?' I am going to step out on a limb here and proffer that it is 'unconscionable.' Crude oil prices are down from their highs, however, it doesn't seem that lower crude oil costs equate to lower gas prices. If they don't correspond, what can be a reasonable explanation? Another limb <*crack*> and my response is greed, pure and simple. While millions and millions are losing everything they've worked for over their lifetimes, mostly as a result of more greed from the financial industry, Big Oil continues to bring in profits exceeding their own estimates.
What's the answer? Since gasoline has been, and continues to be, a requirement and necessity for the country, just as electricity and natural gas, we need to see the States step in to regulate the price. The States already have in place Public Utility Commissions that regulate the rates for electricity and natural gas, why not gasoline? Utilities like Pacific Gas & Electric, Dayton Power & Light, Duke Energy, Consolidated Edison, and others across the country, are all publicly traded companies, making reasonable profits and paying dividends. They have one thing in common: they are regulated by the States they serve.
Will we continue to allow the greed and unconscionable profits of Wall Street and big corporations to drain the wealth and security from the lives of the Middle Class and poor? Is this class warfare?
Is it jealousy of the big salaries and bonuses received by corporate execs and financial money-pushers? Is it unreasonable for the average US corporate executive to earn 400 times what the average worker earns? These are the questions being posed today by the Occupy Wall Street protesters…and millions of Americans like me & you. Where do you stand?


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With his second post-millennium album in just two years, Mark Knopfler has already equaled his meager (non-soundtrack) output for the '90s. And while he isn't reinventing himself, The Ragpicker's Dream is a pleasant, classy, often inspired effort whose unassuming charms are best appreciated after repeated listenings. The memorable riffage that fueled Dire Straits' most radio-friendly material has been discarded for a more pastoral approach, making this a perfect album for a rainy Sunday morning. Like his Notting Hillbillies side project, it isn't entirely unplugged, yet there is an emphasis on acoustic accompaniment to its predominantly ballad slant. Instead of leaving space for traditional soloing, Knopfler weaves his snake-like guitar between the words. This infuses a tense, edgy quality in even the most bucolic tracks, resulting in the crackling but still low-boil atmospherics of "Hill Farmer's Blues" and "Fare Thee Well Northumberland." "Marbletown" is an unaccompanied folk/blues that sounds as if Knopfler was born and raised in the Mississippi backwoods. He taps into the patented insistent lazy, shuffling groove on the spooky "You Don't Know You're Born." It's the most Straits-like track here featuring an extended, winding, yet subtle solo. "Coyote," a mid-tempo sizzler -- lyrically based on the Road Runner cartoons -- is propelled by a walking bass figure and Knopfler's homey, lived-in, talk-sung vocals. Again, the guitar pyrotechnics are interspersed throughout the verses with overdubbed sounds employed to provide ambiance and mood. The authentic honky tonk swing of "Daddy's Gone to Knoxville" could have come off a Wayne Hancock album, and the "King of the Road" melody from "Quality Shoe" is a tribute to Roger Miller. As an homage to the American roots music he's always admired and a desire to retreat further from the stadium rock of his Straits days, The Ragpicker's Dream is a restrained success, at least on its own terms. It may not please some of Knopfler's old "Money for Nothing" fans, but at this stage, he's obviously not trying to. [Import edition includes an additional CD with 5 live recordings.]
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1 Jun 2011 9:33 AM #1
Promises and Deferreds/Futures in Ext JS?
Hi All,
I've utilized Promises/Futures in Boost for C++ and have tried out the equivalent, Promises/Deferreds, in the Dojo Toolkit. I've looked around for something similar in Ext JS but haven't found something yet. I'm still new to Ext JS though so I could have missed it. Any pointers?
1 Jun 2011 12:05 PM #2
hi bill,
i am not familiar with dojo, but it looks like callbacks to me.
take a look at:
there is a createSequence for example.
generally, ext is extremely event-driven (observer pattern) and it is prefered to listen to common events and then do your logic instead of creating chains manually.
is included in every component and you can listen to render for example.
you can also fire custom events to listen to.
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4 Jul 2011 3:20 AM #3
@tobiu Callbacks are not the same.
Deferreds/promises (aka. Futures) and accompanying tools help managing asynchronous logic, for example when you are waiting for two or more different stores are loaded (in the FuturesJS library this would be a Join with two or more Futures)
Another example: you want to fire some requests in a fixed sequence which must not overlap (ok, you can accomplish this with nested callbacks, but a large sequence results in a deeply nested logic). Using things like Sequence (FuturesJS library) hide this complexity and help making code with a simpler structure. Ext JS createSequence() to my knowledge doesn't work asynchronously.
We think Ext JS should provide support for this out-of-the box. It helps a lot for some complex tasks and it's hard to apply this to Ext JS by ourselves by adding external libraries and the integration is suboptimal.
- https://github.com/coolaj86/futures
- https://github.com/kriskowal/q
- http://api.jquery.com/category/deferred-object/
- https://github.com/briancavalier/when.js
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...hronous-nature
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All those pages seem quite opaque in what actually happens.
Can you post some possible example of what you would like to happen?Search the forum: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=01...%3Az7of1ufqccu
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6 Jul 2011 3:01 AM #5
I think its about how to sync multiple async-operations .
For example you've got a form with textfields and two grids in it. So you would first load the form and the two gridstores. When all three load-operations are complete you would like to do something - enable the submit button for example.
What is the best practice to accomplish this kind of task?
I guess this is a quite common problem in real-world applications...
6 Jul 2011 7:16 AM #6
Why would Sencha have to provide this? I agree that it'd be interesting if it were rolled in, but quite frankly, they need to fix the current shop before opening a new one...
28 Jun 2012 6:26 AM #7
I really agree with @s.busch here: this should really be part of the ExtJs in the nearest possible future. It's not a 'new shop', it's a technique that could simplify, prettify and optimize eventhandling between objects
A nice, pretty much stand-alone example of how it could be implemented can be found here https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/bl...er/src/util.js (around line 412)
An very simple example of how it could be used can be found here:
https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/bl...ter/src/api.js (around line 20)
As you can see, two operations take place at the same time: a web worker process is set up (asynchroneus) while a pdf File is being downloaded (asynchroneus). Both tasks need to be done, before the 'real' PDF rendering can take place. The asynchronous processes are started and monitored in another function and scope. We could set up some spaghetti Event Listener structure, but in this case there is made a promise that the processes will be executed. Without knowing how and where the promise will be forefilled, we can still be sure that some other function will only run after that has been done. This might be as a callback-like function, or straight away because the promise is already forefilled...
Other JavaScript frameworks (like jquery) have adopted this principle too.
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30 Aug 2012 8:13 PM #9
DeftJS - https://github.com/deftjs/DeftJS - provides a number of extensions for Ext, including Promises and Deferreds.
5 Sep 2012 5:32 AM #10
http://code.google.com/p/sendall/ It's by no means a complete framework but as you can see, it is built around a traditional design pattern (command object) and Javascript closures.
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Are there experiments that are banned from being done at the LHC because they are too dangerous?
Concerning mini black holes for example, that would evaporate in the course of a Planck time anyway, you would need a linear accelerator of the size of a galaxy to produce them as Lenny Susskind explains for example.
Any claims that the experiments done at the LHC are dangerous are blatant nonsense spread by people who just wanted to get their minute of fame, media that misunderstood what serious physicists said or dishonestly distorted it in order to better sell their stories etc, ... Nobody should listen to such sensationalist screams of people who have no idea what they are talking about.
Nevertheless, there is an article about the safety of the LHC wherein the (non existing) danger of mini black holes, strangelets, magnetic monopoles, or whatelse you have probably heared about, is scientifically confuted. It is adressed at the concerned public and you can read it here. In addition, if any of these phenomena discussed in this report could be discovered at the LHC, this would be a reason for celebrations and dishing out some Nobels, since it would experimentally confirm cool new physics and support theoretical ideas people are thinking about.
I won't discuss issues of mini black holes, strangelets, and so on. I would like to emphasize though that LHC, like any major industrial facility (LHC is not an industrial facility, but it certainly has industrial scale), has some serious safety risks:
dmckee mentioned radiation, but the beam itself is not the only source of risk; the superconducting magnets also present some significant risks, as they also contain a great amount of energy. In principle, this energy can be released during, e.g., a quench event (transition of superconductors to a normal state), producing explosions, damaging helium vessels, and so on.
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28 Feb 2012 6:13 AM #11
I'm facing the same problem. Any news here??
Does anyone have a working example?
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There is no update, I believe this was abandoned in favor of ST2 which btw does not implement setProfile. You really need to roll your own solution with this. I'd recommend that you go the route of ST2 which handles the orientation change better. See: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...ntation-Change
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I have an application that will only select on equality, and I figure I should use a hash index over a btree index. Much to my dismay, hash indices are not supported on MyISAM or InnoDB. What's up with that?
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Many databases don't support hash based indexes at all.
In order for a hash table to be efficient you need to know the number of rows that are likely to be present otherwise the base hash table will be far too large (many empty entries, wasting space and potentially disk IO) or too small meaning that indirection is often used (possibly multiple levels of indirection, or even worse if the hash implementation is single-level you could end up performing a linear search over a fair number of records) at which point things are probably no more efficient then a tree based index anyway.
So to be generally useful (i.e. usually better than the alternative) the index needs to be rebuilt occasionally as data grows (and shrinks) which could add a significant intermittent overhead. This is usually fine with memory based tables as the rebuild is probably going to be pretty fast (as the data is always going to be in RAM and is not likely to be massive in any case), but rebuilding a large index on disk is a very heavy operation (and IIRC mySQL doesn't support live index rebuilds so holds a table lock during the operation).
Hence hash indexes are used in memory tables as there they are generally better performers, but disk based tables don't support them as they could be a detriment to performance not a bonus. There is nothing to stop hash indexes being made available for disk based tables of course, no doubt some databases do support the feature, but presumably they are not implemented in ISAM/InnoDB tables as the maintainers do not consider the feature worth adding (as the extra code to write and maintain is not worth the benefit in those few circumstances that it makes a significant difference). Perhaps if you strongly disagree you could talk to them and make a good case for the implementation of the feature.
If you are indexing large strings then implementing your own pseudo-hash index (by storing a hash of the value as well as the actual value, and indexing that has column) may work, but this is only definitely more efficient for large strings (where computing the hash value and searching the tree index by this value is always likely to be faster then just searching a tree index using the larger values for comparison, and the extra storage used is not going to be significant) so do some performance analysis before implementing this in production.
Here is something interesting:
According to the book MySQL 5.0 Certification Study Guide, Page 433, Section 29.5.1
The MEMORY engine uses HASH by default indexing algorithm.
For laughs, I tried to create an InnoDB table and a MyISAM table with a primary key using HASH in MySQL 5.5.12
MySQL did not complain.
Bad News !!! I used SHOW INDEXES FROM. It says the index is BTREE.
The CREATE INDEX syntax MySQL Page states that only MEMORY and NDB storage engines can accommodate the HASH INDEX.
Some people suggested following the idea in Pages 102-105 of the book "High Performance MySQL : Optimizations, Backups, Replication and More" to emulate the hash algorithm.
Page 105 features this quick-and-dirty algorithm that I like:
Make a column for this in any table and index this value.
Give it a Try !!!
On a related note, you might find the discussion on index types from the PostgreSQL docs interesting. It's no longer present in recent versions of the docs (due to subsequent optimizations, I take it), but the takeaway might be similar for MySQL (and the reason why hash indexes are only used for heap tables):
Again, it's (obsolete version of) PostgreSQL-specific, but it should hint that the "natural" index type won't necessarily yield optimal performance.
BTree is not that much slower than Hash for single-row lookup. Since BTree provides very efficient range queries, why bother with anything other than BTree.
MySQL does a very good job of caching BTree blocks, so a BTree-based query rarely has to do I/O, which is the biggest time consumer in any query.


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Before Bret Bielema was introduced to the state at a news conference Wednesday, the new Arkansas coach met with his new team. Before he walked in the door, there was an air of apprehension hanging in the air. But it didn't last long.
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