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Seafood Linguine
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Cashew Salmon with Apricot …
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Steamed Mussels in Tomato B…
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Shrimp Po' Boy
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Arctic Char on a Bed of Kale
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Salmon with Pepita-Lime Butter
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Sesame-Orange Shrimp
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Roast Salmon with Salsa
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Catfish Amandine
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Tuna Pomodoro
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Grilled Salmon Soft Tacos
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Fish Fillets with Tartar Sauce
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Grilled Mahi-Mahi & Asparag…
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Breadcrumb-Crusted Cod
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Mirin-Poached Salmon with S…
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BDC@ Bluffton Branch History Book Club
Location:Bluffton Branch
Date & Time:Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 2:00pm – 3:00pm
BDC Manager, Grace Cordial, leads the discussion of Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress, 1839-1915 by Edward A. Miller. She will share some of the special collections materials from the BDC with participants during the presentation. Free for anyone over age 12 with an interest in our local history
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Is there some way to the make mail.app open on boot, and maintain always opened? Like a service in linux. It would be perfect if it continues to run even when not showing on Dock or on "command+tab", but still showing notifications.
closed as not a real question by mankoff, bmike♦ Feb 24 '13 at 15:32
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As the other answers mentioned, you can just add it to login items:
There is a bug (?) where Mail is not hidden at login even if the hide checkbox is checked though. And it doesn't prevent you from quitting Mail manually.
You could also add this to the crontab (
Or using launchd, save this as
You can load the plist with
This would disable ⌘Q:
If you right click your mail icon in the dock you can choose Options > Open at Login. This way Mail will always open after a reboot / power failure. Speaking of power failure, in your system preferences under Energy Saver you have a checkbox for "Start up automatically after power failure".
I'm not aware of an option to keep your mail.app hidden from the dock when it's running.
Either right-click or Ctrl+click on the Mail icon in the Dock, and select
AFAIK, hiding an app does not remove it from the ⌘+Tab menu.


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WEIRTON - The Bruins took their time waking up, but once they did the Brooke boys' basketball team got on a roll and did not slow down.
Brooke recorded 39 points in the second quarter en route to a 91-54 victory over Weir Tuesday night inside the Carl Hamill Fieldhouse.
The 39 points in the second stanza were the most the Bruins have scored in a single quarter all season.
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SHORT JUMPER — Weir High's Michael Curtis takes a short jump shot as Brooke's Russell Schwertfeger defends during the second quarter of Tuesday's 91-54 victory by the Bruins.
-- Mike Mathison
"I didn't know we had 39 points in the quarter," Brooke (10-8) head coach Dave Reitter said. "A couple of kids got hot, and tonight we got the ball to the players who were hot. That was good to see.
"We did some good things in the game. If we continue to play that way, we will do fine. We have got some tough games ahead, but we are going to take them one game at a time."
The Red Riders got off to a fast start and led by as many as eight points on two occasions in the first quarter before the Bruins rallied and pulled away.
"I think we started the game with a lot of emotion and enthusiasm," Weir (1-16) head coach Mike Granato said. "We played pretty well for a while.
"Then, (Russell) Schwertfeger hit some 3s. They got some steals, and the next thing you know we are down 55-28.
"Our kids played a lot harder tonight. They played with more emotion and intensity than last night. They played more together as a group out on the court tonight.
"When you lose by 37 points, it is hard to be positive, but our young kids did some good things. We had some bright spots.
"We are going to continue to work and practice hard. We have got a tough weekend ahead with playing Friday at Oak Glen and then Saturday at East Fairmont."
Thomas Cole collected a game-high 24 points to lead Brooke. Schwertfeger recorded 23 points and Anthony Barnhart tallied 19 points.
For Weir, Chris Wood delivered a team-high 11 points, and Michael Curtis contributed 10 points.
Wood opened the game with a 3-pointer giving the Red Riders a 3-0 lead and Reitter called a timeout just 41 seconds into the game.
"We talked about what we were supposed to be doing," Reitter said. "We were not in what we were supposed to be in. I told them to get their minds back into the game. We told them to do what we asked, and good things will happen. Good things happen when you do that.
"I told them that if you do things you are not supposed to do and they don't work than that is on you, but if you do what we ask and it doesn't work than that is on me. I will take the heat for that.
"I thought Weir was aggressive in the first quarter. Mike's kids played well, but our kids responded. We hit some open shots."
The Red Riders led 12-4 before the Bruins battled back to tie the score at 16 at the end of the quarter.
"I think the first quarter was the best quarter we have played all year," Granato said. "Brooke is a good ballclub. Dave's team is in a tough sectional. They are playing good ball right now."
The second stanza was a different story as the Bruins outscored the Red Riders 39-12 to build a 55-28 advantage at halftime.
Brooke welcomes Wheeling Park tonight.
"I think any game is a tough task," Reitter said. "We have to be ready mentally and physically. It is a big game because it is our next game. I don't look ahead. I take them one game at a time. Every game is important."
The Bruins will also play the Patriots Saturday in Wheeling in third meeting this season. Wheeling Park won the first meeting, 72-52, in the OVAC Class 5A semifinals.
Brooke 91, Weir 54
Brooke 16 39 21 15 - 91
Weir 16 12 17 9 - 54
BROOKE (10-8): Teaff 0 0-0 0, Miller 0 0-0 0, DeStefano 0 0-0 0, Loughrie 3 0-0 6, Cole 8 8-13 24, Green 4 0-0 8, Dameron 1 0-0 3, Schwertfeger 8 3-6 23, Pizzuti 0 0-0 0, Staffileno 0 0-2 0, Sole 1 4-4 6, Barnhart 7 2-3 19, Pannett 1 0-1 2. Totals: 33 17-29 91. 3-Pointers: Schwertfeger 4, Barnhart 3, Dameron.
WEIR (1-16): Knight 2 3-3 8, Gaudio 0 1-4 1, Wood 2 5-6 11, Luevano 1 2-2 4, Kirk 2 0-0 5, Gilbert 1 0-0 2, Curtis 4 2-4 10, Enrietti 2 0-0 4, Keyes 1 0-0 2, Mikula 0 0-0 0, Anderson 0 0-0 0, Thompson 2 0-0 4, Murphy 1 1-2 3. Totals: 18 14-21 54. 3-Pointers: Wood 2, Knight, Kirk.


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When closing a question as Not a Real Question (NARQ) it looks as follows:
Closing questions is often badly received by the OP, which isn't that surprising really. Let's try to analyze how they could possibly (mis)interpret it.
At least help me, what am I doing wrong?
- Which programming language for AI?
- Android: show a pointer when user touch or drag on android device
- Downloading website's source code and saving it to string
- Request timed out ASP.NET ... very strange
Don't know they can still edit
Everybody who has spent a considerable amount of time on the SE network knows a question closed as NARQ can be reopened after the OP improves it. Let's see which indications somebody unfamiliar with the SE network has.
It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. See the FAQ.
This starts out negative, confronting the user with a list of terrible things they could have done wrong. At this point the user might already be losing interest to continue reading, let alone read the FAQ. Only at the very end, there is any indication of hope. After users read the FAQ they are presented with the following:
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I believe a minor change of the close reason text could do wonders. Start out positive, then state what went wrong.
Unfortunately in its current form it's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is either ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical. Unless it is edited it cannot be reasonably answered. See the FAQ for guidance on how to improve it.
Sure, it is a bit longer. But from my own experience stating it like that goes a long way in setting the mood prior to discussing on how to improve the question.


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I'm not sure of the name but you know those hooks that come with an adhesive strip that attachs to a wall and you put the hook over it? The hook part broke off but the adhesive strip and the plastic part that touches it is still on the door. How do you remove it? I tried pulling it with pliers but the little bit of plastic the pliers was gripping broke off.
I have had success sawing through them with dental floss. Get an 18" piece of floss. wrap each end around your fingers or a pencil. Slide the floss behind the plastic section. while applying a downward pressure on the floss, move it back and forth left to right until the hook separates from the adhesive. Once you have access to the adhesive you can scrape it off or use an adhesive remover like GooGone, rubbing alcohol or citrus based cleaner.


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hey, quick question, i couldn't find anything on the web. I have a parent div and a child div inside of it. to select it with css you would say:
#parent .child {}
In jquery I have a var for my parent element, however how can i select the child with this? I know it's easy to create a new var, i'm just curious if it's possible?
var Parent = $('#parent');
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I have accidentally deleted
Does anybody knows how to recover from such a situation ?
At least I can use ssh while the server is in rescue mode (dedicated server from ovh.com).
I could already mount / and /home.
Now I need to recover /etc content and reinstall correctly all my stuff.
I am using virtual-box for this ad I'll try to copy /etc from the virtual box to the server.
May be I will need to make a clean install from scratch ?
I have accidentally deleted
In leiu of restoring from backup, the easiest way is going to be to just back up /home and reinstall. Next time you can just job the entire VirtualBox file to back it up.


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"I think we are setting an expectation for all of our students that we expect them to stay in school until they graduate, and that process will give them the tools to have a successful life," First Lady Jane Beshear says.
School districts in Kentucky now have the opportunity to raise their dropout age to 18.
Gov. Steve Beshear signed the Dropout Law yesterday, giving Kentucky school districts the option to raise their dropout age from 16 to 18.
"I think we are setting an expectation for all of our students that we expect them to stay in school until they graduate, and that process will give them the tools to have a successful life," First Lady Jane Beshear says.
If 55 percent of Kentucky's 173 districts choose to raise their dropout age, then all Kentucky schools will be mandated to raise their age within four years.
First Lady Beshear says three schools have already committed to changing their dropout age.
"I think we'll reach that 55 percent much sooner than anyone anticipated," says First Lady Beshear says.
"I think we'll get the 55 percent within a matter of a few years," says Rep. Jody Richards, (D) 20th District, "I think it's an acknowledgment that we have, that society has moved forward in such a way that more education is needed."
Bowling Green and Warren County School Districts will meet with their school boards in April to discuss the Dropout Law.
"We want all students to be educated. I know there's been question about the cost factor," says Warren County Schools Interim Superintendent, Kathy Goff, "To me, you can't put a dollar sign on it when you are educating a child and you are preparing them for the world. You don't put a dollar amount on that."
Bowling Green High School already has one of the lowest dropout rates in the state, below 2 percent.
Kentucky's average dropout rate is 2.9 percent.
"If we have kids who at the freshman year fail a number of classes and remain a freshman for a second year, we know that the likelihood of them graduating has been greatly reduced," says Bowling Green High School Principal Gary Fields.
Bowling Green High School has a program set up that allows students to make up credits if they get behind.
Their goal is to have all students graduate in four years.
Warren County and Bowling Green Schools both hope to make a decision about the dropout age before the next school year.
The last time the dropout age was changed in Kentucky was in 1920.


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Voters to decide fate of several levies
April 28, 2013
On May 7, or through early voting at the Board of Elections, voters in various parts of Belmont County will head to their respective voting precincts to vote on school, park, or municipal levy......
The Bellaire School levy will not pass. 8.25 mill is a pretty se3rious levy no matter what kind of spin you put on it. I think they did a good job of rallying for the levy and made some good points about why it needs to pass but it's way to much. Especially in light of the fact that we are now having a fire dept issue along with the EPA coming and and saying major money need spent on sewage lines in Bellaire. The voters can see other fees and taxes coming down the road. A 3.5 or 4 mill levy may have passed. They think they have enough votes so they are going to try to jam an 8.25 mill levy down our throats. It isn't going to happen
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The 5 Most Idiotic Wars Ever Fought
#2. The Pig War (1859)
The Americans and British had a long, awkward relationship in the century after the American Revolution. In 1859, it almost came to all-out war... over a pig. Not a golden pig, either, a regular one.
How Did It Start?
Back then, there was a boundary between the American land in present-day Washington state and the British territory to the north. The problem was nobody knew where the boundary was. The San Juan islands sat there and both sides claimed to own them. This went on for years with no problems, until the damned pig came along.
At some point, the British-owned Hudson Bay company (formerly a huge trading company throughout North America) set up operations on the islands and turned it into a sheep ranch, for who knows what nefarious purpose.
Then, in 1859, around 25 American settlers arrived on what they assumed to be their land, no doubt surprised at there being a fairly large amount of sheep already there, each probably with tiny Union Jacks taped to them.
What Happened Next?
On June 15, 1859, one of the Americans, Lyman Cutlar, noticed a pig rooting through his garden and shot it. It turned out the pig was owned by Irishman Charles Griffin, a Hudson Bay employee who owned several pigs and was raising them free range-style, by letting them run around other people's yards.
Cutlar offered Griffin $10 to replace his hog. Griffin demanded $100. Cutlar defended himself by claiming that the pig shouldn't have been on his land eating his potatoes. Griffin supposedly replied with "it's up to you to keep your potatoes out of my pig."
British authorities tried to arrest Cutlar, who called on American military aid. 66 American soldiers were dispatched but the British, fearing they would lose control of the islands, sent along a couple of warships to counter the Americans. By the 10th of August, 461 Americans and 14 cannons were being faced down by five British warships carrying 2,140 men. No one suggested simply letting the British shoot one of the American pigs to even things up.
The British were ordered to storm the islands and remove the occupying American forces, which could have triggered an all-out war.
But both the British and American commanding officers gave up the orders and gave their respective soldiers strict orders to only fire if fired upon. Sanity had sort of prevailed.
Who Won?
No one really, though the pig totally lost. By September, everyone seemed to get bored of the whole and agreed on a joint military occupation of the island. For the next 12 years, token military forces of about 100 men lived in harmony, regularly visiting each other and having some terrific bacon sandwiches.
#1. The War of Jenkins's Ear (1739-42)
A huge chunk of the history of the British empire rests on one man, and specifically the fact that this one man suffered a wound that would not let him wear sunglasses properly.
How Did It Start?
Barring bouts of drunken Austrian stupidity, the War of Jenkins's Ear is yet another strong case for Britain's stranglehold on the business of stupid wars.
There was a British navy captain named Robert Jenkins. Jenkins's ship was boarded by nefarious Spaniards in 1731, and they, for reasons best known to them, felt it an appropriate time to slice off the good captain's ear.
Relations between Britain and Spain weren't exactly great at the time, though war had thus far been diverted through the actions of Sir Thomas Walpole, the British Prime Minster, who had settled upon a policy of consummate dullness.
By 1739, Britain had become bored of sitting around and not shooting the Spanish, so, to provide a reason to go to war, a Parliamentary hearing was called about Jenkins's de-earing eight years earlier, and he got to parade his severed and probably rather shriveled ear around parliament. Everyone there immediately declared this was a huge insult to the nation and war must begin forthwith.
Sadly, history is unclear if when he returned home, Jenkins's wife asked how the hearing was, only for Jenkins to reply "Awful! I'VE GOT NO BLOODY EAR."
What Happened Next?
The war continued a bit half-heartedly over the next couple of years, with the two nations bitchslapping one another in the Caribbean and on the South American coast. However, because Europe, at this time, was a mesh of alliances and political intrigue, the War of Jenkins's Ear erupted into the War of Austrian Succession, which became one of those all-continent explosions that Europe so loves to do every now and then.
An estimated half a million people died in that war. That war then formed a major cause of the Seven Years War, the first truly global conflict in which approximately one and a quarter million people died, and Britain eventually emerged as the dominant world power.
Who Won?
The Spanish claim a diplomatic victory for reasons known only to them, but in reality, it was the war equivalent of two elderly women bashing each other with moth-eaten handbags. When the war collapsed into the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War though, we hope that during the decades of death, misery, pounding guns and futile charges, there was an indignant, one-eared captain constantly being told to stop bitching about his ear.
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I'm interested in turning a quadratic + quartic oscillator Hamiltonian,
$$H = \frac{p^{2}}{2m} +\frac{kx^{2}}{2} + \lambda x^{4},$$
into a purely quadratic problem. One of the simplest things I can think of is replace the quartic term by
$$x^{4} \rightarrow \langle x^{2}\rangle x^{2}.$$
Has anyone come across such an approximation? If yes could you give me some reference to the work where this approximation has been used. Is there any other simple approximation which can turn the above Hamiltonian into a quadratic problem?


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In Donna Schuurman's book, Never the Same: Coming to Terms with the Death of a Parent, she lists and describes ten needs of grieving children. The second need is "honest, clear information."
It seems so logical that parents and adults should be honest with children, and yet, when it comes to talking about death, there's often a genuine hesitancy to do so. I've come to believe there are four main reasons why adults lie or withhold information from children following a death. All are well-intentioned efforts to do the right thing; all are ultimately unproductive for children. One reason is that their own fear, grief, disbelief, and other thoughts and feelings interfere. If I, as a parent, can't understand why my husband died in a car wreck, by suicide, or was stricken with cancer, how can I possibly explain it to my children? Even though death is the universal experience - 100 percent of us will die - we generally believe it is best when someone has lived a full life into their eighties or nineties and drifts off painlessly in their sleep. When children are "robbed" of a parent in the prime of life, it feels unfair, unnatural, and we are unprepared for it. It challenges our beliefs, blindsides our faith, and crumbles our dreams.
A second reason is that as adults we naturally want to protect children from pain. A couple of weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, I was meeting with groups of parents who worked for a company displaced in the wake of the World Trade Center's collapse. A father shared with me that his nine-year-old daughter, since September 12, had been throwing up and not wanting to go to sleep, but that he couldn't really associate it with the events of the eleventh because she didn't know about what had happened. He "assumed" she didn't know because they didn't have a television. This was a bright, educated man. I asked if his daughter had been to school since the eleventh and he said yes. When I said, "They're talking about it in school," he replied quietly, "I was hoping they weren't." Imagine the fear and confusion this little girl must have been experiencing with the world outside her home reeling from this huge event, while the conspiracy of silence at home pretended it had not happened. This father's own fear and desire to protect his daughter actually contributed to more pain and confusion for her.
A third reason is that adults often don't know how to talk about death, and especially to children. At The Dougy Center we receive many calls from parents and other adults wanting assistance in knowing how to explain a death to a child. Generally, I ask the person to tell me what happened. When they finish, I usually say "That's what you need to tell your children." Unless the language is too complex for the age of the child, what they tell me is the same thing they can tell their child.
A fourth reason is more subtle, but common. It is very difficult to see someone in pain and not be able to relieve them of that pain. The truth is painful, and we want to spare them, and ourselves, that kind of pain. I've never yet met anyone who was excited and eager to tell a child his father was found dead. At the same time, I have yet to hear a child or teen say they were glad they were lied to about the circumstances of a death.
If you were lied to, or information was withheld from you after your parent's death, you may be carrying some anger and resentment about that. You may have information you still wonder about, and still don't know. It's not too late to find out. And in most cases, adults who lied to you or withheld the truth probably did so because they didn't know any better at the time.
*Donna Schuurman is the Executive Director of The Dougy Center, a children's grief support program in Portland, Oregon and the source of excellent resources on grief and loss.
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Blue Jays starter Aaron Sanchez has a 1.80 ERA and 0.85 WHIP his L3 starts. He's allowed 2 ER or less in six consecutive starts. His last loss came all the way back on April 22nd. While the Padres' lineup has homered in 22 consecutive games, this will be the franchise's first foray ever into Toronto. Rogers Centre is known for being a hitter's park, but I'm unconvinced that San Diego will able to take advantage. They are just 19-31 in road games overall, including 1-5 as a dog of +200 to +225.
San Diego's Colin Rea has a 4.86 ERA and 1.62 WHIP his L3 starts. He also gave up three home runs in his last start. That's key. Sanchez has allowed only two in his last six starts and if you take away the four he gave up in an uncharacteristically poor showing vs. Baltimore on June 12th, he's allowed just three since the start of May! The Blue Jays really need this one as the fight for Wild Card/playoff position. The Padres have been surprisingly competitive since the Break, but that ends here. 1* Run Line Toronto (-1.5)
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Beyond the Badge... Committed to our Communities
On Thursday, May 19, 2011, the following officers were honored at the 32nd Annual Police Community Relations Awards Ceremony and Reception, held at the Palmer Building in uptown Charlotte. The awards recognize officers and work teams from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department who have made outstanding contributions to the improvement of police-community relations in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area.
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Independent Patterns, November Edition
It's official: the first snowflakes of the season are falling outside the Berroco office! And what better way to spend a snowy day than tangled in yarn working on a new project? With that in mind, I'm sharing a few independently designed patterns using Berroco yarn.


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When referring to a room (in a building), what is the difference in usage, if any?
I looked up the definitions and checked some sample phrases, but I could not see any real difference.
I usually read or use 部屋, but I came across this term [一室]{いっしつ} meaning "one room". So I am wondering what the difference is.
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When referring to a room (in a building), what is the difference in usage, if any?
I think that 部屋 usually refers to a room in a house/apartment, where someone resides. 室 is somewhat broader and often refers to a room with a particular function.
This seems to be reflected in the names of the rooms in a house/apartment:
Rooms with a particular function
Rooms that are lived in
In other buildings, too, special-purpose rooms usually end in [室]{しつ}, e.g. 事務室, 図書室, 洗濯室, 音楽室. (Also cf. 和室 "Japanese-style room".) Maybe that is just because 室, which is 音読み, sounds more formal than 部屋, which is 訓読み. For example, a public building won't have any 部屋, only rooms with a description (like 演奏室) or a number.
If your rooms are numbered, they are usually numbered as 132[号室]{ごうしつ}, but you usually count rooms as [一]{ひと}[部屋]{へや}, etc.
Note that 室 is a bit broader than the English "room". 132号室 could be a small apartment, consisting of several rooms. I think of 室 as anything that has one door from a hallway.
One last remark would be that I talked about the difference between 部屋 and 室 as suffix. But in conversational Japanese, I would say that 室 works almost exclusively as suffix (or prefix), whereas 部屋 is a word that can be used by itself to refer to a room. So if you want to say "I entered the room", or anything similar (i.e. without specifying which room), your choice will be limited to 部屋 (unless you want to sound literary).


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When is it a good time to take down the tree ?
The little one keeps playing with the ornaments.
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Today, start the new year fresh.
The day after Christmas! ;->
take it down? are you serious?
You realize if you take it down, you will just have to put it back up in 359 days...
We love having a live tree in the house, so I either keep it up until the tree has become too dry / dead to be safe OR the last day for municipal pickup.
You can't take the tree down yet! The Christmas season goes through the Epiphany, which this year is celebrated January 8th. More gifts arrive on January 6th, of course!
If it's a live tree, take it down as soon as possible, before it becomes a fire hazard.
I take it down after January 6th, feast of the magi
Right now while everything is closed and there's nothing better to do.
Guess today. The wife took ours down.
I would say a week or so after new years. Although, I may not be the best person to ask. One time I left it up until Valentine's Day. And i'm not even sure why. Laziness probably..
Ummm, are we talking live trees here? Ours was dead...and I mean dead the day after Christmas (and probably before but didn't notice until the packages were covered with needles) so making it to Three Kings was a no go. Ours went out Monday. New house for the birds.
We just took ours down an hour ago.
We took ours down today. But last year at my apartment I didn't take it down until March! Never doing that again.
Growing up, my Mom would take it down until a little bit into January. We love the Frasier Fur needle in the living room :)
Took it down yesterday. Meant to do it sooner but it kept getting put off.
Since I have to pack away all the other decorations too, I will wait for the best weather day of this week. No need to take down and lug around decorations outside when it is cold, windy, and rainy.
I would normally take it down this weekend, but it's rainy and cold outside, so I'll wait till the middle of the week. Best rule is to have it down by the middle of January though. If it's live, as soon as possible. fire hazard and all that.
Took it down today along with the outside decorations while the weather was good, last year had to do it in 2 ft of snow, never again!
December 27th. Don't forget to take down the lights too.
As long as you aren't leaving Christmas lights until after January 10th... There should be a law about how long to leave lights up.
5 minutes after the kids fell asleep on Christmas night.
Christmas is a fun holiday and all, but now that it starts before Halloween in most retail stores, 2 mos a year is a long enough season...
The wife took ours down today. Personally, I'd leave it up longer but she gets crazy about needles and putting away the ornaments.
January 8th is the traditional date to take it down, but last year mine stayed up till march... Too lazy to take it down
I usually take it all down (outdoor lights, tree, the whole shebang) the day before returning to work for the new year....which means sometime later on today. poof Like it never happened.
Took it down today, it was pretty crispy. We just finished cleaning up all the needles. I usually try to leave it up longer, but this year I'm going to be busy later this month, so it was now or never.


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When Catalina de Erauso was 15 and in pre-nun mode, she ran away from the convent where she was raised. It was the first time she had ever seen a street. It goes without saying that like most sheltered kids, the first taste of freedom made her crazy.
She changed her name, dressed in drag and, according to her autobiography, she "hustled, killed, maimed, and wreaked havoc."
After the thug life got old, de Erauso joined the Peruvian army, as a dude. This was all well and good, until she was severely wounded in battle. A priest came to give her last rites and it became that big reveal scene from every transgender comedy ever.
"Nothing to see here, sinner!"
She survived her wounds, though (Medic: "The enemy has a weapon that grows boobies on our men!") and with severely limited options for an alternate career, she went back to the Church and finally became a nun.
It's just that regular nun pictures are so boring.
The Pope even gave her special permission to wear men's clothing, which sounds very progressive until you consider how the Pope dresses.
The shoes. Look at them.
#1. Theodosia of Constantinople
Theodosia was, you guessed it, a nun. She was from a wealthy family and used some of her inheritance to commission big, elaborate icons for the Church. The most famous was the one of Jesus that hung over the main gate of the palace. Seems like the sort of thing a nun would do.
Emperor Leo III, however, was not a fan of the fancy Christ. When he became emperor, he ordered that all religious images be destroyed because worshiping icons was wrong. It seems like destroying pictures of Jesus would also be wrong, but we're not experts.
Anyway, an imperial guardsman arrived with his ladder, and climbed up to take the icon down while Theodosia and a few fellow nuns stood close by. The sisters simply waited until he reached the top rung, then yanked the ladder away, causing the man to tumble to his gruesome death on the pavement below.
The guard's superior was nearby. The nuns picked up stones and bashed his brains in.
Upon hearing the news, Emperor Leo suppressed a smirk at the murder's Three Stooges-like nature and ordered the nuns to be decapitated. Theodosia suffered a more bizarre and gruesome punishment: she was stabbed in the throat with a ram's horn. Again, it seems like owning a picture of Jesus is less sacrilegious than stabbing a nun in the neck with a horn, but again we defer to his judgment.
See? That's something everyone can enjoy.
Theodosia came out on top, though, since she became Saint Theodosia, which means she can perform miracles. And she can summon a ram whenever she wants to poke at Leo III... in Hell.
For more religious assbeaters, check out 6 Saints Who Could Kick Your Ass. But don't get too depressed, because we'll show you which dinosaurs you can beat to make yourself feel like a man again (you know, if dinosaurs still existed), in 7 Dinosaurs You Could Take In A Fight.
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Servlets at night, same 10 page rule
I would like to ask if this approach is productive or not reason being that I was told
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multitasking as I am doing everything at their distinct times, focusing my attention on only one task at a time.
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Is it possible to package HTML5 game for iPhone and Android as an application or does it have to be accessed through a browser?
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There's http://www.phonegap.com/ which is open source and cross-platform. Besides packaging your HTML 5 as a native app, it also lets you access native features of the mobile phone.
I can't vouch for iPhone, but in Android, a simple application with an Activity that just has one WebView would do the trick. The activity would look something like this:
That would make the WebView the entirety of the screen; then you would just need a loading message. Or a better option is to load HTML in the WebView so that the app can be used offline; examples of this are on the API page for WebView.
From ImpactJS Tools page there are:
Have you checked out CocoonJS? It's by far one of the best ways to get hardware accelerated HTML5 games on iOS and Android plus they have a cloud compiler where you can upload a single zip and it will build out for multiple platforms.
If you want to port your game to even more platforms Nokia has a web tool application for porting to Symbian S60 devices... Web Tools for S60
They also have a newer one, which probably supports more HTML5 but I have yet to try it out...
The SDK in the first one is fairly good as it also comes with a simulator so you can get an idea of how your app will
I have published few HTML5 games in the android market place and from my experience I would recommend you to use Crosswalk in order to package your games for Android.
It's really easy to use and it's damn fast! It's developed by Intel. It's faster than phonegap, because it uses an optimized webview derived from the chromium project.
The stock webview on Android 4.x device (the one used by phonegap) is very slow and it doesn't support WebGL nor WebAudio APIs.
What about cocos2d-x ?
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Thursday, November 01, 2007
The Doll Face Trader
Doll Face seeks the image of perfection. She remakes herself...the image recedes...but she pushes toward that image...and pushes...and pushes, until...
There are many Doll Face traders. They're mesmerized by the images of success, trading for a living, trading to win, wealth, freedom...the images recede, but they push toward those images...and they push...and they push, until...
The great traders express themselves through their trading as artists express themselves through painting or dance. They are immersed in markets, statistics, patterns, information; figuring things out is who they are. They'd be doing it if they were rich or poor, young or old.
The Doll Face traders are smitten with an image; there's no substance, no immersion. They trade, not as an expression of who they are, but in the vain hope of remaking themselves and their lives.
I'm occasionally asked to endorse books, products, or services that promise great trading riches. Always a new image for traders to latch onto. Sometimes I'm even promised rewards for those endorsements: money, "exposure", contacts, marketing opportunities: Images to capitvate me.
And then I think of Doll Face at the end of the video and everything becomes clear:
Pursue your life with integrity. Find what you're good at: that which so fits your values and interests that it expresses the depths of who you are. Out of that you'll find a career and a calling--whether it's trading or something else.
Everything else is illusion.
Note: This post was written following a phone call requesting me to endorse and market a curve-fit trading system. I was to receive a portion of profits. Life's just too short, too precious to join the market idiots.
13 comments:
- Saul said...
Hi Brett,
too true - the day we open Traderfeed to find "Holy Grail" marketing will be a sad day ;-)
All the best,
- niklaskoehler said...
Great post Brett!
Adapted opinions and people are oftentimes disgusting.
- ainkurn said...
this is a great post, and a very interesting video. i think it really does ring true in the trading world where most everyone is out to promote self, usually to make a buck off of other traders selling their crap. i'm glad that you look over the endorsements and sincerely try to help traders like me become successful through your experience in psychology and trading.
- BirdMan said...
An excellent and haunting post... with a touch of Dorian Gray. You really do a great job of delivering the message in nunerous ways... Thanks!
- Anatrader said...
Your Doll Face video reminds me of the fragility of the snake oil salesman.
An entertaining parallel on how to detect the slick marketing of suspect trading strategies.
It is the unwary who will be taken in and will not withstand the force of integrity.
- Jeff Pietsch CFA, Esq said...
You are an officer and a gentleman, Brett. Your having a job outside of the business undoubtedly gives you a special sense of perspective. Thanks for keeping it real for the rest of us, Jeff
- Brandon Wilhite said...
After contemplating this today, it has just struck me again how much trading is a 'glamour profession' like that talked about in Freakonomics. Low barriers to entry, great rewards for those at the very top, but also very very competitive.
I don't think a lot of people really realize how competitive it is, at least not when they first get started. I certainly didn't. But I do love it :) (Not saying I'm one of the artists...time will have to tell as far as that goes.)
- dafa said...
Kudo to you. I wish there were more people like you.
- Keith Shepard said...
That's depressing.
- Adam said...
My first post on this site after reading everything on it of interest to me in reverse chronology.
Brett, you've created a uniquely valuable resource, not only for traders but for everyone interested in bettering their life condition by looking into a mirror.
This post, among a few others, affected me deeply, as it speaks directly to the temptations we all face to leave the path we've chosen and complicate our lives with temporary distractions that on their face seem appealing. I'm anything but immune.
It's no secret that the distribution of returns among traders closely resembles a Pareto curve, and this may well reflect that it's only a small minority of traders able to stay true to their "heroic calling," and thus receive the boons promised by the journey.
Thank you for all the meaningful insights you share with us.
- Ofir Amitai said...
Thank you for staying true to your beliefs and us, your faithful readers.
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I have found this article very interesting and struck a cord:
E. Raymond Rock "How do we go about understanding ourselves? This is a very important question because if we don't understand ourselves, how are we going to change? Do we wait for divine intervention to create our pure hearts, or do we do something proactive? If we are not sure, then why not try both ways and see which works best. We could spend some time praying for our worry and our frustrations to change, or we could spend some time working on ourselves in a proactive way. Then we could see what works best. Or maybe we could pray and work on ourselves at the same time!
If we decide to work on ourselves proactively, the first thing we have to do is understand what it is we are working on. This is where contemplative prayer or meditation plays such an important role; it helps us to observe ourselves objectively.
You can understand yourself at many levels. You can observe how you relate to other people, to yourself; do you like to be alone or with others; are you confident or unsure of yourself; are you ambitious or laid back. There are many ways to examine your particular idiosyncrasies.
These idiosyncrasies, however, are merely your particular reaction to the world based on your individual tendencies and experiences, and since you are different from everyone else regarding you background and your genes, you need something more fundamental than background and genes to understand yourself essentially.
All human beings are born alive into the world, this you know. You aren't hatched from an egg, born from moisture, or appear mystically; you go through the experience of birth. As soon as you are born, you feel things and react; perhaps you cry or move your arms and legs. Then you begin to hear, see, taste, smell, and eventually you remember the images that your senses discover and put two and two together, and begin to think. So we all have six senses; seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling, and mind, which includes memory and thought.
These six senses are the bases of all of your understanding of yourself. It all begins here, so if you can get a handle on this part of yourself, you can understand all aspects of yourself. It all begins with a sight, a smell, a taste, a feeling, a sound, or a thought. This is not rocket science.
What happens when we see something? The first thing that happens, and this happens faster than you can catch it, is that you become conscious of what you are seeing! It's possible to see things and not be conscious of them, for example, when you are on a cell phone while driving and have no idea what's going on around you. When someone jumps out in front of you car, however, the consciousness shifts from the phone call to the pedestrian, and you lose consciousness of what the caller is saying. Only one consciousness can arise at one time, but they are so fast that it appears that you can become conscious of two things at once. If you observe carefully, however, you will see that this is not possible.
The next thing that happens is that you are attracted to whatever you see, are neutral toward it, or repulsed by it. For example, if you open your mailbox and there is a rattlesnake inside, before you even recognize that is a rattlesnake, something instinctively pulls your hand out of the box!
The third thing that happens is recognition, or labeling. We remember what we are seeing based on memory, or if it is something that we have never seen before, we examine it and then file it away in our memory. So it goes like this; out of the corner of your eye, you see something in your mailbox. Then, before you even recognize that it is a snake, your hand is out of the box! Then, a billionth of a second later, you perceive from memory that it is a rattlesnake.
The three steps above have made us conscious of something that has stimulated one or more of our sense organs. So what do we do now? What we do is begin thinking about the object of our consciousness, or the rattlesnake, "How did it get in there? Who is out to get me?" We either grasp at the object, are neutral toward it, or are repulsed by it.
This is where our emotions are born. If we are attracted to something, then strong attachment, sexual love, desire, jealousy, etc., all come up. If we are repulsed by something, then anger, hatred, animosity, etc., come up.
All of this leads to strong attachment and strong aversion. Once we find something we like, something we find pleasure in, we tend to attach ourselves to it. Why not, we want constant pleasure, so we attempt to hold on to whatever it is that makes us happy. Conversely, if something makes us unhappy, we push it away and try to get rid of it. We either make love or make war!
Strong attachment is based on dependency, while strong aversion is based on fear. If you look at your life, you can see what you depend upon, and usually you will say that you love these things. However, when we are dependent on anything, there is an underlying fear that we could lose it, and therefore since fear is the basis of anger, the love we think that we feel toward the things we are attached to is not love at all, but rather attachment.
We can see from all of this that life is merely a series of attractions and aversions as we constantly figure out how to get what we want or get rid of what we hate. This pretty much sums up our life. And since everything is in a constant state of flux, anything that we obtain is sure to slip out of our fingers in time, and anything that we get rid of will just return to haunt us in a different form. So the question is, if we weren't preoccupied with all of this attachment and aversion, what would we be doing? Now we are delving into humanity's next level of consciousness.
Attachment and aversion involves nothing but heartaches. Look back on your life and see whether this is true or not. When we neither hate nor love, a peace prevails and our consciousness shifts. This shift in consciousness is an amazing thing, because it no longer requires sense stimulation. This means that the consciousness, when it leaves our body at the end of its natural life, will not seek a physical body again, because it doesn't need the stimulation that a physical body provides. Then, you will live with (as a Christian might say) the angels, and not have to worry again about maintaining physical existence.
This article, as many of my articles, are much easier to understand when the reader is a meditator. For some mysterious reason, a calm mind resulting from meditation, or contemplative prayer, can easily read complicated metaphysical articles, or the bible, and understand them at very deep levels.
Meditation also increases one's awareness so that attachments and aversions become clear, and once our attachments and aversions can be seen objectively, they are more easily handled without the emotional upheavals that we normally associate with life.
So . . . now you understand yourself (Right?)"
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
I want to thank everyone for their comments on the Doll Face post. I did intend for the post to hit hard: many traders have no sense of building a career and developing skills whatsoever. They pursue illusions and, yes, their crashing and burning is depressing--particularly for those family members that might depend on them.
Adam, I want to particularly thank you for your note. I do think that trading--like any profession--can provide that heroic calling, as we face internal and external demons and return from our struggles with a mighty boon. There are many Sirens to lure us from the quest; many attachments to keep us suffering. For some traders, cultivating their craft and developing themselves are one and the same, as it is for the finest artists and athletes. Such nobility is rare, but then again so are all things precious.


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DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) -- Mitt Romney knew one of the former Navy SEALs killed in this year's September 11th attacks in Benghazi, Libya, he told an Iowa audience Tuesday.
The GOP presidential nominee choked up as he described meeting the man his campaign confirmed was Glen Doherty, who was killed in the Libya attack.
"We had a lot of things in common," Romney said of Glen Doherty, recalling the two had skied at some of the same places, and that when they met Doherty had discussed his care and concern for people he had met working in the Middle East. "You can imagine how I felt when I found out that he was one of the two former Navy SEALs killed in Benghazi on Sept. 11th."
Romney only recently learned for certain that Doherty was the same man he had met at a party in La Jolla, California, a campaign spokesman said.
Reminiscing on a windy Tuesday in Iowa, Romney cited reports on CNN International that Doherty had left a safe location to rush to the aid of the consulate under attack last month.
"They didn't hunker down where they were in safety – they rushed there to go help," Romney said, tying that spirit to his candidacy. "This is the American way – we go where there's trouble. We go where we're needed. And right now we're needed."
The two men met under unlikely – and humorous – circumstances, Romney said. Several years ago he and his wife Ann headed out for a neighborhood party but did not confirm the address on their invitation.
"We went over, knocked on the door, they let us in 'good to see you' when we came in," Romney said. "We had dinner together and got our pictures with everyone."
"Turns out, this wasn't the neighborhood party," he continued, to laughter from the audience. "This was a family having a party with their friends all right?"


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auto_freak is the tradermarked slang name for a car freak, who has a broad knowledge of automotives. auto_freak is a famous username of one person (Meer Tauhid Husain) who runs a number of automotive websites and who helps his site members by answering questions and inquiries strictly related to automotives.
auto_freak told me that a continuously variable transmission (CVT) is a transmission in which the ratio of the rotational speeds of two shafts, as the input shaft and output shaft of a vehicle or other machine, can be varied continuously within a given range, providing an infinite number of possible ratios.
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An Auto_Freak is rumored to be an alleged ape-like creature said to inhabit remote forests, mainly in Chittagong Hill located southeast of Bangladesh. This creature is closely set to be related to Big Foot a creature who lives in the northwestern side of the United States. The creature is thought to be asexual as it can nurse it's own young though breast feeding. The best protection against a Auto_freak is to simply run away, as there are no known methods to defend from it.
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This term is referred to someone who is really over-weight, really ugly and lies a lot. These people are so fat that they have their own solar system. They are ugly enough to make a person blind by just staring at them. People usually make generous offerings of food to these people because they are scared that if they get on the auto_freak's bad side, he will sit on them. auto_freaks are also known to be bullshiters. It is said that every one out of two things an auto_freak say is a lie. It is advised by the Ministry of Health to always keep a 10 meter distance from these people, as their farts (usually a wet fart) are known to be poisonous. If you are near an auto_freak and smell fart, go to your nearest emergency clinic as soon as possible.
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After every kernel update I have to run
update-burg manually. How do I make it automatic?
Another method for you is to edit
From: https://bugs.launchpad.net/burg/+bug/594431 (a bug report echos your experience)
This can similarly be wiped out by updates but as it's in
As people in the bug go on to say, this still isn't ideal as there's every possibility that somebody might want to run both burg and grub or at the very least keep the two synced.
You could go one further and write a new script like this:
Save it as
I guess in the long term, an
This moves
Hacky but it should work.
To reverse:
If you have the habit of doing
Save is as a text file apgrade.sh and mark it as executable. This script will perform every possible update, check whether the kernel list has changed, and update burg in case it did. I've been using it since 10.04 (bound to an alias), and no updates have broken it so far.
If, however, you like doing your updates manually through synaptic, then Oli's method might be better.
I created a script based on the most-helpful/best-rated information provided here. One subtle change is that the boot-loader executables are no longer exec'd (as in the case of grub it exits; thus the script exits and other loaders are not executed (@Ubuntu11)).
The script can be configured for multiple bootloaders.. (if the executable is
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Some noise on the Interwebs has been made in the last couple of days regarding the latest updates to the OpenShot Video Editor.
The is now a PPA (that's Personal Package Archive, for those who don't use or care about Ubuntu) available for OpenShot, as well as the inclusion of 33 new video and audio effects.
I applaud the work done by the OpenShot team, as I still believe Open Source non-linear video editing has much room for growth. However, I do question the need for 33 new video and audio effects. Some of the new effects are very nice, a welcome inclusion and most likely quite useful. Chroma Key (Green Screen) support is one of those. However, other effects are largely just eye candy which I'm not clear would be truly useful to the serious editor. These include Glow and Water from the video effect selection and Echo from the audio options. How often would a professional video editor use these tools in a commercial solution such as Final Cut Pro? (which actually has over 150 effects and transitions, so I guess there's a place for them!) From my own, limited, editing experience, I rarely use effects, sticking mostly to simple fade transitions.
The most important aspect of any video editing software is stability and codec support. I can't accurately comment on OpenShot in this area, as I've not tested the software – I just can't get past that bubble blue button interface.
I couldn't easily find a complete list of all the new 33 effects, so best to read the blog post on the OpenShot site for more information, complete with a small dig at the PiTiVi team.
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We have a hosted server that is named, by the hosting company, as something like WinEnt99. We would like to rename it to something more meaning like OurMonitor1.
We have already installed a few instances of SQL Server 2008 R2.
Is there anything that we need to (re)configure in SQL Server / SSMS ?
I have an application that was reading the database settings from the registry, and connecting the database fine. Now, it won't connect to the database. The only thing that I can think of is that we renamed the server last week sometime.
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MIG Welding SteelWritten by on October 1, 2011
MIG Welding is the most basic type of sheetmetal/steel welding that is widely used today. Over the years, it has become even more simplified thanks to product development, something the folks at Miller Electric Mfg. Co. have managed to remain at the forefront of with their line of Auto-Set MIG welders.
The Millermatic 180 and 211 Auto-Set MIG welders take all the guesswork out of MIG welding by allowing the user to simply choose material thickness and let the machine do the rest. It's really that easy. The 211 Auto-Set also has Miller's proprietary multi-voltage plug (MVP) option.
But the Auto-Set MIGs are not limited to their automatic settings—you can fine-tune within the Auto-Set function (change settings) or manually override completely and control the settings just as you would with any other MIG welder. But more often than not, the Auto-Set gets you right where you need to be voltage- and heat-wise, granted all other parameters, such as material and equipment (nozzle/tip) cleanliness, are met.
As stated in last month's class, the Millermatic 211 has a power output rating of 90 amps (20 percent duty cycle) using 120 V—but at 230 V, it has the highest output of its class at 150 amps (30 percent duty cycle), with the ability to weld 24-gauge to 3/8-inch mild steel. Basically, the 211's about as good an all-around MIG as you're ever gonna find—period. From stitching thin sheetmetal to throwing nice, fat dime-roll beads on chassis crossmembers, the 211 can do it, and do it well.
MIG welding is not best illustrated by photos—it's something you need to experience firsthand to really learn. But we'll do our best to feed you as much basic information as possible. For steel, while there are times when you might want to consider different mixtures, ultimately the usual 75/25 of Argon and C02 is what you'll want your bottle filled with. Next, choose your wire size and type accordingly—again, the "usual" being 0.030 (8 mm) ER70S-6 solid (non-flux core). For starters, we'll use the Millermatic 211's Auto-Set features for wire feed speed and amperage settings. Once you've got the basics handled, you're pretty much ready to weld—or are you?!
There are various processes and techniques for which to carry out for various weld joint applications. Short arc and spray transfer are two common processes; stitch and continuous beads are two techniques. Stitch is for thin material and continuous is for thicker material.
The Short arc, aka short circuit, is done at lower amperages when welding thinner material (sheetmetal). Beyond that you'll either weld forehand (pushing, with palm leading) or backhand (dragging, with knuckles leading)—but the angle of the torch should always remain roughly the same (around 10-20 degrees—the more angle, the less penetration) for both methods. Compared to holding the torch perpendicular, drag will give you the best penetrating weld bead; push typically gets about half of that. When performing a fillet weld, as opposed to a butt weld, your torch angle will increase to around 45 degrees based off the vertical material piece. (Miller recommends the forehand/push method—their machines are actually designed for that purpose. For tack welding they recommend a perpendicular torch angle for maximum penetration.)
Again, these are just the basics—each person develops their own particular style and technique for MIG welding, and those are only perfected with continual practice. Fortunately, with a Miller Auto-Set MIG, you'll be doing half the practice as you would've 10 years ago!
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Of the three weld beads shown, only one is somewhat correct—can you spot which one? The first bead was done with not enough heat/amperage, thus resulting in insufficient penetration. The bead at the top obviously was done with the opposite, too much heat/amperage, leaving the bead in the middle as that done with sufficient penetration due to correct settings (never mind that little hiccup on the right!).Not only can incorrect machine settings cause poor welds, so too can torch angle as well as the distance between the tip and the weld material. Too far away will lack penetration; too close will burn through. Regulate your standoff distance (area from contact tip to work material) so that your wire stick-out is around 3/8-inch for short arc and no more than 3/4-inch for spray arc.The "basic" weld types we'll be addressing are butt and fillet. A butt weld is a joint between two separate pieces of material with no overlap, which is preferred versus a step or lap joint, especially on exterior body panels, as it leaves no excess material that may welcome gathering of moisture, such as patches, which will eventually lead to rust.Butt welds can be performed using both short and spray arc techniques. For a stronger joint, the latter is preferred (shown at the top of the work piece), as it creates a continuous bead with good, continuous penetration.Same goes for a fillet weld—a continuous weld, either forehand or backhand, will achieve stronger weld than a stitch weld.Not only do you always want to keep a good eye on your weld bead, get attuned (literally) to listening to the sound you hear while welding—you want to hear an uninterrupted, clean buzz; any crackling or snapping (Rice Krispies it's not) means your settings are off, your contact tip to work distance is incorrect, or your nozzle/tip is dirty and needs to be replaced.


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The 15 Most Shameless Fake Photos Ever Passed Off as Real
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Do you feel like the presence/absence of a black person in a photograph immediately makes it racist? Well don't worry, it just means that you're white and middle-class and probably suffer from the same racial guilt, awkwardness and possible unconscious prejudices as the picture editors of the below publications.
6. Black Guy Photoshopped In
In the summer of 2000, in a small room in the University of Wisconsin, the editors of the fall admissions brochure were frantically searching through every single photo ever taken on campus, desperately trying to find photographic evidence that black people went to their school.
Coming to terms with the fact that the black two percent of their student body were also afraid of cameras, they fired up Microsoft Paint and set out to integrate the university by circling a black man with a magnetic lasso, cutting of his head and dropping it in amongst a group of celebrating white people. The end result isn't even on the same scale, making it look like a black giant snuck into a pep rally.
Below, the editors of the Toronto Film Guide made a similar error in judgment, the clumsy insertion giving the black guy's smile a leering serial killer quality.
5. OJ Isn't Black Enough for Time Magazine
After OJ Simpson didn't murder his wife, Time Magazine ran his mug shot on its front page and, using a little artistic license, made him look more sinister and menacing, which for the white people involved, meant making him more black. So black, that his blackness actually sucks the light from the rest of the cover. A man this black cannot be innocent, America!
4. Beyonce is Too Black for L'Oreal
On the other end of the color spectrum, this L'Oreal ad caused embarrassment for the company when they were accused of whitening Beyonce's face until it looked like a photo negative of a black person.
L'Oreal denied the accusations, claiming that the altered skin color was a result of lighting used during the photo shoot. Lighting that, you know, made her look like a white person.
It Was Taken in the Middle East
For some reason the Middle East is a hotspot for photo manipulation, possibly because it's notorious for information blackouts and is currently the focus of the entire world. How better to make sure the people see things your way than through some clever photo manipulation? Or even better, not so clever?
3. Terrorist Attack that Kills 68 People Not Bloody Enough for Swiss Newspaper
In 1997, Islamic terrorists killed 68 people at a temple in Egypt. The Swiss newspaper Blick decided that the photo they had of the temple wasn't sensational enough and altered it so that a stream of water appeared as a stream of blood. While we're pretty certain an Olympic swimming pool couldn't hold that much blood, let alone 68 human bodies, we have to admire the restraint they showed in not adding severed limbs.
2. U.S. Army Topples Saddam Hussein's Statue, Pretends it was Iraqis
One of the most memorable images from the invasion of Iraq was the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue, portrayed by the media as a spontaneous action of celebration by the Iraqi people. Most news outlets used closely cropped photos like the one used by the BBC on the above right.
Images taken from further out however show, show a tiny cluster of Iraqis huddled around the statue in an otherwise empty area. A 2004 Army report revealed that the whole thing was actually orchestrated by the U.S. PSYOP division, who came up with the idea to topple the statue and gathered a bunch of Iraqis together to mislead the media as to what happened.
Wait, they really did find Saddam later, right?
1. Toy Soldier Kidnapped in Iraq, Tortured Under Magnifying Glass
In 2005, the Iraqi insurgents proved that they could suck at photo manipulation just as bad as the Western media, and at a fraction of the cost. The above photo was released to the Internet, claiming the soldier was "John Adam."
After it made the rounds experts expressed doubts about the photo's authenticity, and finally an American company recognized the man as one of theirs.
The company was an action-figure manufacturer called Dragon Models, and the missing man was this guy:
A soldier action figure named "Cody."
Soon after a 20-year-old Iraqi took responsibility for the hoax and the media issued corrections. Cody remains missing in action, despite the joint efforts of GI Joe, the Thundercats and the Millennium Falcon.
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What is the difference between implicit and explicit time dependence e.g. $\frac{\partial \rho}{\partial t}$ and $\frac{d \rho} {dt}$?
I know one is a partial derivative and the other is a total derivative. But physically I cannot distinguish between them. I have a clue that my doubt really might be understanding the difference between explicit and implicit time dependence.


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