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Discussion: 'Women in Games: Who Cares?'
Discuss the op-ed "Women in Games: Who Cares?" here.
Well, it was nice to see that someone shares my opinion on the subject.
I don't often voice my opinion about articles, but for this one, I want to.
I actually disagree with the author, though I was super excited for her to write this op-ed and read what she had to say.
Identity is not something that should or can be ignored. "Otherness" should not be ignored. I think this is especially true in a political setting, but also in creative ones. Identity does not always have to be front-and-center, but I believe people have to accept their identities and those of their co-workers and neighbors as factors in who they are, how they think, and the decisions they make.
People are different, and saying "who cares?," in my opinion, amounts to saying "let's put those differences aside" -- which in turn means the dominant culture or identity (in America, white straight Christian males) is taken to be the baseline.
That point of view numbs the multiculturalism that otherwise enriches our culture, broadens our ways of thinking and being, and makes us more accepting of others.
I think it does matter that we talk about identity, especially in an industry like game development that contributes to our collective pop culture AND is male dominated.
Brathwaite's article teases this notion a bit, and I'm not sure how much of her article is satirical (the part where she asks about maleness is meant in jest, as she mentions).
I feel as though I've had multiculturalism bashed over my head, stuffed down my throat, and frankly it gives me a headache.
I feel that sometimes, when we to broaden standards etc by focusing on minorities, in our attempt to include those minorities in our thinking we accidentally paint them as something exotic. Instead of expanding the baseline as we originally intended, we actually emphasize it, and the role models for the minorities become overly heroized oddities upon which we place the burden of bringing the very change we ourselves attempted to make in the first place.
Politics is different. People who go into politics do so because they want to make change, want to become civil rights leaders, etc (plus money, fame and glory and all that stuff). A lot of people in other industries, including games, just want to do what they do. Just because someone in a woman in games does not mean they should feel pressured to also be a Women's Rights Champion within the games industry just because they are a minority. If they wanted to campaign for Women's Rights so badly, they are still free to do so or they could just go into politics.
Then of course, comes the backlash. People start hating the minorities because they get all the special attention, special scholarships, better schools, etc. Majority people begin to hate minorities when they were once just cool, different, "who cares?" people, but their anger builds in silence while minorities are free to point out every nuance as a sign of sexism, racism, insert your ism here. The baseline becomes the minority. The result is that the scales don't get balanced, only flipped, but people will still keep thinking that the baseline is the majority and keep adding weights to the wrong side. Then of course the now favored minorities have to keep second guessing their abilities. Were they really the best person for the job because of their helpfulness, hardwork, and talent? Or was it because of their sex, skin color, etc?
All this for someone who just wants to make games.
Really, who cares? Yes, it's a good thing to know that the games industry is not male only. Yes, there are differences. But are the differences really that big? Are they really that exotic?
One of the impressions I got from the article was that it is the attitude of a small number of individuals and horror stories that seems to create the perception of widespread inequality. As pointed out in the article, it wasn't something Mrs. Brathwaite thought about often and it didn't have any significant negative impact on her career.
Based on this assumption, wouldn't it be more worthwhile to figure out the root cause? Do businesses and the industry itself present that many barriers specifically to women? Is it simply that female game developers have to be female gamers first? Are young women pressured out of playing games by their peers? Are the games today that repulsive? Do they present barriers? What exactly makes the games industry unattractive to a large number of women? Why do alot of my female friends pride themselves on their fashion instinct and their creative ability, but have never considered a career in an industry driven by the current "flavour of the month", creativity and imagination? Is the technical side emphasised too much?
I'm also confident that if there were more women in this industry, then the industry might be better equipped to develop new innovations. Having that more diverse team and deeper level of insight could trigger what it takes to make games that interest more women.
Unfortunately, my train of thought is quickly spiraling into a bit of a paradox. If todays games don't interest women, then they don't grow up to become developers, but without female game developers, then making games that interest women is that much more difficult!
While you must aknowledge differences between genders, races and sexual orientations, you should not put a label on a person because of a part of his or her identity and think that, because she's a woman or because he's gay, she thinks that way and he works that way.
What Mrs. Brathwaite said is that she doesnt consider herself like being just a woman in the game industry. She is a lot more than that. Yes, being a woman is a part of her whole identity, but it's just a small part of the much more complex reality that is Mrs. Brenda Brathwaite. It's the same for everyone. The identity of a person is based on so many factors. It's defined by age, gender, cultural context, social class, specific background, origins, personality, etc.
If people were getting obsessed just by the fact, for example, that you have blond hairs, or that you are tall, you could get bored after a while. I think it is what Mrs.Brathwaite tried to highlight.
To say 'who cares' is not a call to not recognize. It's a call to ignore inherent separatism - any discussion that focuses on the vices and virtues of majority A vs. Majority B will be detrimental at some point - like Sharon was saying, you go to far to give special treatment to minorities. That's still racism. The whole point was to eliminate special privileges for straight white christian males, but you're doing everyone a disservice by classifying these people as separate from those people, give the minorites a leg up. They're still minorities. They are still primarily viewed according to the very traits that were used on principle to decry the original racism sin.
I've seen enough people bleed to know that it's always red. I've saved enough people's lives to know that we are all the same as we lay dying. It's only when you can recognize that the iraqi farmer was really just trying to feed his family, that you'd be doing the same thing in his place, (and conversely, the soldier was just a kid from iowa trying to defend himself), that it becomes clear what the real issue was - separatism. Some flimsy notion of how you're the good guys, they're the bad guys; we bring freedom and civilization, and they're a bunch of religious whackos bent on world suffering. We wear green and they're all brown in man dresses.
'Who cares' is the only approach that offers a solution. Even if you want to talk about how a woman is an asset in and of herself to a game development team, it IS NOT because she's a woman - it is because of perspective. It's analogous to someone growing up in a large family, or growing up poor, or growing up in another country, or being disabled.
I think that to disagree with brenda's opinion on women in games, and I mean no offense here, is to not be thinking the larger issue through to it's logical conclusion. Brenda offers a unique perspective on game development that hopefully was recognized by the people who pay her, but it's a product of what she brings to the table from perspective, not some benevolent form of sexism. I have the same card to play; I have extensive real life experience in military conflict and black ops, so hopefully the next big "super soldier black ops rambo clone" sees the value in hiring someone like me. But it's not reverse classism, that I am a 'soldier in games' versus someone who never served. It's an offering of my perspective.
Adrir - The answer to most of your questions is actually in Sheri Graner Ray's book Gender Inclusive Game Design.
And I haven't read the op-ed piece yet, so I cannot really say much about it. But I agree with Roxanne and Messiah, to shrug and say "Who cares?" is dropping any separatism, which means you can actually get to know people for who they are, their true individualism, rather than any stereotypes they could be placed in.
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My company has a project management system already, but they really like the way Trello feels. I know I can use the API to access the Trello board data, but can I also fire a request from Trello to update my own data on my server?
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then it is necessarily linear.
are there any general characterizations of "approximate" linearity? for example, what can be said if $|f(x-y)-f(x)+f(y)-f(0)|$ is bounded by some small $\epsilon$? or, more relevant to what i need, if the $L^2$ norm of this difference is bounded by a small constant? in particular, suppose,
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Deploying ADF Essentials on Oracle Weblogic Server 12c
By Juan Camilo Ruiz on Dec 24, 2012
The recent released ADF Essentials gives developers a free version of the core components of the ADF framework which they can use to build an end-to-end ADF-based solution including advanced UI components, taskflows, the binding layer and business components or EJBs.
While Oracle Weblogic Server 12c was released a few months back, none of the current ADF releases are officially certified to run on it. However, with a little bit of tweaking here and there, I've manged to completely deploy an ADF Essentials application on WLS 12c - procedure that I'm going to share in this entry.
Disclaimer: Oracle does not offers support for this deployment today. So feel free to leave your comment in this entry or submit questions on the Oracle Forum if you run into issues and we as a community will try to figure things out.
Adding ADF Essentials to WLS 12c and Tweaking the server startupBefore deploying the ADF application the following steps need to be performed on the server:
- Create a domain where you deploy the ADF Essentials applications e.g adfessentials_domain using, this can be done with the QuickStart assistant. Do not install the JRF libraries on the domain.
- Download and unzip the ADF Essentials libraries inside the <adfessentials_domain>/lib folder using the the following command unzip -j adf_essentials.zip
- My laptop is 64-bit with 8GB of RAM, so I added the following parameters to my environment: export USER_MEM_ARGS="-Xms1024M -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=640m"
- Start the server using <adfessentials_domain>/bin/startWebLogic.sh -Doracle.mds.cache=simple
- Create a data source on the server using the Weblogic Console. e.g jdbc/summit_adfDS
Modifying and Deploying the ADF ApplicationAny given ADF Essentials application' s EAR file contains extra-libraries that are needed for the application to run on 3rd party application servers. For this article I used the ADF Summit application which can be downloaded from here. Before generating the EAR file make the following changes to the application:
- Adjust the Application Module local configuration to use the server's data source defined previously. For the Summit application change the configuration on all the application modules.
- Set the deployment platform to Glassfish3.1 at the ViewController and and at the application level. This will add the required libraries
- Under the application resources->META-INF open the weblogic-application.xml and comment out all of its content.
- For this application in specific I had to remove the reference to the oracleThreeColumnTemplate on the index.jspx, we are currently investigating this as well as the weblogic-application.xml tweak.
- Deploy the application to EAR file.
- Before deploying the application into the server you need to add a modified version of the web.xml file which removes a reference to the Glassfish Listener used for deploying and undeploying. This is the extract of the file that you need to modify: <!--listener> <listener-class>oracle.adf.share.glassfish.listener.ADFGlassFishAppLifeCycleListener</listener-class> </listener-->
- After modifying the file, re-package the application and deploy it to the server. Here is a video that summarized all the steps described above


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It seems to me it would be very useful to use Javascript for general server side scripting tasks as it has more or less the same features as Perl and Python. But AFAIK there are no generally available Javascript interpreters for the major machine architectures. I guess the other problem may be lack of libraries but surely these would come if the interpreters were there. Google's V8 maybe could be a starting point. Does anyone think we'll see this soon?
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Node.js is exactly what you're asking for ... and more.
It's marketed for building network application (and it's great at that!), but it's really a general purpose JavaScript runtime that you can use to build anything you want. Also, it is based on V8.
As mentioned by Joachim, node.js is exactly what you ask for.
It appears to not be well known when compared with Python and especially Perl for this type of thing, but perhaps that is simply because JavaScript isn't widely considered to be very good.
Windows Script Host has included a JScript (javascript) engine since at least Windows 2000 out of the box, allowing you to do sysadmin tasks using javascript.
It's also possible to embed this into a windows application using the WScript.Shell ActiveX/COM object.
In addition to node.js, there is also gjs, which is a GNOME-oriented runtime giving access to GNOME, GTK, and GLib libraries, among others. I believe you can use with it any library that supports GObject introspection.
Gjs is used widely in the GNOME3 desktop.
There is a javascript interpreter written for Java apps (called Rhino) and it seems to be designed to write server code in javascript, but have it execute as java code.
Personally, I think you're much better off with node.js as that is awesome. For a quick introduction, you can do much much worse than read the (free) NodeBeginner book.


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Westminster College: Office of the President
Brian Levin-Stankevich Biography
Dr. Brian Levin-Stankevich became the 17th president of Westminster College in July of 2012. He brings a career-long commitment to providing opportunities for all and a passion for the value and integrity of an education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences.
Levin-Stankevich was born in Buffalo, NY, attended Hamilton College for his undergraduate education, and received master's and doctoral degrees in history from the University at Buffalo (SUNY). A Fulbright Fellowship facilitated his working in Soviet archives on his dissertation in Russian legal history. He has published and taught in Russian history, comparative legal history, enrollment management, comparative education and higher education administration. He was a professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire that received 2006 Regents' Teaching Excellence Department Award and was the 2011 recipient of the President's Award from Region IV-East of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
Prior to becoming President of Westminster College, Levin-Stankevich served as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire from 2006-2012 where he successfully led the implementation of new degree programs (including the school's first doctoral program), more than $100 million in new construction and renovation, continuous annual growth in private fundraising, and broader integration of the university with its surrounding community. From 2005-6, he served as interim president of Eastern Washington University where he had served as vice provost, vice president and then provost from 1995-2006. He has served on Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development boards in Spokane and Eau Claire, and in various roles on the United Way of Eau Claire.
Throughout a long career in a range of administrative roles, Levin-Stankevich has maintained his connection to his scholarship and his students through presentations and classroom teaching, continuing this commitment even as chief campus executive. He has held positions in enrollment management, student affairs, undergraduate education, as an associate dean, and as a chief academic affairs officer, serving at the University at Buffalo, Florida Atlantic University, Eastern Washington University and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire prior to his arrival in Salt Lake City.
He has been active in national and regional professional organizations and is a member of scholarly associations. He served on the NCAA Division III Presidents' Council and as a peer evaluator for two regional accrediting associations. He recently completed a post-doctoral program at the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida.
"Dr. Brian," as he is known to students, has been married to Debi for 38 years. They have twin sons who are now 29. Levin-Stankevich is an avid recreational cyclist, guitarist and occasional adult-level hockey player.
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I use Ubuntu 12.04 on a two screen setup. Multiscreen on 12.04 has generally become much better, but there is one thing that really gets on my nerves: there's a mouse magnet of sorts on the middle edge (between the two screens). It's undoubtedly there to make it easier to interact with the launcher on the right screen. But I have enough trust in my mousing skills, the magnet is more annoying than helpful in my case. Can I disable it somehow?
There is a setting for it in
You may still get the behaviour if you have a launcher on the right monitor, so use the "Launcher Placement" option to select having your launcher on only the left screen. The stickyness between the screens is required for it to be easy to retrieve the launcher there.
You might need to log out and back in (or restart) for the changes to take effect.
The "hang" is a feature to make it possible to use the launcher in multi-monitor setups when it's set to auto-hide. It can be configured using
Recommended settings to minimize the effect are:
These settings do not completely stop the mouse from sticking, but makes it less likely it will do so. You can reduce
Possibly also
I personally thought it could be a wrong design in an extended desktop where in the middle of the desktop, a launcher is present. Yet, notice that the launcher has new settings :
The reveal sensitivity allows you to adjust how much the launcher is sensitive to your mouse crossing. The higher, the more you have to push the mouse against the launcher to reveal it. While auto-hide is activated, and about 27 % of reveal sensitivity, you can surf your mouse from the left external monitor to the right one or the opposite, easily without accidently revealing the launcher. Check the poll, if you want to vote for this option.
Thanks to Hanynowsky's answer http://askubuntu.com/a/111316/29209
You can also modify the settings inside of CCSM if you prefer a GUI option. Its under CSSM > Unity > Experimental
There are options for Launcher Edge Stop Overcome Pressure and Edge stop Velocity which you can modify.
For anyone elses reference.
I ended up setting 'Edge Stop Velocity' to 10,
This seems to give the perfect balance for me. No lag when dragging windows between screen. Launcher is fairly easy to access on both monitors, No mis-reveals when going for the back button in the browser...
in CCSM there is a setting under Experimental tab called Launcher Capture Mouse. if you disable it than the effect will completely disabled
Also if you want to leave it the way it is I have found that moving the mouse VERY quickly past the middle will let you pass right through it without even the slightest bit of hang time. I still changed it mainly because moving the mouse that fast was a bit annoying. Maybe someone will find it useful though.
The launcher capture mouse option in
I have no interest in Unity launcher menu on my secondary right hand screen, and the hastle this caused in day to day use was an unwelcome pain. I didn't realise the
The problem only happens when you have the launcher placed on "All Displays". I had already changed "Settings > Displays > Sticky edge > OFF", but there was no improvement. So I changed "Settings > Displays > Launcher Placement" to my first monitor only (removing "All Displays"), and the problem disappeared.
Bug 938448 seems to be covering the same problem - "On multi-monitor, mouse gets stuck in the middle, especially going right to left"
Edit: Nope; this one is different: the mouse get stuck in between jumping back and forth; usually after a Suspend. Actually, it's not even Unity related.
As another option, you can always set the following gconf values under
These settings will basically turn off sticky edges, as well as the ability to access the launcher by using the mouse.
You can then use the "Super" (Windows/Apple) key (or Alt+F1) to access the launcher via keyboard ;)
There is also the "Launcher Monitors" option in CCSM under "Ubuntu Unity Plugin". Switching this to "Primary Desktop" solved the problem for me in the laptop + external monitor setup.
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I know that in the smooth category the following is true. There are at most countable many embedded moebius bands in euclidean 3-space. Is this also true in topological category?
There are at most countably many disjoint embeddings of homeomorphic images of a non-orientable hypersurface in $\mathbb R^k$. This is theorem 2 in "An uncountable family of disjoint spatial continua in Euclidean space" by V.K. Ionin and Yu.G. Nikonorov.


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Stocks Finish Lower as Stalemate Drags On
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Stock investors stepped up the pace of selling Tuesday, sending major market indexes to their lowest levels in more than a month amid the stalemate in Washington.
As has been the case for more than a week, stocks pushed lower as investors considered the possibility that the federal debt ceiling will be breached and the Treasury will default on government debt.
While most investors say they consider the risk of a default remote, with time growing shorter for the U.S. to avoid hitting the debt ceiling, hedge funds and other investors looked to cut positions, especially on winning stocks after a year of big gains, traders said.
"The shutdown is a now a sideshow. This is fully about the debt ceiling," said Quincy Krosby, a market strategist at Prudential Financial, PRU -0.63 % which manages roughly $1 trillion in assets.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 159.71 points, or 1.1%, to 14776.53. The index finished at its lowest level since Aug. 27 and down 5.7% from its Sept. 18 peak.
"People can talk about a great buying opportunity, or how much money they are waiting to put to work, but we're not seeing anyone ready to step in right now," Matthew Cheslock, a trader with brokerage firm Virtu Financial. "Scared money will wait until there is something closer to a resolution than we have now."
The S&P 500 index lost 20.67 points, or 1.2%, to 1655.45, and finished the day down 4.1% from its record high. But the index is still up 16.1% so far in 2013. The Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 75.54 points, or 2%, to 3694.83.
Leading the declines Tuesday were some of the growth-sensitive sectors and stocks that have outperformed the S&P 500 in recent months. Technology, consumer-discretionary and materials stocks dropped 1.6%, 1.7% and 1.7%, respectively.
Particularly hard hit were some of 2013's hottest stocks. Netflix Inc., NFLX -0.44 % lost 5%, but remains up 227% this year even after Tuesday's selloff. Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA 1.81 % lost 4.6% but is still up 416% in 2013 and Priceline PCLN 1.86 % lost 4.2%, but is up 60.9% in the year to date.
Bryan Novak, director of trading and portfolio manager at Astor Asset Management, said most of Tuesday's selling was from fast-moving investors such as hedge funds paring positions as the deadline for an agreement to raise the debt ceiling approaches.
"A lot of what you're seeing is a resetting of some of the short-term tactical trades moving into the debt-ceiling crisis," said Mr. Novak. "The medium-to-longer-term players aren't necessarily moving around in this market."
In another sign of heightened anxiety, the market's so-called fear gauge, the Chicago Board Options Exchange's Volatility Index, added 4.8% to 20.34. That was the second-highest close of the year, just behind the June high of 20.49.
European markets fell, with the Stoxx Europe 600 finishing down 0.8%, after disappointing data out of Germany. Manufacturing orders in the euro zone's largest economy declined in August due to a large drop in foreign orders. Germany's DAX 30 index lost 0.4%.
Asian markets closed mostly higher. Mainland Chinese markets reopened after being closed for a weeklong holiday. The Shanghai Composite climbed 1.1%. Japan's Nikkei Stock Average rose 0.3%.
In corporate news, J.C. Penney JCP 1.79 % rallied after the retailer said the year-over-year decline in same-store sales slowed last month, and it expects the improved sales trends it saw in September to continue through the rest of the year.
The U.S.-listed shares of Alcatel-Lucent fell after the Franco-American telecom-gear maker said late Monday it plans to cut about 10,000 jobs world-wide as part of a restructuring.
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COLLEGE STATION, Jan. 25, 2013—Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp today announced that the annual economic impact of the A&M System in the Bryan/College Station area has surpassed the $4 billion milestone for the first time—and has almost doubled in a decade. For calendar year 2012, the estimated Texas A&M impact on the entire Research Valley was $4.3 billion, an increase of more than $540 million from 2011 levels and $2.2 billion more than 2002, a 95.7 percent gain.
A major factor for the increase in the contribution to the local economy was the growth in expenditures by visitors attending sporting events and other campus activities at Texas A&M University. Attendance at Texas A&M athletic events increased by almost 98,000, including a gain for home football games of more than 77,000, for a 15 percent increase over the 2011 level. Visitors, particularly with Texas A&M's move to the Southeastern Conference, remained in the Bryan-College Station area longer and spent more money in 2012.
Those findings highlight the annual in-house study conducted by Texas A&M's Division of Finance upon the request of Chancellor Sharp and Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin, who leads the system's flagship campus.
The direct local impact of Texas A&M and other locally headquartered members of the A&M System in 2012 totaled approximately $1.7 billion—an increase of about $217 million compared to 2011. With the application of the standard multiplier effect (2.5 times)—reflecting the number of times a dollar is spent and re-spent as it passes through the local economy—the total impact reached the estimated $4.3 billion level.
Sharp and Loftin joined in expressing their enthusiasm for the "win-win" relationship with the local communities.
"I like to think of us—the various parts of the A&M System based here and our host communities—as a mutually supportive 'family,' underscored most recently by our mutually beneficial agreement for community support for plans to expand Texas A&M's Kyle Field," Sharp said. "We are blessed to live and work here, and we look forward to the future with high expectations of continued growth and prosperity, working hand in hand."
Added Loftin: "We are proud to partner with other locally based members of the A&M System in contributing to the economic and cultural vitality of our communities and surrounding area. Likewise, Texas A&M is proud to call this area our home, and we obviously appreciate all the support we receive from the communities. I always say that 'we are in this together,' and that includes our 50,000 Aggie students on this campus as well as our dedicated faculty and staff."
The annualized average payroll for the 21,581 Texas A&M and A&M System employees (including student employees) based locally was approximately $873 million. Payrolls directly benefit the local economy through purchases made by employees and their families as well as through other factors, including the deposit base in local financial institutions, officials noted.
The direct local economic impact of the university's record number of students at the main campus (50,227 for the fall semester compared to 49,861 in 2011) was estimated to be $470.3 million. Major categories for student expenditures include food and housing, clothing, school supplies and recreation.
The study showed that non-student participation at athletic and other entertainment venues, commencement exercises, continuing education programs and the George Bush Presidential Library increased by 19.5 percent, to an estimated 1.3 million visitors for 2012. When applying the per-diem leisure rate used by the Bryan/College Station Visitor and Convention Bureau (with the typical visitor staying in the community 2.5 days), campus visitors, including prospective students and their families, directly accounted for about $377.7 million going into the local economy, for a gain from a year ago of more than $200 million, the study showed.
Texas A&M and its related state agencies continue to rank first in the state in research investment. Research totals for Fiscal Year 2012 are not yet available, but the FY 2011 total credited to entities headquartered in Bryan/College Station, including the Health Science Center, was a record $705 million. Officials pointed out that a large portion of the research funding is applied to salaries and wages and are thus included in the payroll category.
Also, officials noted, in some cases research results lead to patents and licenses that have significant economic benefits that are not included in the local economic impact study.
Construction costs attributed to calendar year 2012 total about $205.3 million, a decline of approximately $58 million, attributable to the completion of work during the year on several projects, including the expansion and renovation of the Memorial Student Center. Officials noted campus construction projects provide many opportunities for regional employment and raw material sales that are not necessarily included in the university's generalized study.
The study measured the economic impact of Texas A&M, as well as key aspects of A&M System members based in College Station, including the System Offices, the Texas A&M Health Science Center, and the System's seven state agencies: Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, Texas A&M Forest Service, Texas A&M Transportation Institute and Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory.
University officials within the Division of Finance pointed out the study is designed to highlight some of the regional economic activity resulting from the presence of Texas A&M, the A&M System headquarters and A&M System agency activities conducted locally. It does not purport to represent the sum total of their full impact on the region, and the study's parameters and methodologies continue to be fine-tuned, they added.


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William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
In this Article
- Achilles tendon rupture facts
- Function of Achilles tendon
- Blood supply of Achilles tendon
- What is an Achilles tendon rupture?
- What causes an Achilles tendon rupture?
- What are Achilles tendon rupture symptoms and signs?
- How is a ruptured Achilles tendon diagnosed?
- What are treatment options for an Achilles tendon rupture?
- What are possible complications of an Achilles tendon rupture?
- What is the recovery time for an Achilles tendon rupture?
- What rehabilitation exercises are recommended following an Achilles tendon rupture?
- How can an Achilles tendon rupture be prevented?
- Are there any home remedies for an Achilles tendon rupture?
- What is the prognosis of an Achilles tendon rupture?
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What are possible complications of an Achilles tendon rupture?
If a complete rupture of the Achilles tendon is treated nonsurgically, the risk of re-rupture is anywhere from 20%-40%. However, newer data indicate that the risk is much lower. Repeat surgery for Achilles tendon rupture is usually associated with poor results.
Other complications related to surgery include skin sloughing, wound infection, nerve damage, and a protracted recuperation period.
What is the recovery time for an Achilles tendon rupture?
Once the cast is removed, the initial therapy is passive exercises to regain mobility in the ankle joint. After several weeks, more strenuous resistance exercises are incorporated. This is then followed by gait training exercises after about two to three months following the initial treatment. Return to routine activities usually occurs at four to six months. The recovery phase is dependent on the patient's motivation, desired activity levels, and the quality of the physical therapy program.
What rehabilitation exercises are recommended following an Achilles tendon rupture?
Some type of rehabilitation is necessary after injury to the Achilles tendon. For patients with partial rupture who are managed conservatively, rehabilitation should be started once the pain has diminished. Patients who undergo surgical repair of the Achilles tendon do not need physical therapy during the acute phase of healing, but it is highly recommended once the incision has healed
Aggressive physical therapy is the key to recovery. After the cast is removed, the ankle is gently massaged and mobilized to reduce stiffness. After two weeks, active exercises are undertaken. A total of 12-16 weeks of active physical therapy is required for the best results. The ability to return to the previous physical activities is dependent on the motivation and quantity of rehabilitation.
Many exercises can be undertaken following Achilles tendon repair. The exercises usually begin once the pain has subsided. The initial exercises include calf muscle stretching, with and without weights on the foot.
Once flexibility is obtained, strengthening exercise with the knee in extension and flexion are done. Both isotonic and isometric exercises are utilized to regain muscle strength. Once the individual is totally pain free, sport-specific exercises are started. A warm-up is highly recommended prior to any exercise. Jogging, jumping, and sprinting are encouraged for all athletes.
In individuals who develop pain after exercise, a night splint may be worn to help relax the tendon.
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Some things can affect the number of colds that kids get. Kids who are around other children (school, day care, siblings) get more colds than those who aren't. This doesn't mean we should stop sending our kids to school and day care, but there are some things we can do to try to limit their exposure to germs.
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Grammatically speaking it shouldn't be an issue, but I have heard from some people that a non-japanese using 僕{ぼく} sounds really weird. Has anyone else heard this? And if so, is there a reason?
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This question frequently comes up among foreigners in Japan, especially men, as it seems there's a feeling that sticking with
Men often wonder if they should use
Which is partly true, but I've often found when talking with foreign men about this, they focus entirely on the word and how it represents them, and not on the grammatical construct around the word when they use it.
For a somewhat extreme example, saying:
... would sound weird, regardless of who you were, because it mixes polite and and casual.
It's like, in English, saying something like "Excuse me, dude, would you mind terribly telling me the time?" Mixing "would you mind terribly" and "dude" is an awkward mix of slang and old-timey politeness, which in the end just conveys one doesn't have mastery of English (assuming the speaker isn't in an ironic context.)
If you want to use
Bottom line is, as a non-native Japanese speaker,
It's far more important to learn when to not use a personal pronoun at all. Usually, when Japanese find
On a side note regarding
Hope that helps.
The choice of first-person pronoun depends on the level of formality in the current context. During (formal) interviews I have heard わたし about 90% of the time, わたくし occasionally, and ぼく only rarely. However, during informal conversations, it is quite common to hear ぼく or おれ. I prefer おれ personally, but anecdotally, I have had a native Japanese tell me he prefers ぼく because it sounds "softer" than おれ. I can't think of why it would be inappropriate for a foreigner to use whichever he prefers unless the situation calls for something more formal than ぼく.
It should be okay, at least I used it mainly more than 私 and 俺. But, sometimes when everyone in the conversation is a guy, I use 俺.
But Japanese guys only use 俺 most of the time within conversation, so may be using 僕 or 私 would be kind of obvious if speaker is non-Japanese, and of course that will depends on their pronunciations/intonations too.


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I have studied Electronics Engineering and of course the LED. I was wondering that they claim that the speed of light is $3\cdot10^8$ m/s, but do they claim the speed of the light of the sun rays ? or any light ? Because the speed of light that comes out of semi-conductors like LEDs can be controlled, correct ?
The speed of light is of course $3\cdot10^8$ m/s in a vacuum. This is the Universal limit for the speed of light, which all electromagnetic waves (Radio, Ultraviolet Light, Visible, etc.) travel at. Where they differ is wavelength and frequency.
Where frequency is determined by the speed of light in a vacuum and the wavelength: $$f = \frac{c}{\lambda}$$
And you can determine the wavelength in the same manner: $$\lambda = \frac{c}{f}$$
However this only in a vacuum. It changes once we introduce different materials for these electromagnetic waves to travel through.
Permeability changes based off of the material. In a vacuum this permeability is the Permeability of Free Space denoted as: $$\mu_{0} = 4\pi \cdot 10^7 \frac{Wb}{A\cdot m}$$
If passing through a non-magnetic material, $\mu_{0} = 1 $ and you focus on permittivity. Permittivity of Free Space is: $$\epsilon_{0} = 8.854 \cdot 10^{-12} \frac{F}{m}$$
So the speed of light with respect to permittivity of free space is: $$ c = \frac{1}{\sqrt{\mu_{0}\epsilon_{0}}} $$
And with respect to relative relative permeability and permittivity the phase velocity is: $$ v_{p} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{\mu_{r}\epsilon_{r}}} $$
Relative permeabilities and permittivities you can find listed in many tables.
So in your case you're asking if you can alter the speed of light in a LED, the answer is no. This is because the speed of light itself is a constant.
However you can alter the relative speed of light, or the phase velocity (the velocity the wave propagates at), because the medium that you send a signal or a wave through alters the speed that the wave will travel through the given medium.
So physicists and engineers can alter the phase velocity of the light emitted from a LED by changing the material and amount of layers of the material that the light passes through. For this look into Planar Waveguides which is a large focus in optics.
The speed of light in vaccuum is the same to all observers, and is about 300 Mm/s.
No, the speed of light coming out of LEDs can not be controlled. I can't even guess where you think you heard that from.
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What is your *least* favorite candy?
Since everyone always asks which is your favorite, I thought I'd give everyone a chance to vent on the one they hate the most.
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Myself, it would be any candy that contains coconut.
Boston Baked Beans. Who are they trying to fool with that "candy"
Black licorice. How in the world that vile concoction was ever labeled as candy is beyond me.
Good n' Plenties.
There are so many it is hard to decide, but many are featured here:
My (un)favorite: cotton candy, which is just sugar.
Peppermint patties.
Peeps - I don't really like them, but I eat them anyways
I really don't like regular M&Ms. Not sure why. I like the peanut, almond, and pretzel ones though.
Sugar Daddys and Gummy Bears... Arch enemies of all dental work! Great for pulling out those old fillings!
While black licorice or anything with coconut would be at the top of my list, I'd have to say chocolate covered cherries.
Anything candy banana. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the actual fruit, but totally disgusted with fake candy banana. Does not matter what brand candy it is either!
Yellow and orange. Red, pink, and blue are totally better!
@lpgstock: i had jolly ranchers take out a filling. i finished the candy and stuck the filling back in temporarly.
there are so many to choose from. i'll second the black licorice and add black jellybeans. coconut is also yuck. as are peeps (for some reason i don't like anything with marshmellows).
dh says those things that you get at christmas that are wrapped to look like strawberries. use to come in nets full of assorted bulk candies.
@thefenst: i think it is that you need the salt to offset the sweet of the chocolate. have you tried the dark chocolate m&ms?
@moosezilla: I realize that not everyone agrees on what's good and what's bad, but your dh is categorically insane.
@moosezilla: I also had a Jolly Rancher take out a filling once. Got it refilled, and then the tooth (a baby tooth) fell out 2 months later. You might be right about the salt/sweet thing. Yes, I have tried the dark chocolate ones. I prefer them to the milk chocolate ones, but they aren't my favorite.
marshmellow peeps are gross
Peanut Chews and anything tasting like anise (black licorice). My worst experience has been with jelly bean brands that don't stick to the standard flavor color combination. How is it possible that one purple bean has a fruit flavor, you eat another and you get licorice???? I thought it was fruit jbs versus spice jbs. But not so..
@amoraluv: You have to let them sit out for a few months to get good hard and stale. Frozen isn't so bad either. I had dark chocolate dipped ones that were pretty good.
I don;t like hard candies that are just sweet. They have to be tart or at least have a strong flavor of some kind.
Red vines. Those things are disgusting, they just taste like dry wax flavoured with artificial sweetener. Like diet soda. why do people love them so much? Uggghh.
I had the unfortunate experience of trying the crazy Jelly Bellies,and i may never eat another jelly bean in my life because of it.
The pack came with two types of beans, the good and the bad. Each good color had a bad counterpart, and the pack came with a spinner to decide your fate.
I spun chocolate pudding/canned dog food. Guess which one I picked.
I have never had a flavor stay in my mouth that long, and i swear i can still taste it just thinking about it now...
@jimmyd103: tried it. still gross. If I turn them into peeping smores their not bad, but on their own is ewwy
@woothulhu: OMG those popcorn tasting jelly beans are the worse. I almost threw up eating one.
@rprebel: My thoughts exactly. uggh
Candy corn. It tastes neither like candy nor corn, so why do they call it that?
Chocolate malt balls. YUCK!
Anything with the consistency of jellybeans (this includes corn candy, Skittles, etc), and anything with the consistency of Swizzlers. I dislike anything that tastes like licorice, too.
Also anything marshmallowy, to include Peeps, meringue (hand-whipped cream FTW on my banana icebox pie) and Sta-Puft marshmallows.
Yeah, that's 2.5 classes of candy on my shizlist. More for the rest of you.
peeps and circus peanuts, gag!
Almond Joy- wasting perfectly good chocolate by putting nuts and coconut in it
@stupimlico: Circus peanuts was going to be my go-to answer....
Twizzlers are pretty gross to me. I actually like normal black liqorice though.
Among some others already mentioned, I hatehatehate Watermelon flavor (especially gum, blecch), and largely dislike Blackcurrant flavor stuff (although this is much less common here in the US, it's pretty common in my husband's imported English candies, and I always forget and eat them thinking they are grape (one of my favorites), and then run to a trash can to spit it out). I also really don't like anything mint flavored or anise flavored.
So glad to hear that I'm not the only person in the world who hates black licorice. Urgh! I know that some people love the stuff, but the taste makes me physically ill. As someone mentioned, the colors of some candies mislead me into accidently eating a licorice flavored one. Blah!
Anything with white chocolate. White chocolate is not chocolate.
I absolutely can't stand even the smell of black licorice let alone the taste!
@rprebel: AGREED black licorice! How does that work??
I also do not enjoy the excessively chalky candies like the valentines little hearts or those NECCO wafers (imagine chalky, tasteless quarter sized disks) MY MOUTH WAS DRY LIKE A DESERT
@darthemerald: There's a dessert/desert joke in there somewhere, but I can't find it.
Necco wafers are gross, I'm with you on that.
@rprebel: point of interest black licorice is redundant because licorice is the flavor so licorice is all black people mistakenly refer to twizlers as licorice.
@gideonfrost: ROFL...I skimmed the top part of your response, but when I saw "all black people mistakenly refer to twizzlers as licorice" I did a double take. Wha-wha-WHAT? Anyway, you're right. I just wanted to avoid the "what about twizzlers" question, so I specified black licorice.
Twizzlers aren't half bad. They're not half good, but they're not half bad either. They're 13% good, 13% bad, and 74% meh. And 0% licorice.
@rprebel: I suppose a comma or period might have helped as well but I suck at life.
Anything with peanut butter in it, as I am deathly allergic.
Call me picky, but I have a bit of disdain for anything which causes me to suffocate and die.
I can't stand malted milk balls, or anything with crispies in it like Crunch bars. The texture/sound they make gross me out.
fake strawberry hard candies. ya know, the ones that come in wrappers that look vaguely like strawberries? always tasted like cough syrup to me.
I'm also not a fan of mint and chocolate.
Black licorice and Tootsie Rolls.
The flavor of malt balls makes me gag.
Ditto on everyone who said black licorice... and NO banana or candy-grape flavored junk (genuine grape flavor is fine).


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6 Hit Songs Written By the Last Person You'd Expect
#3. Nas Co-Wrote Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It"
Nasir Jones, commonly known to the world as Nas (or Nasty Nas, Nastradamus, Esco, Escobar ... take your pick), has spent nearly two decades performing feats of badassery that have become the stuff of legend.
When East Coast rap seemed all but dead, his debut album, Illmatic, helped shift the balance of power back to New York. It is widely considered to be one of the most perfect rap albums ever made, and the guy was only 20 when he wrote and recorded it (with all of one special guest appearance, which was completely unheard of at the time and still is today).
When his own career seemed all but dead, he decided to take on the biggest rapper in the world, Jay-Z, and made a mockery of the man. The respect gained from knocking Jay-Z off his high horse immediately put him back in the good graces of the music-buying public.
A recent cease-fire secret handshake marked an end to hostilities.
When Nas announced at a show in 2007 that an upcoming album would be called Nigga, Bill O'Reilly threatened one of his famous boycotts over the title.
In response, Nas challenged O'Reilly to a debate live on The O'Reilly Factor, but only after announcing that he was shelving the Nigga title in favor of the far more retailer-friendly Nigger.
"That could work."
What we're saying is that Nas has as much street cred in the rap world as anybody. So we apologize if what we tell you next shatters that illusion into a million tiny little radio-friendly pieces. Here goes:
Nas co-wrote Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It."
Yes, Nas is in large part responsible for absurd lines like this ...
Ciga-Cigar right from Cuba-Cuba/I just bite it/It's for the look/I don't light it/Ill-way the an-may on the ance-day oor-flay/Giving it up jiggy/Make it feel like foreplay.
Sadly, his work on "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" stands as the only Grammy Award-winning project and Billboard No. 1 single of Nas' career. A song that has become synonymous with corniness in all facets of pop culture, from being a terribly overused sitcom punchline to being a goddamn Banjo-Kazooie achievement, is the crowning jewel in Nas' career as far as mainstream success goes.
"A fucking Grammy? You serious?"
This is exactly why Americans shouldn't be allowed to vote.
#2. Neil Young Wrote the Insanely Cheesy '70s Classic "Lotta Love"
If you grew up any time prior to the 1990s and aren't familiar with Nicolette Larson's breakthrough (and only) hit, "Lotta Love," your parents either didn't own a radio or didn't have enough casual disco sex. Whatever the case, give it a listen now if you'd like ...
If you don't like, just keep these lyrics in mind ...
It's gonna take a lotta love/To get us through the night/It's gonna take a lotta love/To make things work out right/So if you are out there waitin'/I hope you show up soon/Cause my heart needs relatin'/Not solitude.
Go ahead and sing those lyrics in the most '70s-sounding voice you can summon. We know that makes absolutely no sense, but still, pretty corny, right? Now try to wrap your head around this ... that inane slice of '70s cheese was written by this guy:
That's Neil goddamn Young, the man often credited as the "Godfather of Grunge." A man known for the kind of violent and unhinged guitar solos that often end with guitar strings being forcibly removed from the guitar.
A man so legendarily grumpy and uncaring that he quit a 1976 tour with Stephen Stills well before it was over by simply sending him a note that said, "Funny how some things that start spontaneously end that way. Eat a peach, Neil." That guy. He alone wrote one of the sappiest "adult-oriented rock" songs of all time. And the story of how Nicolette Larson got her hands on it is just one more testament to Neil Young's legendary assholish tendencies.
Larson had beat the odds and made a friend in the surly rock legend when she provided background vocals on Young's 1977 album American Stars 'n Bars. While riding around Neil's ranch with him at the wheel of an almost certainly beat to shit truck, Larson popped in a cassette that was just sitting on the floor. It turned out to be a demo version of "Lotta Love." Larson was taken with the track, and Young said that she could have it. Score! Except not really!
Nicolette Larson, widely regarded as the "Godmother of Swedish Death Metal."
Either Young didn't remember that he gave Larson the song or he just eventually fell in love with it himself and decided he didn't give a shit. Whatever the case, despite promising the song to Larson, Young recorded his own version of the song.
Next, in a move that perfectly represents his often inexplicably dickish nature, Young released his version of the song on the exact same day that Larson released her version. For his part, Young probably didn't even remember recording the song by the time the album it was on (Comes a Time) was released.
As for Nicolette Larson, she was planning on releasing her version as the lead single of her debut album. In other words, it was kind of a big deal. But it was a big deal that now had to wait while it was determined if Young intended to release his version as a single. It would be a full two months before Larson was able to release her version of the song.
Future performances of the song included the lines, "So if you are out there waitin',
I hope you show up soon. Except for you, Neil Young, you're a jerk."
When asked to comment on the matter, we're guessing Young said something along the lines of, "Hey, what's for lunch?" and then went back to not giving a shit.
#1. Cee-Lo Green, Busta Rhymes and Sir-Mix-a-Lot Wrote the Pussycat Dolls' "Don't Cha" (Kind Of)
When it was released in 2005, most people were too busy wishing that the person who decided the Pussycat Dolls should venture into music would be exiled to a prison island to be even remotely concerned with who wrote their debut single, the disgustingly catchy "Don't Cha" (aka "Don't Cha Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me").
The Pussycat Dolls at a landmark rally for radical feminism.
Honestly, even if anyone looked into it they might not have noticed anything special with the list of names. Thomas Callaway, Anthony Ray, Trevor Smith ... just a bunch of names that you probably won't recognize until we run them through the stage-name filter, which we'll do right now. Here's the list again, translated into a bunch of names you should absolutely recognize:
Cee-Lo Green
Busta Rhymes
Sir Mix-a-Lot
Wait ... what? How were those three even in the same room at the same time in 2005? Is Sir Mix-a-Lot even alive anymore? It doesn't matter, because he didn't actually have any part in writing the song, other than the fact that the chorus of "Don't Cha" is lifted from a Sir-Mix-a-Lot song called "Swass." So that explains his name being on the list. Busta Rhymes makes the list because he decided street credibility is for fuckfaces and wrote a rap for the song.
So what's Cee-Lo's excuse? How did the man who famously made a song called "Fuck You" into a radio anthem and helped legitimize Southern hip-hop in the '90s as one-fourth of legendary Atlanta rap outfit Goodie Mob come to write a song about how you wish your girlfriend was as hot as him? It's a pretty simple story, really. Green wrote the song with the intention of giving it not to the Pussycat Dolls, but rather to a female protege named Tori Alamaze.
And he did! And she recorded it! And released it as a single! And was then promptly dropped from her record label never to be heard from again!
Understanding that a song with this kind of historical significance just could not go unappreciated by the general public, all involved parties ignored the fact that the song failed to turn water into wine the first time around and decided to see if the Pussycat Dolls would have better luck with it as their first single.
The Pussycat Dolls performing their hit single "Human Centipede (of Luv)."
And the rest, as they say, is shitty music history.
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The point is that I've recently been reflecting on exactly how long I've been blogging (since January 1st, 2008), how many posts I've written (this is #924) and how my audience (and my writing) has evolved over the years.
More specifically how the things I wrote in 2008, I'm guessing 95% of you haven't read, so I'm going to share some random ass things about myself because I can - it's my blog after all. It's like a online getting to know you exercise...
Things you may or may not have known about me:
1. I have three 6 inch pins in my left hip holding it in place from a surgery I had in the 6th grade. This surgery also gave me a 7 inch scar down the length of my hip, sexy.
2. Less than five short years ago I was a pack a day smoker. Parliament Ultra Lights, mmm, I still get the cravings, but I'm so happy I quit. Full disclosure: I still may bum a smoke here or there when I have some cocktails in me.
3. I love Phish. I first came in contact with the band in high school, got heavier into them in college but was terrified of seeing a show or really getting into "the scene" as I always thought I was too preppy to like Phish. I just like the music, man. That being said, I'll be seeing Phish for the second time this summer and I may wear Tory Burch just to weird out the phans.
4. I can eat an entire box of cereal in one sitting. No description needed for this one, I just really like cereal.
5. I played Mrs. Banks in a version of Mary Poppins in elementary school. I also was in Bye Bye Birdie, Godspell, and Once Upon a Mattress in high school - your general choir/drama kid, I was awesome. I also may or may not have sung the Star Spangled Banner before my high school's boys basketball games.
That's it for now - anyone else feel like sharing?
Happy Thursday, kids!
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hmmmm I like some of my old posts better than others. I still laugh when I look at how I was tagging them and I still don't realy have any organization with that.ReplyDelete
Tory Birch at a Phish concert? Hahahah. Please share video of that (more specifically, the reactions of others). =)ReplyDelete
My blog has evolved from "Drinking With & Dating of Strange Men" to "Here, Have Another Cat Photo" across (almost) 10 years of blogging. Seesh. I'm so boring. lolReplyDelete
The old stories are still the most read -- and most searchable -- on my blog. And it still cracks me up that I essentially have a Timeline of Assholes. :)
I can't drink NESQUIK strawberry or really any pink milk. Why? When I was like 10 I drank a ton and then started a long drive and threw it up but caught it with my hands/mouthReplyDelete
I didn't know what to do so just sat there holding throw up in my mouth with my hands until finally I threw up more and it went everywhere.
you're welcome.
Cereal. CEREAL. I wantttt.ReplyDelete
I never had a bowl of cereal until about 3 years ago. Now I'm obsessed. Carbalicious.ReplyDelete
Fun! As a long time reader of your blog I didnt know some of these things about you. I never would have guessed you sang the star spangled banner before basketball games. Good for you for giving up smoking. And cereal for dinner after a hectic workday trumps basically everything else.ReplyDelete
Woops sorry, the above comment is mine. I was helping a friend with something in google and forgot I was still signed in as her.ReplyDelete
cereal, is the bomb! whether its bran flakes, or cinnamon toast crunch, I got your back on this one sister!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 16, 2012 at 4:42 AM
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oh man, i love reading my old entries (and cringing frequently!). and seeing as how they go back to May 2005 (!!!) i have plenty of cringe-worthy posts available anytime i get nostalgic :)ReplyDelete
isn't it crazy how long we've been blogging!? in may i'll hit five years and that's just insane to me.ReplyDelete
also, i love cereal too. like whoa. like ohmygosh i love cereal, haha.
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I know this isn't politics ?, but I needed responses and no one looking in the teaching section.ReplyDelete
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- Kerry WMarch 20, 2012 at 10:09 PM
You totally rocked every single one of those parts in 5. So happy I was present for all of them, even Mary Poppins!! xoxoReplyDelete


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In Chip 'n Dale, are they male or female chipmunks?
In Chip 'n Dale, are they male or female chipmunks?
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For a long time, there was nothing specific about the two chipmunks to clearly identify their sex within the old cartoons.
From Disney's own site:
So, if the official line is that they are "brothers", then they must, by definition, both be male.
Historically, it wasn't until the show Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers that they were ever given clothes or fleshed out personalities. The clothes and personalities are generally male, and there are at least two instances where both of the brothers exhibit an attraction towards female characters.
Tammy the squirrel in Adventures in Squirrelsitting
Foxglove the bat in Good Times, Bat Times
From the Disney Comics Wiki about Chip & Dale:
Plus the page lists them as male in their biobox.
And from Comicvine's entry on Dale:
And from Magical Mouse Schoolhouse:
And from the Disneyland* website:
(*© Disney, All Rights Reserved, Disney Parks & Travel)
This all seems to point to male.
Just go to the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers wikiquote page and do control-F (or Command-F on a Mac) to search for the word "he" on the page, you can find various lines where the characters were referred to as "he", like this one from Kiwi's Big Adventure:
And this one from To the Rescue: Part V:
(Dale's line here about Chip being his "friend" suggests the writer probably didn't imagine them as brothers at the time, regardless of what the people writing the websites quoted by phantom42 and Meat Trademark thought)
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Can Einstein's equations in vacuum $R_{ab} - \frac{1}{2}Rg_{ab} + \Lambda g_{ab}= 0$ be treated as a Dirichlet problem?
I am thinking of something along those lines: Consider a compact manifold $M$ with boundary $\partial M$. For a given metric $g_{ab}$ on $\partial M$, does a unique (up to diffeomorphisms) solution to Einstein's equations on $M$ exist? Are there any constraints on the metric on the boundary?
Einstein's equation can be recovered by looking for critical points in the Einstein-Hilbert action, but I don't know enough about variational problems to deduce anything about existence or uniqueness. The fact that general relativity is generally covariant also seems to complicate things, since this leads to a huge coordinate freedom.
Does this depend on the dimension of the manifold or can a general statement be made? I am mostly interested in the three and four dimensional cases.
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Hello there people with knowledge!!
Not really sure whether this is the right forum to be in for this question but here goes:
Whilst clearing out my recent desceased fathers house considering he never drunk in his life a number of wines dates 1921 and 1934 but fot this forum I found a bootle of rye whisky I believe was made in 1872. I have searched the net in research but the label is nothing like any i have seen most labels appear to be much later. The head line is
A.overholt & Co
Established 1810
Distillers of Monongahela Pure Rye Whisky
the finest rye whiskey in the world
Pittsburgh PA
the neck has a collar stuck on it it saying "Distilled in 1872 bottled by WM.J.Friday, Pittsburgh,PA"
The neck appears to have a lead seal over similar to a wine bottle with some sort of stamp impressed in on it at the very top. Once I cleared the half inch of dust of the bottle i havent had the guts to wash it in case i destroy the label the clarity appears very good a deep deddish brown with no sort of sediment at all. Any advice would be very helpful as to also a possible value or what i should do with it to find out more.
Meanwhile i am going back to the 100% proof old grandad whiskey we found at the same time dated 1951 never been a bourbon drinker but its growing on me
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16 Nov 2012 3:13 AM #1
Unanswered: Floating Panel - shifting to the top left corner
I need to show a panel beside a text box when I tap on an image (inside "Ext.dataview.Dataview"). The first time it loads fine, but when I go to the next page and come back to the same page, I see the panel gets shifted to the top-left corner (near the back button).
See the below code.
var btn = Ext.get('text_1');
var pnl = Ext.create('Ext.Panel, {
model: true,
hideOnMaskTap: true,
xtype: 'label',
html: 'Caption'
Please help me on this. I have been trying for days on this
18 Nov 2012 7:35 PM #2
Your code sample is broken as it's missing the closing single quote around the class name. Also you've defined a config option named 'model' where I'm assuming you meant 'modal'.
Could you please provide a more detailed code sample? In particular the dataview rendering code along with it's scope of use. You mention navigating to another page but what is the context? Is it a navigation view? Is it a tab panel? Is it a navigation view within a tab panel?
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