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I have a MBP with a secondary display. Is is possible to have the brightness keys (F1 & F2) change both the main display (laptop screen) and the secondary display (a VGA external monitor connected via a Thunderbolt port with an adapter)? If not, is it possible to change the brightness on the secondary display?
One of my favorite tools for doing this is Shades which is "donationware."
You can adjust each monitor separately, and set keyboard shortcuts for them as well.
If you want a command line solution, I found brightness.c which compiled cleanly using:
(You'll need Xcode to be installed to compile it. If you want a precompiled version, mine is available here
It will let you set the brightness for either monitor.UPDATE: Note that this answer is several years old. The link above is now 404 but there is a newer tool available at http://github.com/nriley/brightness or `brew install screenbrightness`
If you press Control-F1 or Control-F2 the brightness on a secondary display will adjust. I have tested this on my MacBook Air 2011 13" and 27" Thunderbolt Display.
Important notes: You have to plug in the USB cable from the Display to the Macbook Pro in order that the keyboard shortcuts work. This only works on Apple Displays.
If you press CTRL and F1/F2 the brightness on a secondary display will adjust. Tested and works on my MacBook Pro (Early 2011) 15" and 27" Thunderbolt Display.
Unfortunately, Macs don't have access to an external display's brightness settings. On most displays, that is only controllable using the physical buttons/menus on the display itself.
I agree that this would be a great feature to see, but it isn't really possible now to control brightness over the video cable.
Note that I can't speak for Apple's Cinema Display and Thunderbolt; I haven't tried that and it may be different.
If you're using an Apple Cinema Display it is possible to control brightness as long as you connect the display's USB cable to your Mac. The causes a "Brightness" slider to appear on the screen's control panel in "Displays" System Preferences. Unfortunately the F1 and F2 don't change the brightness settings on the external screen.
Another option is Brightness Slider, free in App store.
If you have an Apple Cinema display and are adjusting brightness via the "displays" preference pane, note that the preference pane will show up both on your main display (the cinema display) and on the MBP. It allows you to set the brightness separately.
Screen Dimmer isn't free ($2), but is the only tool I could find that handles multiple monitors (up to 3).
Seems nice and elegant the short time I've used it. Sits in menubar, and has a simple slider and monitor selector, as well as keybindings for brightness increase/decrease.
My 3 external displays are non-apple (1 Dell with displayport, 1 samsung with displayport->dvi, and 1 old acer 19" with hdmi->dvi) on a MacBook Pro Retina 15" with 10.8.2.
edit: For the OP's question this shouldn't matter, but fyi for 3 monitors - it seems to only allow one combination of monitors for dimming (i.e. can't dim completely separately -- this works for me as I use it to dim the 2 side monitors so they don't distract from the main middle monitor)
I have two screens connected to my Mac Pro. (This also works for MacBook Pro.) I have the USB on the first screen connected to the Mac. The second screen has its USB connected into the back of the first screen (the 2nd screen display adapter uses an extender to get to the Mac - you could likewise use a USB extender to get to the back of the Mac).
With both screens communicating to the Mac via screen as well as USB, F1 and F2 as brightness control the dimming of the first display, Ctrl+F1 and Ctrl+F2 control the second screen. No need to disconnect at all.
I have 2 thunderbolt displays connected to my MBP. I had to connect only one display at a time in order to adjust the brightness. Then I reconnected them both and all was well. Too bad the control panel doesn't show the brightness slider on both displays but this is a simple solution.
There are many answers here, but one wasn't mentioned (though it only has limited applicability---you need to have a second keyboard handy.) When I have a second display hooked up to my MBP, and a second keyboard plugged in, then the built-in laptop keyboard's function keys control the built-in (main) laptop LCD and the external keyboard's function keys work for the secondary.
In case it's changed, this is on 10.6.8.
I have MBP early 2011 connected to LED display and Thunderbolt display and I use the thunderbolt display as extended desktop.
This is how you can adjust the brightness on second display.
Ok, its a pain if you are like me and have items configured on both screens but I found using "shades" the second monitor was always looking dimmer and not the same brightness as the primary screen.
Open System Preferences; Click Displays; In the lower left hand menu, click the Show displays in menu bar; Once your menu bar has the little icon of your monitor, click it and select Open Display Preferences;
All monitors will have a Preferences menu linked to that specific object.
If you are using a 24" thunderbolt display which has a USB cable in addition to the thunderbolt cable, YOU HAVE TO HAVE BOTH PLUGGED IN. Then Ctrl + F1 and Ctrl + F2 should work.
I was in the middle of installing Brighness Slider when my colleague told me of this.
A dead-simple program called Brightness Control has been dimming multiple external monitors for me since 2006. Still working fine on OS X 10.11 in 2016.
Only drawback is that you cannot simultaneously run f.lux. If you only have one external monitor, you can use Shady to dim that without quitting f.lux.
If you run Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8, you can adjust brightness easily with Mac Brightness Control utility.
After experimenting with lots of hot keys I found a solution. I am using a dual screen setup with 27 inch iMac which is connected to a 27 inch Thunderbolt screen.
Using cmd+ F1 will duplicate the screen brightness of screen 1 to screen 2.
Now you can dim the 2nd screen with F1
Repeat the cmd+ F1 and the 2nd screen will revert to last brightness. Now you can dim the iMac screen with the brightness keys.
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$(\partial_x^2 + \partial_y^2 + a)f(x,y)=0$
with $f(x,y) \in \mathbb{C}$, ($\lim_{x,y \to \infty} f(x,y)=0$).
Now separate the Amplitude and Phase of the solution:
$$f(x,y)=A(x,y)\cdot \exp\big(i\cdot g(x,y)\big)$$
with $A(x,y),g(x,y) \in \mathbb{R}$.
The additional restriction to the Phase g(x,y) is a PDE in the form of:
Now my questions are:
- Are there restrictions on $h(x,y)$ and differential operator $\hat{L}$ to get a solution $f(x,y)$?
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Is this what's great about the U.S.--or what? UPDATE
The winner of the National Spelling Bee is from Queens, NY--a so-called "outer borough" of NYC. Arvand Mahankali, 13, won by accurately spelling "knaidel," a Yiddish word (of German origins the NYTimes explains!). It means dumpling (but I'm wondering if it doesn't mean "matzoh ball" in Yiddish-cooking households).
Mr. Mahankali has reached the age limit for the National Bee so he can't compete again (think of all those unspelled words circling in his head). He is philosophical about this: "I am retiring on a good note."
So what's so great? An Indian-American living in the middle of Queens wins the bee by spelling a Yiddish word of German origins, and the New York Times explains it all.
This reminds me of Bee Season by Myla Goldberg, which combines the Kabbala and the national spelling bee and sustains the magic realism of an Isaac Bashevis Singer story.
Right dumpling, wrong spelling. Yes, knaidels are matzo balls, but according to the Forward, the proper Yiddish spelling is knidel, or knydel. The Spelling Bee judges use the Merriam Webster dictionary, which does spell it knaidel. However you spell it, they're still matzo balls.
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A kneidel = a matzo ball.
Front page story in the NYT about the various spellings, transliterations, etc., of Yiddish words, including kneydel and Hanukkah.
(I think spelling bees are a terrible waste of time. Even the National Geography Bee is idiotic. At least its participants learn useful information, but real geographers work in private, not on stages. The kids who are paralyzed by stage fright have no chance.)
Maybe the spelling bee shouldn't even use words transliterated from a language whose written form doesn't use the English alphabet. Sometimes there is no single correct way to spell a Yiddish or Arabic word or name. Think of how many different ways the surname of Moammar Whatsisname from Libya was spelled.
The number of children of Asian heritage on the screen for both the spelling bee and the geography bee was pretty striking. I don't know any of their stories, but I am assuming that at least a fair number of them are the children of immigrants, or are immigrants themselves.
Since I'm already treading on thin ice by broaching this topic, I might as well venture a bit farther out from shore: there are various immigration reform proposals floating about that distinguish between, let us say, 'more desirable' and 'less desirable' immigrants, favoring entrance of the former into this country at the expense of the latter. I believe the children on-screen in these bees probably are emblematic of the former. If I'm not mistaken, our current laws and policies already makes these distinctions to some extent - perhaps that is even a partial explanation for the disproportionate representation on our television screens. These distinctions aren't racial or ethnic or national or cultural in character (although arguably they are social class-oriented), but may result in certain ethnicities or nationalities et al being favored at the expense of others.
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The American immigration laws have been selective for many, many generations now. They never allowed first come, first served.
This isn't going to be politically correct, but here goes. My question is: is that necessarily unjust? If there are poor people in Country A, then I ask: whose responsibility is it to raise thier standard of living -- their own country or their neighbor, Country B? In particular, since the Conquistadores in Mexico there has always been an extremely rich upper class there. Was it not that class' moral and Christian responsibility to raise the standard of living for the poor there? Mexico still has an extremely rich upper class. Why aren't the Mexican bishops litting into them to solve the Mexican problem of their underclass?
No, I'm ceretainly not saying that we shouldn't admit some of the poor Mexicans. But it seems to me that raising of the standard of living of poor Mexicans should be a joint project between the Mexican and U. S, governments and people. Further, little attention is given to the fact that every time an immigrant leaves his/her native country a whole culture is forfeited. Is that fair? Granted, it is more important to feed and educate their children, but they, including their children, are being deprived of something very precious in the process. In other words, immigration is never an ideal solution to povery. Not to mention the fact that the resources going to the immigrants is not being directed to the American poor, of which there are many millions at the moment. (And I have mentioned only the Mexican immigrants!)
Yes, I know that the immigrants contribute a lot and many pay taxes. But not enough, I dare say, to build the initial physical and social infra-structure (e.g., more schools) necessary to support them properly. Or maybe they do contribute enough in taxes. But given how Arizona complains, I would doubt it. I would like to be enlightened with some data.
Complexity, complexity, complexity.
Yes AO, "comlexity, complexity, complexity."
We don't really know very much in detail about our Bee Winner. Joe Berger in his run-up of the Yiddish spelling issue in yesterday's NY Times, reports that Arvind Mahankali is a son of immigrants from southern India, and New York City's first national champion since 1997. We don't know if he was born here, or not, but I know that immigrant families in NYC, especially from Asia, are hep on a good education for their kids. There are a raft of after-school and Saturday schools to prepare kids for tests, especially those for the specialized high schools, such as Bronx Science, Hunter, Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Tech, etc. And why not for spelling bees? Their parents are serious about seeing the kids succeed and are proabably on their case day and night. Not a lot of old-time American families, like ours, are ready to push their kids in this way, though I bet at lot of grand-parents and great-grandparents did.
The wife of the man who ran our nearby former Chinese laundry used to query me extensively about the best high schools: which were they? How did you get in? Etc. Her English was Okay, her husband's not, but they knew what they wanted for their children.
On the issue of Mexican immigrants and their job prospects in their own country: The Newshour several years back ran a segment with Ray Suarez looking at that question. He interviewed a man whose job or title, I don't remember. He was a Mexican labor expert and he serverely criticized our immigration practices (and lack thereof). His criticism: easy entry into the U.S. labor market let Mexican businesses and government off the hook in creating good jobs that would keep Mexicans at home. I thought his criticism had merit, but until the recent crash here, there was no reason for energetic Mexicans to stay in their own country when they could come here and earn relatively more money than they could there. The U.S. allows Mexico to evade some of its deep-seated economic and labor issues.
I add, from informal observation, that immigrants from further south, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, etc. seem to have good educations and better prospects here in getting well-paying jobs with benefits. In that sense, they seem more like the Chinese and Indians.
Yes, knaidels are matzo balls, but according to the Forward, the proper Yiddish spelling is knidel, or knydel.
Rubbish. The correct spelling would use Hebrew, and there's no standard transliteration. I mean, if you give two alternate spellings, and call them both "proper," why not a third alternative, as well? What are the rules? Do they establish a specific English dictionary that they use in Scripps? Because otherwise, it seems like a dumb word to put into a spelling bee.
Merriam-Webster is said to be the official dictionary and it agrees with the winner.
BTW, the last New York winner was Rebecca Sealfon in 1997 and she won with "euonym." Sounds Greek to me. Check out the list of winning words...a lot of Latin! In fact, I'd say not a lot of basic Anglo-Saxon. Wiki has the data.
So how is it pronoucned? Like knish or like knife?
The St. Louis kid who got to the finals again is Gokul Venkatachalam. Among the words he spelled correctly was gulden.
Another useless word.
Irene Baldwin: I think it's KNish...as in the German KNoedel... as in English Noodle. But what do they say in the Bronx?
Abe Rosenzweig will have a view, so a question. Did the vast majority of people who spoke Yiddish, read in the Hebrew alphabet? OR if they read, did they read Yiddish in the German alphabet, i.e., a variant of the Roman alphabet?
They read it in the Hebrew alphabet (the letters are used differently in certain way--especially for vowels).
Well in the Bronx, I've never heard a knish ever pronounced other than k-nish (2 syllables ) like Knoebel's Amusment Park in PA is K-noebels. but it looks like there are mutilpe ways to pronounce knaidel. I've never eaten one.
I had a k-nish once 60 years ago at Coney Island of all places. It was a very gray, cold day with hardly any people around. The knish was so delicious I've never forgotten exactly how it tasted :-)
I have never eatnen a K-nish, but my friend Molly Finn makes delicious K-naidels.
I'd be pretty surprised if you couldn't still eat a knish at Coney Island.


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In New York, about two dozen polling sites, many on Long Island, Staten Island and in portions of Brooklyn and Queens, are "completely unusable" due to storm damage, said Douglas Kellner, co-chairman of the state Board of Elections.
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As many as 1,000 New York polling sites did not have power this week, and while officials expect the numbers to improve in coming days, there's a significant possibility that many sites won't have power when polls open Tuesday morning. Across New Jersey, the problems are similar, with, for example, more than half the towns in hard-hit Bergen County needing to relocate polling sites.
On Friday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg lashed out at the New York City Board of Elections, describing it as leaderless and alleging that officials failed to provide his administration with a "list of where they think they're going to have problems." A spokeswoman for the board said the city received the list, but she didn't respond to requests to provide it to The Wall Street Journal.
"The ability to vote is something that we fight for and die for around the world," Mr. Bloomberg said. "It's a shame if some bureaucrats were to screw it up. And hopefully that won't happen.
Juan Carlos "J.C." Polanco, a board commissioner, said all of the city's voting machines are operational. The board has requested the city help provide tents, generators, fuel and trucks for polling sites, he said.
In New Jersey, officials encouraged voters to cast their ballots early. At some unusable sites, officials hope to have trucks set up where voters can cast ballots.
In Morris County, polling places in eight of 39 towns were being moved due to power outages, and all voters were to receive reverse 911 calls about the state of their polling location, said John Sette, chairman of the county's Board of Elections.
For campaigns, the last-minute switching of polling locations was an unprecedented turn of events that raised fears about turnout. Campaigns and civic leaders say they fear voter turnout will be lower than anticipated because many are still dealing with the aftermath of the storm and may have trouble getting to the polls.
"There is no playbook for how to deal with this," said Adam Silverstein, a spokesman for the Bergen County Democratic Party.
Much of the damage has already been done: Two of the three mailers planned by the county Democratic Party never went out; a planned get-out-the-vote effort this weekend was canceled; and TV ads were pulled because too few county residents have power, Mr. Silverstein said.
"This is unprecedented," he said. The county party plans to send sound trucks into affected neighborhoods to let voters know their polling places have moved and to send buses to help transport people.
Mr. Kellner praised election officials in New York City and elsewhere for "doing everything they can" to ensure Tuesday's election runs as smoothly as possible. But, he said, the election "is not going to be perfect on Tuesday—that's for sure."
In Connecticut, Av Harris, a spokesman for the secretary of state, said 50 polling places don't have electricity and a "handful"may have to be relocated. But he said Connecticut's voting problems appear to be far less severe than those in New Jersey and New York.
"We dodged a bullet—it could have been a lot worse," he said.
Lawrence Norden, deputy director of the democracy program at the Brennan Center for Justice, described the challenges facing election officials and voters as a "very difficult situation." The New York City board, he said, has had problems counting votes under less stressful circumstances, so the storm will only make matters worse.
The storm upended campaign plans on eastern Long Island, where Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop and Republican businessman Randy Altschuler are in a tight race for Congress.
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Both are looking to step up get-out-the-vote efforts. But Mr. Bishop's spokesman, Bobby Pierce, noted, "It's hard to go to someone and get their vote out when they have a foot of standing water in their house."
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What's the origin of the common phrase "I call shenanigans"? Note that I'm not so much looking for the origin of shenanigans itself, which I expect could easily be found in the OED or something, but when the entire phrase took on a life of its own as an independent construction. Who coined it? When was it first attested? Did anyone make it particular popular?
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I've got a use of "call shenanigans" that dates to 1998, and I strongly suspect that, even if it isn't the earliest use, it's the source of the phrase's popularity over the last decade or so.
In "Cow Days," the thirteenth episode of the second season of South Park, the boys are at a carnival playing games which they come to suspect are rigged. Kyle calls shenanigans, which brings Officer Barbrady to investigate. However, the carny allows the boys to win the game when the officer is present, and Kyle retracts his call of shenanigans.
Later in the episode, the boys discover that the prizes they were trying to win are in fact cheap knock-offs, and Kyle formally reinstates his claim of shenanigans. The claim is upheld this time by Officer Barbrady, which gives the townspeople free rein to destroy the carnival with brooms.
Again, this may not be the very first use of the term, but you asked whether anyone had made it particularly popular, and I think this is what did it. I saw the episode when it was new, and I remember quite distinctly thinking that I'd never heard the word shenanigans used that way before—but within days of the airing of that episode, several of my friends were calling shenanigans every chance they got.
The earliest citation from a quick Lexis-Nexis search reveals this one from the 4 Feb 2000 edition of the Lincoln Journal Star:
I realize that you're looking for the specific phrase "I call shenanigans", but if you relax your criteria somewhat, you can go back even further. For example, according to an anthology of Mark Twain's letters published in 1920, he once wrote:
Which is a somewhat more verbose way of calling shenanigans.
And even further back, the San Francisco daily newspaper Spirit of Age wrote the following in their 30 April 1856 issue:
As with almost every turn of phrase, the spoken origins probably far predate anything written.
I can't find a use of "call [or declare or claim] shenanigans" earlier than 2002 , but in the March 1990 issue of Spin magazine, Julian Dibbell wrote (emphasis added):
Sometime in the 90s, apparently, someone substituted a harmless word and the rest is forgotten history...
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A security guard in a hospital threatens to a throw an Indigenous man out onto the street because he assumes the man is drunk.
Minutes later the man collapses and an emergency response is called. The man was seriously ill, and was simply drinking water.
This scenario is played out in one of several videos on a new website developed by Edith Cowan University (ECU) researchers. It aims to improve the treatment of Indigenous patients by challenging attitudes of health professionals and creating empathy with their patients.
The website hosts an online collection of experiences, both positive and negative from Indigenous people who have experienced WA's healthcare system, either as patients, carers or visitors.
The stories reflect a number of different issues including:
• Negative stereotypes;
• Passing on and paying respect to dying relatives;
• Communication between patients and health professionals; and
• Cultural respect.
Entitled Creating Cultural Empathy and Challenging Attitudes through Indigenous Narratives, the website was developed in response to a request to incorporate Indigenous voices into all areas of the healthcare curriculum.
The $220,000 project is funded an Australian Teaching and Learning (ALTC) grant, awarded to ECU in March 2010.
George is one Indigenous man who shared his story.
"We were visiting my aunty, who was quite sick in hospital. One nurse made the assumption that because there was a group of Aboriginal people sitting under a tree, esky there, we must all be drinking," George said.
The truth was that George and his family were taking a break from visiting their Aunty. The esky was filled with soft drink and water to keep them hydrated during the 40 degree day.
"The one assumption can lead to a big problem," he said.
Not all the stories are negative. In another video, Jennifer talks about the good relationship she has with her doctor.
"You know, she came into my life and made a difference – because she stopped, listened to me and understood me," Jennifer said.
Head of ECU's School of Medical Sciences, and one of the ECU project leads, Associate Professor Moira Sim hopes the website will provide valuable lessons for those in the health industry.
"The lessons that emerge from the narratives are simple. Spend time with patients and get to know what is important to them. Build trust, and communicate medical and clinical terms in ways that people understand while remaining respectful of their cultural background."
Head of Kurongkurl Katitjin, Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research and fellow project lead, Professor Colleen Hayward agrees.
"There is something special about how stories make us feel and we encourage educators to develop learning materials and use these stories in their classrooms," Professor Hayward said.
The ECU Project Team leading this work comprises Ms Toni Wain, Associate Professor Moira Sim, Professor Colleen Hayward and Professor Cobie Rudd.
The Team also includes researchers from the University of Western Australia, the Health Consumers' Council, University of Notre Dame, the Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health, and Curtin University.
Website video scenarios were written by David Milroy.
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Version of Ext GWT
This problem occurs in the recently released GA version of Ext GWT 3.0.0.
Browser Versions
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When using the AreaSeries, the height of the plotted series is overstated (too high) on the vertical axis.
Each series in the AreaSeries plots a little too high, and the cumulative effect increases for each subsequent series in the stack.
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Occurs in when deployed to Tomcat (web mode), and when running under Eclipse (dev mode).
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The attached file (ColumnChartAreaSeriesOverstatedOnVerticalAxis.txt) can be used to demonstrate the problem.
Each series has a constant value of 20 except for the series named Budget that has a constant value of 27.
After launching the chart, observe that the each tick mark on the vertical axis is a multiple of 20, yet the first series (metal) plots a little higher than 20. The next series (paper) plots even higher than 40, and so on. The attached screen shot (ColumnChartAreaSeriesOverstatedOnVerticalAxis.png) shows an example of this problem as well.
In fact, the total height of all the series should be 127 – not 140.
The demo site shows an example of this problem as well.
The total market share of all of the browsers adds up to 100 (i.e., 100%) – not 120. How could the total market share of all the browsers be 120%? Yet, that is what the area chart on the demo site shows.
Please let me know if I am doing anything wrong in the code in the attached file or if there is a work around.
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5 Jun 2012 5:28 PM #2
Thanks for the report. I'll let you know when it is fixed.
7 Jun 2012 6:07 PM #3
This will be fixed in the next release.
AreaSeries was not properly taking into account the axis maximum y for the series scale.
15 Aug 2012 1:30 PM #4
GXT 3.0.1 has been released and contains this fix.


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*'''Boards''' - We talked about boards and amplifiers a whole bunch... We probably need to buy more soon. (Jonathan will add notes)
*'''Boards''' - We talked about boards and amplifiers a whole bunch... We probably need to buy more soon. (Jonathan will add notes)
*'''The Cap''' - Rachel is going to buy the [http://www.electrodesales.com/cap100c.html CAP100C EEG Cap Kit]. Please give her your money.
*'''The Cap''' - Rachel is going to buy the [http://www.electrodesales.com/cap100c.html CAP100C EEG Cap Kit]. Please give her your money.
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**What connectors does this have?
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What is EEG?
EEG is a method of reading brain activity using electrodes on the scalp. We're currently trying to get a working setup that will enable us to measure alphaand beta waves, as well as providing a good enough resolution to collect some ERP data.
- EEG interface that uses ERP to select letters and spell words.
- Playing pong using EEG. (need to research whether this uses ERP or what cause it's cool...)
What is OpenEEG?
OpenEEG is an open-source EEG hardware design. The OpenEEG homepage has more information. Olimex has the boards available for purchase; it seems like a good reference design to use.
Projects being discussed
- Brain Computer Interface for music
- Fire art using brainwave changes
- Beta waves make fire, alpha waves put it out?
- Kinetic art using brain data
- Might use facial/muscular data?
- Passthought Needs researching...
- use ERP to select off of screen?
- individual reaction to image?
- How to integrate different response for under duress?
Meetup Notes
Meetup the Second
- Boards - We talked about boards and amplifiers a whole bunch... We probably need to buy more soon. (Jonathan will add notes)
- Tracy will check with Mitch regarding more boards.
- The Cap - Rachel is going to buy the CAP100C EEG Cap Kit. Please give her your money.
- What connectors does this have?
- Facial & reference electrodes - We need to figure out how reference electrodes work with the headset.
- Our amp boards connectors expect a reference for each electrode? We need to sort this out.
- Discussed facial data in Emotiv headset and adding some facial & reference electrodes to the our headset setup.
- Research implementations of the cap & sort out amplification and reference electrode setup.
- Kelly vaguely remembers something about localization using dipoles and wonders if this would be useful. Needs research.
- Noise - We need to set up a case of some sort with holes in it. Someone needs to take a lead on this.
- Tracy brought a very pretty metal box. We may use that for now.
- Sanity check our grounding and filtering setup with EKG data since we don't have a clean electrode setup for EEG yet.
First meetup: 2009-03-26 20h00 at 83c
- Who's here, and what are they interested in?
- What do we have available, and what do we need?
- How do we get what we need?
- Who's going to make that happen for the next meeting?
First steps
It sounds like our steps are the following:
- Assemble a set of OpenEEG boards
- Get together a set of electrodes
- Get the data into a computer
Once we've done that, let's look at heartbeats. They're big and easy to see. This is also a good first step towards bootstrapping the data analysis part.
After we've gotten good signal, we can move on to strapping the thing to people's heads and looking for brainwaves. This is where things get interesting. We can export the data and throw it over to the wacky Machine Learning meetup, we can tie it into crazy Cyborg group stuff, make, and we can use it as an input to other systems (be they security, music, or teledildonics).
Here's Jonathan's sketch of a plan, which sounds reasonable to me:
- Get a pool of OpenEEG cards. I would suggest starting with 8. Maybe several people want to "adopt" one by buying a kit and we can have a solder party. I will adopt one myself.
- Put them all in a metal box with a solid ground. Ideally, it has RF
- Find someone with a 8-channel USB-audio interface for signal acquisition. These are pretty common with the musician crowd. (Sample rate is overkill, but that's OK). Anybody have one we could borrow?
- Find some good electrodes. Sanity check each channel by detecting heartbeats. (If we can't get those loud and clear, no point looking at the brain's much weaker signals.)
- Now are we ready to do EEGs. I would suggest -- nay, insist -- on a double-blind protocol, otherwise we will see results that aren't there. It's simply human nature. So get subject(s), over several trials, to say, attempt achieving an alpha state, and for a control, I don't know, read BoingBoing or something. Get a third party to randomize the order and keep track of data labels. (Might experiment with evoked potentials too as long as we're all set up.)
- When you have some data, call in the geeks. I am personally expert at Fourier analysis, and have some experience with LDA (linear discriminant analysis) using SVD (singular value decomposition). I'd be happy to share what I know (including open-source tools like Octave and SciPy) and chew on the data for an evening.
- Bootstrap from there, as this may not work at all.


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NOOK Wi-Fi 6" E-book Reader & $30 Walmart Gift Card for $79 + free shipping
Barnes & Noble NOOK Simple Touch Wi-Fi 6" E-book Reader for $79.00 shipped. In addition, receive $30 Walmart Gift Card.
NOOK features a 6" E-Ink display with 800 x 600 resolution, which reads like real paper, 2GB internal memory for up to 1,500 book storage, wireless 802.11b/g/n, web browsing, and more.
Barnes & Noble has this Nook alone for $79.
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wow, great deal! The product page says "no annoying ads," which I'm assuming means it's the non-special -offers version, though it could be taken to mean that they think their ads are sufficiently soothing. ;-)
fyi, B&N gives away a title for free each Friday; if you don't have an e-Reader and you're on the fence, this is an excellent way to start. Here's the website for past "Free Book Fridays": http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/The-NOOK-Blog/bg-p/Unbound/label-name/free%20fridays
I got one of these from Target for $49 on Black Friday. Very easy to setup and easy to read on.
Whenever I try to check out on the website I get this error: We're having temporary difficulties arriving at the destination you requested
Anyone else getting that or know a way around it? Tried checking out multiple times on multiple browsers
@toddlybumbum: Same thing is happening to me, multiple payment methods, multiple browsers. It seems to be a walmart problem, not ours...
@toddlybumbum: Doing the same thing for me
Try it again...I got the same error and had to resubmit....It is the heavy traffic...
@tradergeorge: I've done it over 10 times, and it's still not going through for me :(
I've charged mine 3 times this year- charge lasts for months! YMMV, of course, but I'm pretty happy.
I got this for $40 on black friday at walmart.
Went to sears (where it was advertised for $40) but they handed out tickets and I wasn't going to give up thanksgiving to get there super early for a cheap ebook reader so I left and on the way back I hit up walmart and they price matched it.
I'm still trying to order this freakin thing. Has still been doing the error page all night. I sent in a customer service email about it. I give up for now.
@squatchy: I've been trying for last 45 minutes. Maybe I will e-mail customer service as well
@superllama7: To my knowledge there isn't a special offers version of the Nook, only the Kindle.
We got one of these last spring for our 12 y/o birthday, and I loved reading on it so much better than our iPad that I got a Nook Glow in August, and we'll be getting one for our 10 y/o for Christmas.
A hearty recommendation from me and my family!
@jbenjimin: oops! You're correct, B&N doesn't do ads on their readers. We have a Kindle and a Nook in our house, and I got them a bit confused.
@toddlybumbum: Same here. Sent an email to customer service but have had no response. Any luck for you or anyone else yet?
I am having same problem. Have been trying for 2 days. Came up with a customer service number and called it. The guy tried to put the order through on his end using my info and got same error. Emailed them and they said it had to do with addressed in system prior to 2004 and to add a new address then delete old address. Tried that and same problem. They also told me to delete cookies and restart browser. Tried that in Firefox and IE9 still same problem. About at wits end. Anybody have any more suggestions?
@lynnkern: I contacted customer service and had the same issue as you. The rep I spoke to allegedly sent a ticket into their site issues department and they are supposed to contact me when it is resolved via email. She said this happens on occasion with tire specials so I assume there's an issue with the way they entered the product on their end.
I too have been trying for two days now. Here is what I've tried without success:
-Used chrome and ie from multiple computers
-Sent an email to customer service (no response yet)
-Tried checking out as a guest
-Accessed site from my phone
-downloaded mobile app, but this deal can't be purchased from the app
Literally, I would have earned a lot more than the amount "saved" by working for the amount of time I've been trying to get this to work, and would have been less frustrated doing so, so I'm going to throw in the towel at this point. Will have to go with a full price retailer so I can be sure to get it in time for gifting.
@toddlybumbum: I have gotten 3 email replies from customer service. I just got the last one and all they said on this one was they were working on it. They did give me a number to call. If you would like to try it here it is. You can call 1-800-966-6546 option 5, and we would be happy to try again for you. Haven't called them yet.
Same problem still going on here.
@admancs: I just spent about 30 minutes on phone with customer service. Every thing he suggested, I had already done. He tried putting order in twice from his computer and got same error. He said it is a site issue and is forwarding it to the site administrator. Don't know what is happening from here. They are supposed to call me when they find out something. We will see !!!! Will update.
@lynnkern: all of those reasons they told you are BS. I setup a walmart.com account today and it's doing the same thing. Did it to the rep on the phone too. I'm still on hold with them. If anything positive comes out to resolve this issue we are all getting, I will definitely comment on the thread.
@lynnkern: Did the same thing as admans. Was on the phone with a very nice customer rep for about 20 minutes. She escalated it on to tech for the site as well. My personal guess, is that the gift card aspect of the transaction is playing havoc on the final process piece for some reason. That or something is out of whack with inventory control and the item may not even supposed to be live with customers on the site. In any case, here's hoping tech gets it resolved and lets us all know what will be the final outcome, ordered or not available.
Thanks to everyone for all the continuous updates on this deal!
So does the error message come up after you click on 'place order'?
I gave up on ordering online and walked into a store.
Had no problem picking up two.
@talanx: Do you get the $30 gift card with it?
@leronis: Yes. You hit submit order, and it says "We're having temporary difficulties arriving at the destination you requested, but we'd like to offer steps to help you below."
None of which are actually helpful steps, of course.
@talanx: Good call, I didn't realize this deal was available in store too. I just went and grabbed one and got my $30 gift card in hand
@lightspiral: I finally gave up and went to the store. Didn't realize it was available in store until reading about it on here. Be sure and call store before you go to make sure they have the $79 Nook as I had to go to 3 different stores before I found one. Had the girl at the second store check and see who had it then she called to make sure. Got the $30 gift card with it also when I checked out. Good Luck
I just went to the store and picked it up as well. There were some photocopied signs taped to the display case about the $30 gift card. It seems like no many people know about this as the case was full of them.


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PEX19 Fusion Protein
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|Product Name:
|Recombinant human PEX19(Full length)
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|E. coli-derived, PET28a
|Peptide Sequence:
(1-299aa encoded by BC000496)
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|1M PBS (58 mM Na2HPO4, 17 mM NaH2PO4, 68 mM NaCl, pH8.0 ), added with 300 mM Imidazole and 0.7% sarcosyl, 15% glycerol.
Shipping and Storage
Reconstitute at 0.25 µg/μl in 200 μl sterile water for short-term storage.
Reconstitution with 200 μl 50% glycerol solution is recommended for longer term storage (see Stability and Storage for more details).
If a different concentration is needed for your purposes please adjust the reconstitution volume as required (please note: the ion concentration of the final solution will vary according to the volume used).
Note: Centrifuge vial before opening. When reconstituting, gently pipet and wash down the sides of the vial to ensure full recovery of the protein into solution.
|The product is shipped with ice packs. Upon receipt, store it immediately at -20°C to -80°C.
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|Aliquot and store at -20°C to -80°C for up to 6 months. Avoid freeze thaw cycles.
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Short-term storage: Store at 2-8°C for two weeks.
Long-term storage: Aliquot and store at -20°C to -80°C for up to 6 months, buffer containing 50% glycerol is recommended for reconstitution. Avoid repeat freeze-thaw cycles.
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Testing process involves plenty of documentation. How to organize it, so that it is easy to get an information that is needed?
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This varies from organization to organization and team to team and application to application. It all depends on what works best for your situation.
1) Test documentation attached to requirements. This works well with HP's Quality Center. All test data is in the same application and tests are individually linked to a master test plan and a specific requirement.
2) Test documentation is stored independantly. In these cases, all test data is stored in a central location accessable to the entire test team. Test scripts/notes are typically stored with the test plan and organized by release.
3) Team wiki. Test data is stored on a wiki of some sorts. This can work well when development and business analysts also use the same wiki as it leads to collaboration.
4) Test documentation is stored with code. In the cases of an integrated environment, I've seen cases where test data is stored in the same source control as the code, and tests are linked to pieces of code but left out of the build process.
These are just some ways, but again, it depends on the situation.
I have found OneNote to be an excellent tool for storing this kind of data. It has a very hierarchical organization which also is friendly to reorganization. Also, you can put a notebook on a network drive and have the whole team work on the same documents.
My team used to keep everything in word documents on Sharepoint. By keeping everything in a single "notebook" we can now search within every document and don't have to worry about checking things in and out.
Well, you can try placing all important information on a company wiki/document repository, there are applications that will OCR pdf, doc etc files so you can search for content
Where I work we are not quite as progressive. We simply store the documents categorized by product feature (i.e., modules of the application) on the network.
Installation testing is slightly different. We store per the version release; also the installation testing documents are stored located with the repository of tasks (anomalies). There is nothing special about this; it is just easier for the developers to go to that location.
In terms of straight documentation, I have found Confluence to be widely used. If documents are more informal and provide system usage guidelines, wikis, a shared server drive, or a tool like Dropbox work well with teams. Dropbox may be quick to setup, but file version issues come at a cost to this.
On the other side, documentation can integrate with tools, so test case executions can be recorded in software, etc. A Test Plan may be stored separately, but test suites, test procedures, anomaly reports, test logs, etc have many tools tailored to these needs. They are accessible over a network, so other supporting documentation could be placed nearby. If the tool route is adopted later, many tools can import or export existing data.
Documentation is very important in all projects and organisation. Follow TMMi standards. It provides a skeleton on how to store documentation across all the phases of SDLC, templates that one should use and structure them on your sharepoint sites for easy access


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ARK401: Printmak (2014-2015)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Visual Arts
COURSE TITLE: Printmaking
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
SUGGESTED PREPARATION: Fundamentals of Art
Major Concepts/Content: The printmaking course is designed to offer students the opportunity to apply the fundamentals of art to various printmaking processes including relief (linoleum and woodcuts), stencil (paper and silkscreen, lithography, intaglio (etching and engraving), and calligraphic printing. Students gain knowledge of the materials and equipment that are unique to printmaking.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities provide practice in using various printmaking tools, materials, and equipment. Students will create a variety of projects using different printmaking processes. Visits to art galleries, studios, and museums will be included when feasi
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be required to demonstrate the proper care and use of tools, materials, and equipment used in printmaking. Student projects will be evaluated for originality, craftsmanship, effort, time utilization, and quality with consideration given to the individual or students' talent, experience, and/or limitations. Both written and oral tests will be used to evaluate knowledge of course content.
Course Objectives: Upon completion of the printmaking course, students should be able to:
- Create Works of Art
- Produce prints using a variety of processes, e.g., relief, stencil, intaglio, and calligraphic techniques.
- Demonstrate the ability to use inks, tools, and equipment that are unique to the printing processes.
- Demonstrate the method for numbering and recording an edition of prints.
- Distinguish prints produced by various processes.
- Identify aspects of good craftsmanship in selected prints.
- Discuss the historical importance of printmaking.
- Identify artists and their significant works in the art of printmaking.
- Relate various printmaking techniques to those used in industry, advertisement, fashion, and other commercial aspects of modern living.
- Summarize the development of printmaking.
- Identify career options in the field of printmaking.
- Distinguish significant characteristics between different printing methods.
- Analyze and critique prints according to the elements and principles of design.
- Assist in the selection of prints for exhibition.
Course Notes: Repeatable Course - Subsequent Enrollment Requires More Rigor.


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Me and my friends are playing on a multiplayer server. We have a nether wart farm in the Nether, but it only grows if there is a player in the Nether. We are mainly building a castle so we are not in the Nether very much.
We would like to have some kind of dummy player in the Nether that just does nothing but standing there. Is this possible (without a computer running multiple instances of the Minecraft client, we can't handle that)?


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IRVINE, Calif. — Police blocked off a street and stood guard in front of a home in a typically quiet Southern California suburb Sunday, protecting a man they believe has been targeted by a fugitive ex-police officer suspected of killing three people and setting the region on edge by eluding authorities in a sprawling manhunt that has lasted days.
Irvine residents, meanwhile, were left to adjust to life in the midst of a heavy police presence and wonder when things might return to normal.
Authorities have been working to protect dozens of families in the area considered targets based on Christopher Dorner's Facebook rant against those he held responsible for ending his career with the Los Angeles Police Department five years ago.
Among those the 33-year-old Dorner is suspected of killing is a Riverside police officer, and on the fourth day of the manhunt, authorities put up a $1 million reward for information leading to his capture.
"We will not tolerate this reign of terror," said LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Several tips came in within a few hours after the award announcement, including a reported Dorner sighting that had police surrounding and evacuating a Lowe's Home Improvement store in LA's San Fernando Valley, police spokesman Gus Villanueva said. A search of the store yielded no evidence that Dorner was there or had been there.
After days without resolution, Dorner's fugitive status caused concern among some and downright fear among others in Irvine, an upscale community that the FBI consistently ranks among the safest cities in the U.S.
"If he did come around this corner, what could happen? We're in the crossfire, with the cops right there," said Irvine resident Joe Palacio, who lives down the street from the home surrounded by authorities protecting a police captain mentioned in Dorner's posting.
"I do think about where I would put my family," he said. "Would we call 911? Would we hide in the closet?"
The neighborhood has been flooded with authorities since Wednesday. Residents have seen police helicopters circle and cruisers stake out schools. Some have responded by keeping their children home. Others no longer walk their dogs at night.
Dorner's background added to the anxiety. The former LAPD officer also served in the Navy, earning a rifle marksman ribbon and a pistol expert medal. He was assigned to a naval undersea warfare unit and various aviation training units, according to military records. In his online post, Dorner vowed to use "every bit of small arms training, demolition, ordnance and survival training I've been given" to bring "warfare" to the LAPD and its families.
As tense Irvine residents went on with their lives, police looked into a taunting phone call to the father of the woman they believe Dorner killed last week.
Two law enforcement officers who requested anonymity because of the ongoing investigation told The Associated Press they are trying to determine whether Dorner made the call telling retired police Capt. Randal Quan that he should have done a better job protecting his daughter.
The bodies of Monica Quan and her fiance were found shot dead last Sunday in Irvine, marking the start of the high-profile case.
Things escalated early Thursday morning, when police say Dorner got into a shootout with police in Corona, grazing an LAPD officer's head with a bullet before escaping. Authorities believe he then used a rifle to ambush two Riverside police officers, killing one and seriously wounding the other.
About 65 miles away, the manhunt continued in the San Bernardino mountains near the ski resort town of Big Bear, where authorities found Dorner's burned out pickup truck Thursday. Police have since said they discovered weapons and camping gear inside the vehicle.
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Are there any open source Pivotal Tracker clones that people have experience using or think might be good, with essentially the same features?
Key features are:
- Automatically popping tasks out of a certain time window, based on complexity, dragging based priority and number of tasks estimated possible to do, based on actual past progress.
- One view with (preferably split by this sprint, next sprint, and later tasks)
- Projection of future iterations and release dates
- The User story, Minimum Viable Product focus
- Simplicity


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InDesign for Technical Communicators
Jamie Gillenwater
Learn how to use Adobe InDesign to add media elements to your documents. You will also discover how to create materials for various audiences without recreating each section of information. See how you can publish your information to various channels including mobile apps.
This hour-long webinar shows you how to use InDesign to improve your document workflow. Without expensive add-ons, InDesign offers options to single source, use conditional text, import content from other file types, and export your work to meet your audience's needs.


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Netgear NeoTV 1080p HD Streaming Player with Built-in Wi-Fi and 5.1 Surround Sound for $25 + free shipping
Product Features:
• Allows you to stream online videos and songs on your TV
• Provides you with 1080p HD streaming
• 5.1 surround sound output
• Comes with an integrated wireless-N networking
• Includes built-in games
• Allows you to have a different kind of entertainment experience
• Easy setup and configuration
• 10/100 Ethernet Port
• Built-in Wi-Fi (300 Mbps 802.11 b/g/n)
• HDMI video output
• Makes a great gift
System Requirements
• Broadband Internet connection
• PC/tablet with Internet browser for service activation
• TV with HDMI input and cable
What You Get:
• NeoTV Streaming Player (NTV200)
• Remote control
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Sold be Dailysteals = I'll pass !
I've never had a problem with orders from DailySteals, have bought several things from them. Good deals.
@fuzi719: Count yourself lucky then. I've had issues with them i.e. misrepresented items and refusing to take them back.
Good price. Horrible reviews. Pass.
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I remember in the original AD&D books there was something on the prices of building a castle. Cost for a tower, a length of wall, a drawbridge etc. Does anyone recall this, or know where I can find it (or a better version)? I want to bring in castle building for my team of players.
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There was a 3.0 version, the Stronghold Builder's Guide, that is probably more relevant to 3.5. Given the nature of the material, I don't think it would require much of an update. (Unless the wealth guidelines changed dramatically between editions?)
The AD&D book you're remembering is 2nd edition's Castle Guide. I think I actually have a copy of that stashed somewhere in my parent's place, though I haven't seen it in years. :)
Some of the reviews on Amazon indicate that it used to be available for free from TSR's homepage. (One of the reviews is from 1997!) I doubt WotC has it up, though.
There were also prices and DMing guidelines for castle-building by players in the 1st edition DMG, pp. 106–108.
Pathfinder Adventure Path #32: Rivers Run Red (Kingmaker 2 of 6) is largely compatible with 3.5 and contains:
These are going to be expanded upon in Ultimate Campaign, a recently announced 2013 source book which will contain rules for:
For a more old-school approach, you might try the Adventurer Conqueror King System (ACKS). One of the primary goals of the system is to make good on D&D's promise of barony-building and rulership for powerful PCs.
All classes gain access to strongholds, usually at level 9. Those strongholds have different costs and functions within the game world, with a reasonable explanation attached too. For instance: why do the strongholds of powerful mages include monster-filled dungeons? Because those mages build tunnel complexes to attract monsters in need of lairs. Why? Because the mages need those monsters for exotic organs and other magical ingredients and reagents.
ACKS is a strong OSR game with a rational and self-consistent set of rules and assumptions. It also has what looks like the bones of a workable economy.
EDIT: In response to SevenSidedDie's comment about no per-piece pricing:
There is a table of costs for constructing strongholds (pp. 126-127) that has a good selection of:
The DMG v3.5 (p.101, table 3-27) lists costs of a few buildings.
For example: Castle for 500,000gp; Huge castle for 1,000,000gp; Moat with bridge for 50,000gp; etc.
From there, you should be able to figure a decent approximation for whatever specifics you have in mind.


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A Naughty Little Statue in Brussels Turns Into a Big Marketing Hit
15th-Century Figure Promotes Chocolate, Sports, Classical Music; Elvis Jumpsuit
BRUSSELS—This city is home to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the European Union and countless priceless works of art. But for promotion, Belgium's capital increasingly turns to a tiny, misbehaving boy.
The Manneken Pis, one of Brussels' most recognizable statues, has been a requisite tourist stop for centuries. While historic squares like Brussels' Grand Place dot Europe, no metropolis boasts such a well-known fountain engaged in the same bodily function.
The diminutive 15th-century sculpture is also an icon for locals, who say he embodies their irreverence.
"Our symbol is only 2-feet tall and he's peeing," says Martha Meeze, a spokeswoman for Visit Brussels, the city's tourist office. In Brussels, she said, "We don't take ourselves too seriously."
Now, the micturating lad is getting into marketing. Even as society has lowered its tolerance for images of nude children and become hypersensitive about sanitation, the politically incorrect statue has gained stature.
He appears in logos, ads and as a leitmotif for images of others engaged in his activity—including a cartoon french fry. Replicas of him, once mainly sold around Brussels as corkscrews and in snow globes, are now also cast in colorful chocolate and as lollipops.
Among the first to see the sculpture's promotional potential were the German and Australian founders of Manneken Pis Productions, a Brussels graphic design firm launched in 2000 that uses him as its logo. "It's good because it stands out and we're a creative firm," says partner Katrin Straub. "It's quite sophisticated, no?"
When city officials wanted to promote a job-creation plan in 2005, they used ads depicting an office full of Mannekens at computers and in meetings. Another poster showed a construction site bustling with Mannekens in hard hats.
Promotions for the annual Brussels Summer Festival include the Manneken wailing on an electric guitar. For the Classissimo classical festival, a Manneken duo plays violin and piano.
The city's yearlong food celebration, Brusselicious, celebrated Chocolate Week in November with an image of three Belgian-chocolate Mannekens standing in a paper cone typically used to serve another local delicacy, fried potatoes. (Fries, or frites, are widely accepted to be a Belgian creation.)
Even giant Coca-Cola Co. KO -0.05 % has gone with the flow. Psychedelic art on Coke vending machines at Brussels Airport features the iconic boy standing atop the iconic bottle.
"Manneken Pis is one of our national symbols," says a Belgian Coke spokeswoman. She notes that Coke kept the images, installed in 2007, even after it changed world-wide ad campaigns two years later. The design also includes smaller images of fries and other Belgian touchstones.
Fritland, a fry shop near the statue, promotes itself with a silhouette of the Manneken holding a cone of fries. Around the corner, competitor Manneken Frites has merged the two local icons in a cartoon fry relieving himself.
The proliferation of Manneken images in varying degrees of impropriety prompted officials at the Brussels City Museum several years ago to try creating a voluntary code respecting his likeness, which is in the public domain. "Nothing too ugly or commercial," says Bérengère de Laveleye, a scientific assistant at the museum. But she says the Manneken's growing popularity overwhelmed museum staff. "We decided it was too much trouble."
Brussels doesn't lack giggle-proof potential icons. It recently renovated the centerpiece of its 1958 World's Fair, a giant construction of tubes and silver spheres called the Atomium. And the EU's expanding headquarters complex has prompted some civic cheerleaders to dub Brussels "Europe's Capital." But neither trope has saturated public consciousness as the Manneken has.
"The Manneken Pis is like the Eiffel Tower for Paris," says Ms. De Laveleye. "It's just smaller and more fun."
Part of the fun is 896 suits of clothing that have been officially donated to him over the centuries and which he regularly wears. Many are displayed at the city museum, including a spacesuit, an Elvis Presley sequined jumpsuit and a French military officer's uniform that passing French soldiers must salute when the Manneken dons it.
Souvenir shops have long sold Manneken figurines, including ones that replace the fountain's spout with a corkscrew. Now Brussels Corner, a trendy tourist shop near the statue, sells a growing range of items riffing on the Manneken. In one design, emblazoned on T-shirts, mugs and coasters, the fountain's stream flows into a very liquid cursive spelling out "Brussels." A popular hoodie shows a clothed teenage boy in a hoodie imitating the Manneken.
"It's artistic," says shop owner Marie-Christine Bert. "There aren't so many things in Brussels, so we have to work with what we have."
The Manneken was created as a fountain for drinking water but his exact origin is unknown. The earliest reference to him is from about 1450, and he became a rallying point for locals during a French bombardment in 1695, says historian Roel Jacobs.
Locals' self-mockery dates back as far. Mr. Jacobs traces the self-deprecation to a 16th-century campaign by town fathers to flatter Charles V, a Holy Roman Emperor from Spain and Austria, that enticed him to make Brussels his base.
Back then, statues at public fountains often performed biological functions including spitting, bleeding and lactating. "Before Victorian times, people didn't have all those complexes about nudity," Mr. Jacobs says.
More recently, the statue has been a symbol of satire, such as in images of him showering Nazi occupiers.
Mr. Jacobs says Brussels' low profile helped prompt bigger European powers to make it the EU's base, which has instilled local pride. "I hope it won't change our capacity to laugh at ourselves," he says.
Visit Brussels, the tourist office, hasn't lost that capacity. It employs Manneken images extensively, splicing his head onto athletes to promote sports and giving him a saxophone (invented by a Belgian) to promote night life.
At Manneken Pis Productions, clients think the logo "is brilliant," says Ms. Straub. "It's cute because it's not a grown man."
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Let $d \ge 1$, and consider the integer lattice $\mathbb Z^d$. This is a homogeneous space, in the manner of the Erlangan Programm.
I would like to write $\mathbb Z^d = G / H$, where $G$ is the symmetry group of the lattice and $H$ is the stabilizer of a point, but I do not see readily how to do so. This should be an easy question, so maybe one of you can answer it quickly.
Let $V = \{\pm \mathrm e_1, \cdots, \pm \mathrm e_d\}$ denote the $2d$ standard basis vectors in $\mathbb Z^d$, and let $H$ be the group consisting of lattice orthogonal matrices from $V$. i.e., an element $\beta \in H$ describes an orthogonal basis of $\mathbb Z^d$, in the sense that it is a matrix whose columns are an independent set from $V$.
The group $G$ should then consist of translations and rotations. Does that mean that it is a semidirect product of $\mathbb Z^d$ and $H$?


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How do I specify that I do not wish to see apps that require for example internet access? Or to only show apps that use a specific permission?
A specific repository with search on its webpage? An app that provides searching the Play Store?
How do I specify that I do not wish to see apps that require for example internet access? Or to only show apps that use a specific permission?
A specific repository with search on its webpage? An app that provides searching the Play Store?
If you're interested, I've developed an app, StripSearch, to filter search listings by the permissions used. The app works by excluding results that don't meet the permission requirements specified by a given search filter (a filter can exclude, require, or ignore specific permissions). Several filters are included by default, but you can create your own as well.
Get StripSearch here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hasslefixes.stripsearch
If you want to see a demo explaining its usage, you can watch a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mynw3rbky5A
StripSearch is free, does not include ads or spyware, and only uses the following permissions:
Giv it a try!
How it currently CAN be done
During my morning routine reading my RSS feeds, I stumbled on a review at N-Droid, discussing an app named APEFS. This app is developed by German students (hence its description on the Playstore is in German, even if you set the language to English). But for our non-German readers, a short description here:
Basically, APEFS is an alternative front-end to the Google Playstore. You browse the playstore as you do with the original app, and search it the same. But when on the results list1, an advanced filter2 comes into play:
As the second screenshot shows, you can select what permissions your wanted app is permitted to have (checkbox marked), and what permission it should not have (checkbox unchecked).
However: While this can be used to filter out apps with unwanted permissions (e.g. show only apps whitout the Internet permission), you can not restrict your results to the opposite (e.g. show only apps with Internet permission). The app clearly targets at users concerned about their privacy/security -- and according to the review (I just found it a couple of minutes ago, so I could not test it yet) it does a very good job.
As it's already a year ago, and the promise on the APEFS Homepage (GTransed to English, as their own English version doesn't have that statement in the first paragraph) seems not to be fulfilled anytime soon (the app is still offline): Please consider the web-based solution from my other answer as an alternative meanwhile.
Why currently this can't be done
When a developer performs the upload of his application to Google Play, the application manifest file gets read to a database, from where the search for apps is performed.
To allow searching for applications based on their permissions, one would have to access the database and collect data that concerns the application manifest node
While this seems quite straightforward, Google API does not provide means to this end:
From the Filters on Google Play Filtering based on Manifest Elements - <uses-permission>.
Essentially, Google Play Store uses the application manifest file to automatically apply filters based on the user's device, hardware specifications, country, carrier, etc.
All of this is done silently without the intervention of any search parameters.
A user either from Google Play or third party search engines, can limit the results after they get automatically filtered by Google, based on personal preferences like excluding paid apps; limit the results to apps that are compatible with the user devices, among others. But there's no way to interfere with the filters applied by Google. Even if, some how, we get to that part, the API essentially isn't prepared/designed to filter based on permissions as mentioned above.
More than two years have passed since this question was asked. Still, there's no "official solution" available. Despite its promises, APEFS (introduced in my previous answer over a year ago) has not returned. So I decided to create my own solution:
For almost 4 years now, I maintain listings of "Android apps by purpose", i.e. grouped by their use cases. In march, I started moving them to my own server. All MetaData are stored in a database on that server, and so finally I was able to setup a search by permissions.
You can select between 1 and 5 categories here (note that selecting a "parent category" automatically includes all its "children"), plus one or more permissions. Default presets are for finding "permission-friendly apps" – so if you're after such a candidate, you can simply submit the form after having made described selections. This should make it easy to e.g. find a PIM app which does not request the Internet permission (to keep your personal data on your device).
However, the opposite is possible as well: If you e.g. want to investigate what good NFC can do for you, select the up to 5 categories you're interested in, then the NFC permission, switch the "Permissions" dropbox to "include", and optionally the sorting to "by rating, descending" (to get the best-rated apps first).
When in doubt, there's that little question-mark icon in the top-right corner, providing you with some "online help".
But that's not all. As I've explained in the second paragraph, apps in my lists are grouped by their "purpose", i.e. what you need them for. So apps with comparable functionality should appear next to each other:
So you can compare them not only by rating, but also pick the one requesting less permissions (number in the box; in above image indicated by a "red 6") or, if possible, without any concerns (no red border around the box). Clicking the app's name reveals some more details, as shown. And there are many "easter-eggs" (i.e. MouseOver events) – again, be pointed to the help page.
Full disclosure: As initially indicated, the described site was designed by me, built by me, filled by me with its content, and is further maintained by me. It's available bi-lingual (English/German), free of any charge (this includes: no cookies, Flash-cookies, whatever), etc. This question here at Android.SE was one of the reasons I've set it up.
Further be aware of the fact that this doesn't cover the entire "playstore collection". As of today, there are a little over 10,000 apps recorded in the database (which is probably a little less than 1% of what's on Play – unless you don't count the crap, fakes, and useless apps on Play, then my records might cover about 10% ☺). Still I hope (and think) it's already a useful resource you'll enjoy.
Simple answer: you don't. Though you can feel free to ask Google. As user Chahk said, the web interface saves you a few clicks, but there is still no way to filter results as you are requesting.
A round about way is to create a Java app that utilizes android-market-api. Presently it can search app based on "keywords or package name". The search query can be built to search for the necessary permission that is being sought. Little homework required, but seems useful.
After downloading androidmarketapi-0.6.jar and protobuf-java-2.2.0.jar (of course you should have JRE already setup) you can execute the following:
You have to replace X.Y with 0.6 as that is the present version and replace credentials and query. For building query you can visit this page.
If you have programming skills you can write your own parser and use filters above it. I couldn't find anything about API but you can slowly parse web-interface to get what you want.
It's not the simpliest solution but can make you much confident with results you can get.
Honestly I wish I could make simple example in Python but have no time now. Maybe in nearest future.
Im currently working on a permission based search filter for the Android Play store. For now I have found over 1.2 Mio Apps and added their permission to my database.
The current status can be found here http://live.edgeelement.com/appfilter/
Searching with the permission name still means it searches at best through the description of the app
For example :"COARSE (NETWORK-BASED) LOCATION" -> searching for this will list down applications which have this information listed in their descriptions, but it fails to search through the Permissions tab.
If google allowed to scrape the info of all the apps, like i was, then i would be able to provide the world with a search engine to search apps through permissions they require :)
Per this related answer, this is a great solution:
(I have no affiliation with the app - I had the same question and this was the solution I ended up using).
Thank you for your interest in this question.
Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site (the association bonus does not count).
Would you like to answer one of these unanswered questions instead?


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MINGO JUNCTION - Partners Tracy DiCarlo and Dimas Cintron are hoping to make their new Mingo Diner the destination of choice for area residents looking for good food and great service at affordable prices.
Tracy and her fiance, a self-employed contractor, spent weeks cleaning and remodeling the inside of the diner, formerly known as Paddy's, before opening for business in December. As with any new business, she said those first few weeks "were chaotic, but we've worked the kinks out."
"Our customers come first, no matter what," Dimas added. "We don't let food sit in the service window for any reason. We have a new name, new menu, new servers and a new standard of service, and we're always trying to make things better. I tell people, everything is homemade so please give us time to prepare it properly. Ninety-nine percent of our menu is cooked from scratch."
Mingo Diner offers a range of breakfast, lunch and dinner items. The menu features everything from omelets, soups, pasta, hamburgers, Philly cheesesteaks, reubens and hot dogs to gyros, hoagies, kielbassa, chicken, meatloaf, sausage, roast beef and fish. They also have a Greek salad, steak salad, chicken salad and blue cheese salad, a kid's menu and a selection of side dishes, appetizers and desserts sure to suit any palate.
"And our coffee is fresh ground," Tracy said. "We grind the beans ourselves."
They have daily specials, including all-you-can-eat fish on Fridays.
"We want to be known for having A-1 food, really good food," she said.
Currently open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, Cintron said they will extend their hours in the spring. They're also looking into getting a lottery machine as well as a credit card machine for customer convenience.
Takeout is available.
Tracy said her parents Ron and Pam DiCarlo, owners of DiCarlo Markets - talked her into making the move. She'd worked at her father's store for years, doing his catering for him.
"That's how I established myself," she said. "I catered a lot of food out of there, for weddings and graduations, so people know how I cook and the kind of food I cook.
Tracy said her father saw opportunity in the shale drilling boom coming to Ohio.
"He knew in time, even though January and February are typically a bad time of year, with all the drilling that's coming in it would be good for me. He felt like this was a great opportunity to strike out on my own, that it was a good time for me to go out on my own."
Elise Bogard of Wintersville supplies them with fresh baked goods. To find out more about Mingo Diner, call (740) 535-2008 or visit in person at 2210 Commercial St., Mingo Junction.


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I have two shell script files with exactly the same permissions etc. I can run one of them by just giving its name in the command line but for the other one I should use sh or ./ to run it. What is the reason?
Odds are that the 2 scripts are in different directories. One of the directories is on the PATH while the other is not.
You can use the
See this U&L Q&A "How do I test to see if an application exists in $PATH?" for a more thorough coverage.
If you're just giving the name of the script and it works then you have it in your /usr/bin/ /usr/sbin or whatever. It all depends on what your path is set to.
Do this:
If your script is in any of those directories it will run without using the absolute path.
Whereis or "which" will tell you where it's located. You may even have given one file execution rights and not the other. For the one that doesn't run with just the name do a chmod u+x


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Two more Clayton men were arraigned Friday on felony charges stemming from the burning of a vacant house in Clayton the night of July 10. The fire was reportedly set in response to a dare during a conversation among at least four suspects.
Michael Andrew Luft, 22, and Shequille Albert Sheffield, 19, were arraigned from jail by video in Lenawee County District Court. Sheffield is charged with arson of a dwelling and Luft with aiding and abetting an arson.
Two other suspects in the fire were arraigned Thursday?on charges of conspiracy?to commit?arson.
They are Christopher James Beaubien, 29, and Dylan Matthew Scott, 20.
According to Lenawee County Sheriff's Department reports, the arson resulted from a conversation among the four men that escalated when dares?were exchanged. Papers were ignited in the kitchen of the house next door to Beaubien's home. Flames spread through the empty house before the fire was reported at 10:20 p.m. that day.
The house at 3550 West Street was ruled a total loss by the Clayton Fire Department.
The suspects were questioned after police received tips they were involved in the fire.
All four suspects remain in jail in lieu of $50,000 bonds for each. They face preliminary hearings on Sept. 4.
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For Instructors Spinning
2 first timers at once!!!
05/30/2011 7:10 am
While setting up to sub in a class at the gym (not my studio) a woman stepped in and introduced herself to me. She asked what the class was all about and if she could join. She said she always saw people spinning their feet around real fast and wondered if she could keep up. I asked her what she knew of Spinning® and what she expected from the class. She said, "Well, I don't really exercise, but I had a baby 2 years ago and want to get in shape. This looks super hard, but is there a beginner's class?" I thanked her for asking and I gave her my gentle spiel about it and encouraged her to try. I told her that i didn't have any great expectations for her and that I just hoped that she would stay for the whole class because there is an awesome stretch afterwards. I fit her to the bike and gave her the basics (emergency brake, feet in toe cages, gear for standing...riding according to her intuition not my coaching for now...) ...and as people file in... ANOTHER woman introduces herself to me. I get her all hooked up and away we go. Through the class I personally/quietly check in with every one, but especially the newbies... The first one was pretty badly suffering...and I put my hand on her back and said that I didn't want her to feel trapped...I would let her sneak out if she was suffering, but I wanted her to promise to come back and talk to me....she said she would try to stay...and she did! At the end of the class I had the participants remember that they all had a first class and that they should give it up for our two first timers and wow, I was blown away by the response! A loud, hootin' and hollerin' cheer for them! I was truly moved. I thanked everyone for remembering that Spinning® is really about you, the rider and that while we all have our own goals and experience and abilities, the cohesiveness and inclusiveness the shared experience fosters team spirit and we all benefit from such positive energy! I so support not seeing a newbie as a drag to the class - of course you might not to slide by on all the shared assumptions you usually get with your group of usual suspects, but honestly...a first timer is a gift to everyone in the class and should be celebrated. You get to review stuff, reinforce stuff and light new fires.Share


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Baseball Stumbles at Catawba in DoubleheaderMarch 15, 2014
SALISBURY, N.C. – Falling victim to a walk-off solo home run in the final game of the doubleheader, Anderson University baseball dropped both games on the day to South Atlantic Conference rival Catawba, 9-3 and 4-3, Saturday afternoon at Newman Park.
The two setbacks move the Trojans below .500 in conference play for this first time this year, as they hold a 7-8 mark. Catawba, the SAC preseason favorite, improves to 14-11 for the season and 9-5 in league play.
Offensively, Anderson was led by sophomore Kyle Bailey with two hits in both games, capped off by a sixth inning home run, his second home run of the season. Bailey finished 4-for-7 for the afternoon with three RBI. Joining Bailey with home runs was senior Nathan Galliford, his eighth of the season, Garrett Bernardo and first baseman Steven Cooper. In his last four games, Cooper has recorded a home run in three.
On the mound, junior right-hander Landon Beck posted his third complete game of the season, tossing six complete innings and striking out seven in the final game of the afternoon. Despite the effort, Beck received the loss due to a walk-off home run from Catawba's Malachi Hanes, breaking a 3-3 tie in the seventh inning. The setback is Beck's third of the year.
Catawba's Paul Kronenfeld notched three hits in both games for the afternoon, highlighted by an eighth inning triple in the first game. For the series, the Indians recorded 39 hits, with four home runs, for 23 runs scored.
After suffering a 9-3 loss in the opening game, Anderson took an early 1-0 lead in the final contest of the day when Cooper knocked out a home run over the right-field wall. After Catawba evened the game in the second inning, Bailey drove in third baseman David Jones in the top of the third inning on a single to leftcenter field.
When the Indians tied the game in the bottom of the third, the Trojans grabbed the lead back once again when Bailey turned on a pitch down the leftfield line for his second home run of the year. Despite the lead, Catawba scored once in the sixth, leading to the seventh-inning heroics.
The Trojans return to action on Tuesday when they welcome Peach Belt Conference member GRU Augusta to Anderson Memorial Stadium. First pitch against the Jaguars is set for 6 p.m.


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I recently came across some polynomials with some remarkable properties. A polynomial $P(u,v) \in \mathbb{R}[u,v]$ in 2 variables is remarkable if the set of solutions to the system $P(u,v)=P(v,u)=0$ is a finite number of points in $\mathbb{C}^2$ such that each point is of the form $(x, \overline{x}).$
Here are some examples of such polynomials:
$-2 u v+v^3+1$
$u^2-3 u v^2+v^4+2 v$
$3 u^2 v-4 u v^3-2 u+v^5+3 v^2$
$-u^3+6 u^2 v^2-5 u v^4-6 u v+v^6+4 v^3+1$
$-4 u^3 v+10 u^2 v^3+3 u^2-6 u v^5-12 u v^2+v^7+5 v^4+3 v$
$u^4-10 u^3 v^2+15 u^2 v^4+12 u^2 v-7 u v^6-20 u v^3-3 u+v^8+6 v^5+6 v^2$
A quite complicated algorithm is behind this sequence, any help identifying a formula for these polynomials would be helpful. Also, a proof that these polynomials are remarkable would be nice, these are only checked by numeric computations in Mathematica.
Question: Can one classify the set of remarkable polynomials?


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Two MO questions, "Heuristic behind the Fourier-Mukai transform" and "Explaining Mukai-Fourier transforms physically," compel me to ask these two related questions:
1) What properties do you feel are essential for a transform to possess to be called a "Fourier" transform?
2) What properties of the classical Fourier transform are not necessarily shared by a generalized "Fourier" transform?
In other words, how can I recognize a "Fourier" transform?


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How can I generate a terrain heightmap from the perlin algorithm? I am trying to make a terrain generator (like World Machine). This is the source code I have for the perlin. The only thing that I can't figure out is how to use the perlin algorithm to generate a heightmap image.
A terrain heightmap texture is a regular grid of point samples, which indicate the height at that particular location on the terrain. When you want to create such a heightmap from a function
If the function expects the coordinate in a different space (other scale, offset, range) than the pixel coordinates of your texture, you need to map the pixel coordinates into the coordinate range you wish to invoke the function with.
The output values might have the wrong scale or offset, so you might need to compensate for those by offsetting and scaling the returned value to fit inside the range of values your texture component expects (0 through 255 for a typical 8-bit component):
Your answer might lie in making additive multiple passes:
Pass 1: Make a 2D array storing values from the perlin generator. The bigger the array the more detail.
Then scale this array to your maximum/minimum height values for terrain.
Pass 2 through N: Offset values of array by further perlin generations, with each pass carrying a smaller weight. This should allow for further detail, taking away from the 'smoothness' of a single pass.
Now the world making suite you mentioned seems (at a glance) to support things like natural water formations/erosion over time. These can be a bit more complicated to replicate simply, but the general idea is:
Water can only lower/smooth out land, so in any place water must rest, find the deepest point, then create a quadratic gradient outwards (where higher polynomials represent further complexity, drop offs, that sort of thing).
Flora and other plant life can easily be added using rules like: Plant A can only exist a certain distance from water, and only on a circular area with an average height differential between each point less than a certain amount.
That should make for some nifty looking terrain on the cheap (processor wise).
Landscapes have much more varying detail size than Perlin noise, wich is why a single 2D noise used as a heightmap looks unrealistically smooth. You can add additional layers of noise to improve this; a layer with low noise scale also should have a low weight on the overall result height. You can use irregular fractions for the scale to avoid repetitions.
World Machine seems to have a lot of additional features that don't seem to directly rely on only noise, like the valleys perpendicular to the mountains, that may be difficult or impossible to replicate this way.


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Arrested: Jonathan Logan, 41, 1310 Pennsylvania Ave., bench warrant out of municipal court, Wednesday.
Arrested: Jennifer Powers, 27, 448 Spring Ave., bench warrant out of municipal court, Wednesday.
Theft: Window on vehicle broken Wednesday in the 100 block of North Fourth Street and digital camera taken.
Arrested: Kristie Hailstone, 38, 302 N. Third St., domestic violence. Police reported she cut her boyfriend with a kitchen knife during an altercation at the North Third Street house around midnight Wednesday.
Jefferson County
Arrested: Dennis R. Bernardi, 45, and Victoria E. Maloney, 50, both of 304 Parr Ave., Mingo Junction, each charged with theft, Wednesday.
Arrested: Tyler T. Eisnaugle, 37, 55 Nancy St., Steubenville, bench warrant out of Steubenville Municipal Court and receiving stolen property charge out of Toronto county court, Wednesday.
Arrested: Dorian Patton, 23, 1309 Oak Grove Ave., Steubenville, parole violation, Wednesday.
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Arrested: Jessica L. Summers, 32, Carnegie, Pa., possession of drugs, Wednesday.


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Passenger numbers drop at Bradley airport
WINDSOR LOCKS -- Bradley International Airport saw fewer passengers in 2012 than 2011, as was the case with most New England airports, but Bradley did better and has bright prospects when the current economic downturn reverses, Connecticut Airport Authority Executive Director Kevin Dillon says.
Bradley's passenger total for December was down about 2.1 percent, and the total for all of 2012 was down 4 percent from 2011.
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