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Were there any early attempts or debates to abolish slavery in the USA, before Lincoln?
Yes, there are quite a few.
I've tried to cover the major attempts here, but there were many other attempts that I did not list.
There are two ways to go about effecting such a change; peacefully at the ballot box (like England did) or at the point of a weapon (like Haiti did).
The English Model:
The problem with outlawing slavery (or really anything nationwide) in the USA before the Civil War, is that before the war it wasn't really The United States of America, but rather The United States of America. The central government was not all that strong, and was operating under a constitution that made outlawing anything nationwide very difficult. Some have even argued the Constitution was specifically designed to make it nearly impossible to outlaw slavery against the will of the slave states.
The entire backbone of this design was that free states would have to get a 3/4ths majority of states to outlaw slavery. What freaked the South out enough to cause the Civil war was that the Republican party was dead set against expanding slavery to any of the new states. With them in control of the government when it was set to add a whole bunch of new states, this balance was in peril.
So as far as Federal action to outlaw slavery before the war, there really wasn't one. Unless you consider the soft approach of limiting new slave states to be an attack on slavery (which is exactly how the slave states saw it).
That being said, individual states can, and did, outlaw slavery. For instance New York passed an "abolition" law in 1799 that took about a generation to come into effect. So athough it was technically outlawed, there were still legally some slaves in New York at the start of the war.
The Haitian Model:
There were lots of little uprisings that aren't very well known. The two most serious are rather famous though. First was Nat Turner's Rebellion, which was essentially a slave conspiracy and uprising on the Haitian model.
The second, John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry, wasn't as bloody, but was even more important. That's because it was led by a white man, with the intent of freeing the entire South by raising the slaves in the countryside, much like how Garabaldi united Italy a year later. The raid was easily put down, but John Brown became a hero in the North, and scared sotherners reacted by forming militias that later became the core of the Confederate army. This incident indirectly inspired The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
What actually happened
What actually happened was a combination of both. Contrary to popular belief, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, did not outlaw slavery in the United States. It only freed slaves in rebelling states (which didn't recognize Lincoln's authority anyway). It was remarked at the time that it didn't free a single slave.
However, after the war the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution did outlaw all slavery. The Civil War was a necessary precondition of its passage. The 3/4ths majority was assured by the fact that the old Confedarate states did not yet have full voting rights restored to them. When given a chance, they still voted against it.
Perhaps the earliest attempt to free Negro slaves (at least within their jurisdiction) was by the Quakers of Pennsylvania, late in the eighteenth century.
"Abolitionist" reformers picked up the pace early in the nineteenth century. Perhaps the most famous of them was William Lloyd Garrison, whose first issue of the Liberator in 1831 opened, "I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.... I am in earnest—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—AND I WILL BE HEARD."
Another famous abolitionist in the 1840s and 1850s was the preacher Henry Ward Beecher, and his even more famous sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Lincoln's election was the culmination of a situation where abolitionists like the ones mentioned above had won the support of perhaps half the country.


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Kevin E. Abbott, 54, of Oquawka; passed away at his residence on Friday March 22, 2013 at 6 a.m. Kevin was born on December 4, 1958 in Aledo, and is the son of Robert "Joe" Johanson and Bettie Lou Ortery Johanson. Kevin was raised in Moline, where he attended local schools. He then received his G E D. Kevin married Janet L. Blacketer on May 24, 2003 in Moline, and she is surviving. Kevin was employed as a driver and did custodial work at Center State International Truck in Burlington, Iowa. for two years. A very hard worker, he has had various employments over his entire life.
Kevin also was a member of Rock Island National Guard Unit. He was an avid NASCAR and Dale Ernhart fan and was a die hard fan of the Kansas City Chiefs; as he sported tattoos of each.
Surviving Kevin is his wife, Janet of Oquawk, one son Brandon L. (Amie) Abbott of Davenport, Iowa, four daughters, Kelli D. Abbott of Oquawka, Amanda S. Abbott of Davenport, Iowa, Merenda (Tracy) Goad of Red Bullin, Tennessee and Vanessa (Tony) Hunter of Gamaliel, Kentucky.
Five granddaughters and two grandsons two sisters survive, Judy (Robert) Weber of East Moline, and Erma Doss of Keithsburg. Two brothers Mike (Shelley) Abbott of Oquawka, and Craig (Jill) Johanson of East Moline.
Cremation has been accorded, and a memorial serv- ice will be on Saturday March 30 at the Christian Church in Keithsburg at 10 am. His family has estab- lished a memorial fund in his memory. Turnbull Funeral Home in Oquawka is in charge of the arrange- ments. For more information please visit www.turn- bullfuneralhomes.com
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Possible Duplicate:
Why does adding solutes to pure water lower the the specific heat?
Why do higher concentration salt solutions heat up more quickly?
Why do higher concentration salt solutions heat up more quickly?
marked as duplicate by Ron Maimon, Qmechanic♦, David Z♦ Sep 3 '12 at 18:34
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.
Having claimed that solutes don't affect the specific heat not only do I have to admit I'm wrong, but I've found a paper explaining the effect by no less a person than Fritz Zwicky, better known to many of us as a cosmologist.
Anyhow, the paper is at http://authors.library.caltech.edu/8821/1/ZWIpnas26a.pdf
Zwicky finds that the biggest effect is, to use his words: the water molecules act as rigid electric dipoles, and a dipole in the inhomogenous field of an ion will be attracted to it. The result of this attraction is a high pressure around the ion, and because the specific heat of water is strongly changed by pressure this effect has a big effect on the specific heat.
There are several other possible contributions, but Zwicky shows these are small compared to the pressure effect.
The paper is beautifully written and I strongly recommend having a look at it.
One spurious reason is that the salt suppresses evaporation, but this is not essential, and you would only see it in open containers.
The essntial reason is explained here: Why does adding solutes to pure water lower the the specific heat? . The salt becomes ions, and the ions hold a rigid cage of water molecules around them which are not allowed to vibrate individually. The reduction in the vibration degrees of freedom due to these cages reduces the specific heat by an amount roughly commensurate with the specific heat of the introduced salt, at most maybe 10 times bigger, since it's order-1 moelcules in the cage per salt atom.
The reason that you get freezing out near ions is that the water is a polar molecule, and charged ions have interactions with the water molecules on the atomic scales that is two orders of magnitude bigger than kT. This allows the cage to form and to stay rigid enough that its oscillations are quantum mechanically frozen out. Without quantum mechanics, any spring, no matter how rigid, contributes almost the same amount to the specific heat, since classical systems have equipartition which doesn't allow the specific heat to go below .5 kT per degree of freedom (the kinetic energy), which is usually one kT per degree of freedom (harmonic spring), and which is not sensitive to the stiffness of the spring, only to the shape of the potential.
The strength of the polar-molecule ion interaction is estimated in this answer: Please explain the physics of a Cloud Chamber
Adding salt in water will definitely lower the specific heat capacity of the solution but it will also increase the boiling point of the solution. i.e. Salt water would DEFINITELY get to 100° more quickly, but would it would reach 102° C or 103° C or whatever temperature before it boils.
Put in vapor pressure terms, a liquid boils at the temperature when its vapor pressure equals the surrounding pressure. For the solvent, the presence of the solute decreases its vapor pressure by dilution. A non-volatile solute has a vapor pressure of zero, so the vapor pressure of the solution is less than the vapor pressure of the solvent. Thus, a higher temperature is needed for the vapor pressure to reach the surrounding pressure, and the boiling point is elevated.
Put in chemical potential terms, at the boiling point, the liquid phase and the gas (or vapor) phase have the same chemical potential (or vapor pressure) meaning that they are energetically equivalent. The chemical potential is dependent on the temperature, and at other temperatures either the liquid or the gas phase has a lower chemical potential and is more energetically favorable than the other phase. This means that when a non-volatile solute is added, the chemical potential of the solvent in the liquid phase is decreased by dilution, but the chemical potential of the solvent in the gas phase is not affected. This means in turn that the equilibrium between the liquid and gas phase is established at another temperature for a solution than a pure liquid, i.e., the boiling point is elevated.


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Where can I print on special paper?
Our lab LaserJet printers only take standard printing paper at this time. To print on resume or any other special sized or colored paper, you can visit USD's Copy and Graphics Department located behind Maher Hall, just east of the Immaculata.
Do the labs have copy or fax machines?
The computer labs do not have copy or fax machines however, SH 205 has a scanner which can be used for printing/emailing documents. Copley Library has 3 copy machines—one color and 2 black and white. The color copier also scans and faxes. To scan, you will need a USB flash drive. There is no charge for scanning and faxing. Copy and Fax machines are also available in the Copy and Graphics Department.
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Hands-on Machine Learning
The goal of this presentation is to give a very applied, hands-on introduction to a range of Machine Learning techniques. There will be a quick discussion of what kinds of data you can have, what kinds of tasks machine learning techniques allow you to, and, finally, a survey of common techniques. At the end, if you know what kinds of data you have, and what your goal is, this will let you get down to just a list of techniques that could be appropriate for your task.
Ideally, each technique will include a hands-on section for just that technique. This should cover any tools that implement the algorithm, how to get your data into those tools, and how to extract the model from those tools and incorporate it into your own code.
The General Machine Learning Process
In general, applying machine learning techniques goes something like this:
- Collect your data
- Import that data into some training tool
- Train a "model" on that data
- Tweak your data, tweak model parameters, etc, and repeat training
- Eventually you get an output model
- Take that model and integrate it with your codebase
Input Data
There are basically just two sorts of input data: nominal and numeric.
Nominal values are things like "Red", "Orange", "Poltergeist", etc. They're a closed set of discrete values, typically strings instead of numbers. However, you can use numbers as a nominal value, so long as they're from a closed set. These are usually from human judgment: there's not necessarily a good line between red and orange, but a human makes the call and records the value. Alternately, a human decides where the arbitrary line is, and writes a bit of code that makes the decision based on that line.
Numeric values are exactly what they sound like: numbers! They can take many, many values, and are generally based on direct measurements. For example, the weight of a fruit a robot is holding, or the number of occurances of a given word in a document.
Machine Learning Tasks
Generally speaking, you can ask a Machine Learning algorithm to do one of three things:
Numeric prediction
Description: "Given the input you've seen in the past, and this set of current values, what values should I expect given this input?"
A trivial example: if you have a dataset that's pairs of (Yesterday's high temperature, today's high temperature), you could train a numeric predictor that would give you an estimate of today's high temperature given yesterday's. Or, given the highs for the last week, it could predict the highs for the next 3 days.
Description: "Given the input you've seen in the past, and this set of current values, what would you label this?"
The best-known example of this is the spam filter. After labelling a bunch of email as spam or not-spam, you train a classifier. Then, you can use that classifier on new email to decide whether the machine believes it to be spam or not. Of course, this generalizes, and you can use exactly the same technique to separate personal, work, and hobby email.
Description: "Given the input you've seen in the past, and this set of current values, what previous inputs is it most like?"
This task is very similar to classification, with one big difference: you don't have labels. For example, if you have a bunch of measurements of flowers, you can use clustering to discover if there are underlying patterns you've missed out on, perhaps representing growing conditions or a difference in (sub)species.
Specific Techniques
Decision Trees
Task: Labelling Input data types: nominal (or numeric, with conditionals)
Description: A decision tree is something like a flow chart. It's a tree of decision boxes; you start at the root and, based on your data, follow decisions down to leaf nodes. At the leaf nodes, you'll typically have a label.
Naive Bayes Classifier
Task: Labelling
Input data types: nominal
Description: Naive Bayes is a statistical technique for predicting the probability of all labels given a set of inputs. For instance, let's assume we've trained a naive Bayes system on (color, kind of fruit) pairs. Then, we can ask it for the probability distribution of "kind of fruit" given the color "yellow." This will tell us that it's almost certainly a banana or lemon, but it could be an apple, and might occasionally be an orange, etc. That is, it returns a list of labels with an associated probability.
Support Vector Machines
Task: Labelling
Input data types: numeric
Description: Support Vector Machines work by finding lines that separate data points. Its input values are labelled points in a high-dimensional space.
Training: libsvm and svmlight.
Polynomial Regression
Task: Numeric Prediction
Input data types: numeric
Description: This isn't technically machine learning. It's actually just an inference technique, but it's often a good technique to try as a baseline.
Neural Networks
Task: Numeric Prediction
Input data types: numeric
Description: A neural network allows you predict a number of continuous numeric values based on other continuous values. "A Neural Network is the second best way to solve any problem."
k-Means Clustering
Task: Clustering
Input data types: numeric or nominal
Description: k-Means clustering allows you to take a set of feature vectors and decide which group of feature vectors to associate it with. In a fruit-market universe, this will cluster all the "round, red, dense" things together, separate from the "orange, round, dense" things.
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Brisk Lumia Shipments Give Nokia a Sliver of Hope
Nokia Corp. gave the first evidence that people are buying its newest smartphones, quelling investor concern that the Finnish giants bet on Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT 0.84 % software was a strategic blunder.
The optimistic remarks, two weeks ahead of a fourth-quarter earnings report, helped send shares up nearly 19%. But Nokia executives sidestepped several questions, including whether the company can shore up its shrinking cash position.
Nokia said brisk sales of its new Lumia phones lifted overall smartphone shipments for the first time in a year, even though shipments are still well below year ago levels.
The company said it shipped 4.4 million Lumia devices in the fourth quarter, bringing its total smartphone shipments to 6.6 million devices.
Investors have kept a close watch on Nokia's smartphone deliveries to gauge its ability to compete with the likes of Apple Inc. AAPL -0.12 % and Samsung Electronics Co. SSNHZ 0.00 % At Thursday's close, Nokia's American depositary shares rose 18.7%, or 70 cents, to $4.45 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Chief Executive Stephen Elop, speaking to analysts and media in a series of phone calls Thursday, also said his company's pace of cost cutting and improved results at a wireless networks joint venture will help the company "achieve underlying profitability in the fourth quarter."
But Mr. Elop declined to discuss one of the most closely watched financial issues facing the company: liquidity. Nokia's cash pile has been shrinking ever since Mr. Elop announced his bold move to adopt Microsoft's untested operating system for mobile devices. The shrinking cash pile has caused serious concern about the company's long-term prospects.
By the end of September, Nokia's net cash position reached €3.6 billion ($4.8 billion), down from €7 billion when Mr. Elop became the company's chief executive in late 2010.
Scrambling to raise cash after six quarters of losses, Nokia recently raised €170 million by selling its suburban-Helsinki headquarters building to a Finnish property investor Exilion Capital Oy and agreeing to lease it back on a long-term basis. The deal, which Nokia first said it was pursuing in October, followed an earlier move to raise €750 million in a bond offering.
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The company has also been selling patents and divesting itself of parts of its business, including an optical-network unit sold last month by its Nokia Siemens Networks arm, as well as the Vertu luxury phone unit, bought by a Swedish private-equity firm for an undisclosed sum last year.
Besides the cash crunch, it is far from clear whether Nokia's newest Lumia smartphones can continue to lure consumers in a cutthroat industry.
The company is banking on its Lumia line—particularly the newest 920 model that launched in November with sophisticated hardware—to help it regain ground.
While Nokia's Lumia shipment numbers look promising, they don't take into account pricing. Prices of Lumia phones were heavily discounted during the holidays.
In the U.S., for instance, Lumias were on sale for as little as $39 during the holiday spree on Amazon.com, AMZN 0.82 % or $60 cheaper than the initial price tag. Other lower-end Lumias were available free at other carriers, such as T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless, with a two-year contract.
Nokia's chief financial officer, Timo Ihamuotila, said the average smartphone selling price was €185 in the fourth quarter, up from €155 in the third quarter. He didn't break out the average prices of Lumias, so it is unclear how much carrier subsidies played a part in sales.
There is also a question of supply. Mr. Elop said the company has experienced supply problems, as certain mobile components have been in short supply, both for Nokia and other phone makers.
"Demand for our products has been greater than the available supply," Mr. Elop said. "If you went into a store to buy a new Nokia, there were times when our devices weren't available, so indeed we could have sold more Lumias."
The handset maker still expects its main devices and services unit—the bulk of which is made up of feature phones—to record a decline in sales in the fourth quarter of 2012, to €3.9 billion from €6 billion a year earlier, with total device shipments projected at 86.3 million units, down from 113.5 million.
The company also expects its results for the first quarter of 2013 to be pressured by seasonality and the competitive mobile environment, and it is currently battling to overcome supply constraints related to its latest products.
Nokia is due to report its fourth-quarter earnings on Jan. 24.
Mr. Elop has been on a crusade to cut expenses and simplify the company's business strategy.
Once the dominant player in the global cellphone business, Nokia has been forced to slash thousands of jobs and close facilities under Mr. Elop. These measures led to lower operating expenditure in the fourth quarter.
In addition to working on the core business of selling mobile devices, Nokia has focused on improving the performance of its wireless network joint venture with Siemens AG SIEGY 0.83 % , Nokia Siemens Networks.
The unit, which is in the midst of shedding 17,000 jobs, or nearly a quarter of its global workforce, has been refocusing its operations and is now concentrating on higher-margin mobile network sales.
Neil Mawston, an industry analyst at Strategy Analytics, said Nokia's performance is "a little mixed bag." While results are going to be better than expected, volumes for basic phones and Lumia smartphones were a little lower than he expected.
"Nokia has reached the trough and is looking into an L-shaped or U-shaped recovery," Mr. Mawston said.
He said the recent efforts on shrinking the company's size has been necessary. "Nokia has done a good job in cutting its costs," Mr. Mawston said. It's looking a lot leaner going into 2013."
—Juhana Rossi contributed to this article.
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During the month of April 2014 in the US, videogame software revenue declined by 10% compared to the year previous, down to $227.9 million, as Titanfall scooped the No. 1 placing in the top ten list of best-sellers. Call of Duty: Ghosts fought valiantly for No. 2 ahead of NBA 2K14, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition and new release, LEGO The Hobbit at No. 5.
April 2014 Software Sales Chart
– 1.) Titanfall (Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC) – EA
– 2.) Call of Duty: Ghosts (PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One) – Activision
– 3.) NBA 2K14 (PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One) – Take 2
– 4.) Minecraft (Xbox 360) – Microsoft Studios
– 5.) LEGO The Hobbit (PS3, Xbox 360, 3DS, Wii U, Xbox One, PS4, Vita) – Warner Bros. Interactive [NEW]
– 6.) The LEGO Movie Videogame (PS3, Xbox 360, 3DS, Wii U, Xbox One, PS4, Vita) – Warner Bros. Interactive
– 7.) LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (PS3, Xbox 360, 3DS, DS, Wii U, Xbox One, PS4, Vita, PC) – Warner Bros. Interactive
– 8.) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, Wii U, 3DS) – Activision [NEW]
– 9.) Grand Theft Auto 5 (PS3, Xbox 360) – Take 2
– 10.) Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag (PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One) – Ubisoft
April 2014 Hardware Sales
Videogame hardware sales were up an impressive 76% in April 2014, climbing to revenue of $192.8 million thanks to the continued success of PlayStation 4, and to a lesser extent, the Xbox One. Hardware sales are looking very good from a historical point of view, too, as NPD analyst Liam Callahan wrote:
"Life to date, sales of PS4 and Xbox One hardware have more than doubled the combined sales of PS3 and 360 hardware through their first six months of sales.
"PS4 software combined with Xbox One software sales are up over 40 percent compared to sales of the PS3 and Xbox 360 through their first six months. Wii U software sales were up over last year by over 80 percent."
April 2014 Hardware Sales Chart
– PlayStation 4: Best selling hardware
– Xbox One: 115 000 units
– Xbox 360: 71 000 units
April 2014 Videogame Industry Sales Totals
– April 2014 Videogame Sales – $580.3 million (+17%)
– April 2014 Videogame Hardware Sales – $192.8 million (+76%)
– April 2014 Videogame Software Sales – $227.9 million (-10%)
– April 2014 Videogame Accessories Sales – $159.7 million (+21%)
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31 Oct 2012 10:31 AM #1
AccordionLayoutContainer does not fill parent until window resize
I've been banging my head against the wall for several days on this. I've viewed http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...h-parent-panel for the Ext Js library and verified that my accordion is the first child of a variable-height component. The layout works correctly after I resize the window, but not until then.
I've attached some screenshots demonstrating the behavior. The "Stuff" panel is expanded in both of them.
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You're referencing a Ext JS thread, but this is the GXT bugs forum - which library are you using?
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I'm using GXT, but presumably they're the same underlying widget. I've managed to work around this by calling forceLayout() when the tab is selected.
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The libraries are actually quite different, especially in GXT 3. While they have similar APIs, that is mostly due to following tried and true tactics of describing how to relatively size and position layouts, as well as other tasks like binding data, etc.
GXT reuses some basic dom structure and styles from Ext JS, but generally implements them in a totally different way to as to take better advantage of the GWT compiler, and produce only the minimum about of code necessary for each browser, as well as the most efficient.
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With a caveat, this will also disallow a trigger that contains a comment, like:
...or if you have really inconvenient queries such as:
...or even if you call your function:
Addressing Nick's question here instead of as a comment, because it's going to get a little long-winded.
PBM is great for some stuff, but not so great at other stuff. This requirement falls under the "other stuff" category. The main problem is that the definition (e.g.
If this were the case, you could create this condition, wrap a policy around it, set it to "On prevent: change" and go to lunch. To implement this as a policy requires a little more work.
Since @ObjectDefinition is not a valid Field for this facet, we need to obtain it using
Ugly, right? When this evaluates to 0, the policy should succeed; when it is <> 0, the policy should fail. (Remember that a policy is supposed to be expressed in terms of the state you want the system to be in, not the state that you don't.)
So to start you would create a condition by opening Object Explorer, expanding Management > Policy Management, right-clicking Conditions, and selecting New Condition... Give it a name, choose the User Defined Function facet, and click on the Advanced Edit button. There you can enter the
Change the Operator to =, enter 0 as the Value, and click OK. Now create a Policy. Right-click Policies, New Policy... Give it a name, choose the condition you just created, and then choose the Evaluation Mode:
Uh oh. Why aren't "On prevent" actions available? On prevent: change of course would allow you to prevent the function from being created. Because properties like ID and definition aren't available through the facet, requiring us to go through
So for now, you can implement this using a policy, but you won't be able to prevent such a function from being created - you will only be able to investigate violations after the fact (by choosing either On Demand or On Schedule). Keep in mind that even if you run this policy on demand, it uses the exact same logic as the DDL trigger, so is subject to the same caveat: it may introduce false positives if you have comments or valid non-cursor queries that include the same sequence of words.
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After installing the new server, I am facing an issue.
I have lot of .vbs files, all need to run in wscript, reason, I use all those command like WScript.Echo "hello"
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Forrest Gregg fighting Parkinson's, not the NFL
Posted at: 04/18/2013 6:35 PM
By ARNIE STAPLETON
(AP) GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. - Hall of Famer Forrest Gregg says that while he and his neurologist blame concussions for his Parkinson's disease, he's not going to sue the NFL like thousands of other former players.
The 79-year-old says he doesn't begrudge those who have joined the lawsuits but he has his pensions from his playing and coaching days and "I don't need anything from anybody but what I earned."
He said he's an "independent type" and doesn't believe in holding others accountable for his well-being.
Diagnosed 18 months ago, Gregg is promoting UCB, Inc.'s "Parkinson's More Than Motion" campaign during Parkinson's Awareness Month.
Gregg says he's doing well and credits medicine, exercise and daily phone calls from his son and former teammates to reminisce about the good ol' days, which keeps his mind sharp.
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public static T GetEnum<T>(int enumAsInt)
Type enumType = typeof(T);
Enum value = (Enum)Enum.ToObject(enumType, enumAsInt);
if (Enum.IsDefined(enumType, value) == false)
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return (T)value;
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(T)value saying:
Cannot convert type 'System.Enum' to 'T'.
Also I've read quite a bit of mixed reviews about using
Enum.IsDefined. Performance wise it sounds very poor. How else can I guarantee a valid value?


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In an attempt to clean up the right-click menu in Word 2013 and WordMail for Outlook 2013, Microsoft removed the AutoCorrect submenu and other options. You can add spell-check to the Quick Access toolbar, but it's faster simply to press F7.
A Georgia student texts: "Gunna be at West Hall this afternoon." Auto-correct, however changes the first word to "gunman." Pandemonium ensues.
Correct spelling can really change the effect of an e-mail on its recipient.
No more stork clouds in the sky! Add your own words, names, and nicknames to your iOS auto-correct database and save yourself from potentially embarrassing auto-correct typos.
A man sends a text to his friend. Unfortunately, his phone uses predictive texting and changes the spelling of a word. The resulting text so enrages the recipient that a fatal argument ensues.
Moving the AutoCorrect entries you created in Word from one PC to another is not nearly as easy as such a common operation should be, but it is possible.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard adds automatic spell check to TextEdit. Here's how to turn it off.
Apple has released iPhone OS 2.2, with Google Street View, Podcast downloads and more.
A simple Word macro backs up, restores, and lets you transfer your custom AutoCorrect entries.
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- Someone Something
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- They Never Got You
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While it might not have market share on the scale of Android and iOS, Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system is home to quality devices and boasts some neat features such as a clean visual design, Live Tile widgets and lock screen functionality. Pickings may have been on the thin side during launch, but that's changed with big name apps and developers like Instagram, Gameloft and others popping up in the Windows Phone app store. Check out 20 of our favorite Windows Phone 8 apps below.
VLC arrives on Windows Phone, offering users a free, easy to use, multimedia player that's designed to play almost any format you can throw at it, just like its desktop sibling. No longer will you have to spend time transcoding videos or music into ubiquitous formats, as VLC is designed to take more difficult media formats such as OGG, MKV, FLAC and MPC.
Adobe Photoshop Express is a great entry level photo editing tool for basic photo cleanup and manipulation. The app includes basic tools such as cropping, straightening, rotating and red-eye removal. It also offers sliders and one touch tools for cleaning up noise, sharpness, color and exposure. One-touch effects called "Looks" provide more aggressive filter-type effects, with the app coming with a basic set, and more available as in-app purchases.
Pocket Casts has long earned a place in our list of best mobile podcatchers, and now it's made its way to Windows Phone, a perfect fit for the app's clean, tile-based display of podcasts. Pocket Casts for Windows Phone features cross-platform synching, automatic episode downloading, as well as configurable playback controls for setting skip durations, starting points for episode playback and variable playback speed. In addition to listening to your favorite podcasts, Pocket Casts also features discovery tools including curated lists of podcasts and a library of more than 200,000 podcasts to check out.
Microsoft's Hyperlapse app allows users to quickly and easily create smooth, stabilized time-lapse videos from their phone camera. All users need to do is record a video with their phone camera, and then later on set a time-lapse speed ranging from x1-x32. Whether you're looking to summarize a long hike, event or create a narcissistic selfie time-lapse, Microsoft Hyperlapse does the job surprisingly well.
The ESPN app delivers the latest and greatest sporting news and up to date scoring information right to the palm of your hand. Users can check out the latest scores and news from the NBA, NFL, collegiate sports, and more, as well as check out articles, video highlights of matches and events, and more. A new Now tab focuses on breaking news and scores, and users can also stream ESPN Radio and select events with the On-Air tab. A Favorite Teams and Clubhouses feature allows you to get more focused news and scores for specific teams and leagues.
Remarkably easy setup, automatic syncing with your phone's contacts and a feature-rich, ad-free experience all combine to make WhatsApp a wildly popular mobile messaging app. Users can send text, photos, voice and short video messages to their WhatsApp contacts, even across the mobile OS divide. WhatsApp is free to use for the first year, with a cost of $0.99 per year. The long-promised calling feature still hasn't made it over to the Windows Phone version, but it's still a solid, easy to use messaging app.
Read-it-later service Pocket has yet to officially make its way to Windows Phone, but you can still enjoy your Pocket library with the help of the Poki app, a Windows Phone library for Pocket. Poki allows users to save articles, videos and other content for offline viewing or through another device with Pocket installed. Poki sports a clean interface with multiple app and reading mode themes, and automatically syncs with your Pocket account.
The Halo saga continues on Windows Phone with Halo: Spartan Strike, sequel to the Spartan Assault top-down shooter. Put on some Spartan armor and take on humanity's enemies, from the vengeful Covenant zealots to the mysterious Prometheans. Players fight their way through a 30 mission campaign spanning the length and breadth of Halo history, from the historic Battle of New Mombasa to the Gamma Halo. Each mission brings new challenges such as Promethean enemies and weaponry, as well as familiar standbys like the Bubble Shield and an arsenal of UNSC weapons and vehicles.
Weather Flow is a beautifully designed Windows Phone weather app that makes good use of the platform's flat Metro/Modern look and Live Tile widgets to help you keep track of weather from your phone. Weather Flow features weekly and hourly forecasts, and lets you track multiple locations. The app and its Live Tiles can be displayed in a high graphics style complete with numerous photographs, or you can go for the more austere Modern look of flat colors and high-visibility text for ease of reading. In addition to the Live Tiles, users can also display forecast information straight to their lock screen.
Microsoft's response to Google Translate, Bing Translator is an easy to use and feature-filled translation app that works well when you're on the go with a smartphone. Translator supports text translation from more than 40 different languages, with support for camera-assisted translations, letting you take pictures of menus and signs. A text to speech function lets you play out translations, and offline translations let you download language packs.
Microsoft's ubiquitous VoIP app gets the Modern treatment in the Skype Windows Phone app. Stay in touch with friends, colleagues and family members through video and voice calls, as well as instant messaging features in this popular VoIP service. Skype allows for free Skype-to-Skype video and voice calls, while calls to landline or mobile numbers (national or international) come with a nominal fee.
Xbox SmartGlass (for Xbox 360, for Xbox One) is part of Microsoft's attempt to create a seamless experience across different devices. In this case, the software essentially transforms your mobile device into both a second screen and remote control. Smartglass allows you to navigate your Xbox One or 360 with your touch screen controls in order to use your Web browser, play videos and music, and explore extra content from select games.
Stay in touch with friends, family, colleagues and acquaintances online with the official Facebook app for Windows Phone 8. See what your friends are up to, share your own status messages, photos and videos, or chat online, either individually, or as a group with anybody in your contacts list.
It took a while to get here, but Instagram is finally on Windows Phone 8 with the Instagram Beta app, allowing Windows Phone 8 users to join in one of the world's most popular photo sharing networks. All of the Instagram functionality you've grown to expect is right there, with easy photo sharing to Instagram and a variety of social networks as well as a selection of easy to use photo filters and special effects that you can quickly apply to your snapshots.
The Netflix app allows you to turn your Windows Phone 8 device into a portable cinema. Subscribers can use the app to download and view TV shows and movies right on their device, as well as browse through a collection of thousands of titles with regular episode updates. Non-members can still sign up and enjoy a one-month free trial of the service to see whether it's worth their while.
Amazon's Kindle e-book reader and marketplace app is a great place to get up to speed with the latest bestsellers and literary releases. With a worldwide catalog of thousands of books of all genres, the marketplace enables hassle-free purchasing. You can also browse the catalog of thousands of free classic works. Once loaded up, the reading engine is simple, unobtrusive and a joy to flip through. Amazon's Whispersync and other innovations make the cross-device reading experience a breeze, syncing your last read pages and other settings across devices and OSs.
Spotify puts a world of music at your hands, allowing subscribers to search and stream tracks from a massive library of millions of individual songs. Users can share their favorite tracks and playlists to other users as well as check out what others are listening to through Spotify's social features, with syncing features allowing you to update your track and music selections between your desktop and mobile device. New users can try out the service for 48 hours by downloading the app.
Never have to worry about not getting restaurant seating and reservations again with OpenTable, a mobile app that helps you book restaurant reservations at more than 20,000 restaurants in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. You can check out nearby restaurants, complete with menus and reviews by other OpenTable users, and then set a date, time and number of diners for your reservation. You can plug your reservations straight into your device calendar, and if you're planning a trip, you can even set out-of-town reservations for traveling.
With the help of Evernote however, keeping your head in the clouds is completely accepted and encouraged. A supremely powerful and popular cloud note-taking app, Evernote allows you to create cloud-based notebooks to fill with notes, documents, images, audio and video that you can access just about anywhere and sync across your mobile devices.
A well-regarded Windows Store game, Skulls of the Shogun melds turn-based strategy gameplay with a whimsical, cartoonish take on Japanese mythology. As the betrayed General Akamoto newly arrived in the afterlife, it's up to you to, quite literally, raise hell by gathering an army of fallen souls to take on your treacherous underling. The 20 levels of campaign offer a good challenge, with online multiplayer also available.
20 Best Windows Phone Apps
VLC for Windows Phone (Free)
Adobe Photoshop Express (Free)
Pocket Casts ($3.99)
Microsoft Hyperlapse (Free)
ESPN (Free)
WhatsApp (Free 1 year, $0.99/year)
Poki (Free)
Halo: Spartan Strike ($5.99)
Weather Flow ($1.99)
Translator (Free)
Skype (Free)
Xbox SmartGlass (Free)
Facebook (Free)
Instagram (Free)
Netflix (Free)
Kindle (Free)
Spotify (Free)
OpenTable (Free)
Evernote (Free)
Skulls of the Shogun ($4.99)
John Corpuz flip-flopped between computer science and creative writing courses in school. As a contributor to Tom's Guide he's found a happy middle ground writing about apps, mobile gaming and other geekery.
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COLLEGE STATION, TX -- Mike Rosario scored 19 points and Patric Young added 18 as No. 10 Florida cruised to a 68-47 victory over Texas A&M on Thursday night.
The Aggies led by one point midway through the first half before a big run by the Gators gave them a 35-18 halftime lead, and they didn't let up in the second half.
It was a letdown for Texas A&M (12-4, 2-1 Southeastern Conference), which was coming off an 83-71 victory at Kentucky on Saturday. Elston Turner scored a career-high 40 points in that win, but managed just four points Thursday on 1-of-10 shooting.
It is the fifth straight win for Florida (13-2, 3-0) which is in the midst of playing four of five games on the road.
● Texas A&M fell to 12-4 on the season with a 2-1 mark in SEC play.
● Florida, meanwhile, improved to 13-2 overall with a perfect 3-0 mark in league play.
● The Gators now lead the all-time series between the schools by the count of 3-1.
● The crowd of 11,046 was a season-high for Texas A&M and the most since 11,818 against Missouri on Feb. 18, 2012.
● The Aggies scored a season-low 47 points in the contest, shooting just 34 percent (15-of-50) from the field.
● Florida, meanwhile, shot 50 percent for the game, converting 25-of-50 shot attempts.
● Texas A&M out-rebounded its opponent for a third consecutive game, holding a 33-28 advantage on the boards.
● Freshman Alex Caruso led the Aggies in scoring with 12 points on the night, the second highest total in his young A&M career behind a 13-point performance against Troy on Nov. 12.
● Fellow rookie guard J'Mychal Reese reached double-figures in scoring for the fifth time in his career, finishing with 10 points.
● Senior guard Elston Turner saw his double-figure scoring streak snapped at 15 games, ending with play with four points on 1-of-10 shooting.
● Texas A&M head coach Billy Kennedy is now 26-22 in his second season at Texas A&M and 237-201 in 14 years as a head coach.
● Florida led 35-18 after 20 minutes of action.
● The Aggies made 8-of-24 first period shots (33.3 percent) … The Gators, meanwhile, shot a blistering 55.6 percent (15-of-27) and made five 3-point baskets.
● The Gators outscored A&M 22-4 over the final 8:55 of the period, including a 14-0 run to end the half.
● UF's Mike Rosario made 5-of-8 first period shot attempts for a game-high 14 points … Freshman J'Mychal Reese led the Aggies with five points at the break.
● Florida outscored Texas A&M 33-29 after halftime.
● The Aggies missed their first nine shot attempts to start the second half, before a Ray Turner put-back at the 16:16 mark.
● A&M made 9-of-26 second half field goals (.346), while Florida made 10-of-23 (.435).
● 11 of Alex Caruso's team-leading 12 points came after halftime.
● Next up for the Aggies is a trip to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to face Alabama on Saturday.
● Florida returns home to battle No. 17/16 Missouri on Saturday.


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STEUBENVILLE - The city school board will start examining its financial options as state and federal funding sources begin to be reduced.
The board members on Wednesday reviewed a letter sent this week from Roger W. Hardin, assistant director of the Quality School Choice & Funding-Finance Program Services, who encouraged the city school district "to continue monitoring your district's financial condition, enter into appropriate discussions with board members and stakeholders and take the necessary financial actions that will eliminate the projected deficit."
Hardin noted the school district's current five-year forecast projects a negative unreserved fund balance exceeding 2 percent of revenue beginning in fiscal year 2015.
"We are looking at a zero balance in two years," said Superintendent Mike McVey.
"The state has been reducing our tangible income tax. Approximately 78 percent of our funding is state tax based. And we are also seeing our federal funding starting to dry up," explained McVey.
"We may have to look at a levy or a reduction in staffing in the future. If we reduce staffing we would like to look at retirements and cuts in personnel through attrition. We may also examine our open enrollment options. Unfortunately the city school district is not in a position to receive any money from the oil and gas drilling industry as other school districts have realized," McVey said.
District Treasurer Lisa Bruzzese said the board and administration need to make a plan to resolve the issue.
"We are talking about cash. We do have a carryover but we need to develop a plan and work together as a team," added Bruzzese.
In other business during the 90-minute meeting, the board agreed to table a proposal to join the Progress Alliance Partners in Progress.
McVey had recommended a three-year agreement with Progress Alliance at a $5,100 cost. But Board member Dr. Michael Giannamore said he preferred to table the issue.
"I don't have enough knowledge to make a decision. I would like to look at this more before I would be willing to vote on this," said Giannamore.
Board Chairman Bill Hendricks and board member Greg Agresta supported the proposal.
"I think this is being proactive. And it doesn't hurt to be up front," Hendricks said.
"It is important to stay in the forefront of economic development. We have to be proactive," added Agresta. But board member Edward Littlejohn said he had questions about joining the organization, and board member Ruth Ann Bruzzese said she will attend the next Progress Alliance meeting later this month and report back to the board.
Progress Alliance Executive Director Ed Looman said the economic development agency has been functioning for the past 16 years.
"We have three primary functions, including bringing business to the county, help existing businesses and market the county to attract people to live here. We are starting to see a significant increase in interest by potential businesses. Our county is prepared to really take off in the next three to five years," Looman explained.
During the meeting the board approved Helen DeMaria and Ruthann Rankin as additional substitute teachers for the 2012-13 school year and;
Approved the renewal of a membership in the Ohio School Board Association.
Authorized appropriation modifications.
Approved a contract with LEX Multimedia for advertising for the Harding Press Box sign as well as the information sign at Steubenville High School.
"If the company sells advertising, then we get a share of the proceeds as well as the company representative. If they don't sell ads then they don't receive any money," said McVey.


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Isn't the use of "without loss of generality" in math proofs a bad formulation?
To me it's sound similar as someone saying: "Without getting personal, I think you're jerk."
I mean, when the writer uses WLOG in a math proof, it's always followed with the actual loss of generality. Wouldn't it be more accurate to write something like:
"Take the case _" and then say "and the other cases follow similarly".