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Can I use my old water bottles to bottle my beer? Like Dasani or Aquafina type water bottles.
I would strongly recommend brown glass bottles for bottling (hey why not ditch bottles and switch to kegging!). As mentioned there are many potential issues with reusing plastic bottles.
In the strictest sense, yes. You just need a container that will hold pressure.
However, plastic scratches more easily than glass, which means they could be harboring wild yeast or bacteria that are very difficult to remove. Also, most beer bottles are brown glass because that particular color blocks most of the wavelengths of light that cause the beer to "skunk".
So, if you cycle out old bottles regularly and keep the full ones from being exposed to light, you can probably get away with it without any problems with the beer.
I used a 2 liter Soda bottle and it worked very nicely and was easy to bottle. It seems like it would be the same as the smaller water bottles.
Just make sure they stay out of the light since they are clear.
Water bottles should be alright. My only concern is that they are not intended to hold pressure. Water bottles tend to be a thinner plastic than their carbonated soda bottle counterpart. I suspect that the pressure created by the beer is not enough to burst even the thinnest plastic bottle (assuming there are no weak spots), so it should work.
I have used soda bottles (of all sizes) before when I needed some more bottles in a pinch; they worked fine. Two liters are perfect for filling off my keg and bringing to parties!
As mentioned, skunking, sanitation and pressure are all issues. I would also be concerned with oxygen permeability. If O₂ can get through the plastic and into your beer, oxidation will result, which will cause quite noticeable off-flavors.
There's a reason we use glass and stainless steel.
If you use heavy plastic soda bottles, use the smaller (20 oz) root beer bottles as they tend to be colored brown. But, you will need to wash them thoroughly, or you'll end up with clove overtones in the beer (something that can be desirable if that suits your taste). Boiling them in water with baking soda added to it helps remove the residual root beer flavor. Follow with a good sanitizer soak and you will be good to go. These are similar to the bottles that come with the Mr Beer kits, BTW.
I just don't know why you would chance it. IMHO, this is not a shortcut to take. You risk light damage, loss of carbonation, and a host of sanitization issues.
See if a local craft beer bar would hook you up with spent bottles. If there's a homebrew club in yor area, see if any members would be willing to hook you up. I was short on bottles once, and actually went around my neighborhood and grabbed a few extras out of people's recycling bins when taking my dog for a walk. It was early enough in the morning that the only strange looks I received were from my dog. A run through the dishwasher, soak in pcb and starsan (which you need to do anyway) and they were ready to rock.
Homebrewing is about finding ways to minimize potential problems, because many can arise. Could you conduct your fermentation in a rubbermaid storage bin? Maybe. Could you attempt to 'sanitize' by using Fantastik instead of Starsan? Maybe. However, using an Ale Pail and Starsan are inexpensive methods to 'close the gap' on the variability of making drinkable beer with an imperfect setup, which most homebrewers have.
Or you could just plow through a few cases of commecial craft brew and use those bottles.
I use pop bottles for bottling. They're made of thick, food-grade plastic, the caps have very good liners for sealing, they don't break, and they're light to carry or move around. I use a variety of sizes per batch (2l, 1l, 710 ml, 500ml) to fit my thirst any given day, and you can eventually even return them to a depot for a refund! Just make sure they're clean, as with everytihng in brewing.
I find most types of water bottles are too thin and flimsy --- made for one use only. Glass bottles are nice, they even add a bit of elegance to things, but for simple, informal drinking, a Coke bottle is too practical to beat.
I'm not sure how many times you can reuse the plastic bottles -- not sure how well they handle multiple sanitation/pressure/squeezing etc. I've used American Champagne bottles -- they use the same standard bottle cap and they hold 26oz. I agree that the brown glass bottles are best. if you need bottles, join s Sunday softball league. Plenty of bottles there!


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I am looking for an example of two random variables $X,Y$ such that
(a) $X,Y$ are not independent.
(b) At least one of $X,Y$ is not normal.
(c) $E(X|y)$ (expected value of $X$ given $Y=y$) is linear in $y$, i.e. of the form $a+by$, and $E(Y|x)$ is linear in $x$.
(d) The correlation coefficient $\rho\neq \pm 1$.

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A lesson in Bedding
Because we had the discussion and I found this when I was wandering around Overstock
Egyptian cotton is a long staple cotton grown only in Egypt. It enjoys worldwide renown as the strongest, most beautiful and lustrous cotton produced, and its extraordinary quality is due to the long growing season in that country. Sheets of Egyptian cotton with a high thread count are reputed to be more luxurious than any. Thread count for Egyptian cotton bed sheets is usually 200 and above.
Flannel is a blend of cottons. Quality is not measured by thread count, but in ounces of material per square yard of fabric. Four ounces or more per square yard is considered good quality flannel. Flannel bed sheets are highly popular for their warmth and are often used in baby bedding.
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Italian linen is a luxurious fabric made only in Italy from the long-staple luxury cotton which is grown exclusively in Egypt. The lustrous cotton and the processes used in Italy to create the fabric are so high quality that bed sheets of this material are truly luxury items.
Percale is a combed and close-woven cloth of either cotton-polyester blends or 100-percent cotton. It is finer and softer than muslin and generally has a thread count of 180 to 200. Because of their polyester blend, percale sheets have a very low wrinkle factor.
Pima cotton bed sheets have a silky, soft feeling. It is grown only in Australia, Peru and in the United States in Pima, Arizona. "Supima" is a trademarked name for 100-percent pima cotton which has been grown in America. The term means "Superior pima." Pima cotton sheets usually have a thread count of 200 to 300
Sateen is a weave, not a fiber. It is a certain weave of natural fibers and cotton and should never be confused with silk. Sateen sheets are produced in a unique four-threads-over-one-thread method of weaving, which gives these bed sheets their special luster.
Satin is also a weave, not a fiber. Satin is woven of wool, cottons, acetate, polyester, silk or other materials. All weaves of satin bed sheets are extremely smooth and sleek.
Silk fiber sheets are known to be more desirable and luxurious than any other sheets. Silk threads are longer than any other because each single fiber of the silkworm cocoon, unwound, can reach 1600 feet. This makes silk fibers very delicate and extremely strong. Silk fabric is not graded by thread count (TC), but by "momme weight" (its weight in pounds). The standard is a piece of silk 45 inches by 100 yards. Two ounces per linear yard equals 12.5 "momme weight" (pronounced mom-ee). The higher the momme weight, the more silk that is used in weaving. Garments are usually made from 8--12 momme, while silk bed sheets usually have a heavier 16--19 momme weight. Silk is versatile and elegant, and is the only fabric we use that has a history going back more than three thousand years
Bamboo is a renewable resource new on the market. Bamboo is one of the softest fabrics in the world — softer than cotton but with a drape like silk. It comes from a rapidly renewable resource that doesn't require pesticides to grow.
Muslin is cotton which is rougher yet tougher than others. Muslin is frequently used in children's bedding, and printed with shapes or figures. During washing this fabric tends to "pill" and fade more than other bed sheets. The thread count varies from 128 to 140. Refer to the "Common sheets questions" section of this sheets buying guide for more information about "pilling."
Combed cotton is cotton which has gone through a process to remove shorter fibers and any impurities in the material, which creates a smooth, soft fabric.
@hobbit: You just came back from the cotton convention in New Orleans? You are a compulsive bed linen buyer? You are naturally smarter than the average bear? This is a great primer - thank you!
@sand4me: No I really found all of it on Overstock, except the bit about Bamboo I had to google that. Although I will say I am not sold on Bamboo products. I have tested some items for the running store i work for and they were okay, but I prefer the old school stuff. I haven't bought any Bamboo linens yet they are also more expensive than cotton, which considering their renewableness you think they would be cheaper. I know bamboo flooring is awesome and great to have, but also expensive.
Dang, this gets the cool factor vote from me. Thank you. Sure, this was available somewhere else, but here it is, all in one nice neat place, where I'm most likely to want it.
@hobbit +++
I should point out this lesson goes with this discussion: http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/cb28dce5-b1a5-44f9-8918-9c0df2267023/what-is-your-favorite-brand-line-of-bed-sheets-linens
This is great! Thanks for putting it all together on one page. I should have known this was not about tips on carnal knowledge. wink
@faughtey: I started reading it for that reason. I still haven't gotten to that point. When do you think it will come up.
@sgoman5674: Hopefully soon, it's a worthy topic!
you two are disgusting, in a funny way.
@hobbit: We're part of the woot staff in the comedic relief department.
I've read stuff that says most bamboo ISN'T green because of how they harvest it, all the chemicals the put in it when use as flooring.
@fenstar: it is still a much more renewable resource than others. Bamboo grows faster and in more abundance than Cotton, in the South I think if some of us residents could figure out how to harvest it we would be doing so because other misguided home owners planted it as screening and now it is taking over the landscape like a weed and we aren't doing anything to promote its growth it just grows and at several inches a week.
@hobbit: maybe we could trade the magic seeds for a cow?
@snapster: funny. But again I am still not sold on bamboo products yet, as I said earlier. And the plant is just awful, it spreads like wildfire down here in the South East, it might actually over take Kudzu.
@hobbit: You are correct. Bamboo is evil, like kudzu, or pampas grass, which is very pretty, and busily crowding out everything in the Angeles Crest and Santa Monica mountains. Hemp is green. Bamboo is about as green as using corn to make ethanol (greater energy investment to create it than you get from it). Argh. Don't get me started. Oh. Too late.
Arizona actually grows a few types of cotton. Egyptian cotton thrives there. Here's an interesting article: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/2008/12/06/20081206cotton1206.html
Oh yes and this link: http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/51f53201-c790-4d9e-afc7-fbf394f97ed7/luxury-manor-800-thread-count-cotton-sheet-set#20 which has a lot of useful discussion about thread count and this great video link that wootvan provided.
I went home over New Years and my parents had some 1000 count sheets. They were absolutely amazing.
Thanks for posting that, Hobbit, but they got a bit of it wrong. These two parts:
Italian linen is a luxurious fabric made only in Italy from the long-staple luxury cotton which is grown exclusively in Egypt. The lustrous cotton and the processes used in Italy to create the fabric are so high quality that bed sheets of this material are truly luxury items.
Sateen is a weave, not a fiber. It is a certain weave of natural fibers and cotton and should never be confused
Silk is versatile and elegant, and is the only fabric we use that has a history going back more than three thousand years
True linen is actually made from the flax plant. It is not cotton, it is flax. Also, silk is not the only fabric with a history dating back over 3000 years, linen also dates back well over 3000 years. Tombs of the pharaohs have been open and the linens used to wrap them were still in excellent condition. Some details:
Re: bamboo sheets, usually once a year or so you can find bamboo sheet sets at Target. The first year they sold them, I bought a set and absolutely loved them. I believe they were 100% bamboo (I don't have them anymore). Then for a while they went away from stores, and when they came back, they're now a blend of bamboo and cotton, I think (80% bamboo, 20% cotton IIRC). Not quite as soft as the 100% bamboo sheets, but still nice. The 100% sheets seem to hold color better. I have a set of the 80/20 sheets, & used Spray & Wash on the pillowcases & it bleached the color out. So take care when using spray treatments for stains!
But they are very soft, they have a smooth feel but also kind of like a brushed cotton softness to them. And with every washing they get softer, IMO.
Just my bamboo sheet 2 cents worth. :) (I'd supply a link to Target with an example, but they don't appear to be selling them currently, they must be out of season).


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Children's Peace Statue
This statue was dedicated at the Balloon Museum on Aug. 4, 2013. The Children's Peace Statue is a monument designed and funded entirely by children. It stands as a symbol of hope for a peaceful future
In the fall of 1989, children of Arroyo del Oso Elementary School in Albuquerque, New Mexico were studying the Arms Race. The children decided that one solution to the problem of war would be to teach young people to work for peace. During their studies, the students learned the story of school children in Japan who built a monument, the Genbaku No Ko No Zo Statue for Children Who Were Victims of the Atomic Bombs. Inspired by the story, the children formed the Kids' Committee for the Children's Peace Statue and made plans to design and build a peace monument of their own.
The Kids' Committee opened a nationwide design contest for the statue and designed and built a touring exhibit to promote the project. The group has cooperated with thousands of people from around the world and has collected the names of thousands of children who share their wish for peace.
Féderation Aéronautique Internationale Ballooning Commission International Hall of Fame
The Hall of Fame recognizes those who have made significant contributions to Aerostation, including those who have excelled in business, history, design and engineering, in addition to those better known for their contributions in flying balloons or airships of any category, in competition or records.
This exhibition displays portraits and information on over 40 inductees and includes artifacts related to the current year's additions: Rocky Aoki, Larry Newman, Ron Clark and Olivier Roux Devillas.
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Tourists Check Out a Newly Affordable Japan
The yen's drop is transforming Japan's reputation as a prohibitively expensive place to visit, turbocharging a tourism industry long identified as a growth engine for the maturing economy.
With a dollar now fetching ¥100—up from less than ¥80 in November—foreign visitors have surged, while Japanese curb overseas travel and do more sightseeing at home.
The number of foreign visitors to Japan in March, even before the yen's latest tumble, was up 26% from a year earlier to 857,000, the highest for a March since 1964, when the Japan National Tourism Organization started taking statistics.
The weaker currency has helped Japan's tourism sector overcome a number of setbacks in the past two years. The 2011 nuclear-power-plant accident scared away visitors worried about radiation. Heightened territorial tensions with Beijing have since last year led to a sharp drop in tourists from China, once the fastest-growing source of visitors to Japan. While Chinese travelers continue to shun Japan, visitors from the rest of Asia, Europe, and Russia have more than made up for the gap.
In Ginza, Tokyo's high-end shopping district, a group of 34 tourists from Sweden was riding a large tour bus after shopping on a recent afternoon.
"Japan is selected as the most desired holiday place by the Swedish," said tour guide Magnus Carlsson. "It's a hot destination, which used to be too expensive. But it's now cheaper."
Hiroshi Saito, a tourism-promotion official in Ishikawa, said his prefecture saw a 45% increase in the number of foreign visitors to its famous Kenrokuen garden for the first three months of this year, compared with the same period a year earlier.
Seeing a sharp increase in the number of travelers from South Korea, the prefecture invited 22 travel agencies from the neighboring country to show them around tourist spots and golf courses.
- Yen's Fall Trickles Through Japanese Economy
- Weak Yen Is No Panacea, Many Warn
- Weaker Yen Is Mixed Bag for Japan Auto Makers
- Yen Leaps Over Milestone
- Strong Yen Reshaped Electronics Industry
- MoneyBeat: How It Happened
- MoneyBeat: Loeb: Japan Stock Rally Has More Gas
- Tough Times Ahead for 100-Yen Stores
- Japan's Energy Costs Rise as Yen Weakens
- MoneyBeat: Abenomics Scores a Victory
- Japan Real Time: Weaker Yen Ups Cost of Life's Simple Pleasures (5/2/2013)
"We'd like to take advantage of the weak yen to lure more tourists," from South Korea, Mr. Saito said. "It's a market that has room to grow." He also thinks Ishikawa can now "take back" Korean tourists who were traveling by ferry in recent years to Japan's southern island of Kyushu, when the strong yen led them to try and cut travel costs.
In Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district on a recent afternoon, Daniel Wijono from Indonesia was waiting for his wife and his mother to finish shopping for cosmetics on the last day of a nine-day trip to Japan. The 37-year-old employee of a manufacturing firm was holding three bags containing electronics gadgets, game character figures, and Uniqlo sweaters.
"It's quite good. Things are cheaper more than 10% this time," he said, comparing prices to his prior visit early last year. "But I'm afraid that I ended up spending more than I had expected."
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I am running Ubuntu 10.10; Can anybody please provide instructions on how to download videos from YouTube?
For Firefox Users:
You can install Video DownloadHelper addon on firefox and download any embedded object including Youtube videos.
to install command line mode downloader for YouTube.
so it will download the video.
You can also take a look at this for very in-depth documentation on how to use it.
Why did no one mention Minitube ?
It does not require the Flash Player. From this application you can watch and download videos.
Browser addon:
Other sites that can be used:
and this software is also great:
I think that the simplest way to download a video from youtube, without installing any plugin or sofware, is with savefrom.net. and here is the video demonstrating How to download youtube videos using the ss trick Lets say you want to download the below video
On your address bar add
Now you will be redirected to savefrom.net. On your right, click on the video quality you want to download.
First, if you don't have wget,install it:
Use this perl script :
Copy this script to a txt file and rename it
Make it wxecutable, using the following command:
When you want to download in terminal type:
Change the youtube url to your youtube video URL .
Save Location: The video will be saved in your current directory.
For Firefox Users:
As my answer to that question is probably more valid here, I'll present it here for convenience.
You can use
We are able to download free content from YouTube or other streaming sites with this easy to use command line tool.
To download a video from a given location (on You Tube press the "Share" button to get the URL to a video). Copy this link and issue clive from a terminal with e.g. the following command:
There are plenty of other options to control download behaviour including options to choose the download format that are all nicely documented in the manpage. We can also queue a list of URLs from a file.
The bytubed is no longer maintained. So the new solution is going with the famous but commandline youtube-dl. Its regularly maintained and runs fine
1. To update it
2. and to download a video or playlist
3. and if there is a file with urls then
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I know it is answered, but I'm shocked that none explicitly mentioned Bytubed. Its simple the best to me when it comes to you-tube download. Just do install it and then go to Firefox's tools->Bytubed
Only downside is it works with FF only but to me its not downside since I use FF for all my browsing...
I want to suggest a method for downloading youtube videos using vlc player in simple four steps:
For detail info with screenshots.Go here - http://www.superpctricks.com/2013/12/download-youtube-videos-easily-with-vlc.html
No need for plugins, this is simple and a excellent solution:
You could also try using Clipgrab it can download videos from youtube via the clipboard, or you can search via the application for videos. The PPA here You can use these commands
4kdownloader! other than downloading videos from url, it can also download entire playlists, and also convert them to mp3 or other formats if required.
I am using it for long time, it's simple and easy to use, and has GUI interface for ubuntu.
You can try ytd-gtk (http://code.google.com/p/ytd-gtk/) Its a graphical frontend for youtube-dl and can download from a variety of video sites.
To install
To use
Some final thoughts:
Thanks to user185719 and Michael Grünewald by it's cotributions to this answer.
There is this greasemonkey script on userscripts.org. But I cannot vouch for it. Nor I can assert the security of such a script.
But it seems to work.
You will need to install greasemonkey
Solved with a small shell script :
For Firefox Users:
To download YouTube Videos with Firefox, simply visit the following site to download the extension that works with Firefox.:
There are so many ways of downloading YouTube videos.
Personally I have used
Command Line:
If you feel comfortable with the command line interface (or CLI as it is known) through your terminal application, try the
Websites like MediaConvertor or Vixy Freecoder can do this without the need of installing extensions for Firefox or Chrome/Chromium or native applications.
These 2 websites allows you to download in different formats. Both audio and Video formats. You plug in the link to the video on their site and wait for the conversion to complete and then you get the link for the download.
The bonus to the sites is that they are cross-platform much like the extensions approach. But if you want to free your browser from the clutter of extra things, then try the sites or the other suggestions others have mentioned.
As of now there is the GUI for a popular
You can use a python command line program youtube-dl
1.To install program youtube-dl type the following commands in your terminal
2. To download youtube videos from terminal use
3.To see different quality and formats available use
4.To download the whole playlist use
5.To download the entire channel use
Google Chrome does not support YouTube downloading extensions by default.
But fortunately we can install Google Chrome Extensions manually and that is how you are going to install third-party extensions like SaveForm to Chrome and you would be able to download any video on YouTube (and many other sites) by clicking on Download button, just below the video.
This extension works on Opera Next, Firefox and Safari browsers as well. And they all works like charm on latest Ubuntu operating system.
Source: Video TutsDB
I just did this for my ubuntu 14.04
you should try clipgrab , other than the fact that you can't download videos with more than 1080p quality is a nice quick gui for youtube download .
this is the 64 version and the 32 version just download and install from ubuntu software center
then you straight up download videos , if you want the other available formats (*.mp3 and more 'someone said it's useful') you are going to need ffmpeg and libavcodec-extra-53
so run
It really comes in-handy , but the next question only comes natural . Which is the recommended software for downloading full youtube playlists . ? .
Those answers are too complex, so I'm going to help you without installing anything.
First go to your browser and enter this in the URL tab.
Next, enter the YouTube URL in the first box. For example, I'm going to use a Ubuntu YouTube link.
Then press Continue.
Now, once you pressed Continue, this will pop up.
At the Detected Media tab, you can choose the quality of your video.
720p is HD. 480p is HQ. 360p is SQ. 3GP is MV.
Each type of quality takes up memory and downloading time depending on your internet. Just mess around and see what you like.
Now, at the File Name tab, you can change the name of the video when you download it. This is completely optional as you can change the name of it using the rename tab when you right click on it.
Next, you can change the type of video you want. For example, you want it to go on your iPod, you can easily change it to MP3.
I would highly recommend using MP4 as its most commonly used.
Finally, you can now press the Start! button to start the download!
Enjoy! =)
download youtube-dl
download videos:
download specific formats
download it
You can also use RealPlayer. I didn't see it mentioned yet. You're able to download in both mp4 or flv format. It's a free download and a one click install.
The one I use is All Video Downloader from here.
And is the best I know for linux. Just copy the address of the video and open the All Video Downloader and you will see the URL is already in. After you fix the output format and destination, you just press the Download and ready ;)
Another Tip you can download YouTube videos without installing any package or program :
Open this site : Site
Add youtube URl:
Press Download :
Choose what type do you want , you can also download it only video with no sound , or just sound.
Once you press
A few more options:
MediaHuman software
YouTube Center
YouTube Center is an open-source extension for Chrome, Firefox, Opera and other browsers that enhances YouTube with a lot of added features. Among those features is the ability to directly download YouTube videos in a variety of different formats:
I always recommend installing the developer version of the extension as it comes with the latest bug fixes and new features.
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All of this is explained in the guides. I would suggest reading them.
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President Woos GOP to Seek Broad Deal
President Barack Obama stepped up his wooing of rank-and-file Republican lawmakers Wednesday, hosting a dozen senators at a dinner at a Washington restaurant and setting a visit to the Capitol in hopes of reigniting talks on a broad budget deal.
The efforts mark his most aggressive outreach to lawmakers in years and show Mr. Obama is trying to build his own coalition in Congress at a time when his past negotiating partners in the GOP leadership are under renewed pressure to accommodate the party's conservative base.
Mr. Obama phoned a number of senators not in leadership positions over the weekend to gauge support for what has come to be known as a grand bargain on deficit reduction and other fiscal issues. One hurdle: Sharply different views on taxes. Mr. Obama has insisted that tax increases be part of any deal to rein in deficits, while many Republicans are open to tax increases only as part of a revenue-neutral broad reform of the tax code, in which tax rates would be reduced.
"The heart of the discussion tonight was, 'How do we get there? How do we get people to come together and really effect the reforms?' " said Sen. John Hoeven (R., N.D.), one of the dinner attendees.
Mr. Hoeven said he saw the opportunity to reach a grand-bargain-style deal as the House and Senate work on their budgets for the next fiscal year and lawmakers face a May deadline for raising the federal borrowing limit. There is "a recognition we really need to do this in the next four- to five-month window. The key is to stay in this intense dialogue," Mr. Hoeven said.
The dinner topics included the mandatory spending cuts known as the sequester, the continuing budget resolution passed Wednesday by the House to extend the government's funding past March 27, energy and an overhaul of the immigration system, Mr. Hoeven said.
"The real focus was the debt and the deficit and how we come up with the kind of bipartisan reforms, tax reform and entitlement reform, that preserves and protects Social Security and Medicare, but that also enables us to deal with the debt and the deficit on a long-term basis," Mr. Hoeven added.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), speaking before he attended the event, said that the president asked him to organize the dinner at the Jefferson Hotel and that he believed Mr. Obama was looking to start a substantive discussion.
The White House is actively courting Mr. Graham because he has said he would be open to raising tax revenue as part of a larger deal that also would retool entitlement programs.
A senior administration official said that "the president greatly enjoyed the dinner and had a good exchange of ideas with the senators." The White House said Mr. Obama paid for the meal from his own pocket, a move that, along with the neutral venue, seemed designed to show the president was reaching out.
Some Republicans remained doubtful that Mr. Obama can strike a deal that would shore up Medicare, Social Security and other entitlement programs, reduce deficits and potentially overhaul the tax code. Some went so far as to dismiss the dinner as political theater.
In addition to the dinner, the president has asked to address Republican and Democratic caucuses in the House and Senate next week. And in recent weeks he has stepped up contacts with business leaders, who could be important allies in maintaining momentum in the budget talks, should they begin in earnest.
The overtures mark a departure for a president who has been criticized for shunning lawmakers, choosing instead to socialize and play golf with a small circle of friends and aides.
One of the dinner invitees, Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), said in an interview beforehand that Mr. Obama showed little appetite for direct talks with lawmakers in his first term, but that his stance had shifted lately. "Whether that translates into action, I'm not sure," he said. "I want to work with the guy."
One barrier is the high level of mutual distrust. Rare is the day in Washington when the two parties aren't blaming one another for gridlock.
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Wednesday brought fresh examples: The Democratic National Committee launched a website blaming Republicans for what it said were hardships imposed by the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester, while House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) chided the administration for canceling tours of the White House due to the sequester cuts.
Some Republicans who weren't invited questioned Mr. Obama's sincerity. "Call me cynical, but it just feels like, well, the media criticizes him, his approval ratings drop and suddenly he wants to talk," said Rep. Patrick Tiberi (R., Ohio).
Sen. John Thune (R., S.D.), the Senate's No. 3 leader, wasn't invited to the dinner, but was more welcoming. "This seems to be a more general outreach than just trying to pick off a couple of Republican senators," he said. "So, hopefully, this will be more meaningful."
Even some Democrats are doubtful that Mr. Obama's latest efforts will bear fruit. Senate Democrats believe the White House had far more leverage at the end of 2012, when Republicans were eager to avoid across-the-board tax increases under what was called the fiscal cliff.
Mr. Obama hosted several gatherings with chief executives to seek input as he tried to reach a budget deal at the end of the year. After he gave a speech last week to CEOs at a Washington hotel, he lingered for nearly an hour for private discussions with the corporate leaders, moving table to table, said someone who was at the gathering.
Senior Obama aides also have held conference calls with the chiefs of several dozen top companies, including Xerox Corp. XRX 3.94 % , Caterpillar Inc. CAT -0.19 % and Boeing Co. BA 0.49 % , according to participants on the calls.
"The president and his aides realize they need as many allies as they can get for the four years ahead," said one executive who has been in the thick of the recent White House outreach campaign.
Recent calls hosted by Obama advisers Valerie Jarrett and Gene Sperling have focused on concerns about the sequester and perceived sticking points in moving forward on an immigration overhaul, according to call participants.The most recent call was on Friday, the day the automatic budget cuts began. Several people who have been on the calls say the White House hasn't pushed business leaders to lobby Congress on the White House's behalf.An important question is whether the two sides can reach an understanding on how to use the revenue that a tax-code rewrite could generate. Generally, Republicans want to use it to lower tax rates while Democrats want to use it to forestall further spending cuts.
The White House also plans to send first lady Michelle Obama and an array of top White House aides to talk next week to a Business Roundtable gathering of about 60 CEOs.
Tax reform is a top priority for many Republicans, making it a potential bargaining chip as Mr. Obama and lawmakers decide whether they can sweep several budget questions into one set of talks.
Those negotiations would include discretionary spending restraints, long-term entitlement reforms and "a process to get to pro-growth tax reform," said Sen. Rob Portman (R., Ohio).
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.), the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said recently some tax breaks could be eliminated as part of a deal to soften the effects of the sequester, which Democrats want, without undermining the longer-term goal of a tax-code overhaul.
The GOP goal of lowering rates could become "part of the negotiation" over a tax rewrite, he added.
—Neil King and John McKinnon contributed to this article.


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What is the best way to use Gtalk on iphone?
Since Google does a pretty good job of making their websites mobile-friendly, navigating to http://talkgadget.google.com/ and logging in should present you with a nice chatting interface.
On the iOS app side, imo seems to be a popular choice, though I can't personally vouch for it (the mobile web interface works fine for me when I'm away from a real computer)
For an app that can not only handle the IM features of Gtalk, but also the voice features, check out Talkatone.
Otherwise, there's too many iOS apps to list that can interface with Gtalk via their XMPP protocol, as well as accessing Google's web app via Mobile Safari.
I like to use an app called eBuddy http://www.ebuddy.com/ that I use for a Gtalk chat client. It also lets you use other chat clients like AIM and msn. There are many different apps out there that I am sure do the same thing but I really like eBuddy.


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Before I upgraded to OSX Lion, I could open up the Bluetooth Preferences, select a device, click on the settings icon, choose 'Rename Device' and rename the Bluetooth device.
Now that I've upgraded to OSX Lion, the option is there on the same location, but it is called 'Update Name', however, it doesn't do anything for me. Is that just a dead GUI component that will get functionality tied to it later on, or am I doing something wrong?


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BELTON (October 11, 2012)—A Dallas man was being held Thursday in the Bell County Jail after his arrest in connection with an April attempt to steal an ATM from a Little River bank.
Christopher Turner, 25, was ordered held on bonds totaling $75,000, charged with theft of property more than $200,000.
Little River police believe Turner is among five men who on April 18 wrapped a chain around an ATM machine at the First State Bank Central Texas in Little River-Academy and tried to drag it away with a pick up truck.
Dezmon Dewayne Vance, 25, whom Little River-Academy Mayor Ronnie White caught immediately after the botched ATM theft, remained Thursday in the Bell County Jail held on a $75,000 bond on the same charge.
Little River-Academy Police Chief Troy Hess said at the time an arrest warrant had been issued for a second person in connection with the attempted theft, but provided no further details.
He said officers still are seeking three others in connection with the incident, which led to a major manhunt and forced the Academy ISD to cancel classes for the day.
Mayor White was in the area of the search Wednesday morning when he saw a man emerging from a wooded area.
He said he confronted the man, who fit the description of the would-be thieves, and ordered him to stay put as he called for officers to take the man into custody.
Department of Public Safety Trooper Harpin Meyers said the five would-be thieves drove four stolen vehicles from Dallas to Little River where they tried unsuccessfully to steal the ATM from a bank.
Meyers said a neighbor witnessed the men trying to drag the ATM from its base outside the First State Bank of Central Texas, which is located just north of town on State Highway 95.
The chain the men used still was visible, wrapped around the ATM.
When a deputy arrived to check out the report, the four men left the stolen vehicles and escaped on foot.
One of the would-be bandits dropped his wallet with his ID and probation card inside.


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The new Leavenworth Animal Control Center is located at 2019 S. Third St., behind Price Chopper.
The center will continue its re...
The new Leavenworth Animal Control Center is located at 2019 S. Third St., behind Price Chopper.
The center will continue its regular hours of 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, with special hours of 10 a.m.-4 p.m. the second Saturday of each month.
Animals available for adoption can be viewed online www.petfinder.com/shelters/lv.html. For more information, call the Animal Control Center at (913) 682-0268.
When Pat Kitchens became Leavenworth Police Department chief six years ago, there was clearly an area that needed improvement — the city's animal control facility.
"It was glaringly obvious to all of us," Kitchens said.
He spoke Monday as city officials celebrated the opening of a new $2.5 million Leavenworth Animal Control Center. The Police Department operates the Animal Control Center.
The new center is at located at 2019 S. Third St., behind the Leavenworth Price Chopper.
Animal Control officials moved into the new facility last week. City officials had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the building Monday and hosted an open house.
Kitchens said having a well cared for animal population improves public safety in Leavenworth. And, with the opening of the new facility, the city takes a significant step forward in providing public safety.
Leavenworth Mayor Mark Preisinger said the new facility is larger than the old building.
"It is much, much better than what we had before," he said.
Preisinger noted the old Animal Control building had flooded three times in the last 10-15 years, which forced the city to temporarily relocate animals.
"The facility is long overdue to be replaced," he said.
The new facility was built on city-owned land.
Although it's not far from the old Animal Control building, the new location has not flooded in recent years.
City officials said the site didn't even flood in 1993, the year of the worst flooding of the Missouri River in the city's history.
The new 7,800-square-feet Animal Control building allows for a 10 percent increase in capacity.
While leading a tour through the new building, Animal Control Supervisor Cindy Dressler discussed facility features.
One of the features she noted was the design of a heating and air-conditioning system that prevents healthy animals from breathing the same air as animals that are in quarantine and isolation.
Kitchens noted that landscaping has not been completed around the new building.
"We had landscaping planned," he said.
But, the company that was supposed to handle the landscaping went out of business.
He said city officials now plan to wait until after the hottest months of summer before completing the landscaping.
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Will weight training stagnate growth in a teenager?
Is this a myth or fact? If it does, how does it stagnate a youth's growth?
Will weight training stagnate growth in a teenager?
Is this a myth or fact? If it does, how does it stagnate a youth's growth?
The concern regarding stunting the growth of teenagers is related to injuring growth plates. It turns out that weight training does not increase the incidence of growth plate injury and does not stunt growth.
However, injury prevention requires correct form and the avoidance of overloading. It is especially important to supervise their training and teach form first. Crossfit Kids, for example, emphasizes form with very low weight (PVC only) until the student shows the emotional and physical maturity to use real weight. You can rely on an adult to make good decisions about their own limits, but the instructor should be making those decisions for a child.
Training improperly or with poor form will cause all sorts of injuries both acute and degenerative, whether one is a child, teenager or adult.
...but not really
That being said, the argument that lifting heavy things is itself somehow detrimental to growth is susceptible to a simple counterexample: children growing up on farms do all sorts of heavy lifting and their growth seems to be benefited, not stunted.
This Rippetoe and Pendlay interview has a layman's answer:
The Starting Strength book has detailed statistics comparing youth lifting to other sports in terms of injuries.
This article by Lon Kilgore goes more in-depth from a scientific perspective.


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In general, how do we find the intersection of projective curves?
For example suppose I have $V_{1}(x^{2}+y^{2}-2z^{2}),V_{2}(x^{2}+y^{2}-z^{2})$ and I want to find $V_{1} \cap V_{2}$ viewed as subsets of $\mathbb{P}^{2}$ over an algebraically closed field $K$.
Well the first two equations imply that $z=0$. If $y \neq 0$ then $x^{2}+y^{2}=0$, from here what to do? wouldn't the answer depend on $K$?


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El33t's Pre-W33kend Post: In sickness and in health, in games and in warmthWritten by: / / 2 Comments
It's just about time for the weekend to begin (give or take a dozen hours), so it's prime time to start making some plans to keep yourself relaxed, busy and productive – not all mutually exclusive, you'll agree.
What are members of El33tonline up to over the next two days? Let's take a look-see, but also be sure to let us know what you've got planned for the weekend in the comments below!
"So happy it is w33kend again. Had one epic week. All things weere running smoothly, but then Wednesday happened. My poor PC has come to an end. Really sad moment for me.
But anyway, today is Battlefield Friday and I will be playing like there is no tomorrow. Then Saturday I am going down the coast for a beach wedding, so that is going to be really fun.
Sunday is just going to be a relaxing drive back with some fun with the family. Have a awesome w33kend p33ps and enjoy every moment.
See you online, maybe."
"It seems that a new year means new sicknesses for my kids. What started off as a hopeful penultimate week of January has ended up being a week of sleepless nights and wailing kids with weird spotty rashes. At least it's not the pox, I guess.
Anyway, things hopefully will start to improve this weekend but I have very little time for R&R when I am looking after both kids (mom is working to earn money to pay for the nappies … not mine, my kids' nappies).
By the time the evening arrives I may just have enough energy in me to play FTL and get closer to unlocking everything. I'm actually getting rather good at playing once-through with a ship on NORMAL difficulty and finishing. Note to those rookies though – an Artillery Beam does not play nice with a Transporter Pod…"
"So, after the whirlwind that was the Christmas holidays things are starting to settle down. Kids are back at school, I am back at work and we're all back in our routines. Sort of.
This weekend is my youngest's 6th birthday party so that will be fun. Cupcakes and fun times are always good.
Raptr told me that my games were missing me and, to be honest, I haven't been in the gaming mood for a while. However, I'm starting to feel the bug again with Fifa14 buzzing the loudest. I do want to start investigating the XCom franchise though – sounds like my kinda games.
Hope everyone has an awesome weekend – I know I will."
"It looks like it's going to be another hot one in Durbs this weekend so I hope to go for a swim in both chlorinated and salt water over the next couple of days. I also have a braai scheduled for Sunday lunchtime so I think I'm going to need to dunk my head in a bucket of cold water every so often to offset the heat coming from dual sources.
I might play some Dishonored this weekend and will definitely be grinding it up in OlliOlli on PS Vita.
Take it easy p33ps!"
"If there's one game I'll be playing this weekend, it'll be DmC. It's been a year since its release (amazingly) and I've still only played thirty minutes of it? For shame.
There is work to be done this weekend, too, and you'll be hearing more about El33tonline's plans for the future in the coming weeks so I hope you'll look forward to a few neat things soon.
Have a good weekend, all!"
What are you all up to this weekend? Any games in particular you're keen to get stuck into and complete? Any epic RPGs you'll be grinding through?
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Dawn climbs operate on the first Saturday of the month.Duration
3.5 hoursStart time
Dawn Climb: Climbs depart every 10 minutes from 3:15am to 5:25am.
Please note that these times act as a guide only and will vary depending on the time of year. When making your booking please state your preferred start time in the special requests field.
Check in for the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb at 3 Cumberland Street, The Rocks.
To reach this point make your way to Circular Quay (which is accessible by ferry, bus or train), then walk along George Street, then up Argyle Street (take the Argyle Stairs) to Cumberland Street.
Please report at the meeting point 15 minutes before the start time. This is mandatory to allow time for pre-departure briefing.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb ends at the same point where you checked in.
Hike along catwalks and scale up ladders to reach the summit at a height of 134 metres, and see breath-taking panoramic views of Sydney.
Due to the popularity of the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb experience, places are limited – book ahead to avoid disappointment.
Looking for different climbs? we also offer the below Climbs. For more information see below:
The Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb starts from from 3 Cumberland St, The Rocks. You can choose your preferred time of climbing, please be at the starting point 15 minutes before your climb starts.
BridgeClimb is a small group adventure offering the ultimate experience of Sydney with an exhilarating 3.5 hour guided Climb to the summit of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Weave through catwalks, climb up ladders and, finally over the fabulous arch to get a bird's eye view of Sydney. In the early morning, the shimmering blue waters of the Harbour and the glittering windows of the skyline are stunning.
When you return back to sea-level you will be presented with a certificate and souvenir photo.
Once your booking is confirmed you will be sent an amended voucher with the exact time of your climb. Please ensure you that you reach 15 minutes prior to this time otherwise you might miss the climb.
No loose objects can be taken onto the bridge, including but not limited to cameras, mobile phones and video cameras (lockers are provided).
If you are pregnant:
- Pregnant climbers less than 24 weeks must consult a medical practitioner before climbing and must ask the medical practitioner to sign a Bridge Climb Certificate of Fitness. (The certificate of fitness is available to download from the Bridge Climb website).
- Women over 24 weeks pregnant cannot climb.
If any of the following apply to you, it will not be possible to take part in the climb.
• You are under 10 years of age.
• You are under 1.2 meters (4 feet) in height.
• You have a blood-alcohol reading of 0.05 per cent or higher. (You must pass an alcohol breath test before climbing the Bridge)
• You have broken bones.
• You have undergone surgery in the last 6 months or are experiencing ongoing symptoms.
• You have experienced a fit or seizure in the past 6 months and do not hold a driver's license for this reason.
• You are over 24 weeks pregnant. It is a legal requirement for every climber to sign a Climber Declaration form
• At Bridge Climb's discretion, essential medication may be taken on the climb (eg asthma inhalers or diabetic medication). Please speak with a Team member on the day.
A child climber must be accompanied by an adult climber at all times, with a maximum of three children per adult.
Voucher information: You must print and surrender a paper version of your booking voucher for this activity (showing your voucher on a smartphone is not accepted). No refund can be given for customers without a printed copy of their voucher.
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WEIRTON - Fed up with power spikes and outages that put his inventory and equipment at risk, Wine & Beverage Merchants owner Nick Latousakis opted to invest in a natural gas-powered backup generator for his Weirton business.
"I was having continuous power outages, and voltage changes up and down," he said. "There was a period a couple years ago when we'd had an ice storm and there was no power for three days. That's when I decided I had to do something."
Initially, Latousakis had considered a liquid fuel generator, but soon ruled that option out because of site logistics and the heavy truck traffic he has on his site: fuel tanks would have required permits and regular testing, plus the lines would have been next to the building and thus exposed, something he wasn't sure he wanted to risk with delivery trucks going in and out on a regular basis.
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READY WHEN NEEDED — G.E.M. Electric's Dan Mosti, left, and Weirton Wine & Beverage Merchants owner Nick Latousakis look over the gas-fired, energy efficient generator that automatically kicks in when power goes out or voltages surge. Latousakis said the safety and reliability of the system gives him "peace of mind." -- Linda Harris
With his backup generator, the gas supply is underground and the unit itself is encased in metal inside a padlocked fence.
"It's cheaper to operate, especially now," his contractor, Terry Giuliani of G.E.M. Electric Industries in Mingo Junction, said, alluding to the steep drop in natural gas prices due to warmer-than-normal temperatures over the winter.
Giuliani said the gas-fired generator is a business-friendly option. It doesn't require the double-lined tank needed for liquid fuels, nor do they have to obtain environmental permits or do periodic reinspections. And even with delivery trucks moving freely through the property, he said fuel volatility isn't a concern.
He said the unit he installed at Wine & Beverage Merchants actually self-checks once a month to make sure the system operates correctly.
"You still have to do maintenance," he said. "A company from Pittsburgh comes in twice a year and changes the oil, but you'd have had to do that, anyway, even with fuel oil."
It currently has the juice to power one of Latousakis' five buildings as it's currently set up, though as the operation becomes more energy efficient the generator will be able to do more.
While the units can be pricey - typically costing anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000 - Latousakis said it's worth it for the peace of mind a safe, reliable, uninterrupted power supply brings. In addition to protecting his computer and networking equipment from damage caused by fluctuating voltages, he said it also enables them to operate seamlessly through outages.
"It's not an inexpensive system, but it's well worth the cost for the peace of mind," he said. "In the 15 or 16 months we've had it, it's probably kicked in three or four times when we've had outages. The longer ones lasted a few hours, the shorter ones a few minutes. If the power flickers, we'd never know it."


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Unanswered: Catching dragstart/dragend in a controller
I'm trying to catch the dragstart/dragend events for a container I've made draggable. But I only seem to be able to catch these if I attach listeners directly to the draggable part of the config for the container. I'd like these to be in the control config of my controller, but just attaching them to the container itself doesn't work. Is there some other way I need to reference them to catch the events?
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Since the events are on the element you can fire the on the component which would then be listenable from the controller.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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listeners: { dragend: function() { this.fireEvent('dragend', arguments); }, dragstart: { fn: function() { this.fireEvent('dragstart', arguments); }, order: 'before' } }
11 Mar 2014 10:38 PM #4
hi stevenewey
I seen your example.
I am searching for implementing dragstart event after a taphold/longpress fucntion.
My requirement is "drag" should start only on longpress/taphold on the item. for normal dragging it shouldn't mpve.
How to implement it.
Thanks you.


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spoiler:he shows up again in some form,
spoiler:Per several spoiler videos of TOR on YouTube that can easily be found, it is clear that Revan's final fate is, after being put in stasis by the Sith Emperor for 300 years, he shows up in two quests, one for either side of the war and one chronologically taking place before the other. The first, the Republic one, has the players waking him up. The second, the Sith one, has you find him in some space station the details of which I don't care about, and because your party is Sith you fight, and you kill him. He dies quoting Darth Malak's final words before exploding in some energy burst thingy somewhat reminiscent of what happened when Palpatine died in RotJ (as well as a few other Jedi/Sith in the EU). Plenty of people want to ignore the narrative context of the scene and claim that he's still alive, but it's most likely that unless someone in charge of the stories does some serious bending-backward, it's the last we'll see of him.


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I'm trying to get a dynamic service locator written in JavaScript using Harmony Proxies (Node.js). Basically you would create a new container:
var container = new Container();
You would then be able to set and get values like a traditional service locator:
container.set('FM', {});
container.get('FM', function(FM) {
You can even have namespaces that acts like sub-objects:
container.set('FM.Object', {});
The problem is with the dynamic aliases.
var App = container.alias('App');
When creating an alias, it creates a new proxy object where you can manipulate it like a traditional object, but it's an alias to
get() and
set() methods.
Instead of:
With an alias, you would use:
The problem is with deep namespaces. Let's say you're trying to access
App.Hello.World.Controller, because it goes through the proxy one namespace at a time and not all at once (like that full namespace). How would I know if the user is calling
App.Hello to retrieve the value stored in the service locator, or if the user wants to continue accessing deeper namespaces? You can't (From what I've tried).
What other way could you accomplish this?
Having the syntax
App.Hello.World which would return either a proxy, if it's going to access a deeper namespace, or the value stored in the service locator.
var App = container.alias('App');
// It would go through:
App -> Proxy
App.Controller -> Proxy or Value?
App.Controller.Home -> Proxy or Value?
App.Controller.Home.Method -> Proxy or Value?
App.Controller.Home.Method.Index -> Proxy or Value?
Right now, I've assembled a convention for dealing with the two options. You would use singular names for retrieving the value and plural for returning a proxy. This was just a quick "hack" as it's not very effective.
(If you need clarification or more info just let me know)


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Although tools exist to remove red-eye in post-production, what's the best way to avoid it while creating the photograph in the field?
To understand how to prevent red-eye you need to understand what causes it.
Red eye is caused by light from a flash that is close to the lens entering the subjects pupils and bouncing off the rear of the eye back into the lens. (The main cause for the red colour is the blood in the back of the retina). Wikipedia has more info.
To prevent red-eye you need to prevent this light bounce back. There are several ways to achieve this.
If you have a compact camera it is likely your only option is number 1. With an SLR you have more choices.
Using an off camera flash, or bouncing the flash off the ceiling/wall, will help to avoid red-eye.
For a more in-depth answer this is a good article about red-eye control.
If your subjects are prone to red eye, prefiring a flash pulse before taking the shot will make their iris contract, reducing redeye. Many camera's have this as a setting for the flash.


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I am developing a website that emphasizes a lot on CSS. I wish to pre-inform everyone that I am not a professional with the task. The problem I face designing the UI is that Gecko and Webkit browsers tend to respond to a CSS in the same manner, whereas, IE's response is ridiculous. Is there any reset that can aid me in resetting IE, such that it starts behaving similar to Gecko and Webkit?
Well, in theory it shouldn't be necessary since everything is supposed to be standards-based.
Hahahahahahahah snif
Okay...now that I got that out of my system
This site:
Give some pretty good browser-specific hacks; essentially what you're doing is loading different CSS sheets based on the browser. Unfortunately that means you have to write a CSS sheet for each browser and test on each browser every time you make a change.
Another approach might be to look and see if there are specific sections that are giving you problems. Maybe start simple and add features to the CSS sheet until it breaks? (or comment out sections and move the comment tags as you go) Remember that you can grab styles from multiple stylesheets, so you could have "ThisIsTheMainStyleSheet.css" as well as "StupidAdditionalCSSForInternetExploder.css" and "StupidAdditionalCSSForOtherBrowser.css".
You might want to find shorter names than what I used.
DA01 already mentioned IE's conditional comments, but I figured you might want to know more. Since I can't put this in comments, here's the markup to add to your HTML:
Then in your CSS, you can specify styles that apply only to IE:
and styles that apply only to browsers that aren't IE:*
You can also specify particular versions of IE, which is useful if (for instance) you find IE 9 well-behaved enough to sit at the big kid's table. There's a lot more info at Targeting IE Using Conditional Comments.
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That's not what a CSS reset really does. It'll help in that the defaults will be closer but it's not going to fix all of the bugs in all the various versions of the dreaded internet explorer web browser.
The technique I've adopted is to give the BODY tag an IE-specific class using conditional comments. So, if you want to single out IE 6 and older, you can use this:
Then I can add fixes when needed within the CSS file itself without having to resort to CSS hacks as much:
That wilk make your CSS a bit bigger, but has the advantage of keeping styles together which aids in future maintenance.
I generally find myself resetting ALL styles so every browser starts, more or less (sigh), the same.
Have a look at this
I would try to use the conditional comments at the very last stage of design where you have moved earth and sky (of the css world, obviously) to make the gap between browsers acceptable enough.
Then, if you must, apply those.
Bear in mind that any conditionals need to be rechecked -and worse- sometimes rewritten every time you have to improve or make changes to the stylesheets


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NFL unveils new Pro Bowl uniforms NFL unveils new Pro Bowl uniforms Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More Audibles Break It Down, Divisional Round: Will Vince Wilfork dominate Houston again? by Chris Burke Add Favorite Favorite Added Twitter Email Posted: Thu Jan. 10, 2013 Vince Wilfork is a five-time Pro Bowler for a reason. (Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)Even though Houston running back Arian Foster wound up running for more than 1,400 yards during the regular season, he turned in more than a couple clunkers. Four times in 2012, Foster was held to less than 50 yards rushing.The Texans were 1-3 in those games.One such setback came in Week 14, when the Texans were handed a 42-14 beatdown by the Patriots. Those two teams meet again Sunday in an AFC divisional round clash and, it almost goes without saying, Houston needs a better performance from Foster than the 15-carry, 46-yard dud he turned in back in December.Without Foster eating up yardage, the Texans will have trouble winning the time-of-possession battle and will find it tough to free Matt Schaub up for his deadly play-action passes.The key to an improved day for Foster: blocking Vince Wilfork.It is much easier said than done. The massive defensive tackle was pegged as a Pro Bowl starter this season, and he has the ability to disrupt completely a team's run game. Houston found that out first-hand earlier in the year.Wilfork's interior presence is a major problem for the Texans, because their ground game relies on stretching the field wide and cutting back to space. Wilfork eliminates a lot of those openings.This "Break It Down" takes a peak at what Houston does well and how Wilfork blew it up a few weekends ago ...For starters, what the Texans do well. Houston uses all the blocking schemes you would expect to see from a run-first team -- pulling guards/tackles, tight ends in motion, lead fullbacks -- but at the heart of Gary Kubiak's zone-blocking attack is the stretch play.The success of that look relies on Foster (or Ben Tate) to follow his blockers wide left or right, then cut back upfield when an opening presents itself.Ideally, when the Texans block these plays as they want to, the running backs have multiple lanes through which to run.On this play we're looking at, from the Texans' Week 15 win over the Colts, Foster actually doubled back (yellow line) between RT Derek Newton and TE Garrett Graham. But he also had room straight ahead, as well as to his left, had he kept heading that direction.It is sort of counter-intuitive to how we would normally think about outside runs, but what the Texans do on those stretch plays relies heavily on their ability to seal off defensive/nose tackles.Here, against the Jets, Foster ran the stretch play very wide to his left -- the play started at the right hashmark and nearly made it to the left sideline before Foster cut. The key to Foster gaining positive yards and finding that cutback lane, though, is Houston's blocking along the interior.As the Texans flowed to the left, they managed to create a disruption for Jets nose tackle Kenrick Ellis. He had to fight off a block at the snap, then had to jump over a lineman trying to chop him low.As a result, Ellis was slow to get to the point of attack -- he managed to take away a backside cut from Foster, but did not prevent the Texans' running back from bouncing this play outside.That's similar to how the Texans handled Wilfork on Foster's first carry in that earlier Houston-New England matchup -- a 15-yard gain that would stand as Foster's best run of the game.Right tackle Ryan Harris managed to take out Wilfork's feet as Foster stretched left (granted, this was pretty close to an illegal chop block, since RG Ben Jones appeared to have Wilfork engaged high). With Wilfork on the ground and fellow defensive tackle Brandon Deaderick (No. 71) pushed wide, Foster found his lane between New England's two big linemen.Notice the difference between that play and, say, this:Even with a blocker out in front of him there, Foster had nowhere to go because Wilfork had pancaked Jones. Deaderick earned his keep on that play, as well, driving his blocker into the backfield to stop Houston from working horizontally.Wilfork erased Foster's cutback lane and, without that opening, the play had no chance.This is the problem Wilfork presents Houston's offense, even when the Texans run plays away from him. That normally would be how an offense would handle a dominant lineman -- just don't take plays into his area -- but Houston's emphasis on cutbacks plus Wilfork's ability to drive into the backfield presents a unique challenge.The play pictured below resulted in a 2-yard loss for Foster, even though (as you'll see), he looked to have room between his left guard and left tackle.Wilfork, however, blew by Jones. By the time Schaub had handed off to Foster, Wilfork already found himself in the backfield, which forced Foster to stay where he was headed.Wilfork made the tackle himself on this play.OK, so running away from Wilfork did not necessarily work for the Texans. How about flipping the script and attacking Wilfork -- in essence, using his aggressiveness against him.No dice there, either. And the problems were pretty much the same.One-on-one, the Texans had trouble stifling Wilfork, which meant that he often bullied his way at least a couple yards deep into the backfield. That presence disrupted just about everything else Houston tried to do. So, instead of Foster patiently waiting for holes, the Patriots essentially dictated where Houston had to run.Any chance Houston has to crank up its offense Sunday starts with getting Wilfork blocked. Jones seems unlikely to handle that on his own, so will bulky rookie Brandon Brooks see more time? Will Houston try to double-team Wilfork?What amplified Houston's issue with Wilfork in Week 14 was a matching inability to keep the rest of New England's line at bay. Deaderick had a solid outing, as did Rob Ninkovich off the edge. It will be tough enough for Houston to neutralize Wilfork; it cannot lose other individual battles as well.Driving Wilfork to the ground or directing him out of position is possible -- teams have been able to do it, at times, this season. If Houston can make Wilfork lose his positioning even a few times, it would open up some gaps for Foster, as well as set the stage for Schaub's play-action passing. But another dominant effort by Wilfork this Sunday might spell doom for Houston. More Audibles


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An Introduction To Python Objects Using IPython (Part-3) [ID:010] (3/3)
in series: An Introduction to Python Objects, using IPython
video tutorial by Jerol Harrington, added 03/07
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In this final ShowMeDo, we cover the __init__ method, bound vs unbound methods, passing objects by reference, data attributes, and conclude with some recommendations for further self-development
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Thanks for the series.
Very well presented
excellent introduction. a bit more of errors and exercises on my own and i am into what classes are. no complex, but tricky...
Thank you for the lesson. This is very good. I was learning while doing the examples by myself. It would be helpful if we can have the following.
1. A link to the scripts used so that the learner can get a full view and copy it to his session.
2. Bullet points of the the key take aways from the lesson at the end of the session.
Very Nice. Thanks!
The three tutorials you made on Python objects were excellent.
You have a knack for explaining things clearly.
Please make more Python tutorials.
Thanks a lot for this nice introduction to the Python way of objects. :-)
Thanks Jerol. Since www is a class which should be put in camel case, it might have been easier to understand if you had named it Clas (just as you named the function func).
Viewed this one twice since there was so much content to learn. Very good content.
I'm writing a game-like life simulation in python and was really getting stumped about how to create more than one instance of an animal with different positions, etc.
This should really help.
Really, really good. I am starting to understand more about classes. I would still like to see a bit more of the usefullness of this. For example, I am still confused as to why use a class within a class? Sorry for asking such a simple question, but I working on an analysis table that has electrical loads and want to get real good with Python. I have used it as a scripting language, but have stayed away from the Object Oriented stuff. Thank you very much again.
Thanks Jerol, you made some non-obvious attributes of Python classes very explicit in this video.
Hi anon,
If you look at the code again, you will notice that the Base1 class prints "THIS IS BASE1" in all caps, whereas Sub1 prints "This is sub1!" in lower case. Your outputs tells us that Sub1 isn't being initialized at all. If you look at the first init statement you will see that it is _init__ instead of __init__ (only 1 leading underscore instead of 2). If you fix the init, you should see:
THIS IS BASE1: base1
This is sub1: sub1
This shows that Base1's init is being called, but with a value from Sub1, followed by Sub1's init with its own value.
This can be tricky to get right, so it is a good idea to test your code with as simple a model as you can, and use something like caps and lower case to see if your class instances are being properly initialized.
Thank you for your interest. It is very gratifying to learn that someone is actually trying to replicate the examples.
Hi Anon - Jerol Harrington will be notified about your new comment. The easiest way to converse might be to join the Google Group:
and to re-print the message (I'm afraid our comment-code strips out the indentation!).
Jerol is a part of the Group, you could easily talk about it rather than by writing comments here.
Is there a bug in # 3 SHowMeDo or is there a bug in iPython?
How can I contact Mr Harrington?
When I run
Only "THIS IS BASE1: BASE1" is displayed.
This is very confusing, and I'd like to resolve it
I'm pretty sure I've entered the code the way the author has it in ShowMeDo #3
class Base1(object):
"base class demo"
def __init__(self, str1="BASE1"):
def show(self, str1):
print "THIS IS BASE1: %s" % str1
class Sub1(Base1):
"subclass demo"
def _init__(self, str1="sub1", str2="base1"):
#super(Sub1, self).__init__(str2) # bound method
Base1.__init__(self, str2) # unbound method
def show1(self, str1):
print "This is sub1: %s" % str1
Thanks very much for the tutorial. It clarified a lot of things that I was unsure about concerning classes and objects, simply and concisely.
Just wanted to say thanks for putting in the time . It is useful and needed . I love to program in Python but get very little time to do so and find my self having to re-learn every time. explanations like this help when you're not prograsmming every day.
As a newbie to Python, OOP concepts, and to some extent, even programming (discounting some rudimentary C code written a long time ago), this is by far the best introduction I've seen to Python objects and classes....and I've been scouring the websites a while.
Thank you! and congrats on a great tutorial.
Thanks very much for the Intro to Python Objects and concepts. This is the beauty of the internet for us in this part of the world. Also very helpful is where to go next and suggestions about the books and using help online.
ShowMeDo is a master stroke...waiting to hear more and tell my colleagues about contributing !
Thanks again.
Thank you very much for doing these, Jerol. As I'm trying to dive into GUI programming and OO, these tutorials made many fundamental points much clearer. Kudos.
Hi T5.4
Thanks for your comment. Python looks so simple and basic, that it is easy to forget that Guido designed it to be OO right from the beginning. It took me awhile to understand objects in Python, and I had taken 2 courses in C++! What has worked for me, is writing the simplest possible fragment of code in an editor and then running it in IPython. This way, I can make changes in the code, and see how the interpreter reacts. I have 2 windows open, and <Alt><Tab> between them.
Thanks again for your kind words.
Thank you for taking the time to make these three videos. They have reinforced my knowledge of OOP and the "self" convention in Python. When attempting to learn Python, I did not fully understand this convention and you have helped me greatly. This video should be recommended and watched by anyone wanting to learn object-orientation FIRST! I wish this was around a year ago.
To All,
Thanks for your comments. To zan0416, I will try to incorporate your suggestion to combine the editor screen and the IPython screens. It sounds like a good idea. As for suggestion regarding passing Python objects like structs in C, I have thought about doing a ShowMeDo about Python data structures such as lists and dictionaries. C structs are just a bunch of data laid out end-to-end in a block of memory. This is very easy to do in Python: unlike C, you do not have to declare the data type, and then allocate memory for it, or worry about losing the pointer for the allocated memory: just define a dictionary, using strings to take the place of variable names (keys), and assign whatever data you want to the keys. You can then pass the dictionary to a function or object. An object-oriented approach might be to decide what functions you wanted to associate with the the dictionary, and combine both the functions and dictionary in an object. Keep in mind that C is close to the machine, whereas Python is much more abstract. I found that I had to abandon my C mental metaphors in order to understand Python.
Hopes this helps.
As a long time C programmer, an idea for another OOP topic I would love to see someone do is the proper way to setup, use, and pass objects in Python that behave the same way as 'structs' do in C. Possible?
Wonderful Jerol! Your examples clarified more than one mystery about objects I have been struggling with.
A suggestion if you find yourself modifying it, or doing it over for any reason, I wonder if it is possible to display both the Crimson Editor and IPython windows at the same time (looks like there is enough room), rather than switching between them. Seeing the actual source code as the examples are run in IPython would be super.
Thanks for the video!
Thank you. A good nuts and bolts tutorial on objects. Cleared up a couple of things that I've been unsure about, while studying Python.
Thanks for the vid.
I learn very quickly by being shown once.


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I found out today at the doctor that I have low blood pressure...I went for a checkup and told the doctor I had fainted yesterday morning and even with my nervous "doctor office" blood pressure, it still checked out low. It isn't talked about much because High blood pressure is so much more common, but it is a serious condition and I thought I would share some light on it. Feel free to post questions, concerns, stories, or just read it and keep it in mind for future reference
Here is some info from Web MD about Low Blood Pressure:
What Is Low Blood Pressure?
Hypotension is the medical term for low blood pressure (less than 90/60).
A blood pressure reading appears as two numbers. The first and higher of the two is a measure of systolic pressure, or the pressure in the arteries when the heart beats and fills them with blood. The second number measures diastolic pressure, or the pressure in the arteries when the heart rests between beats.
Normal blood pressure is usually in the range of 120/80 (systolic/diastolic). In healthy people, especially athletes, low blood pressure is a sign of good cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) health. But low blood pressure can be a sign of an underlying problem -- especially in the elderly -- where it may cause inadequate blood flow to the heart, brain, and other vital organs.
Chronic low blood pressure is almost never serious. But health problems occur when blood pressure drops suddenly, and the brain is deprived of an adequate blood supply. This can lead to dizziness or lightheadedness. It most commonly occurs in someone who's rising from a prone or sitting position to standing. This kind of low blood pressure is known as postural hypotension, orthostatic hypotension, or neurally mediated orthostatic hypotension.
Postural hypotension is considered a failure of the autonomic nervous system -- the part of the nervous system that controls involuntary vital actions, such as the heartbeat -- to react appropriately to sudden changes. Normally, when you stand up, some blood pools in your lower extremities. Uncorrected, this would cause your blood pressure to fall. But your body normally compensates by sending messages to your heart to beat faster and to your blood vessels to constrict. This offsets the drop in blood pressure. If this does not happen, or happens too slowly, postural hypotension results.
The risk of both low and high blood pressure normally increases with age, due in part to normal changes during aging. In addition, blood flow in the brain declines with age, often as a result of plaque buildup in blood vessels. An estimated 10% to 20% of elderly people have postural hypotension.
What Causes Low Blood Pressure?
The cause of low blood pressure isn't always clear. It may be associated with the following:
Sudden drops in blood pressure can be life-threatening. Causes of this type of hypotension include:
Postural hypotension, which is low blood pressure when standing up suddenly, can happen to anyone for a variety of reasons, such as dehydration, lack of food, prolonged standing in the heat, or being overly fatigued. It can also be influenced by genetic make-up, aging, medication, dietary and psychological factors, and acute triggers, such as infection and allergy.
Postural hypotension occurs most frequently in people who are taking drugs to control high blood pressure (hypertension). It can also be related to pregnancy, strong emotions, hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis), or diabetes. The elderly are particularly affected, especially those who have high blood pressure or autonomic nervous system dysfunction. Postprandial (after meals) hypotension is estimated to affect up to one-third of elderly people and is a common cause of dizziness and falls after eating.
Several drugs are commonly associated with postural hypotension. These medications can be divided into two major categories:
Hmm I think I get that. Apparently its quite common in teenagers. It just means I feel faint if I stand up too quick and stuff.
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I have normal blood pressure, which is probably undeserved due to the fact that I smoke and eat too much junk. I think it's a case of pot luck; my boyf has to watch his blood pressure; his tends to be too high tho, rather than too low.
When i was small i had low blood Pressure,But i know how to fight it after i heard my doctor.you have to Eat and drinkSimple food and snakes and things with sugar
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