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Is it today only? Away from my xbox for a couple of days.
Is it today only? Away from my xbox for a couple of days.
Sine Mora is $2.49 on Green Man Gaming. If you even remotely like Shmups, snatch that shit up right away. There's also the 30% off coupon. I mean, $2.49 is cheap enough though.
So three new games were just added to the Humble Indie Bundle 7! Plus, if you already purchased it, you get them for free!
I'm assuming this is only if you spent more than the average price.But still, Cave Story+ !
EDIT: NM, if you already purchased the bundle, at any price, you get them for free!
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Amazon's Year End Digital Games Sale - Up to 80% off on Games
So far they are offering better deals than steam in my opinion. And most of the games on sale are steam DRM too.
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^ Amazon is pretty great sometimes. By the way if you follow that link 2K games is have a massive strategy game blowout. Pretty much all of 'em for about $20. I'm not much of a strategy gamer, but someone here's gotta be.
Spec Ops: The Line is going for $7.50 on GMG. And again there's a 30% coupon going around. That coupon expires tomorrow.
Apart from Amazon's Year End Sale, here are Amazon's Deals for December 30 to January 5, Most of them are steam DRM I think.
The only game I liked from this list is mini ninjas.
Tomb Raider: Underworld $4.99 (Steam)- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AQ2N1RQ/
Tomb Raider: Underworld $4.99 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004519O9S/
Supreme Commander 2 $4.49 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004U73F88/
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light $3.75 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004UHSH1I/
Hitman: Absolution $19.99 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007VFHIHA/
Hitman Absolution: Professional Edition $29.99 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009G7XXI4/
Supreme Commander 2 Infinite War Battle Pack DLC $2.49 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009IXLCIO/
American Mensa Academy $9.99 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009D4GMZG/
Just Cause $3.75 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0081IOO8C/
Battlestations Pacific $7.49 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0081IOPYK/
Tomb Raider: Anniversary $2.99 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0081IOKDQ/
Order of War $2.99 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0081IONVK/
Front Mission Evolved $4.99 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0081IOPGI/
Season of Mystery: The Cherry Blossom Murders $1.99 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009W68BK4/
Tomb Raider: Legend $4.99 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009W68BLI/
Mini Ninjas $5.24 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009IXL4PK/
Hitman Triple Threat Pack $8.99 - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00822WVE6/
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Best Buy Canada is having an online news year's eve sale, one item that might pique your interest is a purple 3DS for only $99.99
Dunno if it's available in any other colour or if this is also happening for US residents.
EDIT: damn, those went fast! But you can still get a 3DS XL in either red or blue for $149.99
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Battlefield 3 Premium for $24.99 (50% off)
Saw this one just now:
X-COM at $24.99 (50% off)
Plus if I use my promotional credit I got from last month, it'll be $19.99.
There are also new games added to the editor's choice list where you can use the $5 promotional credits we got from Amazon last month.
NBA 2k13 for $14.99
Amazon promo credit can also be used on this one.
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Nah, they've fixed it now. Back to 66%.
Wonder what happened there.
Must of slipped up while adding the new deals.
I got Nightmare at Northpoint for 40p, so I'm happy.
2012 Editor's Choice
We can use our $5 off promotional credit on those games if we bought games from Amazon last month.
PSn has some minis up for 99¢. I got UNO, Blokus, a breakout clone and some gameloft fps
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PSn has some minis up for 99¢. I got UNO, Blokus, a breakout clone and some gameloft fps
Darksiders Franchise Pack for $13.99 only - $8.99 after using $5 coupon
Saints Row the Third for $12.5 - $7.5 after using $5 coupon
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It's been a while since we last heard about Namco Bandai's upcoming free-to-play aerial shooter Ace Combat Infinity. The game follows in the wake of Tekken Revolution's success and is once again exclusive to the PlayStation 3.
The publisher recently announced that an open beta for Ace Combat Infinity will be held between February 4th and February 11th in all major regions apart from Japan. Players who participate in this open beta test will receive an exclusive emblem when the full game launches, and by giving your feedback and answering a survey on the open beta website you'll also qualify for a free Ace Combat Infinity wallpaper.
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Should I get gas or electric (cordless) lawn tools?
specifcally, i need a hedge trimmer and a string trimmer. electric would be nice because there's less maintenance involved. however, after reading a lot of the reviews, battery life is a concern. i have a decent size yard (~9600 sq ft). so there's not a ton of work to be done, but enough to make me lean towards gas powered.
do electric ones usually come with 2 batteries? or do you have to buy the spare and the cost of the spare makes you wonder why you didn't just buy 2 of the tool to start with.
who's got recommendations based on personal experience?
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I have a small yard, so I use a corded electric mower and weedeater. If your yard is too big to reach the edges with a corded electric, I'd lean toward gas. Gas is a bit louder, but your range is only limited by the size of your gas can. From a cost perspective, the premium price you pay for battery powered electric will be more than a lifetime of use with a gas engine in most cases. If your electric runs out of juice, you have to wait for it to charge up, but if you run out of gas, you can fill it back up and finish the job.
My experience has been that electric hedge trimmers just don't have enough power to get the job done. I suppose it depends on the type of hedge you have though...
You didn't ask, but would also recommend a gas-powered leaf blower over an electric one. Again, the electric ones are lacking when it comes to raw power.
I haven't used an electric "weed whacker", so I don't know how well they work. If your grass isn't too thick, I don't see why they wouldn't work though.
Cordless. The newer Lithium-Ion batteries do much better for constant charging/leaving on charger.
Just a quick check for mid-line on Amazon gets these three. Total around 300 bucks.
Each one comes with a battery, trimmer has an extra battery, each one has their own charger as well.
[EDIT] I didn't link a mower as I've never used a cordless mower. I recommend http://www.amazon.com/Scotts-2000-20-20-Inch-Classic-Mower/dp/B00004RA3E/
@xarous: the blower and the weed whacker you linked to have the short battery life that i'm concerned about. the reviews say people get 10-15 minutes per charge. i'm not sure if that would be different if i got something like ryobi's 18v system.
oh, and i've already got a gas powered honda mower and no one will ever take that from me.
Unless you have a really samll yard, don't bother with battery and corded electric power equipment. Save yourself some money and headaches and go straight to a gas powered backpack blower and gas weedeater.
The fact that you spent extra money for and appreciate your Honda mower indicates your should likely be considering higher-end brands such as Echo, or, preferably, Stihl. I just added a Stihl leaf vacuum to my stable of lawn equipment last week, and it is easily one of my best recent purchases.
I have used cordless and they just don't have the battery life needed to complete the job. I have a yard about the same size as yours and currently use a corded trimmer and hedger and have had no issues. I decided to go with corded rather than gas because I didn't want to deal with gas/oil mixture, noise and upkeep of the motor not to mention the price. Only down fall to using corded is that you need a long extension cord (I use it to plug in my car in the winter) and have to wrap it up when done. Hope this helps a little.
@bebolton100: i looked at the stihl products and the price range is a bit high for me right now. (the lawnmower used home depot gift cards to knock the price down) got any recommendations for different brands?
Get a gas expand-it weed eater. The attachments are reasonably priced(Blower, trimmer, edger, tiller, straight neck and curved neck weed eaters).
@kbsig106: hmm. that looks kinda nice. have you used them before?
@carl669: Yes, I have the Ryboi from Home Depot with the expand-it attachments. It is a gas/oil mix but one motor + 5 attachments = one man yard crew!
@kbsig106: sweet. there's apparently 2 kinds of power heads (http://bit.ly/qG4WyN). which one do you have/recommend?
@carl669: I have the cheaper one - the other is a four stroke that requires regular gas, no oil mix. Read the reviews though, my Ryobi had to be replaced about one week out and now I've had the current one for a year. Generally have a few years life span on these little air cooled motors.
Gas. 2 stroke or 4 stroke. If you don't like the noise, electric. If you have to have a battery operated device, fine, but it is my last choice. Gas has more power, electric weighs less, battery operated will weigh more and you will need 2 batteries and need to replace them. Also, don't be fooled by voltage. What you want to know is run time or mah of the batteries. More mah (mili amp hours)means more run time. I won't get into battery chemistry here. But a 12 or 14.4 volt unit can often out perform an 18 volt unit due to the battery. Buy a name brand where you know you can get fresh replacement batteries. As for the comment of Stihl, you are in the realm of high end homeowner/commercial. Comparable to that would be Husvarna, etc. They would also be in the same price range. Ryobi isn't even on my list. Buy middle of the road or higher. I own a Stihl chainsaw, 26 years, 8 chains and 2 bars later I would save my money for another. Look at what professional landscapers own, buy the same.


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Guesses vs. Data as Basis for Design Recommendations
Summary: Even the tiniest amount of empirical facts (say, observing 2 users) vastly improves the probability of making correct UI design decisions.
Should you offer users help to adjust font sizes or can you simply rely on the built-in browser commands? This question was recently posted to an interaction designers' discussion group (which will remain unnamed to preserve the anonymity of the individuals dissected below).
12 people responded to this question. Most simply offered a personal opinion as to what they would prefer. Fair enough: All people are experts on their own preferences. But there were 6 postings that commented on what would be best for other people.
2/3 of these postings were pure guesses, whereas 1/3 was based on some form of data in the form of empirical user observations.
- "In this day and age, [...] most people who need to increase their font sizes in their web browser already know how to do it." WRONG
- "People who do need to resize type will do so via the browser; it's not hard to do so." WRONG
- "It's not 1995; not all 50+ people are such newbies that they don't know, or wouldn't want to know, how to resize text in a browser." WRONG
- "The people who most need to increase font size are people 65+, which is the group least-likely to be skilled enough to have adjusted settings." RIGHT
- "I had to set it manually for my parents, and while the percentage of people over 65 becoming more and more savvy is increasing at an amazing rate — hidden functions like adjusting text size is something that escapes them." RIGHT
- "I've observed usability studies on sites that included text resize widgets [...] most, if not all, the participants [...] had no idea what it was." RIGHT
Data Beats Guesses
The general guideline is to use relative font sizes that let users resize (if they know how), but to display big and legible text as the default. This conclusion is based on numerous observations that show that many older users don't have the skills to resize fonts.
In our discussion group example,
- 100% of the designers who provided external data were right, whereas
- 25% of the designers who relied on their personal opinion were right.
Most strikingly, 75% of guessers were wrong. You'd be better off tossing a coin than asking advice of these people.
In this simple example, basing design advice on the smallest amount of empirical observation of real users quadrupled the probability of being right.
A word of caution: Although data from your parents is better than no data, I don't recommend that you base design decisions on your family members because they're likely to be smarter than average users. (Because you're smarter, being somebody who understands usability.) We know from our studies of children and teenagers that average kids and teens have much greater difficulties using websites than one would think after listening to Internet executives proudly tell stories about their offspring's online skills.
Testing 2 Users Beats Guessing
While striking, our text-size example is based only on a small set of responses. Another example provides a similar conclusion with a bigger sample.
We tested two different ways of displaying bank account information with 76 users each, for a total of 152 test participants in a between-subjects benchmark test. We asked users to perform tasks such as checking their account balances and finding out what interest rate the bank was currently offering. The results were as follows:
|Usability Metric
|Design A
|Design B
|Success Rate (across four tasks)
|Time to Complete Four Tasks (min:secs.)
|Subjective Satisfaction (1–5 scale, 5 best)
On all three usability attributes, version B scored better, though only the difference in success rates was big enough to be statistically significant. Overall, there is no doubt that B was better.
(In contrast to this study, sometimes both designs win on different usability attributes. For example, one design might make people more successful, while the other helps them accomplish the task faster. In such cases, you might have to make tradeoffs or, when possible, create a third design that combines the best aspects of both alternatives.)
In this case, I showed designs A and B to 21 people who were taking an interaction design course and asked them which one they would recommend to the bank. Going purely on their personal guesses as to which design was best, the probability of getting the best design recommended was 50%. That is, no better than flipping a coin. (Asking your trusty coin is an easy way to save on consulting fees.)
I then asked another group of 38 people taking the same course to test the two designs with 2 users for each design. Now, going on empirical observations of 2 users' behavior for each alternative, the probability of recommending the best design was 76% .
Another way of looking at this outcome is that testing just 2 users per design reduced the probability of being wrong from 50% to 24% — cutting it in half. Of course, a 24% probability of picking the wrong design is not good enough if you're talking about a high-ROI design decision, so we'd obviously want to test more than 2 users per design in such cases. (I usually recommend 5 users.)
Still, even though it's an extremely scaled-back study, testing 2 users per design hugely improved the recommendation over the flipping-a-coin performance from guessing.
(In this study, the two versions looked equally good, which is important for measurement studies. If you compare a rough-looking prototype with a fully refined graphic design, you will bias the scores.)
When Guesses Go Horribly Wrong
Comparing our two case studies, the guessing camp from the text-size example had by far the worst performance. A person who based a design decision on these guesses would be wrong 3/4 of the time. In the bank example, they'd be wrong only 1/2 the time.
So, why the miserable discussion-group guesses? The answer lies in the following two statements:
- "In this day and age..."
- "It's not 1995..."
Sadly, too many Web designers refuse to believe in the durability of usability findings. Thinking that "things that were difficult in the past must surely be easy now" has led many websites to their doom.
When we actually study real users, we see how slowly they learn about technology and how little their ability to use fancy websites has improved. And, most important, we see how little users care about learning fancy Web techniques. People just want to get in, get their stuff done, and get out. They don't want to learn.
Guesses go wrong because many designers desperately want to believe in the potential of advanced design. They simply can't fathom how little most people know about their pet technologies.
(Yes, in recent testing, we did find a few small advances in users' skills, but it's slow progress; you'd better believe that simplicity will continue to win the day for decades to come.)
A Little Data Goes a Long Way
In my two examples, the probability of making the right design decision was vastly improved when given the tiniest amount of empirical data: observing your own parents, or testing 2 users per design.
Of course, a bigger study would be better, but any data is better than no data. How many design decisions do you make without any empirical observation of your customers' behavior?
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It's time for the Snohomish County Council to step up to the plate and tell Aaron Reardon that he has announced his impending retirement, and therefore is now ineffective in governing, and that the council accepts his retirement effective immediately. And tell him to clean out his desk and don't come back, so the county government can move forward with the process of selecting a new county executive without input or interference by a man whose usefulness no longer exists.
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The 6 Best 2012 Apocalypse Theories (Are All Bullshit)
You may have noticed a recent trend of trying to fit every hackneyed doomsday prophecy into the same red-letter year of 2012. The theories are obtuse, their connections are flimsy and the perceived consequences are completely unsubstantiated.
Unsurprisingly, these prophecies are enormously popular.
#6. The Mayans
The Mayans are probably the most-quoted of the 2012 doom prophecies, and can perhaps be credited with getting the whole fad started.
Back when they were an advanced civilization living in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula about 3,000 years ago, they developed around 15 to 20 calendars, all with a slightly different purpose: the Tzolk'in was used to calculate crop cultivation, the Haab followed the cycles of the sun and the Long Count ticked off the harrowing last days until face-bursting ultimate destruction.
It's all fairly self-explanatory.
The Long Count calculates a period of time known as the Great Cycle, which is a count of about 5,125.36 years. Scholars paired up the dates of the Long Count with Gregorian calendars and found that the current Great Cycle began August 13, 3114 B.C, and ends on December 21st, 2012. Dum dum DUUUUUMMM!!!
Bolstering their theory is that the date coincides with a winter solstice during which the Sun will align with the center of the Milky Way galaxy. When that happens, some say the Earth's poles will shift and every horrible natural disaster imaginable will come together to form a Megazord of planet crushing assbeat.
What Predictions (Supposedly) Came True?
Uh... It's a calendar. It accurately predicts the rise of the sun every day. Otherwise nothing.
Why it Might be Bullshit:
First of all, the end of the Long Count holds no more significance than Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve: the Maya just had a celebration and then started a new calendar. Even they didn't think it was going to be the end of the world, and even if they had, why the fuck would they be expected to know?
As for the winter solstice thing, that's just when the Sun is at its greatest distance from Earth. Our poles shifting because the Sun is aligned with the center of the Milky Way makes about as much scientific sense as saying you shouldn't drive at sunset because your car might crash into the sun.
Besides, the solstice occurs in June in the southern hemisphere, so if the world looks like it's going to end we can all just move to Australia.
#5. The I-Ching
A less popular but equally convoluted source is the I-Ching. In the pre-800-number era of human existence, the people of China received their psychic advice from one of their oldest texts, the I-Ching. You asked the I-Ching a question and a certified physic flipped three coins in to the air, drawing a hexagram based on the results. This told your fortune, somehow.
The I-Ching had nothing to do with the end of the world until a man by the name of Terence McKenna came along and made a pattern out of every possible result. After applying this pattern to a line graph accompanied by a timeline of recorded history, he discovered that the high and low points of the graph coincided with several significant events.
On December 21, 2012, the line slowly dips off of the chart, once again supposedly indicating a world-ending catastrophic buttfuck.
What Predictions (Supposedly) Came True?
The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Discovery of the New World
World Wars I and II
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The reality is McKenna utilized a pattern of his own invention to create a timeline of his own invention, and then predicted world events that had already happened.
After all, there's enough bad shit in human history that you could probably correlate several large scale catastrophes right alongside the peaks and valleys of a line graph showing Disney's stock price over the last decade.
He couldn't even decide what the end of his timeline signified, claiming everything from the apocalypse to alien invasion to time travel. Honestly, what kind of half-assed prophet was this guy? Maybe the next Batman movie comes out in 2012 and it's a huge disappointment, and the I-Ching just takes it way harder than everybody else.
#4. Web-Bot
In the late 90s, some brainiacs created a computer program called Web-bot to make stock market predictions, perhaps out of a belief that large amounts of money would be the only way any of them would ever get laid. Web-bot works like an Internet search engine does, but it presents its results in the form of numerical trends.
Basically, it was designed to tap in to our collective unconscious by analyzing information on the Internet and then make predictions based on its findings. So it's kind of like Trending Topics on Twitter, only people inexplicably trusted it to provide meaningful financial advice.
In 2001, the aforementioned brainiacs reasoned that if their program could be used to predict the stock market, it should be able to predict the future as well. According to the Web-bot, small nuclear wars will erupt somewhere in the world in 2009, initiating a series of events resulting in a major cataclysm sometime in--wait for it--the year 2012.
What Predictions (Supposedly) Came True?
Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy
New York blackout of 2003
Anthrax scares at the U.S. House of Representatives
Hurricane Katrina
Why it Might be Bullshit:
The Web-bot's data pool is limited to what is being discussed on the Internet. If the National Hurricane Center predicts that an upcoming hurricane season will be a particularly bad one, and everyone online starts talking about it, the Web-bot will spring into action by helpfully predicting the upcoming hurricane season will be a particularly bad one.
So why is the Web-bot predicting a cataclysmic event in 2012? Because end of the world alarmists are flooding the Internet with tons of information alleging some apocalyptic occurrence in 2012, that's why. Seriously, it's the Carlos Mencia of clairvoyant robots.
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Shouldn't the obligation to sit in the Sukkah also fall into the category of Sefeika D'yoma? If so why do some not eat in the Sukkah on Shemini Atzeres?
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To answer the first question: yes. Because of 'sfeika deyoma', one should sit in the sukkah even on Shemini Atzeres just as one would on the other days of Sukkos. The Gemara Sukkah 47a (as we have it) concludes this way, and says that we should sit in the Sukkah, but not make a bracha. (The reasons for this, as I understand it, is either because it might be a bracha levatalah, see Rosh 4:5, or because we need to differentiate it from Sukkos proper, to avoid bal tosif, which I believe is the opinion of the Raavya).
However, as your second question notes, this is not - and was not - always the prevailing practice. There are two reasons for this al pi halakha (as opposed to kabbalah):
Rav Tzadok HaCohen of Lublin wrote an over 60 page pamphlet defending the practice of not eating in the Sukkah on Shmini Atzeres, called "Meishiv Tzedek".
The simple answer would be that we avoid any behavior that slaps the new yomtov of Shmini Atzeres in the face (such as shaking lulav). To eat in the sukkah is no big deal, as plenty of people eat on porches or gazebos or what-have-you when the weather's nice, no religious ritual required. So in places where it was ridiculously cold on Shmini Atzeres, they didn't!
There are Hassidic thinkers who have answers that give the practice more significance (often based on Hassidic or kabbalistic thought), but that would be the simplest answer.


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On Friday morning, Dec. 14, my wife called from her Newtown High School classroom to assure me she was safe despite the massacre of unimaginable horror at nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School. Such tragedies have become too frequent in our society. What can be done?


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Are there any better services to upload wide (10K pixels wide) than flickr? I would like to see some kind of 'fit to screen height' and zooming functionalities.
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I like pan0.net most of all. It is free, fast, and makes the panoramas look impressive. It uses a Flash-based spherical panorama viewer, which you can even embed into your own site or blog.
Unlike Gigapan, Panoramio and similar sites, pan0.net takes care of perspective transforms, and allows to view the panorama as if you were rotating the head in a first person shooter, it is not just zooming and panning a large flat image. It is much more immersive.
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Self-hosted panorama viewer
If you can afford to pay for hosting, you may choose to host images and a Flash-based or Java-based panorama viewer yourself. There are many choices. Some spherical panorama viewers I am aware of are:
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Microsoft Photosynth uses Silverlight, and works only on Windows desktops; not very good for web, because cannot be viewed on Linux and many mobile devices. Installation of Silverlight on Mac is not always working as expected (according to forums).
Quicktime VR, it is not supported in the newer versions of Quicktime anymore (see Last nail in the coffin). It is a dead proprietary format.
I would take a look at Gigapan. Not only do they have hardware and software to create very large panoramas, but they also offer a free photo sharing and upload option.
One of my favorite examples of the Gigapan software in use is of: President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address by David Bergman . This image is 1.47 gigapixels for example.
Other options you might want to look at include:
I've created a photo gallery w/ panorama lightbox.
You can try it by clicking on a panorama in this gallery: http://shuw.github.com/photos
To add a similar gallery to your page follow the instructions here: https://github.com/shuw/flickfastr.
I would like to recommend a free way to view spherical panorama on web page, no need web app on your server, just copy your panorama code and embed it to your webpage or blog, the panorama would play and you may use your finger to move around on your website, the loading speed is very fast. Quite simple operation, use your facebook or google+ account to log in the free platform, upload spherical panoramas onto EP-Sky, your panormic tour code will be generated automatically, you just need to copy and past, take a look at this tour, it surppot HTML5 and the hosting service is free : http://sky.easypano.com/panoramic-images/Dolce-Vita-Hotel-Pool-11399.html http://sky.easypano.com/ There are also many virtual tour resources here.


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so I am going to start developing Java games (3D) but I have a few questions. So I dont know if I should use an engine or make my own. I feel like I am "cheating" if I use an engine to make my game. Is it frowned upon in the game developing world? What are some advantages and disadvantages to using an engine for my game and is it really that much harder to make my own engine? I know that engines have built in models and textures with easy drag and drop interfaces, would I have any of that if I were to code my own engine? Thanks guys.
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Well, this really depends on what you count as an engine. Technically, JOGL is an engine, which is used very frequently. Unity and UDK are also game engines, if that's what you mean. Plenty of games are made with all three of these options, along with other engines (so long as they are obtained legally), so it wouldn't necessarily be "frowned upon." Using these engines are almost always easier than making your own. For built-in texture/models, though, you need to be a bit careful with copyright infringement, because sometimes companies will give you those only for educating yourself with use of the engine.
As for making your own engine in Java, it can be moderately difficult to make a code-only engine yourself, and it will most likely not be as good as something like JOGL. These are generally more easier to adapt if you're using your own as opposed to something like JOGL. It really just depends on what your game needs. However, making your own engine with a user-interface takes significantly longer and is much harder, but it can be easily re-used and it is easier to start new projects with it.


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DataClassesDataContext dc = new DataClassesDataContext();
var query = from contact in dc.Contacts
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ContactId = contact.ContactId,
LastName = contact.LastName,
FirstName = contact.FirstName,
Addresses = contact.Addresses,
Phones = contact.Phones,
DOB = contact.BirthDate,
LastNote = contact.Notes.Max(n => n.Created), //this line causes the error
Status = contact.ContactStatus.ContactStatusName,
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WHEELING - April 14 through April 19 was a stint the Steubenville softball team would like to forget.
"Two weeks ago we were dead in the water," said Big Red coach Gus DiMarzio.
It had lost five-straight games, being outscored 47-19, in those five days.
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"What could we do?" DiMarzio said. "We just kept pushing and practicing hard and it turned around into this."
The first OVAC 4A title in program history.
Steubenville beat Harrison Central, 4-2, in the conference championship game on Saturday at Wheeling's I-470 Youth Sports Complex.
"It's a testament to our kids," DiMarzio said. "No coach can do that. I didn't field a ball, none of us guys in the dugout got a hit.
"I got to give props to my six seniors and their leadership abilities. They brought us back from the dead."
Big Red, now 17-7, collected seven hits off Huskies' pitcher Katie Ellzy and scored in the first, fourth and sixth innings.
Steubenville was swift on the basepaths - stealing a total of five bases as a team.
"Before the game, coaches told us that we should not be put down by anyone," said Big Red senior catcher Mytia Barker. "And that we had to be as aggressive as we can."
Sierra Fields was Steubenville's first baserunner in the bottom of the first inning, reaching on an infield hit. The junior stole second and third base, before scoring the game's first run.
Fields rushed home on a wild pitch and evaded a tag by Joelle Jones.
"Anytime you can get a run on Ellzy, it's huge," DiMarzio said. "She gets up on you and she starts mowing people down, then you feel that you're in a bad spot.
"Luckily we didn't get down to that. It's a big deal anytime you can score first."
After the wild pitch, Barker laced a double to the right-centerfield gap.
"I was pretty pumped," she said. "It was exciting to hit a double off such a talented player like Katie.
"That built my personal confidence for the rest of the game."
Barker was on the receiving end of freshman pitcher Hayley Stamps. She tossed 17 first pitch strikes and only allowed two runs - both driven in by Ellzy.
Stamps struck out two and allowed five hits. She sent the Huskies down in order three times.
"It feels pretty amazing," Stamps said of not only earning the win in Steubenville's first OVAC title game, but gaining the trust of coaches and teammates in her first varsity season. "It's meant a lot and shows that they all have confidence in me to pitch well on the mound."
Harrison (10-6) tied things at one in the fourth inning as Ellzy plated Shianne Nameth on a single to centerfield.
Steubenville responded with a pair in the bottom half when Carmie Biasi drove in Kesha Barz on a one-out double. Biasi then stole third and Abby Taylor followed by beating out a bunt single, bringing in another run.
"We just tried to move runners up by stealing bases and bunting," DiMarzio said. "We got a great bunt from Abby that went for a hit and we were scoring runs off that.
"We capitalized on anything we could. We played the game hard."
Harrison cut the deficit to one in the sixth inning on a solo homer over the left field fence by Ellzy. Big Red got insurance when courtesy runner Janae Snyder scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the sixth.
Stamps escaped the top of the seventh, which featured a Kara Dunfee double and Ellzy taking a four-pitch walk, to seal the victory.
"I just put in my head that we were up," Stamps said. "It was nice playing with a lead. I had faith in myself and hope in my teammates."
Barz, Casey Gentile and Nauja Banks added hits for Big Red.
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HARRISON: (Ellzy 6K, 3BB) and Jones. Ellzy S, HR, 2RBI; Dunfee D; Jones 2S; Dowdle S.
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I was once told by someone that saying migdol instead of magdil in bentching on Shabbos and yom tov is an error. That a siddur had the source in pesukim in short form on the side and people mistook it for say on Shabbos. Has anyone heard of this or have a source for it?
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This idea, that it's based on a mistaken expansion of 'בשב (meaning 'בשמואל ב) to mean בשבת, comes from R. Baruch Epstein's Mekor Baruch.
However, it is demonstrably untrue. The custom of alternating between מגדיל on weekdays and מגדיל on Shabbos is mentioned by Avudraham, who lived in the 14th century. (He doesn't mention the custom of doing so on Yom Tov or Rosh Chodesh - thanks DoubleAA.) The division of Shmuel into two books (along with the chapter numeration of Tanach, both of non-Jewish origin) didn't make it into Jewish life until the printing of Bomberg's Mikraos Gedolos in 1524-25.
I always learned that yes people mistook it saying Shmuel Bet (22:51) instead of Tehillim (18:51) (the pasuk appears twice, with this small change) and started saying it on Shabbat.
However I found this source which says that the study of Ketuvim was forbidden on Shabbat and therefore the Shmuel verse had to be recited instead of the Tehillim verse, and even though this ban has been lifted the tradition continues.
"The Rabbis forbade reading from Ketuvim1 on Shabbat in earlier times because of neglect of the study hall." (Gemara Shabbat 115a) The complete source (it is a word document so I don't know that the link will work.
I found a link here that quotes the following:
For an extensive study of the Magdil-Migdol issue, see Rabbi Raymond Apple's article that appeared in the Jewish Bible Quarterly. It is reproduced at http://www.oztorah.com/2013/03/magdil-migdol-liturgical-responses-to-textual-variants/


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In Tehilim ch. 25 it goes through the entire alphabet and skips the letter "Bais" "Vav" & "Kof"; why so?
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R. Yosef Chiyun (linked in @jake's comment here) says that these three letters spell out בוק, meaning "emptiness" (as in הבוק תבוק (Is. 24:3), "thoroughly emptied"). So the omission of these letters implies that "one who says [this chapter of Tehillim] will not see בוק."
Pri Eitz Chayim (Shaar Nefilas Apayim 2) explains that בוק also suggests "a flame" (as in אבוקה, "torch"), and that conversely there are three letters that are repeated in this chapter - א, פ, ר, spelling out אפר ("ashes") and its anagram פאר ("glory"). So, he says, מאחר שהוא מכין עצמו ונפשו, להיות כמת ואפר תחת רגלי הצדיקים, זוכה להיות פאר וניצל מגיהנם ונכנס לג"ע - "once a person [when saying this chapter as part of Tachanun, as in Nusach Sephardi and Nusach Ari] prepares himself and his soul to be considered as though dead, and 'ashes' under the feet of the tzaddikim, he then merits 'glory,' and is saved from [the 'flames' of] Gehinnom and enters Gan Eden."
[The caption to this chapter in the Ohel Yosef Yitzchak (Lubavitch) Tehillim also associates the missing three letters with Gehinnom, though in a different way: בוק numerically equals גיהנם. (The printed text there seems to be corrupt, since it says that this gematria requires עם הכולל - adding one for the word as a whole - when in fact that's not necessary.) I'm not certain of the provenance of these captions, although I believe I've heard that they are from the Shaloh.]
Radak (ad loc.) says the answer to your question (and why resh appears twice) is "not known, really" (though he first quotes ibn Ezra (though not by name) who suggests that the missing bes and vav are held by "בך" (verse 2) and "ולמדני" (verse 5) respectively).


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Santa Monica Mountains > Sandstone Peak (Mt. Allen) > Climber's Log
Sandstone Peak (Mt. Allen) Climber's Log
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|Mishe Mokwa to Summit
Date Climbed: May 11, 2011
|A very nice hike just far enough outside Los Angeles. We started at the Mishe Mokwa trailhead and made it up to the top, in plenty of hot sunlight. Looped around the continuation trail to get back to the parking lot.
Views were a little obscured by the haze sitting around the basin but it was still a very nice day....
|Posted May 12, 2011 8:06 pm
|Hot Hot Heat
Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2009
|Dragged my friend Jay up here in summer. Much hotter temps than I anticipated.
|Posted May 12, 2011 1:40 pm
|Easy Hike
Date Climbed: Jan 29, 2011
|Simple Hike
|Posted Apr 16, 2011 12:51 pm
|Amazing View
Date Climbed: Dec 26, 2010
|Did the full loop. Summited near sunset and saw amazing views; we could see all the way from San Nicolas Island to Mt San Gorgonio.
|Posted Jan 15, 2011 12:55 pm
|From Circle X Ranch
Date Climbed: Feb 1, 2010
|Nice 360 degree view of SoCal's coast.
|Posted Dec 10, 2010 10:54 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2010
|to be back on a trail again following back surgery. June gloom fog limited the views of the Pacific.
|Posted Jul 8, 2010 5:04 am
|Mt Allen
|From Circle X Ranch.
|Posted Jun 29, 2010 11:06 pm
|Fun Little Hike
Date Climbed: Jun 4, 2010
|Some of the best views I've seen in Southern California. At the top is a register named "French Fry Peak" that is dated June 3rd. Yerba Buena Road is really fun too.
Photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidbailey/sets/72157624209702168/
|Posted Jun 5, 2010 2:02 pm
|Pleasant morning hike
Date Climbed: Mar 28, 2010
|I slept in my truck at the TH. Got an early start and the hike was very enjoyable. The upper trail was lined with blue flowering bushes. A steady stream of ships could be seen going into or out of Long Beach. CA P2k 11/163.
|Posted Mar 31, 2010 7:41 pm
|Dave S
|Beautiful day!
Date Climbed: Mar 7, 2010
|Hiked it with Amy and Laura on a sunny day with the anticipated rain staying away! We took the Mishe Mockwe loop with a brief detour over to Balance Rock. Great day in the hills!
|Posted Mar 7, 2010 9:35 pm
|Gorgeous area
Date Climbed: Dec 25, 2009
|Hiked to Sandstone Peak and a few more in that area on Christmas Day via Backbone Trail. It was a beautiful and crisp morning. Saw a few other hikers. I will be back.
|Posted Dec 30, 2009 11:56 am
|Standard Loop
Date Climbed: Dec 25, 2009
|6 peak hike with Coco the Dog & Zeus on the way to X-mas gathering.
|Posted Dec 25, 2009 11:17 pm
|beautiful views
Date Climbed: Dec 19, 2009
|fun scrambling around the plateau
|Posted Dec 21, 2009 6:18 pm
|Dennis Poulin
|Standard Trail
Date Climbed: Mar 4, 2006
|Nice hike on a beautiful day. Lots of bicycles on the road. Slow going.
|Posted Dec 12, 2009 4:54 pm
|Trail run
Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2009
|I did the Backbone trail - Mishe Mokwa trail loop as a trail run. Very hot day. The summit was a bonus.
|Posted Sep 7, 2009 2:56 pm
|nice peak...nice views....
Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2009
|my 3 year old and i had a great day climbing up sandstone.nice peak for beginner
|Posted Aug 24, 2009 8:25 pm
|I remember this hike being quite pleasant in the late evening with the sun setting and the temperate cool breeze. You know things that romance novels are made of....he he
|Posted Aug 20, 2009 4:48 am
|Bob Burd
|LPC six peak loop
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2009
|Hot! 99F at the start at Triunfo Pass. Took 3.5hrs to make the loop. Trip Report.
|Posted Jul 24, 2009 6:29 pm
|Beautiful area
Date Climbed: Dec 6, 2008
|One of six peaks we did that day. Great hike.
|Posted Jul 9, 2009 9:31 am
|Did the loop
Date Climbed: Jun 7, 2009
|I did the Backbone trail - Mishe Mokwa trail loop. Nice day, but couldn't see anything when I was on Sandstone due to fog which later cleared off.
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Report: China's ban on the sale of game consoles has temporarily been liftedWritten by: / / 1 Comment
According to a report on Reuters, and taken from a statement released by China's State Council, a 14-year-old ban on the sale of foreign game consoles has been temporarily lifted in China.
"[Foreign]-invested enterprises," the statement read, are now able to be manufactured within Shanghai's free trade zone and then sold in China, but not before the consoles receive an official government approval.
This temporary lift on the ban of console sales in China follows reports in early 2013 suggesting that such an action would be taken.
Should consoles go on sale in China, manufacturers including Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft stand to benefit from entering an enormous market that has in recent years been untapped, and may just prove to be a new shot in the arm that the videogame industry needs following the launch of a new generation of consoles.
How do you think console sales in China would help, hurt or otherwise affect the game industry?
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I am eager to go mountain climbing but cannot carry heavy backpacks because of my light weight. I want to know if there is any scientific equation to help me know how much weight is safe for me to have on my back.
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I am a decent climber and a better scientist, and I strongly suspect there is no scientific answer to your question.
I have been on long climbs where I had to carry a pack. The most important factor in how much weight I (or my partner) carry was not my height, weight, or gender, it was my strength.
This is very similar to backpacking. Your strength, endurance, and your experience carrying weight will determine how much weight you can carry.
I know this is probably not what you wanted to hear, but I believe it is correct.
It is not your weight that is limiting your ability to carry heavy backpacks, it is your strength. You should determine your backpack weight based on strength and what you've previously carried, not your bodyweight.
Though there is no scientific answer, you can make use of some experience-based guidelines. They vary much and none is "true". There are some of our local considerations:
To sum up, I wouldn't recommend having >30% on your first mountaineering trip, but you shouldn't constrain yourself within any particular "theoretical" limit. If you want to stay healthy, listen to your body.
I used to apply the 30% rule, and for out of shape adults it works pretty well. But I worked with teenage males, ranging from the 70 lb dripping wet grade 7 to the 160 lb lean as a rake grade 12 just starting to come into his adult strength.
But in between were a bunch of butter balls. They were already carrying excess weight.
Those older boys (which we shamelessly used as pack mules on trips with the younger ones) would quite easily carry 80 lb packs. And Ive heard of climbers doing the same on journeys to base camp. Those 70 lb grade 7's didn't have much trouble with a 30-35 lb pack either.
So the rule I came up with was 50% of lean body mass. In practice we took an eyeball look and categoried like this:
Visible ribs. 50% Can see muscles, but not bones. 40% Layer of baby fat 30% Obvious Molson Muscles overhanging belt line: 25%
Small plump kids could barely carry their own clothes and gear. We made a point of finding something bulky but not massive so they would still feel like they were contributing to the group. Egg noodles and scalloped potatoes.
Once on the trip, we sometimes had to shift things around. The goal was to equalize the discomfort. This estimation rule usually meant we only had a couple of individuals whose load we had to lighten.
You can train yourself to carry heavier loads. When I was in university, I borrowed a couple of lead bricks (35 lbs each) and kept them in the bottom of my book bag. Had to restich the bag every few months -- they aren't designed for that kind of weight. I lived a mile from campus, and biked or walked to class. (Warning: Biking with a pack that heavy is very odd) The key is that you develop habits of posture that minimizes the pain.
While daily work this way is best, setting up a pack at 40% and carrying it for an hour or so at a time on walks in the park. (wear the shoes you will on the hike too.) will help, either by training you to the higher weight, or by motivating you to leave stuff at home.
Your backpack weight should be 20% of your body weight, and get a 30-40 litres backpack. The backpack should fit nicely on your back with it resting slightly above your butt, and it should not obstruct your head movement. Backpack weight distribution is 40% on shoulder strap and 60% on your hip strap.


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The FA have since fined Lambert £8,000 and banned him from the touchline for the game against Arsenal .
Arsenal produced another remarkable recovery after going 1-0 down to Tottenham at the Emirates , thanks to former Arsenal hitman Emmanuel Adebayor getting himself sent of for a wild challenge on Santo Cazorla ..Arsenal went on to win 5-2 and move above Tottenham in the table .


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6 Shockingly Evil Abuses of Power by School Officials
Obviously, any profession is going to include a certain number of loathsome shitheels. It's just that you think of school teachers and administrators as people who got into it for the love of kids. It's not like those jobs pay much, after all. So while you may get some lazy or incompetent faculty, you don't expect these people to be running toddler fight clubs in the basement.
And yet, all too often you hear about disgusting shit like ...
#6. California School Districts Steal Low-Income Students' Lunch Money
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Low-income families can't always afford to send their kids to school with lunch money, so to prevent these kids from coming in every day with a pack lunch consisting of a block of dry ramen and bread crusts, schools allocate funding to provide lunches for them. Unfortunately for kids in California, some schools have regarded this funding as free money that taxpayers have thrown randomly at them to spend however they like. And "however they like" rarely involves cheap meals for poor kids.
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"If anyone asks, just say that we're cracking down on childhood obesity."
To be specific, eight school districts around California were found to have misappropriated this money, but the good news is that it was only, uh, $170 fucking million. They channeled the cash into other school expenses, like staff wages (because teachers gotta eat, unlike poor students, apparently), building repairs, and goddamned catering for school board meetings.
It gets worse. The missing money for reduced-cost lunches obviously had to be offset somehow, and schools achieved this by serving kids lower-quality food, cutting down on cafeteria maintenance, and shortening lunch periods -- all of which served to discourage the poorest kids from using it. And it worked! The result was a significant drop in the participation rate for the program. And remember that here "drop in participation" means "an impoverished child didn't eat."
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Unless they ate each other, which officials said "basically solves the problem."
But hey, you can't claim these kids aren't getting an education out of it. Finding out just how little the system gives a shit about them is the most important lesson they'll learn all year. You just might not like what they do with that information.
#5. A School Runs a Sweatshop for the Disabled
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Disabled students are born into a world that automatically hands them a shit sandwich in terms of their employment prospects. Luckily there are some schools, like the Harold H. Birch Vocational School in Providence, Rhode Island, that are willing to help these students obtain the skills necessary to become productive members of society. And by that we mean they converted the school into a sweatshop.
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Classrooms are already pretty much designed like sweatshops.
In an apparent experiment to see if life could truly be lived like a Charles Dickens villain, school officials forced students to work long days building and bagging jewelry that the school could sell, possibly to offset the costs of the cold gruel students were no doubt being force-fed. In return, students received the generous salary of 50 cents to $2 per hour and a piss-poor education.
To boil the blood even more, the whistle was blown on this racket back in 2011. Rather than follow the recommendations of city officials who wanted to pink slip the pants off of the school's principal, school officials and parents voted to keep him, possibly because by this stage he'd engineered some kind of North Korea-style cult of personality.
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Plus they really dug the guy's jewelry designs.
On a positive note, the local government and school board saw to it that the Harold H. Birch Vocational School shelled out back pay to the tune of $250,000. In light of the exploitation observed, the Department of Labor is looking into adding regulation to prevent schools from horribly misusing their students that way.
Hey, you know what would be even better than having that rule? Living in a world where "don't use disabled kids as slave labor" doesn't have to be spelled out for people.
#4. A School Superintendent Leaves Children Behind
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The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act provided a paid incentive for teachers based on how many of their little tykes passed their standardized tests. Students could bet their semiliterate asses that, if nothing else, their teachers would make sure they could pass the tests, even if that meant forsaking all other educational priorities and bathroom breaks. But in El Paso, Texas, school superintendent Lorenzo Garcia masterminded an easier way to get his hands on those sweet, sweet incentive dollars -- by making sure that only his top students took the tests.
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This also earned the school major kudos for reducing classroom size.
Yep, this meant that students who were likely to do poorly on the test were either given an automatic pass or simply kept home. In some cases, truancy officers were sent out to kids' houses like Mafia goons to tell the students not to show up on test days (it's unclear whether this involved giving them an offer they couldn't refuse).
Some low-performing students were skipped ahead a grade in order to prevent them from compromising the test scores. In some cases, students were given "turbo-mesters," allowing them to earn credits for entire semesters of school with a single three-hour computer program, hence removing any need to contaminate the pool of successful test takers. In other cases, parents were encouraged to send their lagging children to charter schools.
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Some kids were told to leave school and get on with their lives.
While Garcia was raking in financial bonuses and randomly using public money to make shady construction deals with his mistress, the students he was failing would sometimes drop out of high school altogether, internalizing their artificial failure as a sign that they were beyond saving.
Garcia actually went to prison for this, getting sentenced to 3.5 years behind bars (his sentence was later reduced, because of course it was).


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User Comments for Week 4 QB Rankings
If you were me, and I know you're not so pretend, would you start Kirk Cousins or Jay Cutler this week?
sdensford 09/24/14 05:19 PM
Cousins just based on the fact that the Giants are a worse def than GB's and B. Marshall isn't 100%....it is a tough call, and I am just going on this weeks rankings.
al5150 09/24/14 06:06 PM
I'm starting Cousins over Foles this week. I agree with the giants defense being garbage so he will have a good game
taylor.pharmd 09/24/14 07:19 PM
I traded Michael Floyd for Cousins for this week and then wait and see. My starter has been R. Wilson and he's on bye. Cutler was taken one spot before I was going to steal him in the 7th round. I was pissed. That's a hard call. I think Cutler is the sure thing and Cousins could have a huge week or bust.
RamzFanz 09/24/14 10:00 PM
@taylor.pharmd - I have the same issue right now. Cant decide between Foles and Cousins. What was the tipping point to go with Cousins? hot hand? Opponent? Let me in! haha.
WBosco10 09/24/14 10:07 PM
I have Aaron Rogers and I just picked up Phillip Rivers via waivers. A.R has had one good week and two stinkers. I'm 3-0 and it isn't cause Aaron Rogers. Phillip Rivers is playing Jax while Rogers is up against Chicago. As you might guess I'm contemplating Rivers vs the 32nd ranked pass defense. However, it is tough to not play my #1 draft pick. Any thoughts?
goatmug1 09/24/14 11:02 PM
I'm thinking Foles over Cousins. I love Foles and believe that SF's 29th ranked Dfs is over-rated and gets a bunch of street cred based on previous years performances. In additon, NYG is the 23rd ranked defense and they just came off a week where they beat the tar out of the Texans. Hard to go against the really, really hot hand in Cousins, but you know that Foles is going to run 100 plays.... and have lots of opportunities to torch a weak defense.
goatmug1 09/24/14 11:09 PM
@goatmug - awesome insight. I do forget about the number of plays Eagles run... ok, at least Cousins cant hurt me this week if he is on my bench!
WBosco10 09/25/14 11:09 AM
@WBosco10 Cousins with the hot hand alright! I just think Cousins will be throwing down the field more than Foles. Foles will run a lot of plays but shorter passes. Plus the Eagles run a lot! My opinion is Cousins has an easier matchup than Foles, plus the Redskins playing at home.
taylor.pharmd 09/25/14 11:41 AM
I have had Bridgewater on the bench. I even drafted him for this reason. I also have Stafford who killed me last week with 10 points. Am I crazy to think about using Bridgewater? Both look to have favorable defensive matchups. I think Stafford will bounce back but I am in the whole because of injuries so I can't afford another bad week.
Any advice?
tarheel7496 09/25/14 07:06 PM
Friday morning QB...... how did that Cousins start work out for you? LOL!
sactownhero 09/26/14 09:35 AM
Lol @ Cousins....
If you need a quarterback _ run get Blake Bortles and don't be scared to start him against San Diego. 300-350 yards (passing and rushing) will be an every week occurrence for this kid... And he has a young stud receiver in Robinson to throw to...
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25 Jun 2012 4:40 AM #1
Add event is fired twice on TabPanel
Ext version tested:
- Ext 4.1.0 GA & 4.1.1-rc2
- Google Chrome 19
- FF13 (firebug 1.9.2 installed)
- I did search on the forum, but could not find any relevant ticket. The ADD event is fired twice in the code sample below.
- If there are heavy calculations or some other logic happens on TabPanel 'add' event, then it will be invoked twice.
- On Add event of TabPanel do some console logging.
- Add a simple Panel to a TabPanel.
- The Add event is fired once.
- The Add event was fired twice.
var tabPanel = Ext.create('Ext.tab.Panel', { width: 400, height: 400, renderTo: document.body, listeners: { add: function(container, component, index, eOpts) { console.debug('tabpabel onAdd', component); } } }); tabPanel.add(Ext.ComponentManager.create({ xtype: 'panel', title: 'tab1' }));
See this URL for live test case: http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-1/#!/api/Ext.tab.Panel
Debugging already done:
- The first event is fired on adding a Tab to the TabPanel.
- I'm not sure if this should be classified as a bug, but I'm looking for a way to invoke some method only once if a Panel is added to a TabPanel. Perhaps a different event?!
- only default ext-all.css
- Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64
25 Jun 2012 10:17 AM #2
If you look at the objects, you are seeing that each event is for each component added:
.. and per the API:
This event bubbles: 'add' will also be fired when Component is added to any of the child containers or their childern or ...
27 Jun 2012 2:29 AM #3
Hi Scott,
Thanks for the reply.
What event should I listen to if some Component (like Panel) is added to TabPanel?
I'm not interested if Tab is added to TabPanel.
27 Jun 2012 5:34 AM #4
You can check the type of object that is added since both a triggered.
17 Feb 2014 4:51 AM #5
This has been fixed now. In ExtJS 188.8.131.523 when panel is added to TabPabel add event is only triggered once for the panel and not for the added tab/button. Thanks!


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In 1977, Jimmy Carter was sworn in as president, Elvis died, Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan was hit by lightning a record seventh time and two NASA space probes destined to turn planetary science on its head launched from Florida.
The identical spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, were programmed to pass by Jupiter and Saturn on different paths, and Voyager 2 went on to visit Uranus and Neptune. University of Colorado Boulder scientists, who designed and built identical instruments for Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, were as stunned as anyone when the spacecraft began sending back data to Earth.
The discoveries started piling up: Twenty-three new planetary moons at Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune; active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon, Io; Jupiter's ring system; organic smog shrouding Saturn's moon, Titan; the braided, intertwined structure of Saturn's rings; the solar system's fastest winds (on Neptune, about 1,200 miles per hour); and nitrogen geysers spewing from Neptune's moon, Triton.
Voyager 1, now about 11 billion miles from Earth and traveling 35,000 miles per hour, is expected to punch its way from the edge of the solar system into interstellar space in the coming months, with Voyager 2 is not far behind.
Charlie Hord, a former researcher at CU's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) and chief scientist on an instrument known as a photopolarimeter aboard Voyager, shakes his head as he recalls some of the discoveries. "All of the scientists were dazzled by the pictures of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn coming back. To finally look at them up close was the most remarkable thing I've ever seen in my life."
The LASP photopolarimeter, a small telescope that measured the intensity and polarization of light at different wavelengths, helped scientists determine the structure of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, and to show that each dazzling ring of Saturn was made up of many smaller ringlets resembling phonograph record grooves.
On the off chance either spacecraft is encountered by aliens, each are carrying "Golden Records" -- gold-plated copper phonograph records with greetings in 54 languages, the sounds of surf, thunder, birds and whales and music snippets ranging from Bach and Beethoven to rock-and-roll legend Chuck Berry.
Aided by the tireless work of many students, the CU photopolarimeter science team also included LASP Professor Larry Esposito, who said his biggest thrill of the mission was the Neptune fly-by in 1989 when the gas giant "went from being a small blurry dot to a planet with bright clouds and numerous moons and rings."
The team also showed Saturn's F ring was made up of three separate ringlets controlled by two small "shepherd satellites." In addition, density waves -- ripple-like features in the rings caused by the influence of Saturn's moons -- allowed the team to estimate the weight and age of Saturn's rings, Esposito said.
In 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will float within 9.3 trillion miles of the star AC+793888 in the constellation Camelopardalis. In 296,000 years, Voyager 2 will pass within 25 trillion miles of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. Perhaps on the way, the spacecraft will encounter some musically inclined aliens up for a little Bach or Berry.


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The Context
Due to restrictions, I have an application that requires line features to be selected if they are within a user defined tolerance from a points data set. I can not currently use any third party API to perform so have written an efficient algorithm that completes this task effectively. The application will be used by people that may or may not have a sufficient grasp on spatial concepts such as the defined unit of measure for their data set, or parameters requiring 'acceptable' values in map units.
My Befuddlement
- The use of the Tolerance parameter and whether I should keep the tolerance in a commonly known unit such as Centimetres, Meters or Kilometres and perform the required calculations to massage the input into an appropriate value; or
- Assume the user knows the data, or has the ability to ascertain the data sets map units and enter an intelligent, useful parameter value.
The Question:
What is the more accepted practice?
The Implications
If Befuddlement 1 is the accepted practice or considered more user friendly, can you proved the some direction towards ascertaining the Datum and other relevant coordinate information to perform the required function.
If Befuddlement 2 is more generally accepted, then case solved. Though it does make the solution easier and more straight forward, I feel forcing the user to go through a discovery process may lessen the user experience of the software.
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Heath Hall & Brett Thompson of Pork Barrel BBQ are building up their BBQ empire one step at a time….
From their award winning competition BBQ team:
To their Rubs and Sauces
Then they moved on to the Shark Tank:
Plus they are in the process of building their very own restaurant (including their already flourishing catering business) :
Now if that wasn't enough they have also just recently started their own BBQ forum BBQ Social Network… BBQ Backyard.com This is where I called Heath and pretty much asked him everything I could think of about his BBQ empire……
Heath tells me their motto is:
Reward lives in the house of risk
They are also incredibly big believers in social media as a means to get their name out there….
In regards to Social media – on Twitter Pork barrel BBQ is the 80th most followed food site.
It has provided them with incredible success.
As Heath states Where else can you have 28000 people follow you . ??? for free.
He likes the the fact that it is not concentrated in marketing. – ie radio is concentrated… paper is concentrated twitter is global. Facebook is global.
He an Brett run the business like politics -We market its strengths not the weaknesses.
Tips from Heath-
Know your audience
Who are they? Cater your content to the audience
Ease of use – how easy is it to use your website, your forum your brand-
Analytics- page views is one of the most important things. Use them to drive your content.
Twitter- its advertising – place engage them – post interesting stories not just about your own brand but of others that are interesting too.
Reciprocal relation you will get back what you give …
Create brand ambassadors – free employees testimonials over advertisements. Its better to have other people spread the word about how great your brand is…
Now as they make their foray into the work of BBQ Backyard what do they hope to accomplish- I asked him point blank there are lots of already successful forums out there on BBQ & grilling what makes yours special? What will keep people engaged and ultimately grow the population :
Heath had a lot to say about this.
We perused all the BBQ sites –the majority of the forums using old technology.. We are in a stage where things are rapidly changing ie: Tablets- zoom 30 /40 other ones. Ipads etc all of these are 5 times or so user friendly..we need a BBQ forum that is that user friendly too.
Our site offers lots of amenities:
User interface – familiar with most people – not like facebook but it has the same type of feel -You can friend people, you can have your photo up or team logo identify who you are. We want to go beyond the Q&A forum and simplest way you can express yourself personally. You can go on your page here is my name – personalization you can blog post. You can customize it all. You can have blog posts, video uploads and photo uploads.
For example just this past Monday we had over 900 photos uploaded. WE are creating an easy user friendly place to do all this.
Additionally we want people to show off your awards and your food. Especially keeping everyone in the loop-One of the clearest examples of this is Saturday afternoon. Everyone in the competition world is getting on their computers from 4-6pm to find out who wins We provide a platform for viewing it finding out information…
This isn't just a professional competitive BBQ site .This is being established as a BBQ community as a whole.
It gives people an opportunity to interact with people. – Backyard bbq'ers into comps
You can even import address books from your own accounts.
We have completely integrated facebook & twitter. This has provided ease of use in signing in and addressing the current needs of people.
Heath describes their website as a neighborhood – In it you have your own House (page) your page , customizable. Ability to change colors make it your own. Also our Icons and name use- requires a person to think about it- make sure you are really talking to a real person. These are real people you are talking with and discussing things with.
Heath also went on to describe some of the upcoming additions to the site which will make it even friendlier:
- Recipe share book. Still work in progress.
- Future: live chat
- Ad space- future.
- Further down the road- They want to create a page on there a Triple AAA route – hotels sites etc.
- Create a similar ultimate map for a BBQ crawl .. routes for great BBQ joints all over.
- Members- rate the joints. Stars the grading system – it will give the joints … higher priority viewing..
Heath also makes it clear the site will always be free its a priority to both of them. Going forward creative ideas will fund the project. We will use integrated advertising – but we don't want a barrage of ads just a few ad spots.
Then Heath told me a bit about their restaurant project :
Pork Barrel BBQ restaurant Opening End of March Beginning April. Location is in Alexandria Virginia Del Ray Neighborhood.
They will be serving traditional bbq food : Brisket, Pulled pork, ribs, chicken, also they are designing our own sausages – jalapeño cheddar and occasionally the fun stuff. – lamb etc.
They have even been toying with the idea of tasting menus where you could come in and try a unique menu selection of their delicious BBQ.
Their location will be licensed & they are excited to also be introducing a line of smoked cocktails.
You walk in to the counter at the back and you can see the butcher station. If you walk in and say I want a half pound customers will be able to see our staff cutting it for them right in front of them. They will dish up traditional sides as well beans corn puddings coleslaw and more . Our cashier at the end of the line right beside a big open ice chest open with regional and micro sodas.
Heath says they want a family atmosphere. with some exposed field stone a really nice open space. It will seat 70 people. An outdoor patio will also add between 15- 20 more seats
Delivery and to go. Catering tied in as well.
Process is taking longer than we had hoped or imagined.
Looking forward to closing the toolbox and firing up the smoker.
Fast Casual type of place.
Ultimately Heath stated this :
The Process is taking longer than we had hoped or imagined.
We are looking forward to closing the toolbox and firing up the smoker.
I have no doubt these BBQ empire building folks will succeed in everything they set out to accomplish.
You can find Pork Barrel BBQ on twitter , Facebook, their website and of course their new BBQ Backyard


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DOTHAN, AL---The Miracle League field is empty but in a little more than a week that will change But not without your help.
The group needs umpires, coaches and buddies to help out.
"The main qualification for volunteering at the miracle field is just having a heart for people," said Buddy Volunteer Coordinator Allen Singley.
Volunteers will help both on and off the field.
"It's about the players it's about those with special needs in our community and giving them the opportunity to play a game."
No experience is necessary for an umpire or buddy.
"An umpire mainly provides the safety aspect and makes sure that somebody's not getting up to bat while somebody's in front of it."
"To be a buddy you just mainly want to get out there and help the players the best you can."
Volunteers don't have to be someone who wants to help out monday thru friday. churches and other groups are welcome to pitch in as well.
"They'll say hey listen can I just come out on a thursday night and they'll just come out on that thursday night and help," said Singley.
Organizers say without volunteers, the game wouldn't be possible and the players definitely show their gratitude.
"The players going to love on you, you're going to be the greatest thing to them they're going to hug your neck, you''re such a joy and treat to them to be able to hang out on the field with them help them run the bases help them in the field help them to get up and bat," explained Singley.
Teams play on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The season opens March 23rd.
To sign up as a volunteer, go to the city's website, www.dothan.org and click the Leisure Services tab.
There you can fill out and submit a volunteer form.
For more information call 334-797-0746.