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Getting Up To Speed With…Freya Smith
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Ken O'Neil)
In 2013 Freya Smith has dominated the ranks of the Womens division at Sunset Speedway Park. The McMinnville, Oregon driver despite all of her success is in search of her first career championship. Freya has been around the Banks bullring for some time in one capacity or the other. In 1996 she was awarded the most improved driver and has worked at the track as a score keeper, pit steward, and even the safety crew.
Driver: Freya Smith
Home Track: Sunset Speedway Park
Hometown: McMinnville, Oregon
Occupation: Production Manufacturer
Years Racing: 5
Classification: Womens
Car : 37 Chevy Camaro
Sponsors: Pam Pam's Junk, Sweere's Autobody, McMinnville Tire Factory, Sweere's Trucking, Discount Racecar Parts
Special Thanks: Mike Sweere, Mike Batalgia (father), Gumby
BD: So far 2013 has been a great success you have won all three races. Does it feel great to start the year out this way?
FS: Yes, yes it is. But more than the wins, it great to be racing with such a fun group of ladies. We're having fun together and that means a lot to me.
BD: The last couple of years you have had some great success in the Womens division. Has that been the only class you've competed in your career?
FS: Well I wouldn't say I've had great success. I've never won a championship. I have run a couple of Street Stock races over the years.
BD: The Womens division appears to be a great class for female drivers to get a racing career started. How hard is it to get a car together for this classification?
FS: In the women's class we can run under Street Stock or Pure Stock rules until next year. With the regular Pure Stock class gone it would be great to see those cars get used in our division if they aren't going to move up to the Street Stocks.
BD: In the future do you think you will move up to any of the other classes?
FS: Yes I would love to move up to the Street Stock class next year. And if I can master my new car the next step would be Modifieds.
BD: This year it looks like the competition is stepping it up. Who are some of the other drivers to look out for?
FS: Amanda (Clarke) and Gabrielle (Hollinger) are both young ladies to keep an eye on as they are getting faster with every race. Theresa Gartner is a pretty talented driver as well as she is stepping up from the 4-Bee class this year.
Sunset Speedway Park will be in action this Saturday May 18th for Fan Appreciation Night presented by Knecht's Auto Parts. It will mark the first of two such events at SSP in 2013. The Northwest Wingless Tour, Northwest Extreme Sprints, IMCA Modifieds, Street Stocks, and WMRA/USAC Midgets. For more information log on to www.sunsetspeedwaypark.com or call the new Northwest Tracks Hotline at (360)-699-RACE.
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Skada is a modular damage meter with various viewing modes. It is inspired mainly by Assessment, but also by Recount.
Skada sports segmented fights and detailed views, while being highly efficient with memory. This is accomplished by aggregating data on fight segments.
Skada is entirely modular. The built-in modes can all be toggled on/off.
- Automatic mode switching when entering combat. For example, you can have Threat mode be shown in combat. Skada can switch back after combat ends.
- Specific fight segments can be kept indefinately.
- Multiple windows. Each window can be configured fully.
- Threat mode can warn on high threat.
- Modes: Damage done, DPS, Threat, Enemy damage done, Enemy damage taken, Healing, Overhealing, Total healing, Absorbs estimated, Damage taken, Dispels, Mana regen, Debuff uptimes, and more.
- Reports can be done everywhere. For example, you can report a certain player's Debuff uptimes.
- Summary information for most modes (DPS, HPS, Fails, etc) in a LDB view/minimap button.
- LDB data feed can show personal/raid DPS or personal threat.
- Support for SharedMedia and Class Colors.
- Class and role icons.
- Stop/Resume fight segments to discount irrelevant data.
Skada is very easy to extend, and there are many "plug-in" addons out there that add functionality, such as:
- Skada Graphs: Adds graph display systems to Skada
- SkadaScroll: Provides additional options for scrolling the bar displays
- Skada Avoidance and Mitigation: Helps tanks benchmark their damage reduction performance via avoidance and mitigation
- Skada for Tanks: Adds information useful for evaluating a tank's performance
- SkadaEnsidiaFails: Display fails based on EnsidiaFails in Skada
- Skada_FriendlyFire: Display friendly fire damage done by players
- Skada Ability Tracker: Display abilities used and cooldown efficiency
There is a page with API information here.
Navigation in Skada is done by "drilling down" to the information you want. You go to a lower level, showing more detailed information, by clicking on it, and you go to a higher level by right-clicking.
The top level is the list of all saved fight segments. The second level is the list of all available data modes, such as Damage Done. The third level is one of these modes. Most modes let you drill down for further details. Some modes have several detailed views. In this case you choose alternate views by holding certain keys pressed while clicking. For example, in Damage mode, you can Shift-click a player to see what enemies the player caused damage to. Tooltips will display how to reach the different views.
You can also use window buttons for selecting fight segment and mode directly.
Scrolling in Skada is done with the mousewheel.
New Skada windows can be created from the configuration screen. Each window can be separately configured. A popular feature is "Mode switching", which lets Skada automatically switch to a specific mode on entering combat.
There is a forum thread for discussion on Skada.
Suggestions and bug reports here. Bug reports in comments will be deleted.
"Skada" is Swedish for "Damage".
Nephtys_ch Mar 15, 2009 at 19:22 UTC - 0 likes
French client :
great addon ;)
but i have a problem with the r149, i see only the actual datas, the other segments are clean :(
Ydrisselle Mar 15, 2009 at 11:03 UTC - 0 likes
I switched from r135 to r147 and after that Skada isn't change to show dps, and I can't hide it when I'm soloing.
arjTPA Mar 15, 2009 at 00:45 UTC - 0 likes
r147 throws this error.
[20:35:58] Interface\AddOns\SkadaEnemies\Enemies.lua:104: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil) [C]: ? [C]: in function `pairs' Interface\AddOns\SkadaEnemies\Enemies.lua:104: in function `Update' Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1633: in function `UpdateBars' Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:215: in function `DisplayMode' Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1647: in function <Interface\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua:1647>
Nakawe Mar 12, 2009 at 15:29 UTC - 0 likes
seem my minimap button is broke. latest version and minimap button keeps reappearing even though I have it selected off.
andy52005 Mar 08, 2009 at 17:45 UTC - 0 likes
SkadaHealing\Healing.lua line 114
playermod.name = player.name..L["'s Healing"]
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info.text = L["Skada Menu"]
L["Skada Menu"] = "Skada Menu" L["Switch to mode"] = "Switch to mode" L["Report"] = "Report" L["Toggle window"] = "Toggle window" L["Configure"] = "Configure" L["Delete segment"] = "Delete segment" L["Keep segment"] = "Keep segment" L["Mode"] = "Mode" L["Lines"] = "Lines" L["Channel"] = "Channel" L["Send report"] = "Send report" L["No mode selected for report."] = "No mode selected for report." L["Say"] = "Say" L["Raid"] = "Raid" L["Party"] = "Party" L["Guild"] = "Guild" L["Officer"] = "Officer" L["Self"] = "Self"
SkadaDamage\Damage.lua line 330
spellmod.name = player.name..L["'s "]..spell.name
Skada\locale\zhTW.lua Translation missing
L["Crushing"] = "碾壓"
Nakawe Mar 08, 2009 at 15:29 UTC - 0 likes
Personal dps isnt showing in docking station. Raid dps shows fine. last two revisions has had this problem.
normi08 Mar 08, 2009 at 10:40 UTC - 0 likes
Tried this out again today, and the settings are still not applied when u log in a new char or retsrt the game. I have to go to settings and change something before it applies the textures and last but not least the LDB Data feed isnt working, it only shows n/a on my DockingStation. It would be also coll if it could remember what kinda data it was showing last time i played, because everytime i log in it defaults back to only show the current fight and not total fights, what i prefer.
ffcloud2000 Mar 08, 2009 at 07:25 UTC - 0 likes
would it be possible under spells detail to include miss rate also?
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I have a 30 yr old bungalow. Last year we replaced every door and window in our house to make it more energy efficient. Our main heating source is an air-tight wood fireplace which runs all day every day. Our back up heat source is electric radiant in the ceilings which we keep around 12°C to keep our electric bill down. We have no furnace or duct work in our house. We are having problems with moisture forming and dripping from our ceilings on colder winter days. How can we fix this problem?
The most likley cause of the moisture is too much humidity.
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Basically the humidity needs to be lowered inside the house.
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Derivatives $\nabla_i T^{ik}=0$ of a stress-energy tensor of physical system express conservation laws. Whether contains a stress-energy tensor also the information on the equations of motion of system?
1) Let us assume that the system is classical and has a Lagrangian formulation
$$ S[\phi]~=~ \int \mathbb{L}, \qquad\qquad \mathbb{L} ~=~{\cal L} ~dx^0 \wedge \ldots\wedge dx^{d-1}, $$
in terms of a Lagrangian density ${\cal L}={\cal L}(\phi,\partial\phi)$ that doesn't depend explicitly on the $d$-dimensional spacetime coordinates $x^{\mu}$.
2) Noether's Theorem for the global translation symmetry $x^{\mu}\to x^{\mu}+\delta x^{\mu} $ yields the following off-shell relation
$$ d_{\mu} T^{\mu}{}_{\nu} ~=~ - \phi^{\alpha}_{,\nu} ~\frac{\delta S}{\delta\phi^{\alpha} }, \qquad\qquad \phi^{\alpha}_{,\nu}~:=~\frac{\partial\phi^{\alpha}}{\partial x^{\nu}} . $$
Thus one may deduce the conservation law
$$d_{\mu} T^{\mu}{}_{\nu}~\approx~ 0$$
from the equations of motion (eom)
$$\frac{\delta S}{\delta\phi^{\alpha} } ~\approx~ 0. $$
However, there are many examples where one can not deduce the other way, in particular, if there are more eoms (labeled by $\alpha$) than conservation laws (labeled by $\nu$). [Here the $\approx$ sign means equality modulo eom.]
3) OP raises an interesting question whether one can deduce the equations of motion from knowledge of the stress-energy tensor $T^{\mu}{}_{\nu}$ itself? This is almost the case, but there are certain terms that the stress-energy tensor $T^{\mu}{}_{\nu}$ cannot see, see Section 4, 5 and 6 below. The question is easiest to solve if one has direct access$^1$ to the canonical stress-energy tensor
$$T^{\mu}_{({\rm can})\nu} ~:=~\phi^{\alpha}_{,\nu} ~\Pi^{\mu}_{\alpha}-\delta^{\mu}_{\nu}~{\cal L},\qquad\qquad \Pi^{\mu}_{\alpha}~:=~\frac{\partial{\cal L}}{\partial \phi^{\alpha}_{,\mu} }. $$
It becomes harder if there are also improvement terms allowed
$$ T^{\mu}{}_{\nu}~=~T^{\mu}_{({\rm can})\nu}+d_{\lambda}f^{\lambda\mu}{}_{\nu},\qquad\qquad f^{\lambda\mu}{}_{\nu} ~=~ - f^{\mu\lambda}{}_{\nu}, $$
and/or if one only knows $T^{\mu}{}_{\nu}$ modulo terms proportional to the eoms (with the additional complication that one doesn't know the eoms to begin with).
4) As a topological-sigma-model-like counterexample, consider a $d$-form
$$ \vartheta ~=~ \frac{1}{d!}\vartheta_{\alpha_1\ldots\alpha_d } ~d\phi^{\alpha_1} \wedge \ldots \wedge d\phi^{\alpha_d}, \qquad\qquad \vartheta_{\alpha_1\ldots\alpha_d }~=~\vartheta_{\alpha_1\ldots\alpha_d}(\phi), $$
in the $\phi$ target space. Let $\omega:=d\vartheta$ be a corresponding $d+1$ form. Now define the Lagrangian $d$-form
$$ \mathbb{L}~:=~\phi^*\vartheta $$
by the pull-back to the $x$-world volume. The corresponding canonical stress-energy tensor vanishes identically $T^{\mu}{}_{\nu} ~\equiv~0$, while the eoms become
$$\phi^*i_{\alpha}\omega ~\approx~ 0,$$
where $i_{\alpha}$ denotes the contraction wrt. the vector field $\frac{\partial}{\partial\phi^{\alpha}}$. The main point is that the vanishing stress-energy tensor $T^{\mu}{}_{\nu} ~\equiv~0$ carries no information about the $d$-form $ \vartheta$. The equations of motion are only trivial, i.e., $0=0$, if $\omega=0$, i.e., if $\vartheta$ is closed.
Still worse, for a generic model, the Lagrangian $d$-form $\mathbb{L}$ could contain such a $\phi^*\vartheta$ term, which the stress-energy tensor $T^{\mu}{}_{\nu}$ cannot see.
5) Consider for simplicity the special case of point mechanics where $d=1$. Then the stress-energy tensor is just the energy function $h:=T^0{}_0$. Similarly, we change notation $x\to t$ and $\phi^{\alpha}\to z^I$. The one-form $\vartheta$ is a presymplectic potential
$$\vartheta ~=~\vartheta_I~ dz^I, \qquad\qquad \vartheta_I~=~\vartheta_I(z), $$
and the two-form $\omega:=d\vartheta$ is a presymplectic two-form. (If the two-form $\omega$ is non-degenerated, it becomes a symplectic two-form.) The Lagrangian is
which can be viewed as a Hamiltonian system with zero Hamiltonian. The corresponding energy function vanishes identically $h~\equiv~0$, while the equations of motions becomes
$$\omega_{IJ}~\dot{z}^J ~\approx~ 0.$$
6) To be explicit, consider $n$ non-relativistic charged particles in a magnetic vector potential ${\bf A}$. Working in units where $c=1$, the Lagrangian reads
$$L~=~\sum_{i=1}^n \frac{m_i}{2} \dot{\bf r}^2_i + \sum_{i=1}^n q_i\dot{\bf r}_i\cdot {\bf A}({\bf r}_i) - V({\bf r}_1, \ldots, {\bf r}_n),$$
where we have added a potential $V=V({\bf r}_1, \ldots, {\bf r}_n)$ to be more general. The corresponding energy function
$$h ~=~\sum_{i=1}^n \frac{m_i}{2} \dot{\bf r}^2_i + V({\bf r}_1, \ldots, {\bf r}_n)$$
does not know about the magnetic potential ${\bf A}$. However the eoms contain the Lorentz force. Here the magnetic potential ${\bf A}$ plays the role of the presymplectic potential from Section 5.
$^1$ It seems admittedly rather artificial that one would know in advance whether a given stress-energy tensor $T^{\mu}{}_{\nu}$ is canonical or not, because if one doesn't know the eoms, one wouldn't know the Lagrangian density ${\cal L}$ as well.
Simple answer, your equation has only four components, but there is one equation of motion for every field variable in the system which is more than four, so the answer is no.
The situation is similar to conservation of energy, momentum etc. in classical mechanics. Consider for instance motion of the mass $m$ in the potential $V(r)$. In general case the energy is conserved, and the momentum is not. We know the expression for energy:
$E=\frac{mv^2}{2}+V(r) = const$
The equation of motion is
$\frac{d\vec{v}}{dt}=-\nabla V(r)$
and it cannot be derived from expression for energy. However, knowing the integral of motion makes easier finding solution of the equations of motion.
Similarly, Maxwell equations (that are equations of motion) cannot be derived from electromagnetic field stress-energy tensor.
On the other hand, the expression for stress -energy tensor can be used to derive expressions for some other important physical quantities.
If we consider compound system of charge + electromagnetic field, we can derive the Lorentz force acting on charge from the expression of EM field's stress-energy tensor and Maxwell equations:
$\frac{\partial T^k_i}{\partial x^k}=-\frac{1}{c}F_{il}J^l$
What is important here is that we use expression for the EM field stress-energy tensor and Maxwell equations (that are equations of motion for the EM field) to derive the force acting on charge.
But knowing the force acting on charge is not enough to derive equation of motion for the charge. We also need to know the "inertial properties" of the charge for that.
There certainly are systems that are fully described by their energy-momentum conservation as a simple example let us take one-dimensional particle in a potential. The energy is conserved: $$ \frac{m \dot{x}^2}{2} + V(x) = E $$ Differentiating this expression w.r.t. time one gets
$$ \frac{2 m \dot{x} \ddot{x}}{2} + \frac{\partial V(x)}{\partial x} \dot{x} = 0 $$
$$ (m \ddot{x}+ \frac{\partial V(x)}{\partial x} )\dot{x} = 0 $$
This means that either E.O.M.'s are satisfied or the particle is at rest anywhere. If one can rule out the latter case by physical arguments, one arrives at a derivation.
The same is true for e.g. scalar field. However, as demonstrated in other reply (Sigma-model) -conservation laws might be spoiled in the way that they do not bring any information. This is fortunately not the case for classical fields.
The case of electrovacuum.
In General Relativity, from the Ricci tensor, we know the stress-energy tensor and vice-versa (by Einstein equation).
There are some conditions which, if are satisfied by the Ricci tensor (or equivalently, by the stress-energy tensor), are equivalent to the fact that the equations of motions are those from electromagnetism, and we can even determine the electromagnetic tensor (up to an overall "phase factor", or even uniquely in "charge without charge"). They are called the Rainich conditions, and were proposed in 1924-25 by G.Y. Rainich.
These conditions were rediscovered by Misner and Wheeler, as part of the charge-without-charge subprogram of geometrodynamics. For this, see Geometry of gravitation and electromagnetism, by L. Witten, and chapter 9 from Gravitation: An Introduction to Current Research, ed. L. Witten, and section 5.3 from Spinors and Space-time: Spinor and twistor methods in space-time geometry, R Penrose, W Rindler - 1986.


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I'm wondering if it's normal for a Canon 7D with its crop sensor to get unsharp pictures with a 70-200mm 2.8? I just bought a used 70-200 and it seems a little bit blurry. Maybe it needs calibration? IS seems to work fine, AF seems to be working fine in the viewfinder too. But when I open images up on computer, not as great as I expected.
The Demanding Sensor
The Canon 7D is a very demanding camera, with a particularly demanding sensor. When compared on a megapixels basis, 18mp doesn't sound like much...the 1D X has 18mp, the 5D III has 22mp, the D800 has 36.3mp.
Megapixels and Line Pairs
A simple scalar number doesn't tell you the whole story though. The 7D's 18 megapixels differs a lot from, say, the 1D X's 18 megapixels...in terms of spatial resolution. The 7D's luminance spatial resolution is just shy of 116 lp/mm, where as the 1D X, despite having the same number of pixels, has a spatial resolution of 72 lp/mm. In terms of line pairs per millimeter (lp/mm), assuming the same focal length, same sufficiently wide aperture (say f/4), and subject distance...the 7D is capable of resolving details 61% smaller than the 1D X is capable of.
The smaller the pixel pitch, the more magnified the effects of camera shake, poor lens quality, or improper AF micro focus adjustment will be. The large pixels of the 1D X are more forgiving of optical aberrations and a small amount of camera shake, as the effects can be largely contained within a single pixel. With a 7D, you need to address IQ-diminishing factors more aggressively.
Fine lens...
Your 70-200mm f/2.8 IS lens, even if it is a first generation, is not necessarily "bad". Older lenses may not be quite up to snuff when it comes to the spatial resolution of what they project on the sensor. Lens designs that are decades old may need to be replaced with something much newer to really provide the 7D's sensor what it needs. Lenses released within the last five years or so should be fine in most cases, unless you really have a need to extract every last ounce of resolution your 7D is capable of. Any of Canon's Mark II L-series lenses are more than capable of resolving enough detail for a high density sensor. Canon Mark II telephoto lenses released in 2011 and 2012 (the 300mm & 400mm f/2.8 and 500mm & 600mm f/4 lenes) are some of the sharpest lenses on earth, and probably set to handle increasing sensor resolutions for the next decade or so (i.e. 30mp APS-C/80mp FF...possibly beyond?)
In the case of your lens, it probably just needs to be tuned for your particular 7D. Professional grade cameras usually include some kind of AFMA, or Autofocus Micro Adjustment feature. This allows you to calibrate your camera to account for any misalignment a given lens has relative to your exact copy of the body. The adjustment range is from -20 to +20, or a latitude of 40 steps. Outside of the very rare case where you actually do received a bad lens that needs professional tuning by a Canon service tech, a little AFMA tuning will correct any focus problems.
...so Self-Calibrate!
There are two tools that you can purchase to help you address AF micro adjustment needs. The simplest is Reikan FoCal. This is a software tool that runs on Windows (and soon MacOS, or so they say) that can automatically identify the necessary AFMA setting and configure the camera for you. I own this myself, and it is quite handy, although not 100% accurate every time it is run. It takes a little care to make sure the camera is in the right state before running an adjustment cycle, however with a properly printed test target the system works great. It is not a terribly expensive solution to the problem, and definitely better than a purely manual trial and error approach.
Alternatively, you can also try LensAlign. If you want to have total control and prefer to calibrate your lens and camera body manually, this is by far the best tool. LensAlign is a professionally designed and built focus tuning device that makes it pretty easy to identify how far off your AF may be. This is a more expensive solution, but if you absolutely require perfect focus, I don't think there is any better way to achieve it. Handily, despite being fairly expensive, it is available to rent at LensRentals.com for cheap.
With any AF tuning tool, you will need to make sure you put the AF/test target at an appropriate distance. For wide and normal lenses, that may only be twenty feet or so. For telephoto lenses, it can be much farther than that. You will also need adequate light to maximize contrast, which is essential for the AF system "seeing" the target correctly.
I have that combo, and it's really nice and sharp. No complaints.
First thing I'd do is adjust the micro-focus for the combo. It's possible it's enough off to be noticable.
other common things to check out. Make sure the AF is focusing on where you want it to be sharp, and not on something else. Try it out on a tripod if you haven't, take camera movement out of the equation (and use a cable release). Try it at F8 and see how it looks. Try it with a higher ISO and faster shutter to isolate camera shake out of the issue.
And swap around a couple of lenses and bodies. See if the problem moves with a specific piece of equipment. Is the lens soft across two bodies? Is the body soft with multiple lenses? If everything seems to work fine EXCEPT that lens on that body, that pushes the problem back towards the micro-focus.
One thing to consider if you are new to the 70-200 range is that shutters speeds need to be much higher to prevent motion blur than what you may be used to in zoom ranges. Motion blur seems especially pronounced on a physically longer and heavier lens like the 70-200 (compared to a 50-250 for example).


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very tasty!!! Will definitely make again. All of my family enjoyed it. Maybe not as much salt next time (was a little bit too salty).
Sauteed Chicken Breasts with Creamy Chive Sauce
From EatingWell: December 2005/January 2006, The EatingWell Healthy in a Hurry Cookbook (2006)
Here's a sauce so delicious, it's missing only one thing: a little crunchy bread to dip in it. Make It a Meal: Serve with steamed asparagus or cauliflower, mashed potatoes or orzo pasta, and a glass of Vinho Verde.
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very good!! I agree with a little less mustard b/c it goes a long way. Served with rice pilaf, the sauce with the rice was great.
I have made this recipe exactly as it appears and it is delicious--another time I didn't have the wine on hand so I used 2 oz. of gin to deglaze the pan (after sauteeing the shallots) and upped the amount of chicken broth a bit--so great!
I love the recipe it was bursting with flavor... was unable to find any shallots but i used green onions... i omitted the the wine and added mushrooms and garlic to sauce just because i love them both and I ate the dish with mash potato... nice and filling but not heavy
This sauce was soooooooo good. I usually eat half a chicken breast but with this sauce I couldn't help but eat a whole breast to myself - with no shame! The only two things I omitted were the dry wine (because I'm underage, ha) and the chives, because I didn't have any. I also used green onions instead of shallots, but it was still delicious. I paired this with cauliflower mash and green beans and they really went well with the chicken and helped keep the overall meal a light and healthy one.


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A lot of people have experienced a RROD failure with their Xbox 360s, but has anyone experienced hard drive failure? The 20Gb drives included with day 1 launch models are now 5 years old, and eventually these hard disks will break down.
How likely is it that these drives will die, and are there any early warning signs or indicators? What can I do to protect my data against this possibility?


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A Flock of Doves
With Kerry at State, Hagel at Defense would be dangerous.
President Obama began to unveil his second-term national security team on Friday, choosing John Kerry as the next Secretary of State. The Massachusetts Senator shares the President's view of diminished American power and influence, which should only compound skepticism about the mooted selection of Chuck Hagel to lead the Pentagon.
Mr. Obama has found his mirror-image in Mr. Kerry, who for 30 years has been one of the Democratic Party's leading doves. The Senator's antiwar activism after Vietnam is well known and may have cost him the Presidency in 2004. But that shouldn't bar him from State, where his job will be diplomacy at the behest of the President.
The bigger question is how much fortitude Mr. Kerry will show in pursuing U.S. interests. His instincts have typically been to oppose the use of American force abroad and to engage adversaries as if they share our own peaceful goals. Like Joe Biden, he resisted Ronald Reagan's policies that ended the Cold War, opposed the Gulf War in 1990, supported the Iraq war but then changed his mind, and opposed the 2007 surge that salvaged Iraq.
In his remarks Friday, Mr. Obama said Mr. Kerry's "entire life has prepared him for this role," which is true, if not always reassuring. He has traveled widely and knows many world leaders personally. In the 1990s, he helped open diplomatic relations with Hanoi and more recently has worked difficult portfolios in Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria.
But the case of Syria reveals the limitations of his worldview. In 2008 when anti-Bush antipathy was at its height, he called for "engagement" with dictator Bashar Assad. A year later he and his wife dined out in Damascus with the Assads. In April 2010, he called Syria "an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region." He has since changed his mind and denounced Mr. Assad, but he'll have to be tougher-minded to succeed at State.
Which brings us to Mr. Hagel, whom the White House has leaked as a possible Defense Secretary. The idea seems to be that the former GOP Senator from Nebraska would bring a bipartisan note to foreign policy, but that logic usually applies when the choice shares the other party's views. Though he fought admirably in Vietnam (and has two Purple Hearts), Mr. Hagel's security views have more closely resembled a George McGovern strain of Republicanism.
In the Senate, Mr. Hagel steered more to foreign policy than defense issues, and on those he steered left. "Politically, who among us is going to stand up and defend Iran or Libya?" he told the Senate in June 2001. He proceeded to defend both, calling sanctions against the Tehran and Gadhafi regimes "an absolute charade," "ill-considered" and "breaching the spirit of multilateralism so necessary to achieve success."
The biggest question for the next Defense chief may be what to do about Iran, but Mr. Hagel has never worried much about its nuclear ambitions. In a 2008 speech, he said the U.S. needs to offer Iran "some kind of security guarantee" to get its help in striking an Israel-Palestinian peace deal. His ideas for "some easy to do breakthroughs" with Tehran included opening a diplomatic post or restoring commercial flights—without preconditions. He opposed sanctions on Tehran in 2004, 2007 and 2008.
These views might be acceptable in a Secretary of State, but they are troubling at the Pentagon in an Administration that lacks hawkish voices in general. In the first term, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates and David Petraeus provided a counterweight to Mr. Obama's natural instincts to avoid U.S. leadership. Mr. Hagel is to the left of Mr. Kerry.
In the months after 9/11, he warned of "a dangerous arrogance and a sort of 'Pax Americana' vision, which holds that we are more powerful, richer, and smarter than the rest of the world."
His neo-isolationism became more urgent in the last decade, noting that the U.S. could do little good in Egypt or the Middle East in general. "I think we've got to be very wise and careful on this and continue to work with the multilateral institutions in the lead in Syria," he told Foreign Policy in May. He wanted the U.S. to engage Mr. Assad in 2008, but not to intervene to stop the Syrian dictator from killing his own people.
On military issues, the former Senator has been a notable critic of missile defenses and he wanted to halt their development as long as Russia is opposed. This is no small matter because Vladimir Putin wants to use arms-control talks to curtail U.S. missile defenses in the next four years.
Mr. Hagel supported the decision to oust Saddam Hussein but later became a critic and in 2007 he opposed the troop surge that saved the U.S. from defeat. Mr. Hagel called the surge proposal "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam, if it's carried out." The surge stopped the sectarian bloodletting and enabled the U.S. drawdown.
By far the biggest risk is the role Mr. Hagel might play on military spending. Gutting the Pentagon has been a liberal goal since the 1960s, and Mr. Obama will have a new opening given the budget crisis. Mr. Gates and current Pentagon chief Leon Panetta have followed the President's orders but have resisted when the White House wanted to go too far. Mr. Gates made a special point of warning Americans not to repeat our frequent mistake of winding down the military when wars end. We regret it as new threats emerge.
Now is an especially dangerous moment, after a decade of wearing out ships and planes built as part of the Reagan buildup. A legitimate fear is that Mr. Obama wants Mr. Hagel, with his military record and GOP pedigree, to provide the political cover to shrink the Pentagon so he can finance ObamaCare and other entitlements.
Mr. Obama can do better than Mr. Hagel—for example, by choosing former Defense Under Secretary Michele Flournoy, or perhaps Colin Powell. If he does nominate Mr. Hagel, the Senate will have to prevent the Administration's senior security ranks from being dominated by a flock of doves who think the world is better off with a militarily weaker America.


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I am a recent college graduate with a Bachelor's degree in English. I have been asked to join a new startup online magazine as an editor. I have the choice to be either a Copy-Editor or Editor in Chief. I was wondering if anyone could help me determine which position is more fulfilling or challenging?
As the copy editor, I believe you'd be responsible for the text itself, the person who does the actual work of editing. As the Editor in Chief, I think you'd be responsible for the bigger picture and for more management-type tasks.
For which position would be more fulfilling or challenging, that depends on you. Do you like to focus on the nitty gritty details? Do you enjoy working in leadership positions? Can you delegate? Do you work well with others? What about deadlines? How well do you manage stress?
My best advice would be to ask for more details about both positions and think about which one better suits your personality and lifestyle. And hey, there's nothing wrong with challenging yourself if you think you can rise to the occasion.
Your question is very specific: which one would be more fulfilling or challenging. At a start-up, there is no doubt in my mind that editor-in-chief would be more challenging.
A copy editor can always make a weak excuse and slip out the door. The editor-in-chief is there until the last typo is fixed.
Being the editor-in-chief would be very exciting, not to mention exhausting, not to mention fulfilling, not to mention scary, not to mention unbelievable for your first job out of college.
You might want to make sure that this startup has solid funding, and that you won't be looking for a new job in a few months. It is very unusual to be offered an editor-in-chief position straight out of college, except if this is your best bud, or bff, in which case, double check the funding AGAIN anyway.


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Thread: Cheaper by the dozen!
October 2nd, 2012 03:28 AM #26
1. Anaïs Vivienne
2. Ivy Salome
3. Nora Scarlet
4. Eloise Josephine
5. Violet Penelope
6. Imogen Carys
7. Lucia Daphne
8. Ruby Francesca
9. Tristan Dominic
10. Jasper William
11. Silas Arthur
12. Miles Theodore
Anais, Ivy, Nora, Eloise, Violet, Imogen, Lucia, Ruby, Tristan, Jasper, Silas, and Miles!
Audrey | Estelle | Nora | Imogen | Louisa | Edith | Harriet | Bronte | Scarlett
Lincoln | Calvin | Ezra | Byron | Jude | Harvey | Wesley | Silas | Roman
October 14th, 2012 08:21 AM #28Kaspar, Felix, Dmitri, Rudi and SorenAmelie, June, Belle, Luna and Violet*Not expecting, just collecting*
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I have two set of twins, a set of triplets, the rest were all single births. I have 0 boys, 12 girls.
Marigold Ellie Jane 13
Twins: Daisy Edith Alice and Chloe Florence Noelle 11
Vida Aphrodite Rose 10
Cordelia London Alba 8
Twins: Cambrian India Gertrude and Poppy Rebecca Clementine 7
Triplets: Iris Britney North, Alaska Virginia Colette, and Autumn Saskia Blaire 4
Freya April Arlene 2
Kai Georgia June NBShealah
Teenberry, name loving girl.
Lucy, Madeline, Caroline, Kylie, Bryn, Audrey/Aubrey, & Sierra
Eli, Caden, Camden, Riley and Caleb
Guilty Pleasures:
Clementine & Tiara
June 24th, 2013 01:46 PM #32Lovely Ladies: Astrid. Eulalia. Florence. Mae. Thisbe.Fine Fellows: Atticus. Eliot. Gideon. Tobias. Quincey.
{crushing on Zephyrine "Zephie" & Leon}
mommy to feline furbaby Beatrice Evangeline Rose and her babies Claudia & Cordelia =^.^=
June 24th, 2013 05:50 PM #34
5 boys and 7 girls. The ages are about 1.5 years apart. Dashes in between name lists are multiples.
Chrissa Sophia
Chloe Isla
Conner Matthew
Anna Elliotte
Channing Elizabeth
Olivia Opal
Bellamy Samantha
Henry Thomas
Teagan James
Dustin Brett
Declan BenjaminSophia's Names:
Girls~ Olivia Grace, Cassidy Ellen, Orla Alice, Isobel Raine, Amabel Jaclyn, Bronwyn Noelle & Madeleine Greer
Boys~ Deacon Matthew, Reilly Brooks, Sawyer Evan, Liam Jordan, Elliott Noah, Rowan Jude & Gage Michael


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End of Season Update - 2014/2015 - TuS Koblenz
Media Prediction - 18th
Actual Position - 4th - Graph
The league started off horribly for us, we had a total of 1 point after 4 games and we were rooted to the bottom of the table. Then form picked up, as we started scraping out a few wins and draws here and there in between some really superb performances leading to big wins. By the end of the first half of the season, we were clear of relegation danger and in 7th place. The second half of the season saw us keep up the good form, and as other teams at the top slipped up, we were able to attain and hold on to 4th place in the league for the last 8 games of the season. This sees us qualifying for the Champions League best placed playoffs for next season!
German Cup - Winners!
Route to the Final
The Final - Stunning way to win our first silverware :*)
Main Players:
Patrice Millet
Denis Alibec
Simon Benson
Lubomir Le Giang
Frantisek Hasek
Previous Season Aims:
Do not get relegated - check
Do not sell Millet - check
4th round of the German Cup - check
Next Season Aims:
Do not sell Millet
Finish in the top 6 again
Semi-finals of the German Cup
Code:Season | Club | League | Position | Comments ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2012/2013 | TuS Koblenz | German Third Division | 1st | Champions and Promoted! 2013/2014 | TuS Koblenz | German Second Division | 1st | Champions and Promoted! 2014/2015 | TuS Koblenz | German First Division | 4th | German Cup winners! Qualified for the Champions League!
I've arranged for these players to join the club next season, bringing a distinct English feel to the squad. Really excited for next season now.
Sharif Adbukadir
Tim Penfold
Steve Moore
Lucas Andersen - a 6.5m signing, by far my biggest signing so far. Expecting big things from this lad
Onwards and Upwards!


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advice on what to purchase
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I am testing a Firestorm right now, and it is a great little caller. They sent 8 of the new Foxpro batteries with it, and these batteries are the best I have tried. I feel that I must add that my CS-24 is the champion caller though. Go to www.allpredatorcalls.com to see these great calls. You will be glad that you did.
Check out the Foxpro CS-24! It is on the Foxpro web-site, in the Custom Shop section. Allpredatorcalls.com has them also.The Foxpro Firestorm looks to be a great caller. It is a cross between a FX3 and a FX5 but with a better remote.The CS-24 is only $80.00 more than the Firestorm and has more features to it.
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------------------------------------------------BigRagu,You have chosen a dandy caller. Everyone is different, but I have no desire to have the FoxBang feature. I always have a coyote distress cry in one of my preset buttons anyway. The new Nickle/metal hydride batteries from FoxPro are the best I have tried. I use an after market "smart charger" myself. I also have a multimeter to check voltage of the batteries now and then. Those car chargers from FoxPro are indeed handy. I used one for a few years, but I have gone to carrying an extra set of fresh batteries instead.
Thanks for all the advice, everyone. Decided on the FP Fury. What an awsome unit! Talked w/ FP today and found out I can send my remote back to FP for the Foxbang upgrade. For those of you familiar with the Foxbang, is this a must have feature? I plan on only owning/paying for an e-caller this one time, and I might as well do all I can to upgrade and have the sense of feeling that I will never regret my purchase, or possibly have the feeling I should have gotten something I really wanted later on. I like the Foxbang and wished it came standard on the Fury, but now that I know I can upgrade, all is good. But I want your opinions 1st. For those of you predator vets, does the FB sound like a good feature? I am content with the standard factory sounds and do not plan on purchasing any more. I also need one of those Foxpro car chargers. Speaking of the car charger, if I use a Radio Shack cigarette lighter transformer/adapter to household, should the Foxpro plug in charger work OK? Reason I ask is because Foxpro has a ton of warnings on their instructions that would void all warranties due to improper electrical charging of the units batteries. If I can save $30 by just using the radio shack plug in adapter I could use the money saved towards the Foxbang, should you all reccomend this feature. Thanks!
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Hey Mick, after foraging around other web sites, the concensous is that Foxpro is the champ. If sound is a problem, you can always add another external speaker. Western Rivers are good, but Foxpro=best. Just buy the Spitfire so we can get ta huntin, geez.
I've got another qusetion for you guys. All I hear about is Foxpro. That's great, but I can barely afford the Spitfire caller. I saw in the latest Cabelas catalog that they are selling the Western Rivers Apache Remote caller for $199.99 (that's $100 off the normal price). My dilemma is do I spend the same amount of cash for the Western Rivers caller (which looks pretty nice) or stick with the Foxpro? The Western Rivers looks like it has 2 speakers as opposed to 1 speaker on the Spifire. I haven't had time yet to go to the store and check out the volume difference of each. Has anyone tried the Western Rivers brand and was their experience good or bad? I really don't want to spend the cash for just a name! Any advice, please.
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In playing Catan for 2 (the traders and barbarians expansion) on your turn, you roll the dice twice. Can you build or trade in between your dice rolls?
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I would say no, you cannot.
The rules explicitly state what you can do after each roll:
Since there is no mention of building or trading, I would say you could only build and trade after finishing all rolling.
That would make the order is Roll > Get resources > Roll a second time (repeating as necessary to get a different value than the first) > Get resources from second roll > Continue play as normal.
Think of it this way -- you are player two, and the other human player is player four. You are effectively rolling for player one's roll, then you roll for yourself and can buy and trade as normal. Then the other human player rolls for player three, and then they roll for themselves and can buy and trade as normal.


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Tried the Nvidia driver, installed using the Additional Drivers panel. Didn't like it much; the CPU seemed to overheat more and the brightness controls stopped working. Also selecting a second display is a pain using that horrible NVidia settings thing.
So wanted to disabled it again.. problem is, UBuntu is then stuck in either 640x480 or 800x600 (second time I tried to install it back and then remove again).
How can I get this back the way it was? The original Ubuntu drivers worked just fine, allowing me to run Unity and games properly. I tried a xserver-xorg reconfigure but this didn't do anything. (No xorg.conf file either).
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I have heard a religious definition of death as separation from God. This makes the death of Christ--God himself--a matter of incomprehensible existential crisis. Adding to this the imputation of sin on the Son, and the wrath of the Father poured out on him, it makes me wonder if this event does not affect the relationship of the members of the trinity in some permanent way. Is there any evidence of this in scripture?
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Phillippians 2 says that because of Jesus' death, God the Father exalted Jesus. As 2:9 specifically says (and note the therefore):
This theme is picked up by Athanasius, in De Incarnacione. His soteriology says our redemption was a gift that the Father gave the Son for his willingness to go through this separation. It's probably my favorite theory of how salvation works. The idea is that being God, both God the Father and God the Son already had everything. But out of an abundance of love, God the Father gave God the Son the opportunity to redeem that which was lost.
I have never thought about it that way. Here is my view:
The idea of separation is the loss of fellowship and peace due to sin. Christ, as a man lost this peace and fellowship from God when becoming sin for us, but as God he lost nothing and can never loose anything. As God, Christ could endure the whole weight of sin, which as a man he never could have. As God he could bring the human soul and body back up from the separation. I see no temporary or permanent change in the Son with the Father. This was human nature taking the punishment of human sin, but as God this could not destroy the God-Man. The result of this work was the exaltation of the human nature of Christ into his glorious kingdom. The Eternal Son was not exalted, per se, as God can't be made higher than He eternally is.
I think the immutability of God is the controlling idea here.


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RAYLAND - Leading by a point early in the fourth quarter, Union Local girls basketball head coach Drew Greenwood called a timeout because he wasn't satisfied with his team's play.
His Lady Jets got the hint as they outscored homestanding Buckeye local 20-8 en route to a convincing 47-34 victory.
"We run that high-low, but we need a lot of work on it in the post," Greenwood said. "They got the reps tonight, but we just changed up a couple of things, and the girls responded."
The player who responded the most was Cori Medley, who was coming off a 30-point effort Tuesday against Bellaire. The 5-foot-8 junior netted 13 of her game-high 18 points after Greenwood's strategy session, which placed her in the high post.
"Cori's a ballplayer," Greenwood noted. "She got off to a rocky start early in the game, but good players find ways to get things done, and she found a way."
Following Greenwood's timeout with 7:04 left to play and Union Local holding a slim, 27-26, edge, senior Kayla Doty scored and Medley's conventional three-point play bumped the count to 32-26.
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Union Local 47, Buckeye Local 34
Union Local 11 14 2 20 - 47
Buckeye Local 6 10 10 8 - 34
UNION LOCAL: Montag 2 2-2 7; Stiles 1 1-2 3; Medley 7 3-5 18; Patton 0 2-4 2; Doty 4 9-12 17; Delaney 0 0-0 0; Russell 0 0-0 0; Totals: 14-42 17-25 47. 3-pointers: Montag, Medley.
BUCKEYE LOCAL: Fillipovich 4 0-0 8; Valuska 4 0-0 8; Swiger 4 0-0 8; Czuchran 2 0-0 4; B. Zeroski 0 0-0 0; Balk 1 0-0 2; Leonard 2 0-0 4; Smith 0 0-0 0; Banal 0 0-0 0; Long 0 0-0 0; Totals: 17-46 0-0 34.
Buckeye Local's Alexis Valuska scored to stop the bleeding, but two baskets by Medley and a free throw by Doty made it 37-28 before Valuska would score again.
"Once we got to halftime, we talked about effort," Buckeye Local head coach Willy Luther revealed. "Moving our feet defensively and limiting them to one shot. We did a great job of doing both of those things in the third quarter, along with taking care of the basketball, and it showed on the scoreboard.
"When we took care of the ball, we were able to score points. All night, time and time again, we weren't able to take care of it. When we weren't able to take care of it, Union Local was able to take advantage of it. They did a nice job of turning our mistakes into points."
The Panthers were able to slice a 25-16 deficit to 27-26 as Union Local (12-4) went ice-cold from the floor in the third panel, going 1-for-15.
Doty backed Medley's point total with 17, which included a 9-of-12 performance from the charity stripe, where the winners were 17-for-25.
Buckeye Local didn't toe the line one time.
Valuska, Kayla Fillipovich and Lauren Swiger all scored eight points for Buckeye Local (3-12). Fillipovich also pulled down a dozen rebounds as the Panthers led 35-31 off the glass. Doty grabbed seven for Union Local.
The Panthers turned the ball over 28 times, twice as many as the Jets.


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Virtual Shotguns?
Oh, god! No no no. Don't use kill -9.
It doesn't give the process a chance to cleanly:
Generally, send 15, and wait a second or two, and if that doesn't work, send 2, and if that doesn't work, send 1. If that doesn't, REMOVE THE BINARY because the program is badly behaved!
Don't use kill -9. Don't bring out the combine harvester just to tidy up the flower pot.
Zombie process (actually now they're called
You shouldn't worry about them. They do not occupy any resources, they will disappear either when their parent calls
It's a process that has been completely deallocated but still exists in the process table. Contrast this with an orphan process, whose parent has died but is still executing.
A zombie process has no resources allocated to it whatsoever, other than the entry in the process tree. This happens when a process completes, however the parent process has not yet reaped it, (i.e.,
You can try and force the parent to do this if you want by sending it a SIGCHLD (
You'll often see them for short periods of time (for example while viewing the process tree using top) - this is normal; In the time slice between the time that a child process completes, and the parent polls for it - the child process will appear as a zombie.
If you see zombie processes that continually exist however - which is not normal - there is still no need to be concerned - again as there is not resource allocated to a dead process - it generally means that the application is poorly written by crappy developers.
The only time that you should be concerned from zombie processes, is when you see lots and lots of them, for example if the same crappy application mentioned above is placed under load.
We have alot of crappy developers where I work, and so I have the privilege of dealing with such issues and learning all sorts of useless stuff while doing so. In fact - my team often resorts to using the crappy shell scripts written by out crappy developers in interviews - if the candidate can pick that the script is indeed crapy, and tell us why it's crappy, he has a good foot in the door.
There is already an accepted answer, however: you CAN kill the zombie process. Attach with the debugger to the parent process and call waitpid function. E.g.: - let's assume that the parent has PID=100, the zombie process has PID=200
As for the virtual shotgun...
$ shoot <pid>
#!/bin/sh victim=`ps -e -o pid,ppid | egrep "^\s*$1\b" | awk '{print $2}'` victim\_name=`ps -e -o pid,cmd | egrep "^\s*${victim}\b" | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}'` #kill ${victim} echo "Killed ${victim_name}."
And remember: always shoot them in the head.
A zombie process is a process that has finished executing, but is still listed in the process table.
kill -9 [parent process_name] will put it down, with extreme prejudice.


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For $A$ a (commutative) ring, $f:A\to B$ an $A$-algebra, what conditions do we need on $A$ and $B$ (and $f$) for the functor $-\otimes_A B:A-mod\to B-mod\quad$ to be faithful (i.e. injective on $Hom$-sets)?
I can't seem to come up with anything other than the rather obvious condition that tensoring with $B$ shouldn't kill anything (or at least not too much), but this is hardly satisfying. It seems like it would be faithful in general, but I fail to come up with an argument as to why this should be true, and precisely when it is (if at all). Dare I beg the aid of the MO?
Note: this is basically the same as $f^*$ being faithful for a morphism $f:X\to Y$ of schemes, which reduces to the above. Hence the algebraic geometry tag.


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I am currently multitasking my commute by cycling (2x40 minutes exercise daily) with occasional podcast listening (learning 1-2 times a week), but I feel like I could do more. Has anyone experimented with automated mail readers or other hands-free activities during workouts/commutes?
If I were cycling, I certainly wouldn't try to do very much other than stay on the bike and enjoy the view and the exercise. But podcasts are good; other thoughts come to mind as well -- language tapes and audiobooks, for example (I did some marathons a few years ago and burned through several audiobooks that way).
Sometimes thinking about things you are working on is an underrated and extremely productive use of time, particularly if you have a capture system (mic + recorder) in place. Smart phones such as the iPhone have recorders built in or readily installable, but in a pinch you can just call your own voicemail and leave a message. Stay safe!
Let me tell you what I have achieved while walking and cycling with my iPod.
If my achievements are worth calling achievements then iPod can be used in many productive ways to make most of your workout time.
I believe there are mail readers for many smartphones, I personally use tasker on my Android phone. I'd also check Audible, podcasts are great in there own way, but I've "read" a lot of books on Audible that I wouldn't have has time for otherwise.
If you're in the "crazy busy" category, you might think about a virtual assistant. A phone call to help organize your day and even get some emails written and read to you might be worth it.


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Wood Group employs around 500 people under this contract and provides project management, engineering, construction, commissioning, maintenance support and supply chain management services. Wood Group will also be providing fabric maintenance services, as part of the new contract.
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Region hit by superstorm Sandy struggles to resume daily life; death toll now at 55 (+video)
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NEW YORK — Two major airports reopened and the floor of the New York Stock Exchange came back to life Wednesday, but across the river in New Jersey, the National Guard searched for flood victims and fires still raged two days after Superstorm Sandy.
For the first time since the storm battered the Northeast, killing 55 people and doing billions of dollars in damage, brilliant sunshine washed over the nation's largest city — a striking sight after days of gray skies, rain and wind.
It was clear that restoring the region to its ordinarily frenetic pace could take days — and that rebuilding the hardest-hit communities and the transportation networks that link them together could take considerably longer.
"We will get through the days ahead by doing what we always do in tough times — by standing together, shoulder to shoulder, ready to help a neighbor, comfort a stranger and get the city we love back on its feet," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
The scale of the challenge could be seen across the Hudson River in New Jersey, where National Guard troops arrived in the heavily flooded city of Hoboken to help evacuate thousands still stuck in their homes. And new problems arose when firefighters were unable to reach blazes rekindled by natural gas leaks in the heavily hit shore town of Mantoloking.
As New York began its second day after the megastorm, morning rush-hour traffic was heavy as people started returning to work. There was even a sign of normalcy: commuters waiting at bus stops.
On the Brooklyn Bridge, closed earlier because of high winds, joggers and bikers made their way across the span before sunrise. One cyclist carried a flashlight. Car traffic on the bridge was busy, and slowed as it neared Manhattan.
By late Tuesday, the winds and flooding inflicted by the fast-weakening Sandy had subsided, leaving at least 55 people dead along the Atlantic Coast and splintering beachfront homes and boardwalks from the mid-Atlantic states to southern New England.
The storm later moved across Pennsylvania on a predicted path toward New York State and Canada.
At the height of the disaster, more than 8.2 million lost electricity — some as far away as Michigan. Nearly a quarter of those without power were in New York, where lower Manhattan's usually bright lights remained dark for a second night.
But, amid the despair, talk of recovery was already beginning.
"It's heartbreaking after being here 37 years," Barry Prezioso of Point Pleasant, N.J., said as he returned to his house in the beachfront community to survey the damage. "You see your home demolished like this, it's tough. But nobody got hurt and the upstairs is still livable, so we can still live upstairs and clean this out. I'm sure there's people that had worse. I feel kind of lucky."
Much of the initial recovery efforts focused on New York City, the region's economic heart. Bloomberg said it could take four or five days before the subway, which suffered the worst damage in its 108-year history, is running again. All 10 of the tunnels that carry commuters under the East River were flooded. But high water prevented inspectors from immediately assessing damage to key equipment, raising the possibility that the nation's largest city could endure an extended shutdown of the system that 5 million people count on to get to work and school each day. The chairman of the state agency that runs the subway, Joseph Lhota, said service might have to resume piecemeal, and experts said the cost of the repairs could be staggering.
Power company Consolidated Edison said it would be four days before the last of the 337,000 customers in Manhattan and Brooklyn who lost power have electricity again and it could take a week to restore outages in the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and Westchester County. Floodwater led to explosions that disabled a power substation Monday night, contributing to the outages.
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Should one put a mezuzah on a doorway that is shared with a non-Jewish (or a Jewish-but-non-mezuzah-putting) neighbor?
If yes, should/must one ask their permission first? Should/must one tell them what one is doing?
Here are some relevant selections from Oholei Yeshurun, Vol. 2, Chapter 1: "Laws of Mezuzah," Section 1: "Laws Concerning the Ownership of a Dwelling," by R' Aaron Felder. Please note that while R' Felder is a talented and respected Posek who cites an impressive collection of sources, his is by no means the last word on the subject. If these questions come up practically, you should consult your Rabbi.
It sounds from this that according to R' Felder, the answer to your first question is "yes." I don't think I've ever seen a non-Jewish-owned apartment building in which the Jewish residents put a mezuza on the building entrance, so either 7a applies to Jewish owners, 7a isn't universally practiced, or everyone's afraid of their mezuzot getting damaged.
It seems to me that you're going to have to ask your Rabbi about your particular situation, to determine how ownership and fear of damage might apply.
To your second question, it seems a matter of common courtesy that if you determine that you need to put up a mezuza, you should let all affected parties know what you're doing.
It is always nice to ask. Particularly if your roommates won't know what it is. They could feel excluded if it is done but they don't know what it is or why it is there.
Should have a problem with it...well...this is just a sign of trouble to come. Nip that in the bud early to avoid long term problems.


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I'm making a dynamic button for each for in a table to delete. I make the button id have the key to the row so I can query it on click to know which one to delete. Since I'm assigning all buttons the same function I need to pass the button that was clicked to the event handler so I can query the id from inside the event handler.
When hardcoding I'd just pass 'this' to the event handler. How do I do this when making a dynamic button?
Right now I have:
var cell0 = row.insertCell(0);
var btn = document.createElement("input");
btn.type = "button";
btn.id = "btnHistorySelect_" + roundHdr[i].id; // append the id to the name so we can get it when select button is clicked so we know what round to select as current
btn.value = "Set Current";
btn.onclick = btnHistorySelect;
function btnHistorySelect() {
The event handler gets called, but I have no idea what button made the click.


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Does anyone know of an app like AppTamer http://www.stclairsoft.com/AppTamer/index.html that frees RAM usage and not just CPU?
Hate to say this, but RAM isn't something that can just magically be erased without an impact on the system. There are four kinds of ram:
Free - is free to use and optimal for use when applications are opened
Inactive - is memory that is no longer used that is deleted when needed. Inactive memory allows for past tasks to occur faster when being repeated (for example launching an application that was previously used but then quit). This RAM basically acts as FREE RAM and the system deletes it and uses it when needed, but deleting it without needing to will actually hinder ur macs performance since these caches will be deleted.
Active & Wired - is used by currently running applications and in NO CASE can it be deleted without a system impact.
What i'm getting at, is that there is no reason to have to clear ram, that which can be cleared is cleared automatically when needed and that which can't be cleared just... can't be cleared :P
There's an app in the Mac App Store called iCleanMemory which claims to do this.
Alternatively you can fire up terminal and type "purge" although this may only be available if you have the developer tools installed.


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Sam's Club - Open House - 3 Day Membership + No Fee: Aug. 5-7
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Sam's Club will be hosting an Open House August 5-7 for members and non-members alike. During an open house, non members can shop Sam's Club for free and are not required to pay the customary 10 percent service fee should they make a purchase.
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i'm surprised @wootbot wasn't all over this deal
so what do current members get? how about a 10% off coupon =/
@devexityspace: a reminder to stay away from the store
We went to this last year this time, because our membership expires on the 6th and we were going to go up there and renew.
But last year when we signed up we got a $10 gift card, a pizza, and a rotisserie chicken. I wonder if we can get any perks again by going during this time...
How does Sam's club compare to costco, price wise?
Also we got the Collegiate Membership (just show a school ID and use an .edu email) which is $40, and (correction) a $15 giftcard. Website says you get the same GC with renewal.
We just renewed a couple months ago, oh well, it was that time of year. Sam's Club member since 1991. :) I can't walk out without spending $100 even if I just ran in for one or two things, it's addictive.
Cheese for a hair over $2 a pound? (mod edit: profanity) yes.
@starknightgoku: Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm cheeeeeeese
@zanex: I think Costco is much better price wise,selection and customer service. I have memberships in both and I prefer Costco hands down.
For me, the nearest Sam's Club is 40 miles away and there are 9 Costcos between here and there.
no thanks.
sams club gas is the cheapest in my area, always a nickel a gallon (or more) less. You would be surprised how quickly those nickels add up. My truck takes about 23 gallons and I fill up every week.
I haven't found a better daily deal/price on aquafina water than sams, and I have looked around. They also have cheaper protein bars and musclemilk than I can get at GNC or some other stores in the area. My findings may differs from yours.
Sams always has tons of free samples. I think some people go in just to eat. They will eat anything being given out for free on those carts.
You have to have (mod edit: profanity) for brains to PAY to shop there! Heck last time I walked in there for a hot dog I looked at their prices and they are average. They have nothing to offer.
We have a business membership. We get extended hours and I think it's even about $10 a year cheaper than a family membership.
@jayrod521: How do you get this type of account? Do you have to use the website or is it in-store only?
@maciver: you can get it at any club. you just need a student id and when they ask for your e-mail make sure it's an .edu.
I got the collegiate membership in MO a couple years ago and was very disappointed when I started shopping there and most of the prices were identical to wal-marts prices for price per oz and stuff like that but you had to buy larger quantities. For me it was a waste of money since I could go to the wal-mart next door and get every thing I needed from there. The only thing that sams had that made me go there was the market choice brand or what ever it is spinach artichoke dip it was so good.
@cleaner00: Why do we need to know that?
@dusenj: so we can add more data to the quest to discover where cleaner00 lives.


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I have tried booting from ubuntu on my emac, but when i hold down the C key, or any other key like option. It just continues to boot up mac os 10.3, Panther. I really want to run ubuntu on my mac, instead of mac os panther.
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1Gb of ram 800mhz ppc g4 processor 40gb hdd Mac os 10.3, Panther.


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My game will be a turn based game which will need a server gateway in order to send requests. What would be better for the server: using REST HTTP GET for making the requests? Or using WebSocket which enables you to have an active connection?
If you need an active connection and literally real-time gameplay, then go with WebSockets, or a similar technique like Comet. Note that WebSockets requires a recent browser, while Comet is probably good enough for most purposes with better support for older browsers. For example, Facebook and Google use Comet for their technologies (Facebook Chat, Google Docs, Gmail, etc.).
If you don't need this, then you can choose plain HTTP. It's probably easier to develop, but you lose the real-time nature of a constant connection.
In this case, "turn based game" is not enough information. A turn based game like Draw Something is only going to have a few turns per day in an average game, so you could probably do just fine with plain HTTP, polling occasionally. A turn based game like chess, you'd probably want to have a little less latency, so I'd probably choose Comet. For some sort of action turn-based game, you might want the real-time nature of WebSockets.
Websockets are definitely the way to go. There are indeed solutions out there that allow you work with websockets smoothly and very fast. A couple were already addressed here and I work for Realtime.co. One of our priorities was precisely providing developers with a way for them to start working with this new technology (with fallbacks, of course) in a very easy way. You can actually start developing in less than 10 minutes. You should worry about your game logic, not your communication layer.
I wouldn't go with comet either right now. Websockets provides you with so many advantages with much less latency and it doesn't force you to hammer your server with constant connections, queries, etc..
There's no reason for developers not to start looking at the websocket-based frameworks out there very seriously.
As to why we should use websockets when Facebook and Google are not. Well... I'm sure they are working hard to change this as it offers them the ability to provide a much better service with a much, much lower maintenance cost.
I would not use Comet for any new development projects. There are websocket providers out there that provide websocket emulation or fallback for older browsers. Kaazing is one and full disclosure I work there, but there are others that will automatically do the fallback for you. And those (like Kaazing) that do it properly, will still provide speed benefits much closer websockets.
You should go for a Real-Time Web solution that completely abstracts from the underlying transport (WebSockets, Comet, etc.), giving you the guarantee that it will work on every possible browser and on the top of any possible network connection (mobile, unreliable, with unpredictable bandwidth, etc.). As the CTO of Lightstreamer, I suggest you to take a look at our solution, which has been around for 12 years, incorporating new standards and techniques. Originated in the financial services field, it has now been adopting by the gaming industry for many new projects. http://www.lightstreamer.com


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The Spain international is confident that the Blaugrana will soon get back to winning ways and is still hopeful they will reach the Champions League quarter-finalsJordi Alba insists Barcelona's recent struggles will only serve to make them stronger after they were beaten 3-1 by Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey on Tuesday night.
The Blaugrana lost 2-0 to AC Milan in the Champions League last week and their miserable February continued with a 4-2 aggregate defeat to los Blancos, complete with another lacklustre display at Camp Nou.
"We fought against Madrid but it wasn't meant to be. This defeat will make us stronger ahead of the Champions League, though," Alba told reporters.
"We've lost two crucial matches but we still have the return leg against Milan and I'm sure we will do better.
"If we score early, we'll have a great chance to make it through to the next round.
"The team has shown that it can win any tie."
Barca face Madrid for the second time in a week when they clash in La Liga at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday.


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In Gaza, Hamas Faces Test of Strategy
The flare-up in Gaza has left the territory's Hamas rulers at a crossroads: whether they should evolve into a purely political group or cling to their role as front-line warriors against Israel.
That tension isn't new to the Islamist movement, but has gained a new relevance in the aftermath of the eight-day conflict that resulted in an uneasy cease-fire last week.
Hamas has long been adept at managing dueling identities and conflicting regional alliances. The group's leadership includes both pragmatic politicians who govern Gaza in the more moderate mold of their ideological brethren in Egypt, Turkey and Qatar, and hard-line militants backed by Iran, who advocate a violent struggle against Israel.
If the group had hoped to continue to straddle its dueling identities, the recent conflict with Israel appears to be forcing its hand.
Israel's aerial blitz on the Gaza Strip, which it said was in response to persistent rocket fire into Israel, came as Hamas was already struggling to find its footing amid momentous change.
Two years of Arab uprisings have shuffled the group's regional ties, as Hamas broke with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and began to seek patrons among the newly empowered, more moderate Islamist governments.
Hamas is also in the midst of a succession struggle to see who will replace long time leader Khaled Mashaal, who has vowed to step aside in the coming months. That struggle pits hard-liners favoring an alliance with Iran versus relative moderates closer to Egypt and Qatar, as well as Hamas's Gaza-based leadership against the movement's exiles, who have historically led Hamas.
Israel's top generals said they plotted their offensive in Gaza with Hamas's internal struggle in mind. "For this operation we want to force them to solve this dilemma: Do you want to be a sovereign of your territory or do you want to be a terror organization?" a senior Israeli general, a member of the joint chiefs of staff, asked last week.
The movement's direction could have repercussions for the region and Israeli-Palestinian peace hopes. If Hamas follows the path of its more moderate Arab neighbors, it would empower those seeking a negotiated settlement to a conflict that has destabilized the region for decades.
Much hinges on the success of last week's truce.
If Hamas can show it succeeded in extracting concessions from Israel, chiefly an easing of the blockade of Gaza, Hamas's moderates are likely to gain clout, analysts say. But if the full sea and aerial blockade endures—which Israel says is needed to prevent arms from entering the territory—Hamas will appear to have abandoned the fight, empowering hard-liners.
"I think it's a big opportunity," said Jane Kinninmont, a Middle East analyst at London-based Chatham House, a think tank. "But it depends on if they can get moving on the cease-fire to actually make progress for the people of Gaza."
There are early encouraging signs, say observers.
Palestinians in Gaza say that Israeli soldiers have allowed farmers to till fields closer to the border fence and fisherman to trawl nets farther offshore. Israel denies any policy change.
On Saturday, a leading Muslim cleric in Gaza issued a fatwa, or religious edict, declaring that it was every Muslim's duty to honor the truce.
A senior Israeli official said the early indications that Hamas intended to live up to its end of the bargain were encouraging, but said final judgment will rest on whether Hamas sustains the quiet for an extended period of time, not just a few days or weeks.
Hamas's international legitimacy gained a big boost during the flare-up. The leaders of Egypt, Turkey and Qatar all rallied publicly to its cause. That marked a change of fortunes for the group, after years of being ostracized by U.S.-backed Arab autocrats that kept Hamas marginalized on the global stage. That could bolster Hamas's standing in the eyes of some Palestinians, who now see the group as better stewards of their interests in the international community than its rival Fatah in the West Bank.
But Hamas's closer ties with that bloc of Sunni Muslim nations poses risks to the movement's relationship with Shiite-ruled Iran. In recent years, Iran has emerged as one of Hamas's top patrons, funneling arms and some $120 million a year to the movement while its exiled leadership lived in Iran's ally Syria, said Ahmed Youssef, a longtime adviser to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.
After Mr. Mashaal left Syria early this year, Tehran withheld Hamas's funding for about four months before resuming payments, said Mr. Youssef.
Egypt, Turkey and Qatar saw the cracks in Hamas's ties with Iran, and began a diplomatic effort to coax Hamas to come out of the diplomatic cold, even allowing Mr. Mashaal to split his time between their capitals in Cairo and Doha.
Qatar's emir became the first head of state to visit Hamas-controlled Gaza last month, pledging $400 million in infrastructure funding to highlight the Gulf emirate's vision for Hamas's future.
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's government has taken steps to allow foot traffic through his country's border with Gaza and is making plans to open a free-trade zone along its border with the blockaded enclave.
Just as Iran's influence hardened Hamas's militant resolve, the rising troika's more moderate, peaceful regional ambitions seem to be rubbing off on Mr. Mashaal. Long seen as one of the movement's most defiant hard-liners, Mr. Mashaal has recently emerged as a more dovish voice within Hamas.
"Moving Hamas toward a political party rather than a militant group—that's the direction Khaled Mashaal wants to move the movement," said Shadi Hamid, research director at the Brookings Doha Center.
Mr. Youssef said Mr. Mashaal has become "more pragmatic, more moderate, more realistic," thanks to Egypt's influence. "You grow up when you deal with politics for many years."
Still, the new alignment remains a work in progress. The U.S. and Israel both consider Hamas a terrorist group, and Hamas has not wavered from its stated aim of destroying Israel.
The organization continues to receive funding from Iran. A senior Israeli general said that even as the past war was still raging, their intelligence showed Iran was actively trying to resupply Palestinian militants in Gaza.
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