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5 Nov 2012 2:38 AM #11
You have to set url property of xtype dynamicGrid. So if you look into Viewport.js file you will see this lines:
{ xtype: 'dynamicGrid', url: './data.js' //url to your json data }
5 Nov 2012 3:15 AM #12
Thanks for the reply, so I have to just set url property in Viewport.js? I did that, but it again fetches data from data.js, If I remove data.js and try again, it gives me 404 error, though data.js is not set as url property. I am really confused, do I have to change something in DynamicGrid.js or I cannot use PHP returning JSON or I can only use data.js as url property?
Thanks in advance.
5 Nov 2012 4:04 AM #13
I think you are setting url in inproper way becouse you are getting 404 so browser can't find your destination.
E.g. if you have url to php file that is returning you json data like:
Then you should declare dynamic grid:
{ xtype: 'dynamicGrid', url: 'php/json_data.php' }
your_app --- app --- ext --- ... --- php | --- json_data.php
You have to set url the same way like you do when you are setting url for normal Ext data Store.
Also when you are changing js file check in browser developer tools that your changes was loaded becouse your browser can cache this.
5 Nov 2012 5:04 AM #14
Yea you are right, I have to clear cache when I change url property. Thank you very much for you help, this will help me with my requirement .
6 Nov 2012 2:40 AM #15
Hello Lukas,
The grid will be updated with all columns is the data source .Is there any way so that we can restrict the column according to our convention
6 Nov 2012 4:24 AM #16
Your requirement can be resolved in two ways. Visible columns can be defined in returned json data from server [metadata or something like that] or defined in dynamic grid grid in some custom property.
I created for you example how to achieve second soluction.
Look into my github account [visibleColumns branch]
In exacly the same way you could provide e.g. names for columns if you want to provide other names than json properies names.
Hope this help you understand how to extend my addon to your requirements.
Best regards.
6 Nov 2012 5:52 PM #17
7 Nov 2012 12:10 AM #18
Hello Lukas,
Thanks for your help. As you suggested i am sending my column names in a json .I want to use grid.reconfigure(store,column[]) .Can you please suggest me how to get the columns from json .Below is my json.Below response is coming on load of a store that i have already created .Below are the store and json response.
{"gridcolumns":["CustomerNumber","SupplierNumber","Party1ItemNumber","Party2ItemNumber","ItemDescription","Currency","BaseUOM","Price","StartDate","EndDate","ActiveFlag","validationErrors"],"data":[{"class":"tpsyndev.TempDomainToFetchData","id":null,"activeFlag":"Y","baseUOM":"EA","currency":"USD","customerNumber":"","endDate":null,"itemDescripton":"BestBuyItem123","party1Id":null,"party1ItemNumber":"","party2Id":null,"party2ItemNumber":"uyhln","price":100.23,"processRunDetailsId":12,"startDate":"2012-11-07T08:02:47Z","supplierNumber":"","validations":"Please provide supplier number at row number 1 Column number 2Please provide customer number at row number 1column number 1Unknown Sponsor party at row number 1Please enter valid party1itemnumber number at row number 1column number 3"},{"class":"tpsyndev.TempDomainToFetchData","id":null,"activeFlag":"Y","baseUOM":"EA","currency":"USD","customerNumber":"BEST","endDate":null,"itemDescripton":"BestBuyItem456","party1Id":3,"party1ItemNumber":"gjhkjj","party2Id":4,"party2ItemNumber":"jlk","price":100.23,"processRunDetailsId":12,"startDate":"2012-11-07T08:02:47Z","supplierNumber":"GWILL","validations":""},{"class":"tpsyndev.TempDomainToFetchData","id":null,"activeFlag":"Y","baseUOM":"EA","currency":"USD","customerNumber":"BEST","endDate":null,"itemDescripton":"BestBuyItem789","party1Id":3,"party1ItemNumber":"gdggjhkj","party2Id":4,"party2ItemNumber":"jkjlkjl","price":100.23,"processRunDetailsId":12,"startDate":"2012-11-07T08:02:47Z","supplierNumber":"GWILL","validations":""},{"class":"tpsyndev.TempDomainToFetchData","id":null,"activeFlag":"Y","baseUOM":"EA","currency":"USD","customerNumber":"BEST","endDate":null,"itemDescripton":"BestBuyItem23","party1Id":3,"party1ItemNumber":"jhbjbkn","party2Id":4,"party2ItemNumber":"fjkkjk","price":100.23,"processRunDetailsId":12,"startDate":"2012-11-07T08:02:47Z","supplierNumber":"GWILL","validations":""},{"class":"tpsyndev.TempDomainToFetchData","id":null,"activeFlag":"Y","baseUOM":"EA","currency":"USD","customerNumber":"BEST","endDate":null,"itemDescripton":"BestBuyItem156","party1Id":3,"party1ItemNumber":"hvbjkn","party2Id":4,"party2ItemNumber":"jgfjgj","price":100.23,"processRunDetailsId":12,"startDate":"2012-11-07T08:02:47Z","supplierNumber":"GWILL","validations":""},{"class":"tpsyndev.TempDomainToFetchData","id":null,"activeFlag":"Y","baseUOM":"EA","currency":"USD","customerNumber":"BEST","endDate":null,"itemDescripton":"BestBuyItem189","party1Id":3,"party1ItemNumber":"yfjbjhk","party2Id":4,"party2ItemNumber":"hjhkjl","price":100.23,"processRunDetailsId":12,"startDate":"2012-11-07T08:02:47Z","supplierNumber":"GWILL","validations":""},{"class":"tpsyndev.TempDomainToFetchData","id":null,"activeFlag":"Y","baseUOM":"EA","currency":"USD","customerNumber":"BEST","endDate":null,"itemDescripton":"BestBuyItem143","party1Id":3,"party1ItemNumber":"jjhhkkj","party2Id":4,"party2ItemNumber":"gjhjkhk","price":100.23,"processRunDetailsId":12,"startDate":"2012-11-07T08:02:47Z","supplierNumber":"GWILL","validations":""},{"class":"tpsyndev.TempDomainToFetchData","id":null,"activeFlag":"Y","baseUOM":"EA","currency":"USD","customerNumber":"BEST","endDate":null,"itemDescripton":"BestBuyItem109","party1Id":3,"party1ItemNumber":"yjgjjhj","party2Id":4,"party2ItemNumber":"ggjgjk","price":100.23,"processRunDetailsId":12,"startDate":"2012-11-07T08:02:47Z","supplierNumber":"GWILL","validations":""}]}My Store is Ext.define('tpsyndev.store.tempPartyRelations', { extend: 'Ext.data.Store', alias: 'widget.tempPartiesRelations', model:'tpsyndev.model.TempPartyRelation', autoLoad: false, pageSize: 4, proxy: { type: 'ajax', url : '/tpsyndev/MainLayout/dgetTempPartyRelations', reader: { type: 'json', root: 'data', } } });
7 Nov 2012 5:44 AM #19
created second topic related to his question here -> http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...er-json-object
7 Nov 2012 11:20 PM #20
Hi Lukas,
Can we use this dynamic model extention in Sencha Architect? How that should be done? Please help.
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The airport is situated 8km (5 miles) south of Milwaukee.
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Information about parking possibilities at the (Milwaukee) General Mitchell International Airport
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Go Airport Connection (tel: (800) 236 5450) provides shared shuttle van services to city centre hotels and business locations, available daily 24 hours all year round.
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Information desk
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Cornel West is obsessed with criticizing President Barack Obama.
Every few months West rolls out new material to beat-up on Obama whenever he has an opportunity to meet with the media.
In a recent interview with the Financial Times, West insists that it's Obama who is fanatical.
"I think at this point he's obsessed with being on Mount Rushmore, he wants to be a great figure in the pantheon of American presidents," West, the outspoken Princeton University professor, told the Financial Times. "If you're thinking about Mount Rushmore, you're thinking about your legacy, your legacy, your legacy. Puh-lease."
When asked to critique Obama's first term in office, West said Obama is "much much better than Mitt Romney" but he remained critical of Obama.
"Mitt Romney is a catastrophic response to a catastrophe, whereas Obama is a disastrous response to a catastrophe," West said. "Is disaster better than catastrophe? Yes it is. I wish we had a third candidate who could actually do something, but we don't at the moment."
West was also tough on the president's foreign policy.
"The Obama administration is involved in some very ugly killing of innocent people," West said.
West was once one of Obama's most steadfast supporters, but he has turned on Obama over the years and some black Democrats accuse West of being disrespectful toward the president.
It's unclear why West feels so compelled to lash out at Obama and why he needs to evaluate Obama through the media. Some of his criticism has been bitter – and downright hateful.
There was widespread speculation that West was upset because he didn't get a ticket to the inauguration after campaigning hard for Obama in 2008. For West, it seems, Obama can't do anything right: He's not black enough. He isn't doing enough or poor people. He lacks foreign policy experience. He doesn't listen to black folks.
Some of what West says has been echoed by other black Democrats – that Obama doesn't have enough black advisors in his inner circle and that he keeps black congressional leaders and civil rights leaders at bay.
But West prefers to share his complaints about Obama with the media, perhaps in hopes that he will shame Obama into coming around to his way of thinking.
That's not going to happen – not today, not tomorrow, and probably not ever.
Still, West keeps piling it on. Last year, the attacks on Obama by West were particularly ugly.
"I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men," West told reporters. "It's understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He is as human as I am, but that is his cultural formation."
"When he meets an independent black brother, it is frightening," West added. "And that's true for a white brother … Obama, coming out of Kansas influence, white, loving grandparents, coming out of Hawaii and Indonesia, when he meets these independent black folks who have a history of slavery, Jim Crow, Jane Crow and so on, he is very apprehensive. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. It is understandable."
Does West really think that if Obama loses his bid for the White House in November, that black Americans will be better off without Obama? Or is West just being petty?
Six months before the presidential election, several major polls show Obama leading Romney by a slim margin – seven points. Obama campaign manager Jim Messina predicts the race will be extremely close and black voter turnout is critical.
West won't be on the road campaigning for Obama this year as he was in 2008, but the question remains whether West will continue to attack Obama right up to Election Day.
And more important, are black voters really listening?


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Grainy footage from an apartment security camera was enough to catch the vague profile of a light sedan racing away from a drive-by shooting that killed 21-year-old Nicole Westbrook last April. The culinary student had just moved to Seattle and was celebrating a night out with her boyfriend in Pioneer Square.
High-resolution footage from nearby red-light cameras in Pioneer Square likely caught the car's license plate and other identifiers, Seattle police believe, but state law barred detectives from looking at it. Nine months later, no suspects have been identified and the tape already has been erased.
"Basically, they have no idea what happened still," said Westbrook's sister, Marcia Lynn Westbrook, who with her family is waiting in New Mexico for new leads in the case.
Though it is too late for traffic-camera footage to help solve her sister's murder, Marcia Lynn Westbrook said she hopes a proposed state law will allow the release of traffic camera images and video in future criminal investigations. That bill will be introduced in a House hearing Wednesday afternoon before the Public Safety Committee.
King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg, who helped draft the bill, and Seattle Police Department Deputy Chief Nick Metz will both testify.
"When people think about it for a half-second — that you can use this footage to defend a traffic infraction but not use it in a homicide investigation — it's ridiculous," Satterberg said. "We're trying to solve murder cases here."
The bill would allow law enforcement to use footage from red-light, speed and toll cameras in criminal cases, but only with a signed search warrant.
Though the bill has bipartisan support, there are opponents.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) doesn't view use of such footage in criminal investigations as an unconstitutional breach of privacy. But it would enable discomforting and ever-broadening government surveillance, spokesman Doug Honig said.
The more than 130 traffic cameras operated by American Traffic Solutions in Washington state — 34 in Seattle — record 24 hours a day. The company says it keeps the footage about 30 days.
"Even if the intention is good, this bill moves us closer to a surveillance society," Honig said. Officials promoting it talk about investigating horrific crimes, he said, "but it could be used for all kinds of things including political surveillance."
He calls the bill "mission creep." When traffic cameras were first discussed, proponents promised they wouldn't become a tool for public surveillance, he said.
Satterberg finds the ACLU argument hard to swallow.
"There is no expectation of privacy of your actions when you're on a public street — never has been," he said.
Seattle Police Department Assistant Chief Jim Pugel said the mandatory search warrant involved in getting the footage will keep officers from fishing through it to catch random crime.
In other states, traffic-camera footage is used to investigate violent crimes like murder, rape and robbery in hundreds of cases a year, American Traffic Solutions says. In 2012, New Jersey used the material in more than 200 cases and Florida used it in more than 400 cases.
One of the bill's sponsors, Rep. Christopher Hurst, D-Enumclaw, considers traffic cameras "a travesty used only to collect revenue." But Hurst, who was a police officer for 25 years said: "If they're going to be out there, we should be able to file a search warrant and use its footage for a homicide investigation."


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The sky's the limit!
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Although KwaZulu-Natal-based, Christine Marot never passes up an opportunity to head south and sample the many delights of the Mother City.
Despite having visited many of the world's continents, she believes there's no place like home, and enjoys promoting Cape Town's mix of cultural, historical, natural and adventure tourism opportunities.
She believes current tourism trends reflect a greater reliance on bloggers' first-hand experiences, which more often than not contain nuggets of useful information.
With a love of the outdoors, Christine is happiest visiting the penguins at Boulders Beach, catching waves at Kommetjie, hiking up Table Mountain or sipping a chardonnay under massive oak trees in the winelands.
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The clear, blue skies above Cape Town lend themselves to a variety of exciting activities, from helicopter flips and plane rides to paragliding, skydiving and microlighting. There's surely no better way of catching a bird's-eye view of the entire Mother City – from her beautiful mountains to her stunning beaches.
Experience the thrill of paragliding high above the beaches of Camps Bay and Clifton or over the slopes of Table Mountain and the Twelve Apostles. A window period of 200 days out of 365 offers tourists plenty of scope to enjoy this exciting pursuit. Conditions are most suitable when the wind is blowing between 10km/h and 30km/h, upslope with a tolerance of 15 degrees.
If this is your first attempt at paragliding, there's always a tandem option, in which an experienced paraglider controls the ride.
You'll find launch sites at Lion's Head, Signal Hill, Sir Lowry's Pass, Hermanus, Franschhoek Pass, Dasklip Pass (Porterville) and Noordhoek. The take-off point on Lion's Head is the closest to the city centre.
Birdmen Paragliding, Cape Town Tandem Paragliding, Downhill Adventures Paragliding and Parapax cater for the sport.
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A number of accredited skydiving organisations that cater for your requirements operate in the Cape Town area.
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After answering a question today, I noticed that the author responded (wrongly, using an answer rather than commenting) with another unique account.
I'm not sure what to do when I notice this type of behavior on SO. Do I report it? Is it permissible, even though it's primarily accompanied with voter-fraud, etc.? I'm not suggesting that this user is deviating from proper conduct — only curious about what users are to do when they identify this type of stuff taking place.
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Anyways, hallo, just posting a very rushed story written on the theme 'war'. Tell me what you all think!
I am everywhere, that's an important fact to note. I'm unavoidable, wherever there are shadows there is me. Some might say I live on death. However to be honest we're old friends, we walk hand in hand, shadows in the night. That means life is the light. Life and death, light and dark, where there is one there is the other. They can't exist without each other, it's just the way things work. But what am I really? I'm not the soldiers that now lie in lonely piles of mangled limbs alone in the cold everlasting winter of no mans land. I'm not the weapons that are thrown aside in fractured moments of peace and clutched tightly by trembling hands under rapid gunfire. I'm not the families back home, the brothers, the sisters, the mothers or the fathers. In the end I'm a concept, a human creation. More than anything I'm an excuse.
Perhaps that's why I find it so ironic to watch so many young lives go to waste in my name. They go to war, but it's my old friend death who welcomes them with open arms. I stand and watch, a silent bystander at an eternal funeral, not wanted, not welcomed. I can only watch while the ones who created me die. The horizon I see is overwhelmed with streaks of red and black, the corse smell of smoke and the tiny flecks of debris flying in the blood sodden wind like salt and pepper afloat in an ocean of grief. This is what they say is me. But I'm not the one dropping the bombs.
I watch as the shadow and the light dance around the dead bodies that lie before me in the dirt. To some such a death is honorable, those aren't the ones who know what fear is. There's the occasional stab of regret as I walk, but it isn't guilt I feel. It's too late for guilt, I already exist. I walk a path that not many others would and believe me when I say it's not by choice. The mud between the corpses is mixed with sticky pools of crimson and scraps of uniform sink slowly downwards into the pond of putrid carcass. It's harder to distinguish who is allied with who now, as the ground begins to swallow the beaten bodies. And somehow, it doesn't matter. Because death has already come and gone.
I could catch up with him if I wanted to, I could rush past the fields, gliding on the almost non-existent wind. Perhaps then I wouldn't feel as empty. I'll never end though, why should I rush. I'll always be around, I'll never be able to stop living with myself. This is what I am. This is what they want me to be. So I continue, the permanent sound of silence following me across the planes of Hell that these soldiers have walked. I would have liked to have been able to talk to them before they left, I might have been able to save a life. But on the vast scale of things humans don't really care about one life, as long as it isn't connected to their own.
The ones I pity most are the ones that still have time, the ones that can feel the minutes, feel the seconds, feel the moments, the ones for who know they'll die alone. These are the ones who have time to realize it's not me they've been facing all along, it's themselves. This is what hurts the most. It hurts harder than the bullet wounds, believe me. Nothing pains a human more than realizing everything they stand for is nothing. Nothing hurts more than realizing your little more than a pawn on a chessboard. I know because I watch these last few struggle for air, faces contorted, arms thrashing, eyes desperately searching for the shadow behind the board to deliver mercy. They've forgotten pawns are the easiest pieces to replace.
There are those that don't believe in me.It's a survival instinct. Avoid anything that can't be explained, anything that can't be predicted. Yet there are none as predictable as I. They only have to look inside themselves and I'll be there. I'm everywhere. I'm the silent worries that haunt the back of their minds like ghost slipping silently through the cobwebs of doubt and silently weaving paths of silver as I walk. I'm the anger they feel, the raging torrents of wild wind that sweep through their emotions as they struggle to keep control. I'm the sea stung paths that are left behind when they weep. I'm the shadows and death is the night. Unavoidable, walking hand in hand through cities of bone.
They want to stay in the light though...the thin, wavering, dust flecked, golden rays of life. That's what they want more than anything. They don't understand that life is the one who creates the towering cities of skulls that death and I wander through. Life is what creates the doubts that weigh them down like pebbles, growing heavier every day. They don't understand that life is the one behind the chess board. There cannot be death without life. It's a card game, life deals the deck and death is the one who plays the final card. I stand and observe once again, because I don't belong. I'm an outcast in this sense. People like to deny my existence, but it's too late to ignore me. I am what they see reflected in the glassy surfaces of their meaningless mirrors. I've become more than just an idea, I am what they call human.
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I am trying to put together a bug bash at my office and I was what was the best way to conduct it.
Ideally, I'm looking for the most effective way to manage testing and provide the staff with incentives to find relevant errors.
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What's your goal for the bug bash? Think carefully about what you want to get out of it, and plan accordingly. (I'm assuming that your bug bash is including people outside the tech team too, and that's how I've answered below.)
For example, if you want to use it mainly as a chance to get everybody in the company together for a couple of days, to build company morale & encourage people to feel they're all on the same team, build relationships between tech and the rest of the company - but you're not really expecting to get a lot of usable input out of it, then you probably won't be worrying too hard about the following issues:
You can mitigate these issues:
Oh - and lots of nice munchies, and coffee/tea and soft drinks on hand help a lot.
Best of luck!
Public recognition though some kind of ceremony works. Give a can of
P.S. Of course money works too (e.g. gift cards). P.S.S. Sounds fun - let us how you handled it and how it went.
If staff is not interested in fixing all possible bugs in the product they work on (without incentives, that is) - I don't think staff is good at all.
Aside that - think of some achievements to them:
The titles are limitless here. Achievements can have a shape of t-shirt, framed photo or a mug with appropriate text/image on it.
Ring a bell whenever the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 8th, ... bug is found.


text: Hey folks, how are you all doing today? It's Thursday which means tomorrow is Friday and with the new day tomorrow we will be ever more closer to Christmas. Instead of uploading a holiday related lesson, I thought I would just fill some requests. So to start, we will be learning "how to draw Gumi", step by step. Now she is just a mascot type of character for the Vocaloid series. Gumi is a very simple, but pretty girl that is voiced by Megumi Nakajima. Since her design is simple, drawing Gumi is going to be easy enough for anyone to try. Of course, if you are brand new to drawing you might have some difficulty, but not much. Well I guess that's all I can say since this is not actually a character. I will return with more fun so be sure to stay tuned in. Peace out folks.


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You want a plugin (or another piece of software) that tracks the actual server logs. If you don't need WordPress integration there are many options, AWStats is a classic for Apache and other server log formats. I don't know whether there are plugins that integrate nicely with WordPress (normalizing URLs to posts and stuff like that). WP-Alp seems to only display bandwidth usage.
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SALADO (November 8, 2012)--The 51st annual Salado Scottish Games and Gathering of the Clans will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The event will be held in conjunction with Veterans Day, with members of the Wounded Warriors Transition Brigade and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment to be honored.
Three music tents will be operating with 12 bands and performers from across the country and a storyteller will be hand to entertain children.
The 3rd Cavalry Regiment Commander will be the Game's Marshall and the unit's color guard will lead the Grand Opening Parade.
Members of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment will compete in the games.
Twenty retail vendors specializing in Scottish-Irish crafts and products will be part of the fun, along with seven food vendors to sell cultural foods.
Performances begin at 10 a.m. and last until 9 p.m. Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday.
Gates open at 9 a.m. on the grounds of the Salado Youth Association off of exit 286 from I-35.
Friday's fun will take place on the ruins of College Hill at 6 p.m. Clans will meet by torchlight to meet the Honorary Clan Chief for the games, followed by a Scots-Irish Social in the Scots Hall.
Some event prices will vary, but main ticket prices for Friday's event are $6 each while Saturday and Sunday admission for adults is $12 and $10.
Children's tickets are $6 each for each day.
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Just One Year Until Superbowlmageddon
A year from now you will be sitting at your desk or your subway seat or maybe your private jet—yes, 12 months from now you will own a private jet; it is silver, shiny, seats 16 and has nachos and is awesome!—and you will be wondering if you should check out all of the Super Bowl stuff that's going on in this big, loud, concrete town. You may not care about football. You may not have a ticket to the actual game. It may be cold. But it also may not be cold, and it is a Super Bowl, the first ever in this region, and though you are going to be anxious about crowds and traffic and noise and just the very un-New York concept of large-scale organized group fun, you are going to be curious because, well…Super Bowl. It is a great American bacchanal, and on Feb. 2, 2014, it will be here.
Well, here and sort of here. Super Bowl XLVIII is going to be played across the Hudson, at the Meadowlands, and so this Super Bowl is going to be called the New York/New Jersey Super Bowl, which is tedious and obligatory-sounding and the kind of label that only a chamber of commerce could love. There will be people in Jersey who insist on calling it New Jersey's Super Bowl, but most people will call it the New York Super Bowl and every once in a while a politician in Jersey will throw a fit and it will be mostly for laughs, because nobody cares that much about this distinction—ask the New York Jets and the New York Giants.
All week there will be Super Bowl parties. These parties are not like the hip party you went to a couple of years ago, at that restaurant that's now out of business for that magazine that's now out of business, the one that had Cat Power cooking a turkey on the cover. Super Bowl parties are much more massive, mainstream affairs. If you go to one, you will find yourself standing outside in a long line of people—mostly guys in their mid-30s with untucked dress shirts and loafers and stomachs that have already met 16 ounces of sirloin—and you will all be there with printed-out invitations that say VIP. Despite this printed-out VIP invitation, you will stand in line long enough so that you will no longer feel your toes, and just as you are ready to quit and go home, you will finally be ushered inside and discover…3,000 other VIPs have already been ushered into this VIP event.
There may also be free booze. There will be comfortable white furniture and towers of cheese in various states of distress. There will be rumors of celebrities, and maybe actual celebrities. Not Oscar night-worthy celebrities—more like E! Channel celebrities, like that guy from that thing with who's-his-face. You will ask for a picture and he will agree. Turns out that guy from that thing with who's-his-face is totally cool. His mother lives in Paramus. You will eat chicken on a stick. Or is that lamb? Trump will swan through the room. At least it looked like Trump. It might have been Wade Phillips. You will see two Jets, two Mets and a Yankee. There will be at least a 90% chance of a band. There is a 70% chance this band will be LMFAO. You will recognize some of the songs and the room will shake so loud you can't hear yourself talk. You will leave the party three or four hours later than you expected to leave it. You will eat pizza by yourself on the train home.
The next day you get to go into work and tell everyone you went to a Super Bowl party and it was amazing.
The game itself is the fascinating part; the idea here is to finally introduce at least the chance of grizzly elements, something that the Super Bowl hasn't ever done, which is weird because football loves to brag about how rough and tumble it is and then for the season's biggest game it immediately splits to warmer climates or an indoor stadium. There will be a lot of bickering about the cold and whether or not it's fair to fans. Ha! Fans! Pro sports abandoned fans the moment they began sticking them for $9 beer, $40 parking and $30 T-shirts that fade in the dryer. I think the cold will be fine. Green Bay figures it out. If you are crazy enough to spend $3,000 on a ticket to a Super Bowl you are crazy enough to hire someone to knit you a custom set of wool pajamas before kickoff.
New York is said to be a test—if it works out here, there will be chances for other cold-weather cities with outdoor stadiums to get Super Bowls. That's the line, though I suspect it's not true. I think New York is New York: a special case. In the weeks leading up there will be panics about automobile congestion and crammed restaurants and Superbowlmageddon and you will have friends who will tell you they are splitting to Tulum because they rented their apartment in October to hopeful Dallas Cowboys fans when the Cowboys were 4-1. You will hear some freaking out but I think this game will wind up being like every event that's preceded by a public freakout: It will be more relaxed than everyone expects. And I know New York is supposed to be blasé about everything but I bet a little piece of you will be into it. I bet you will. See you in the VIP line for that party. It's already two hours long and LMFAO just started playing.
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Carol Tellinghuisen
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810 N. Main St., Suite 298
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Phone: 605-642-1600
Fax: 605-722-1006
The mission of the South Dakota Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology is to protect the health and safety of the public by licensure of qualified persons and enforcement of the statutes, rules and regulations governing the practice of speech language pathology, including the appropriate processing and resolution of complaints.
Thank you to everyone who has successfully completed the application process. For those who have applied but who have been unable to obtain supporting documents by October 1st, the Board understands that some of these things are out of your control. Therefore, the Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology will not consider anyone in violation of licensure requirement until after December 1, 2013. This should give you sufficient time to complete the application process.
Board Members
- Kristin Gohn, MA, CCC/SLP, Huron
- Shirley Hauge, MA, CCC/SLP, Rapid City
- Jane Heinemeyer, MA, CCC/SLP, Wentworth, Vice President
- Brittany Schmidt, MA, CCC/SLP, Renner, President
- Connie Tucker, Rapid City, Lay Member
Quick Links
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(CBS) PHOENIX - The Department of Public Safety has confirmed that authorities are looking for William Arthur Harmon III in connection to a shooting at a Phoenix office building Wednesday, CBS affiliate KPHO reports.
The Department of Public Safety said they have broadcast an "attempt to locate" for the 70-year-old Harmon on behalf of the Phoenix Police Department, the station reports.
Police believe Harmon walked into an office building about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and shot at least three people before leaving the scene. KPHO reports victim Steve Singer, 48, died at the hospital from his injuries, according to police. Another victim, Mark Hummels, 33, is in critical condition, while a third person is expected to survive.
Police said they do not believe this was a random attack. They said the suspect had issues with his mortgage.
According to KPHO, police interviewed Harmon's adult son. Police said the suspect is married and they are trying to locate his wife.
Harmon is described as a 6' tall, white male who is about 220 pounds and was last seen wearing a red shirt and blue jeans.
He is driving a white 2013 Kia with the license plate AVS-2052.
The Department of Public Safety said he's possibly carrying two weapons, one of them a stainless steel handgun, according to KPHO.


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International Earth Day and Sun's CSR
By chhandomay on Mar 20, 2009
|We at Sun
always pay close attention to the mark we make -- whether it's
innovations that change the industry or our footprint on the planet.
Since formalizing our Sustainability strategy three years ago, we've had many dramatic proof points of our open source philosophy, commitment to the environment, social responsibility and making technology accessible to everyone.
|Some examples include publishing
our annual CSR
report, winning
EPA's Climate Protection Award, and opening the new
eco friendly data
center in Colorado, to name a few.
We are observing International Earth Day today, and I sat down with Marcy Scott Lynn, Director of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility at Sun Microsystems, to talk about environmental accountability for a sustainable earth. Listen to the short segment below for the highlights of Sun's CSR efforts.


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7 Movie Plot Holes You Didn't Notice Due to Editing (Pt. 2)
#3. Batman -- How Did the Joker's Henchmen Get to the Top of the Bell Tower?
In Tim Burton's Batman, the Joker holds a parade in downtown Gotham City and plans to murder everyone in attendance by releasing deadly Smilex gas, resulting in a puzzlingly large death toll, considering that the only thing the paradegoers know about the Joker at this point in the film is that he likes to poison large numbers of people in public. Batman shows up in his Batwing to thwart him, so the Joker blasts him out of the sky with a comically oversized pistol.
Trust us, Internet -- the Joker was awesome before Heath Ledger, too. It's just a question of degrees.
After the Batwing crashes on the steps of Gotham Cathedral, the Joker takes Vicki Vale inside and radios a chopper to pick him up on the roof in 10 minutes, leaving him with a shitload of rickety stairs to climb.
"I really need the workout. My wacky pants are getting a bit snug in the waistline."
Batman, who totally survived the crash without being roasted by flaming jet fuel, shakily climbs up after them, barely stepping out of the way in time to avoid the giant dislodged iron bell the Joker tosses down at him, which destroys the majority of the staircase in its wake.
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Batman pulls himself up through the trapdoor into the belfry at the top of the cathedral and is immediately attacked by three henchmen, including one particularly relentless thug that every single person who watched this movie as a child referred to as "Ray Charles."
Because look at him.
Quite simply, how the hell did those three goons get up there (especially Ray -- the man is blind)?
The Joker had no idea that he was going to be in the cathedral until the Batwing crashed in front of it. The helicopter hadn't arrived yet, so it's not like the goons got dropped off in the belfry. The only other way up there is the stairwell, and we clearly see that the Joker doesn't bring anyone but Vicki up with him. Furthermore, he demolishes like 80 percent of the stairs when he drops the bell, so there's that.
Even if the goons had somehow managed to parkour their way up that splintered mess, they were already in the bell tower when Batman got there, meaning they would have literally had to pass the Caped Crusader in the stairwell on their way up. This would have resulted in a decidedly less exciting melee.
#2. Octopussy -- How Did Bond Get into a Ridiculous Disguise (With Makeup) in Seconds?
After everyone is through giggling over both the film's title and the fact that at this point in his career Roger Moore looks more like a math teacher than a secret agent, 007 discovers a plot to detonate a nuclear bomb at a circus on an American military base that the titular Octopussy (ahem) will be attending. Bond tries to warn everyone of the danger, but nobody believes him because, again, he looks less like an authoritative international badass and more like a pre-Heisenberg Walter White.
With no time to lose, Bond crashes a car through the base's perimeter gate, which is a surprising move, considering that Liam Neeson hasn't invented it yet. With military personnel in hot pursuit, and the bomb's timer ticking down ...
... Bond quickly ducks into a trailer.
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007 steps back out of the trailer looking like some grief-stricken parent's misguided attempt to tell his son that he has bone cancer:
"Don't worry, clowns only eat healthy kids."
He then runs into the circus tent to tell the base commander about the bomb, because clearly that's where the commander would be and not, you know, in his office, running a military installation. Bond tries once again to warn everyone, this time using his weepy, pleading clown face:
"He's trying to trick us! Everyone knows that clowns don't have emotions!"
Unfortunately, they all still think that he's a lunatic (in their defense, he is dressed like a fucking clown), so 007 has to fight through them to get to the bomb himself:
Um, look around you, Roger -- we've located the bomb.
He finally reaches the nuke, only to find the timer still ticking away at ... wait, what? Does that thing seriously read 14 seconds?
It seriously does.
That means only five minutes have passed since Bond darted into the trailer.
The stuff with him goofing around in the circus tent trying to convince everyone that he isn't on angel dust takes almost four full minutes -- you can time it. This leaves no more than 120 seconds between Bond closing that trailer door and re-emerging as John Wayne Gacy's existential British uncle. So, applying intricate clown makeup and a full costume, in a dressing room that he has never seen before in his entire life, took less time than a Pixies song? Bond probably spends more time putting on his regular clothes -- hell, we take longer than that getting dressed for work, and we aren't wearing tuxedos (well, most of us aren't, anyway).
To compare, Die Another Day spent two hours making James Bond look like a stupid asshole. We just don't believe that two minutes is enough time.
#1. The Godfather: Part II -- Who Killed Michael's Would-Be Assassins?
Early on in the film, Michael Corleone is hanging out in his bedroom when he notices that the drapes are open. A few seconds later, his room is riddled with bullets, presumably by some time-traveling Samaritan trying to save the future from irritating Scent of a Woman impressions.
And in turn saving Al Pacino from appearing in Jack and Jill.
Michael escapes unscathed and has the entire Corleone family compound locked down until the assassins are caught. He specifically orders his men to take them alive, and then tells his right-hand man, Tom Hagen, that he suspects that there is a traitor in the organization. The traitor, Michael suggests, will try to kill the assassins before they have a chance to question them.
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Sure enough, the two assassins' bodies are found in a ditch, which is probably where they were headed anyway.
It's not like Michael was going to have them dropped off at a rec center to run laps for punishment.
However, the movie never explains who actually killed them. Since the assassins were trapped in the compound with nowhere to go, and all of Michael's foot soldiers had specific orders to take them alive, Michael's theory that they were erased by the traitor is the only possible answer, unless they sawed their own necks open in a sudden fit of guilt.
Now, as we eventually learn, Michael's brother Fredo is the traitor. Fredo was secretly doing business with Michael's enemies without realizing that they would try to kill Michael, because Fredo is a stupid man. He lives in the family compound, and he was there when the attempt on Michael's life was made, so logically, the only person who could have killed the assassins was Fredo ... that is, if you can ignore this picture and the horrible truth it screams:
That mustache alone is enough to get you on a sex offender list in 13 states.
Fredo is a weak, sniveling man-child. Fredo can't kill anything. He rarely even manages to get his clothes to match, and he literally spends most of the first movie getting slapped in the face. When his father is sprayed to the ground in a hail of bullets, Fredo fumbles desperately with his own gun before dropping it in the street and weeping through his mustache as the hit men escape, unshot. This is not a man who suddenly overpowers two assassins in the middle of the night and slits both of their throats. This is a man who hides in the closet during thunderstorms.
Character attacks aside, when the bodies are found, you can see Fredo in the background dealing with his hysterical wife:
He's not exactly winning.
He wouldn't have been able to get more than five feet from that hairspray and acrylic whirlwind without everyone in the compound knowing he'd done so, and as the films have established, Fredo is simply not smart enough to concoct a good alibi. Even if by some miracle he mustered up the nerve to kill, Fredo couldn't have possibly left his wife to do so without her blowing his cover. Given what we've discussed so far, the only other explanation we can come up with is that the two assassins were killed by a Tyrannosaurus.
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LAMPASAS (October 24, 2012)--Longtime Lampasas business owner Choc Gillen passed away last week at the age of 95.
A funeral service was held Monday for the Lampasas High graduate and Army veteran.
Gillen's business endeavors included operating Choc's Place, a café near the hospital on Key Avenue and later taking over Gillen's Gin and Produce before the flood of 1957 destroyed the business.
Gillen then founded Gillen's Army Surplus, a store on N. Key Ave. that he operated with his wife Marie for more than 45 years.
Gillen was a member of the Lampasas Men's Golf Association, the first VFW commander of the Lampasas VFW and a Kiwanis Club of Lampasas founder.
According to a family member, he served as First Presbyterian Church of Lampasas Sunday School superintendent, deacon and elder and was awarded perfect attendance in Sunday School for 21 consecutive years.
In recent memoirs to his family, Gillen wrote, "I have had a most interesting life and it has lasted a long time, thanks to God."


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In the delegate pattern, only one object can directly listen to another object's events. In the observer pattern, any number of objects can listen to a particular object's events. When designing a class that needs to notify other object(s) of events, why would you ever use the delegate pattern over the observer pattern? I see the observer pattern as more flexible. You may only have one observer now, but a future design may require multiple observers.
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There is no delegate pattern per se. I am going to assume you mean Delegation Pattern.
As I understand it, they're the complete reverse of each other and used for different purposes.
Generally, with an Observer Pattern, any number of observer objects will listen to an event on a second object and act on the event. The second object has no knowledge of its listeners. It just calls out to them.
A delegate object is passed to the second object which calls methods directly on the delegate. And therein lies the advantage you're looking for. Rather than sending a single message to multiple listeners, it has complete control over a single object (at a given time). See also Inversion of Control.
You're looking at things incorrectly. An observer sees that a particular event occurs. It does not impact it, or own it. A delegate handles a particular event, and has ownership of the handler, even if the delegator owns the interface to the event.
That's a question of several trade-offs.
Delegate pattern:
Observer pattern:
The delegate pattern, as I understand you, is know as the event handler mechanism in other languages, for example Delphi. As such it simply is an implementation of the observer pattern with a major restriction: only one listener at a time.
The disadvantage of event handlers or delegates is obvious: only one observer.
The advantage is not so obvious: performance. With an observer pattern you can add many observers. When an event occurs that the observers need to be notified about, you will need to enumerate the observers and send a notification to each. This can quickly bog down any observed instance, especially when the number of events that require notification is significant as well.
This is an old post but I'm going to chime in anyway because the other answers don't deal with what's happening when using either pattern, they seem to be more about theory than practice.
How Delegation and Observer Work
With Delegation the delegator picks exactly who is going to respond to a particular event the moment the source of the potential event is created. You could think of this listener as a single observer. In the case of the Observer pattern the observer picks who it's observing whenever it feels like it; so the dependancies are reversed when it comes to observer vs delegation. With the observer pattern think of a newspaper and subscribers as observers. The observers are in control of when the relationship gets created. With delegation think of an employee and an employer. The employer is in control of when the relationship gets created and exactly who is in charge of specific events. Employees can't pick what tasks they are working on...generally.
Some argue delegation can have one observer but I think the real difference between the two is how event handling is assigned. You will never see a delegate register for an event. It will never know its even handling the event till it happens and the delegator calls a public method on it.
Delegation Advantage
This pattern is very rigid and with most regid designs its simpler and generally more robust. It forces you to declare your event handler up front at the time of initializing the source of the potential event. If you need someone to direct traffic you assign a traffic director before you open up the street. In the case of the observer you would let the traffic cop choose when to direct traffic any time he or she felt like it.
Delegation Disadvantage
The disadvantage of this design is that it's not flexible. If you were implementing some code for subscribing for a newspaper the newspaper/delegator would have to identify exactly who can read the news stories the second they are created. With the observer pattern they can be registered later at any time and the newspaper will only have to know that a new person has signed up.
When To Choose Delegation?
When you need one specific observer(s) for sure and there is no reason for you to change who is observing then the rigid design of the delegation pattern will be beneficial.
For example, you need a class/object to handle creating a pop-up for a specific error. There aren't many reasons why at run-time you would need to switch who is handling a specific error so delegating the "Out-of Memory" error to a single entity would make sense. Creating an array of potential handlers and then having those handlers register for the "Out-of Memory" error wouldn't make much sense; that would be an example of using the observer pattern in this situation. At run-time you might want to change what methods get called or what "delegate" gets called for variable events but swapping out an event handler for a specific event at run-time isn't normal.
Its not impossible to swap delegates like you would do in the observer pattern, its just complicated. In the real world perhaps you want to swap traffic cops so a new delegator is handling traffic. One could argue that a better design would make original delegate a police station and not a single police officer but I digress...


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Track and Field Set for Chanticleer ClassicApril 11, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – On the heels of last Saturday's Terrier Classic, the Anderson University men's and women's track and field teams are slated to wrap up the regular season by competing at Coastal Carolina's Chanticleer Classic, Saturday at the CCU Track and Field Facility.
The Trojans are coming off impressive outings in Spartanburg, S.C., with juniors Brooklyn Watt and Savanna Keese earning first-place finishes in the discus and hammer throw, respectively. Keese was also 16th in the discus, while sophomore D'Yandra Morris claimed 27th. The hammer throw saw Watt place sixth, while Morris took 12th. Watt was second in the shot put, with Morris claiming third. Keese finished seventh on the shot put and 34th in the javelin throw.
Junior Jill Baxter finished sixth in the high jump, while teammate Megan Shahoud was 11th. Baxter was also 28th in the long jump and Shahoud finished 32nd. Freshman Bari Robinson paced the Trojans in the 1500 meter run by claiming fourth, with junior Sydney Hazel placing seventh and sophomore Devan Fisher crossed the line in 26th.
Sophomore Lauren Averitt was 22nd in the 100 meter dash, while junior Madison Guest brought home 11th in the 400 meter dash. Freshman Sherin Malone was eighth in the 400 meter hurdles.
The freshman trio of Olivia Gardner, Grace Gerlock and Mia Swierzs claimed fifth, sixth and eighth, respectively in the 5000 meter run. The 4x100 meter relay team of Averitt, Baxter, Shahoud and Malone captured eighth, while Baxter, Guest, Malone and Robinson finished ninth in the 4x400 meter relay.
Freshman Thomas Garrigan took fourth in the men's 3000 meter steeplechase, with fellow freshman Philip Degraaf claiming 10th in the pole vault. Junior Joshua Visi-Clark placed 15th in the 400 meter dash, while freshman Caleb Knight claimed 26th. The 110 meter hurdles saw freshman Jonathan Shorter finish 16th, with Malik Brown in 18th. Shorter also finished the 400 meter hurdles in 15th.
Freshman Jesse Patrick claimed 45th in the 1500 meter run, while Eric Hoover placed 19th in the triple jump. Degraaf and Hoover finished 20th and 25th, respectively in the javelin throw. Senior Westley Wilson paced the Trojans with a fifth-place finish in the 5000 meter run, while senior Parks Edwards was just behind in sixth. Freshman Ben Boerma was 11th, with freshman Ned Kennedy claiming 15th. Freshman Michael Burch finished 19th.
The 4x100 meter relay team of Shorter, Brown, Hoover and Caleb Knight claimed ninth, while the 4x400 meter relay combination of Knight, Shorter, Visi-Clark and Hoover finished eighth.
Last year at the Coastal Carolina Invitational, Baxter finished 17th in the high jump and also posted an 18th-place finish in the 400 meter hurdles. The Denver, N.C. native placed 21st in the javelin throw. Teammate Madison Guest earned ninth in the 800 meter run.
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I saw a movie when I was little. A woman hits a little boy with her car. The little boy took her home. He then turned out to have his whole family under his control. His sister locked in her room with her mouth nailed shut. The family ate only junk food . Might be a tales from the crypt creep-show flick.
That is one of four stories in Twilight Zone: The Movie from 1983.
As IMDB plot summary describes: "a young woman on the road gives a ride to a mysterious 10-year-old boy to his house and ends up trapped with other people in an alternate reality created by the boy's imagination."
Here's the original 1961 episode of Twilight Zone, also on IMDB.
I recall the actor who played the boy went on to star as Will Robinson in Lost In Space. IMDB confirms, actor Bill Mumy. I recall the boy had a line while foisting his evil on some helpless guy "You're a bad man! You're a very bad man!" as the guy dies a slow painful death or something.
I've seen versions of this story in multiple places, including a episode of Supernatural if I recall right.
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I've been learning about Dedekind zeta functions and some basic L-functions in my introductory algebraic number theory class, and I've been wondering why some functions are called L-functions and others are called zeta functions. I know that the zeta function is a product of L-functions, so it seems like an L-function is somehow a component of a zeta function (at least in the case of Artin L-functions, they correspond to specific representations). Is this the idea behind the distinction between "zeta function" and "L-function"? How do things generalize to other kinds of zeta- and L-functions?
Let me say first that a Dedekind zeta function is always a product of Artin L-functions. It is the structure of the Galois closure which is relevant here. Let me give a nice example which is indicative of the general case. Let $p(x) \in \mathbb{Z}[x]$ be an irreducible cubic, and let $\alpha$ be a root of $p$. Then $K=\mathbb{Q}(\alpha)$ has trivial automorphism group, and its Galois closure (say $L/\mathbb{Q}$) is an S3-extension. The group S3 has three irreducible representations: the trivial representation, the "sign representation" $\chi$ which is also one-dimensional, and an irreducible two-dimensional representation which we will call $\rho$. Then we have the relations $\zeta_K(s)=\zeta_{\mathbb{Q}}(s)L(s,\rho)$ and $\zeta_L(s)=\zeta_{\mathbb{Q}}(s)L(s,\chi)L(s,\rho)^2$. The proofs of these facts are part of the formalism of Artin L-functions.
Generally, the distinction is really a matter of history. Certain objects were named zeta functions - Hasse-Weil, Dedekind - while Dirichlet chose the letter "L" for the functions he made out of characters. However, one feature is that "zeta" functions tend to have poles, and they often "factor" into L-functions. These vagaries are made more precise in various places, for example Iwaniec-Kowalski Ch. 5 and some survey articles on the "Selberg class" of Dirichlet series.
Although no-one else seems to have suggested this, my personal take on this is that there's no difference whatsoever. Sure, if people start talking about "Dedekind zeta functions" or "Artin $L$-functions" then there starts to be relations amongst these specific choices. But for me, all of these are special cases of automorphic $L$-functions, which, in a parallel universe, could just have easily have been called automorphic zeta-functions. History tells us that varieties have zeta functions, Dirichlet characters have $L$-functions, number fields have zeta functions, elliptic curves have $L$-functions and so on. But they're all just instances of the same thing really (at least conjecturally)---they're all just (simple combinations of) automorphic $L$-functions, which, as I say, could easily have been called automorphic zeta-functions.
L-functions depend on characters (or representations), zeta functions do not (or correspond to a trivial character). For example, $L(s,\chi) = \sum_{n = 1}^{\infty}\chi(n)n^{-s}$ where $\chi$ is a Dirichlet character. Supposing that $\chi_0$ is the trivial character modulo $q$, we get $L(s,\chi_0) = \zeta(s)\prod_{p|q}(1 - p^{-s})$ where $\zeta(s)$ is the Riemann zeta function.
So the Dirichlet L-functions generalize the Riemann zeta function. The Dedekind zeta function also generalizes in the same way, to L-functions with Hecke Grössencharacters.
(Removed a false statement at the end; as David Hansen points out, one can get a factorization into Artin L-functions (belonging to the Galois closure of the extension) even when the extension is not Galois by factorizing the Dedekind zeta function of the Galois closure and taking away some factors)
I do like the other answers, too, but it seemed silly to append comments to all... :
To my perception, first, I tend to not feel a difference between "zeta function attached to ..." and "L-function attached to..." if only because usage is variable.
Second, in many settings (analytic/automorphic or geometric/motivic or...) a zeta function is an L-function with relatively trivial "further data", whatever that means in context. So, Dedekind zeta functions are Hecke L-functions with trivial data, for example. Analogously for schemes without or with non-trivial sheaf, in the other world. This general rule is certainly not strict... depending on usage.
Third, there are the systematic, partly proven, partly conjectural, miracles that "larger" zetas factor into "smaller" L-functions. Classfield theory and such. This does highlight the ambiguity in "usage", namely, that some "base" is necessary to understand "triviality", etc.
Edit: again significantly contingent on "usage"... If we say that an "L-function" (or "zeta function") "has an analytic continuation (provable by us)", then this would accidentally disallow Hasse-Weil zeta/L-functions of general varieties/schemes/whatever, because in this year we know "few" cases wherein we can prove this, although conjecturally it is mostly-always so (meaning that poles, if any, are finite and describable). Similarly, factorization into Artin L-functions is in one way completely fine (for decades), but, in another, unsatisfactory since we do not know their holomorphy, ... so might decide that they're not yet (in 2012) fully-legitimate "L-functions"? And/or that the "factorization" of Dedekind zetas into such things is not entirely satisfactory (as in a comment). I would not be surprised that such "technicalities" persist in things I know less about. :)
Zeta functions arise from schemes. $L$-functions arise from schemes + a sheaf on that scheme.
Obviously, the zeta function of a number field $K$ is the zeta function of $\operatorname{Spec} K$.
The $L$-function of an elliptic curve is the $L$-function of its Tate module. Its zeta function is $\frac{\zeta(s)\zeta(s-1)}{L(s,E)}$, where $\zeta(s)$ is the Riemann zeta function.
The factorization of a zeta function into $L$-functions is the factorization of the etale cohomology into irreducible Galois representations. The poles arise from the factors that are Tate twists of trivial representations, in particular from $H^0$ and $H^{2d}$.


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If you love Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic or Serena Williams, admit it: You're nervous. You just can't shake the feeling—maybe you're starting to sweat—that Wimbledon is about to get weirder.
The first week at the All England Club was among the strangest the tournament has seen. Defending champion Roger Federer was told to keep his orange-soled shoes off Wimbledon's precious lawns. Players slipped all over the grass and hurt themselves: 13 either retired or withdrew from matches, tied for the most ever in the Open era at Wimbledon. Old age was an asset: Nine players 30 or older reached the fourth round, tying an Open-era Wimbledon record set in 1975.
And of course, there were upsets—the kind of spectacular upsets that used to be more common in tennis, but that have become rare in an era of dominant champions. Federer and Rafael Nadal both lost to unseeded players. Maria Sharapova, seen as one of the few women who could contend with Williams, was quickly rendered a spectator. After losing in the second round, Sharapova spent more time watching her boyfriend, Grigor Dimitrov, lose his second round match in five sets than she did playing in her two matches combined.
Now it's Second Monday, Wimbledon's glorious day, the only day in Grand Slam tennis when the entire field plays—and you're right to think: "Hey, there is still plenty of opportunity for the tournament to skew comically, spectacularly strange."
Strangest of all, of course, would be a takedown of Williams. She hasn't lost a set so far and mercilessly battered Kimiko-Date Krumm, a 42-year-old, 6-2, 6-0 on Saturday evening. Williams loves Wimbledon, where she has won five singles titles, and says she feels like she's just starting to peak. But there are two women in this tournament who could stun Williams, under the right circumstances. Her next opponent, Sabine Lisicki, is one of them.
Lisicki, a 5-foot-10 German with a monster serve, likes nothing better than being the underdog. Last year, she upset the top seed, Sharapova, in the fourth round. "Everybody was saying that Sharapova was the favorite," Lisicki said. "I like that."
Petra Kvitova, the only other woman in the draw besides Williams who has won this title, has the weapons, if not the confidence, to beat Williams, too. Her forehand is the most powerful in the sport, and her lefty serve is deadly on grass. Then again, she could lose a set at love to any woman remaining in the field. It is the Kvitova way, unstoppable one moment, unfathomably bad the next. "I hope it will be more up than down," she said. "This year I'm feeling more relaxed."
Two other women deserve attention, not for their power, but for their unparalleled understanding of grass court tennis: Agnieszka Radwanska, last year's finalist, and Tsvetana Pironkova, who made the semifinals here in 2010 and the quarterfinals in 2011. They'll play each other in the fourth round Monday.
In the men's tournament, Murray has gone from a difficult draw—it seemed he would have to beat either Federer or Nadal to reach the final—to one that is too good to be true. All Murray has to do to reach the final is beat Mikhail Youzhny, seeded No. 20, then defeat an unseeded player followed by a player seeded no higher than No. 24.
But the man at No. 24 isn't to be toyed with. Jerzy Janowicz stands 6-foot-8 with a fine serve and a rugged game. He's just 22, and climbing the rankings. Of all the outsiders left in the tournament, he's the most dangerous.
Youzhny shouldn't be overlooked, either. The man who once smashed a racket on his head so hard that he began to bleed is playing better than his rank. He loves grass—he reached the final last month in Halle, Germany, and the quarterfinals here last year—and isn't the nervous type. "Don't worry, I will sleep normal," he said when asked about his preparation.
No one has looked better this tournament than Djokovic, the 2011 champion and the top seed. At this point, it might take food poisoning—or a bowl of pasta packed with gluten-galore—to stop him. Djokovic made only three unforced errors in his third-round match. But he does have a much tougher draw than Murray, with a tricky combination of Tommy Haas, the 35-year-old veteran, and either Tomas Berdych (a former finalist here) or Bernard Tomic, an unpredictable talent whose array of slices and angles are tailor-made for grass.
Other nuttiness might ensue this week. Rain. Untied shoelaces. Hay fever. A mysterious divot that makes Centre Court unplayable. A leaky roof. Ivan Dodig, who won two of his first three matches by retirement, could receive four walkovers and win Wimbledon without playing another point. None of it would surprise at this year's Wimbledon.
The safe bet, for sure, is that Williams takes her sixth Wimbledon title and Djokovic wins a heartbreaker over Murray, crushing souls all over Great Britain. But that sounds too much like a normal Wimbledon, doesn't it? This year, more than any year, the chances of that seem rather small.


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in Ancient Sparta, record keeping and any kind of written history was forbidden by law. (src: http://history.stackexchange.com/a/5966/332 )
What was the rationale for such a law?
What was the rationale for such a law?
The Ancient Spartan society was based around the laws of Lycurgus, the rhetrae1, that were passed down through oral tradition. A possible explanation of why the laws were not written, and why Spartans didn't keep records in general, comes from Plutarch's The Life of Lycurgus:
The fact that Lycurgus produced no writings is re-iterated at the end of the text:
It should be noted however that the text starts with pointing out that Lycurgus was an enigmatic figure, and that not much can be said definitively about his life:
Again according to Plutarch, Lycurgus laws were of divine origin, having been passed at him from the Oracle at Delphi:
Apparently claiming divine origin for his laws wasn't enough, and Lycurgus asked the Spartans to swear an oath that they would abide by his laws until he returned from another journey at Delphi. When they did, he travelled to Delphi, and after he was re-assured about his laws, he killed himself, binding the Spartans to follow his laws ad infinitum:
Herodotus, a much earlier source, gives a slightly different account, in the first book of his Histories:
Although Herodotus claims a Cretan origin2 for Lycurgus' laws, the Oracle and divine favour still feature prominently.
Lycurgus status remains enigmatic, although he is mentioned by name in several other sources, including Thucidides History of the Peloponnesian War, Plato's Laws, Phaedrus, and the Republic, and Aristotle's Rhetoric. Aristotle also alludes to the fact that the Spartans weren't big fans of learning in general:
Even if Lycurgus never existed in the first place, it is clear that he enjoyed a legendary hero cult status in Ancient Sparta and his retrae were thought to be divinely inspired, and thus followed dogmatically. All contemporary and near contemporary sources suggest that the Spartan society relied almost exclusively on oral tradition. The only archaeological finds that go a bit against the theory that Ancient Spartans kept no written records are a few inscriptions found in the Evrotas valley, no literary works survive, assuming they ever existed. These limited finds, however, by no means compare to the wealth of literary evidence we have for the rest of the Ancient Greek world, it's possible that they were simply minor transgressions.
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- Add, edit, view and delete users / supervisors and their credentials
- Add, edit and delete CompX eLocks
- Assign access rights between users / supervisors and CompX eLocks
in the database
- USB connection required
- Download, view, save, print, archive and delete audit trails
- Dual credential access available
- Programmable lockout feature
- Set real time clock
- Time based access restrictions
- Create user groups
- WindowsTM based
Choose a LockView software screenshot below to see them larger and learn more about using LockView software.
User Editor
Lock Editor
Access Rights
Audit Trail
Together, CompX eLock and LockView put you in total control.
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