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When I was surfing keh I found "Non-Mfg Zoom Lenses" and "Non-Mfg Fixed Focal Length Lenses"? What is the meaning of "Non-Mfg"?
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I was experimenting with HDR photography with my Nikon D7000. I consulted an article on how to do it and the results look great. However, the settings on the Nikon seem to allow for a minimum of 1 second between shots. This means that taking a three exposure HDR series takes several seconds (especially with the mirror lock-up). I've seen examples of action shots using HDR photography and clearly several seconds isn't remotely suitable. In fact, several seconds is so long that it can only be used in the most still conditions. Is there any way to reduce this time or am I out of luck? If I'm out of luck, what features am I missing on my camera?
What I do on my D90 is use the normal self timer, which you can set up to take multiple shots.
I don't use mirror up. That seems to be the limiting feature when using the interval timer technique in the article you referenced.
I would use mirror up for very close macro shots to eliminate any movement. I wouldn't bother with landscapes, as I don't feel it really makes any noticeable difference. I've read opinions both ways. It's probably best practice, but I think a lot of people feel it doesn't make enough difference to bother.
If you need quick shots (moving clouds say) then I'd do away with mirror lockup if that's indeed the limiting factor. If you can afford 1 second intervals, then go ahead and use mirror lockup. I'd say do some tests and see if you can tell the difference though.
You can also do cropping in the action shots to apply HDR to the remainder of the scene, while the action area stays with the on exposure that is best for it. The water ripple shot looks to me as if this was done. The bike flip shot may have as well (no sky detail right around the bike in the air). There's no reason the subject of interest has to actually be in every shot; it only needs to have itself at the right exposure.
For practice, set up a shot at a scene which would benefit from HDR, but also has people walking past in the scene. Shoot the background over your HDR bracket. Then set the exposure that is right for exposing the people that cross the scene. When someone does walk by, don't just take a shot ... take multiple shots. Then crop that person into the scene multiple times. You would just be combining a couple techniques in post processing. Then you should be able to see that HDR is effectively a supplement to the subject.
Another fun shot is to make one of those "family profile" shots where all the kids gather first on one side of the parents, then again on the other side. In post processing, in addition to the HDR in the background (shoot that without the people even there) the family is now larger (if the parents are still enough, this is very easy to do).

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When I take our software and point it at the replicated copy it doesn't work. At first it seemed like the database didn't have the correct logins under security.
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I have ghee in clear glass jar on a shelf in my kitchen, would it keep for longer if I try to store it in a dark place? Does light speed up oxidation?
According to IndiaCurry, it should be stored in containers opaque to ultraviolet light for long term storage:
I was unable to find credible sources with more detailed information that indicate exactly how this affects storage life. In fact, it was hard to find any references at all--most were far more concerned with keeping it from being exposed to air (oxygen).
However, as it is such an easy thing to arrange--just put the jar in a cabinet for example, or use an amber glass jar--that it seems worth doing. My guess is that in practice, unless you are using your ghee very slowly, or have an extraordinarily large amount, that it makes very little difference, but again its easy, so why not?
I did find lots of references to using ghee in lamps--this is the power of Google! :-)
Did you make it yourself or is it bought?
Ideally ghee and clarified butter should be stored in the refridgerator which is dark by default. Ghee is essentially just butter that has been clarified and has the water and impurities taken out, but sometimes some can remain which is why ideally it's best to keep it in the fridge.
Homemade ghee doesn't need to be stored in the refrigerator.
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It's important to keep in mind the full quote:
What this means is that, in the absence of measured performance issues you shouldn't optimize because you think you will get a performance gain. There are obvious optimizations (like not doing string concatenation inside a tight loop) but anything that isn't a trivially clear optimization should be avoided until it can be measured.
The biggest problems with "premature optimization" are that it can introduce unexpected bugs and can be a huge time waster.
Premature micro optimizations are the root of all evil, because micro optimizations leave out context. They almost never behave the way they are expected.
What are some good early optimizations in the order of importance:
Some mid development cycle optimizations:
Some end development cycle optimizations
Not all early optimizations are evil, micro optimizations are evil if done at the wrong time in the development life cycle, as they can negatively affect architecture, can negatively affect initial productivity, can be irrelevant performance wise or even have a detrimental effect at the end of development due to different environment conditions.
If performance is of concern (and always should be) always think big. Performance is a bigger picture and not about things like: should I use int or long?. Go for Top Down when working with performance instead of Bottom Up.
optimization without first measuring is almost always premature.
I believe that's true in this case, and true in the general case as well.
Optimization is "evil" if it causes:
In your case, it seems like a little programmer time was already spent, the code was not too complex (a guess from your comment that everyone on the team would be able to understand), and the code is a bit more future proof (being thread safe now, if I understood your description). Sounds like only a little evil. :)
I'm surprised that this question is 5 years old, and yet nobody has posted more of what Knuth had to say than a couple of sentences. The couple of paragraphs surrounding the famous quote explain it quite well. The paper that is being quoted is called "Structured Programming with go to Statements", and while it's nearly 40 years old, is about a controversy and a software movement that both no longer exist, and has examples in programming languages that many people have never heard of, a surprisingly large amount of what it said still applies.
Here's a larger quote (from page 8 of the pdf, page 268 in the original):
Another good bit from the previous page:
Personally, as covered in a previous thread, I don't believe early optimization is bad in situations where you know you will hit performance issues. For example, I write surface modelling and analysis software, where I regularly deal with tens of millions of entities. Planning for optimal performance at design stage is far superior than late optimization of a weak design.
Another thing to consider is how your application will scale in the future. If you consider that your code will have a long life, optimizing performance at design stage is also a good idea.
In my experience, late optimization provides meagre rewards at a high price. Optimizing at design stage, through algorithm selection and tweaking, is way better. Depending on a profiler to understand how your code works is not a great way of getting high performance code, you should know this beforehand.
I've often seen this quote used to justify obviously bad code or code that, while its performance has not been measured, could probably be made faster quite easily, without increasing code size or compromising its readability.
In general, I do think early micro-optimizations may be a bad idea. However, macro-optimizations (things like choosing an O(log N) algorithm instead of O(N^2)) are often worthwhile and should be done early, since it may be wasteful to write a O(N^2) algorithm and then throw it away completely in favor of a O(log N) approach.
Note the words may be: if the O(N^2) algorithm is simple and easy to write, you can throw it away later without much guilt if it turns out to be too slow. But if both algorithms are similarly complex, or if the expected workload is so large that you already know you'll need the faster one, then optimizing early is a sound engineering decision that will reduce your total workload in the long run.
Thus, in general, I think the right approach is to find out what your options are before you start writing code, and consciously choose the best algorithm for your situation. Most importantly, the phrase "premature optimization is the root of all evil" is no excuse for ignorance. Career developers should have a general idea of how much common operations cost; they should know, for example,
And developers should be familiar with a toolbox of data structures and algorithms so that they can easily use the right tools for the job.
Having plenty of knowledge and a personal toolbox enables you to optimize almost effortlessly. Putting a lot of effort into an optimization that might be unnecessary is evil (and I admit to falling into that trap more than once). But when optimization is as easy as picking a set/hashtable instead of an array, or storing a list of numbers in double[] instead of string[], then why not? I might be disagreeing with Knuth here, I'm not sure, but I think he was talking about low-level optimization whereas I am talking about high-level optimization.
Remember, that quote is originally from 1974. In 1974 computers were slow and computing power was expensive, which gave some developers a tendency to overoptimize, line-by-line. I think that's what Knuth was pushing against. He wasn't saying "don't worry about performance at all", because in 1974 that would just be crazy talk. Knuth was explaining how to optimize; in short, one should focus only on the bottlenecks, and before you do that you must perform measurements to find the bottlenecks.
Note that you can't find the bottlenecks until you have written a program to measure, which means that some performance decisions must be made before anything exists to measure. Sometimes these decisions are difficult to change if you get them wrong. For this reason, it's good to have a general idea of what things cost so you can make reasonable decisions when no hard data is available.
How early to optimize, and how much to worry about performance depend on the job. When writing scripts that you'll only run a few times, worrying about performance at all is usually a complete waste of time. But if you work for Microsoft or Oracle and you're working on a library that thousands of other developers are going to use in thousands of different ways, it may pay to optimize the hell out of it, so that you can cover all the diverse use cases efficiently. Even so, the need for performance must always be balanced against the need for readability, maintainability, elegance, extensibility, and so on.
There are two problems with PO: firstly, the development time being used for non-essential work, which could be used writing more features or fixing more bugs, and secondly, the false sense of security that the code is running efficiently. PO often involves optimising code that isn't going to be the bottle-neck, while not noticing the code that will. The "premature" bit means that the optimisation is done before a problem is identified using proper measurements.
So basically, yes, this sounds like premature optimisation, but I wouldn't necessarily back it out unless it introduces bugs - after all, it's been optimised now(!)
I believe it's what Mike Cohn calls 'gold-plating' the code - i.e. spending time on things which could be nice but are not necessary.
He advised against it.
P.S. 'Gold-plating' could be bells-and-whistles kind of functionality spec-wise. When you look at the code it takes form of unnecessary optimisation, 'future-proofed' classes etc.
Since there is no problem understanding the code, then this case could be considered as an exception.
But in general optimization leads to less readable and less understandable code and should be applied only when necessary. A simple example - if you know that you have to sort only a couple of elements - then use BubbleSort. But if you suspect that the elements could increase and you don't know how much, then optimizing with QuickSort (for example) is not evil, but a must. And this should be considered during the design of the program.
In fact I learned that premature non-optimization is more often the root of all evil.
When people write software it will initially have problems, like instability, limited features, bad usability and bad performance. All of these usually get fixed, when the software matures.
All of these, except performance. Noone seems to care about performance. The reason is simple: if a software crashes, someone will fix the bug and that's it, if a feature is missing, someone will implement it and done, if the software has bad performance it is in many cases not due to missing microoptimization, but due to bad design and no one is going to touch the design of the software. EVER.
Look at Bochs. It's slow as hell. Will it ever get faster? Maybe, but only in the range of a few percent. It will never get performance comparable to virtualization software like VMWare or VBox or even QEMU. Because it's slow by design!
If the problem of a software is that it is slow, then because it is VERY slow and this can only be fixed by improving the performance by a multitude. +10% will simply not make a slow software fast. And you will usually not get more than 10% by later optimizations.
So if performance is ANY important for your software, you should take that into account from the beginning on, when designing it, instead of thinking "oh yes, it's slow, but we can improve that later". Because you can't!
I know that does not really fit to your specific case, but it answers the general question "Is premature optimization really the root of all evil?" - with a clear NO.
Every optimization, like any feature, etc. has to be designed carefully and implemented carefully. And that includes a proper evaluation of cost and benefit. Do not optimize an algorithm to save a few cycles here and there, when it doesn't create a measurable performance gain.
Just as an example: you can improve a function's performance by inlining it, possibly saving a handful of cycles, but at the same time you probably increase the size of your executable, increasing the chances of TLB and cache misses costing thousands of cycles or even paging operations, which will kill performance entirely. If you don't understand these things, your "optimization" can turn out bad.
Stupid optimization is more evil than "premature" optimization, yet both are still better than premature non-optimization.
I've found that the problem with premature optimization mostly happens when re-writing existing code to be faster. I can see how it could be a problem to write some convoluted optimization in the first place, but mostly I see premature optimization rearing its ugly head in fixing what ain't (known to be) broke.
And the worst example of this is whenever I see someone re-implementing features from a standard library. That is a major red flag. Like, I once saw someone implement custom routines for string manipulation because he was concerned that the built-in commands were too slow.
This results in code that is harder to understand (bad) and burning a lot of time on work that probably isn't useful (bad).
The answer is: it depends. I'll argue that efficiency is a big deal for certain types of work, such as complex database queries. In many other cases the computer is spending most of its time waiting for user input so optimising most code is at best a waste of effort and at worst counterproductive.
In some cases you can design for efficiency or performance (perceived or real) - selecting an appropriate algorithm or designing a user interface so certain expensive operations happen in the background for example. In many cases, profiling or other operations to determine hotspots will get you a 10/90 benefit.
One example of this I can describe is the data model I once did for a court case management system which had about 560 tables in it. It started out normalised ('beautifully normalised' as the consultant from a certain big-5 firm put it) and we only had to put four items of denormalised data in it:
This was (at the time) the largest J2EE project in Australasia - well over 100 years of developer time - and it had 4 denormalised items in the database schema, one of which didn't really belong there at all.
From a different perspective, it is my experience that most programmers/developers do not plan for success and the "prototype" is almost always becomes Release 1.0. I have first hand experience with 4 separate original products in which the classy, sexy, and highly functional front-end (basically the UI) resulted in wide-spread user adoption and enthusiasm. In each of these products, performance problems began to creep in within relatively short times (1 to 2 years) particularly as larger, more demanding customers, began to adopt the product. Very soon performance dominated the issues list, although new feature development dominated management's priority list. Customers became more and more frustrated as each release added new features which sounded great but were almost inaccessible due to performance issues.
So, very fundamental design and implementation flaws that were of little or no concern in the "proto-type" became major stumbling blocks to long-term success of the products (and the companies).
Your customer demo may look and perform great on your laptop with XML DOMs, SQL Express, and lots of client-side cached data. The production system will probably crash a burn if you are successful.
In 1976 we were still debating the optimal ways of calculating a square root or sorting a large array and Don Knuth's adage was directed at the mistake of focusing on optimizing that sort of low level routine early in the design process rather than focusing on solving the problem and then optimizing localized regions of code.
When one repeats the adage as an excuse for not writing efficient code (C++, VB, T-SQL or otherwise), or for not properly designing the data store, or for not considering the net work architecture, then IMO they are just demonstrating a very shallow understanding of the real nature of our work. Ray
Premature optimization is not the root of ALL evil, that's for sure. There are however drawbacks to it:
Instead of premature optimization, one could do early visibility tests, to see if there's an actual need for better optimization.
I suppose it depends on how you define "premature". Making low-level functionality quick when you're writing is not inherently evil. I think that's a misunderstanding of the quote. Sometimes I think that quote could do with some more qualification. I'd echo m_pGladiator's comments about readability though.
Most of those who adhere to "PMO" (the partial quote, that is) say that optimizations must be based on measurements and measurements cannot be performed until at the very end.
It is also my experience from large systems development that performance testing is done at the very end, as development nears completion.
If we were to follow the "advice" of these people all systems would be excruciatingly slow. They would be expensive as well because their hardware needs are much greater than originally envisaged.
I have long advocated doing performance tests at regular intervals in the development process: it will indicate both the presence of new code (where previously there was none) and the state of existing code.
Another pet idea is to instrument software at the function block level. As the system executes it gathers information on execution times for the function blocks. When a system upgrade is performed it can be determined what function blocks perform as they did in the earlier release and those that have deteriorated. On a software's screen the performance data could be accessed from the help menu.
Check out this excellent piece on what PMO might or might no mean.
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If there is a room in which you can rest at work, you may be able to take a short nap in the middle of the day or early afternoon, which might help to alleviate your fatigue a little.
You may want to discuss with your employer ways to make your job less physically demanding, or ask for help, for example if you need to carry heavy files or your job involves walking long distances. With a few adjustments you should be able to keep going until the start of your maternity leave, but above all, listen to your body: if you're tired, rest; if your feet and legs hurt, sit down.
You're more likely to deliver twins by cesarean than a single baby (see Types of cesarean). Many of these are elective: the decision is made in advance, and the mother doesn't go into labor. A cesarean is major surgery, but for the babies it's often the best way to arrive and a small price to pay for the mother.
Vaginal birth can be complicated for twins, especially the second twin who goes through two rounds of uterine contractions. It's considered high-risk if the babies are premature.
Laboring and giving birth in water can not only relieve much of the pain, discomfort, and stress of childbirth, it can also induce relaxation and reduce blood pressure. Research shows that warm water on the lower back (the area of the spinal cord that receives the nerves from the lower abdominal region) can reduce labor pain, while the level of endorphins, or natural painkillers, rises in the same environment. Whether you choose a birthing pool or a warm bath, water is a great way to deal with contractions.
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I don't remember where but I saw a chazal that states something to the effect of "the (non-Jewish) leaders of the world do not have free will". I would appreciate someone editing to source this. So I am wondering A) Does the President have free will and B) If not then does it matter who we vote for? (Even if we have a chiyuv of hishtadlus, I am asking if the choice will ultimately be effective) I would like to stay away from the fundamental discussions of bechira that underlay my questions and stick with this particular point. Thanks!
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The famous saying that you are thinking of is לב שרים ביד השם. Unfortunately this saying is not from Tanach, rather it is an adaption of the Posuk in Mishlei 21:1 לב מלך ביד השם.
This is generally understood that leaders do not have free choice on things that affect their subjects, rather God decides that himself and sways the Kings heart. For more of a discussion of this and about King Pharoah, see this Aish article which discusses this at length.
As for whether the President has free will, it follows that on things like Iran which would affect millions of citizens, he does not have free will. The Aish article seems to imply that by doing the right Hishtadlus and voting for the right person, God sways that leaders heart to the Good!


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The title of a manga I'm slowly working through is 惑星のさみだれ, but there is furigana above the two kanji that says ほし (star) instead. Why did it use both kanji, which seems to be normally read as わくせい (planet) when it could have used just 星 on it's own?
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Japanese often refer to planets as ほし as well when they're being informal, the manga is just specifying that it's a planet and not actually a star.
I guess you could say it's a stylistic choice.
ほし means any heavenly body except the sun and the moon. And while ほし is most often heard used with stars, it is also used for "planet". This could just be related to lyrics in that both kanji mean planet, but decided to go with these kanji and this pronounciation for a poetic effect.


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October 16, 2013. By manipulating a gene suspected to be involved in schizophrenia, researchers were able to make small changes in brain cells, with big consequences. As reported in a new study published September 18, 2013, in Neuron, even small changes to the connections between brain cells produce large changes to the overall circuitry of the brain, as well as in behaviors that may be relevant to the symptoms of schizophrenia.
Oscar Marín and Beatriz Rico of CSIC-University Miguel Hernández in Alicante, Spain, and their colleagues genetically engineered a group of mice to have lower levels of the brain molecule ErbB4, which has previously been linked to schizophrenia. The method is so precise that they were able to alter the ErbB4 levels just in a particular kind of brain cell, the interneuron. There is good evidence that these cells are malfunctioning in the illness and that they may be responsible for the thinking and memory deficits that are so detrimental to a patient's quality of life.
Turning off the ErbB4 gene in the interneurons resulted in relatively small changes in the connections between neurons, but much greater alterations in how they interact to produce thought and behavior. Although the symptoms of schizophrenia cannot be truly modeled in a mouse model such as this, and some alterations that are present are different from findings in the illness, this study points to a connection among the ErbB4 molecule, problems with interneuron signaling, and schizophrenia. (For more details, see the related news story.)—Allison A. Curley.
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The race for the Democratic U.S. Senate seat nomination pits Glasgow native David L. Williams against eastern Kentucky physician and State Senator Dr. Daniel Mongiardo.
Williams has run several previous unsuccessful campaigns for statewide office, but says he enjoys being the underdog. Williams says he will fight for Kentucky's tobacco farmers and would support pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq.
This is the first statewide race for Dr. Mongiardo, who says his eastern Kentucky background puts him in touch with the "working class." Mongiardo says improving rural healthcare and enabling the importation of generic drugs from Canada are two of his primary concerns.
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I'm reading the section on Central Force in my textbook (Goldstein's Classical Mechanics has a similar argument in the chapter titled "The Central Force Problem", first section), where we have the following:
The Lagrangian for the system of two particles is found to be $$L=\frac{1}{2}M \dot R^2+\frac{1}{2}\mu \dot r^2-V(r)$$ where $R$ is the position vector of the center of mass of the particles.
The textbook says that since the three components of $R$ do not appear in the Lagrangian, they are cyclic.
(My first question is : Is it referring to the fact that $L$ is not a function of $(x,y,z)$? What about the $V(r)$ term. This introduces a position-dependence, doesn't it?)
We continue "..(therefore) the center of mass is either at rest or moving at a constant velocity, and we can drop the first term of the Lagrangian in our discussion. The effective Lagrangian is now given by $$L=\frac{1}{2}\mu \dot r^2-V(r)$$
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I don't quite see how we conclude that the center of mass is either at rest or moving at a constant velocity based on the fact that $L$ is not a function of ($x,y,z$).


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WVU Victory Against Texas Is Bigger Feat
The folks voting on the polls got it right.
Rightfully so, Kansas State had been the highest ranked Big 12 team the last few weeks.
While the Mountaineers were beating up the likes of James Madison and Marshall, Kansas State was busy blowing out Miami and beating Oklahoma on the road.
No reason not to take that seriously.
But the schedule worked against the Wildcats on Saturday.
Even when you consider Texas is a paltry 2-7 in its last nine conference games at home and winless against its last seven ranked teams anywhere, a victory in front of the largest crowd ever -101,851 – at Darrell K. Royal Memorial Stadium far outweighs a 30-point home victory against pulseless Kansas.
Even if the team that beats Texas goes 5-for-5 on fourth down and needs every one of them to win, it's still a much bigger feat.
So the voters were right to have West Virginia leap Kansas State and jump into No. 5 in the AP polls, one spot ahead of the Wildcats.
Five is fair, but seriously, who thinks, after what they saw Saturday night, that West Virginia isn't one of the top two teams in the country?
They'll say the defense, ranked 102nd in the land, isn't good enough to be taken seriously as a national title contender.
It isn't. But it might not need to be.
Not when the Mountaineers offense plays with the efficiency it has to this point. Texas defensive coordinator Manny Diaz said his guys had West Virginia right where they wanted it, meaning the Mountaineers were utilizing the running game.
At the end of the night, West Virginia totaled 406 yards. If you've got 11 five-star recruits making a team run when it wants to pass and you still give up 400-plus yards, it's simply a case of that offense being that good. And by good, it's good enough to put up huge numbers against the best defenses the FBS has to offer.
West Virginia has scored 36 touchdowns through five games. National leader Oregon, the only team with more than WVU, has 43 through six games.
Time will tell how this shakes out. But for now, West Virginia is the Big 12's best team. With its two toughest games both in Morgantown the rest of the way, the path to the league's title goes through Star City.
With TCU losing, four teams remain ranked with four others receiving votes. Oklahoma jumped four spots to 13 and Texas fell four to 15. Baylor, Iowa State, TCU and Texas Tech are all receiving votes.
K-State and West Virginia are the lone unbeaten teams in the league.
A true passing league
How pass-dominant is the Big 12? Never mind the fact that the top four quarterbacks in the country in pass efficiency are all in the Big 12, just take a look at West Virginia running back Andrew Buie. Going into Saturday night's game, Buie had 52 carries for 226 yards. Throw in the 31 carries and 207 yards put up on Texas, and suddenly, he's the conference's third-leading rusher.
And he's just 101 yards off the leader, Oklahoma State's Joseph Randle.
The league's 10th-ranked rusher, who has played four games, Texas' Malcom Brown, has 245 yards. Pat White, Steve Slaton, Ray Rice, and the boys in the Big East used to have that many before halftime.
Other games
Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein passes the eye test as the league's second-best quarterback. The man who set an FBS record with a ridiculous 27 rushing touchdowns a season ago was back at it Saturday against the dreadful Jayhawks in a 56-16 victory.
He accounted for four touchdowns, two rushing and two passing, looking very much like a force that will be tough to stop 12 days from now in Morgantown.
So much for that vaunted Texas Tech defense. Landry Jones and the Sooners destroyed it 41-20, as Jones threw for 259 yards and two touchdowns. No running back on either team even reached 50 yards on the ground, mostly because in this league, they don't bother.
TCU looks to be in serious trouble without suspended quarterback Casey Pachall. Aside from losing at home to Iowa State, 37-23, there are columnists already suggesting if Coach Gary Patterson brings Pachall back at all this season, he's selling out. Tough times in Fort Worth for sure, where this team has lost about eight projected starters so far to unnecessary reasons.
This week's games
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Kansas State at Iowa State
West Virginia at Texas Tech
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The Wireless Foundations research center our goal is to advance the foundations of communication systems with a specific focus on determining the architectural principles for next generation wireless technologies. We believe highly inter-disciplinary research across signal processing, communications, game theory, and networking will result in innovative solutions in the future. In our search for fundamental insights and better theories for wireless systems, we encounter many previously formulated open problems in network information theory (e.g. non-degraded broadcast channels, relay channels, two-way channels, etc.) that have evaded the community's grasp. By taking a fresh perspective on problems and formulating them in a different way, it is possible to get further understanding while increasing the relevance of the results to real wireless systems.
Intellectually, we serve as the "theory and algorithms" foundry for the work that occurs at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center and maintain synergistic relationships with CITRIS and the system-level wireless projects on campus. We also have a close collaboration with the faculty at Boalt law school regarding regulatory and policy issues.


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Professor Thomas has a B.S. from the University of Tennessee, an M.F.A. (creative writing) and J.D. from the University of Iowa, and an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 1986, he practiced law in Tennessee and was a member of the University of Tennessee faculty. Professor Thomas has published to date four scholarly books and more than 60 articles on various aspects of criminal law and criminal procedure. Double Jeopardy: The History, the Law was published by NYU Press and The Miranda Debate, co-authored with Richard A. Leo, was published by Northeastern University Press. Some placements for his articles include the law reviews of Michigan, Virginia, Texas, UCLA, NYU, California, Illinois, Ohio State, USC, and Northwestern. His casebook, Criminal Procedure: Cases, Principles and Policies, published by West Group and co-authored by Joshua Dressler, is now in its Fifth Edition and is widely used.
His third scholarly book, The Supreme Court on Trial: How the American Justice System Sacrifices Innocent Defendants, University of Michigan Press, presents a history of Western cultures sorting the guilty from the innocent, as well as an examination of the criminal procedure of France and a series of recommendations for decreasing the likelihood of wrongful convictions in the American justice systems. His latest book, Confessions of Guilt, on the history and future of the law of confessions, co-authored with Richard A. Leo, was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. It is a history of the law of interrogation that also attempts to forecast where the law goes from here. Noted historian Lawrence Friedman said of the book: "This is a comprehensive and deeply researched book, which examines with insight and passion a particularly dark and murky corner of the world of legal doctrine."
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It's often easier to transport a bike in the back seat of a car with the front wheel off, rather than setting up the bike rack. I've noticed that, due to the way the car seats are built, there's often unequal stress on the fork. Do I need to be concerned with this, over the course of a few hours on the road, or is this a nonissue?
The bike I most often transport like this has a steel fork, although I have a bike with an aluminum fork I put in the back seat every so often.


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Is there a close analogy between "one and only one", used to mean exactly one (as in "there is one and only one object satisfying that condition" etc.), and "if and only if"? "If" and "Only if" can be used separately to denote sufficient and necessary conditions, but I'm not sure whether the constituent parts of "one and only one" can be considered in isolation.
I think it looks like you could interpret "there is one X satisfying condition Y" as "there is one or possibly more X satisfying condition Y", but I am not sure about the difference in interpretation between "there is only one X satisfying condition Y" and "there is one and only one X satisfying Y". Could "there is only one X satisfying condition Y" be interpreted as "there could be one X, but possibly none satisfying Y"? I would appreciate any ideas on this. Thanks


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"What is awesome about Steubenville:" that was the question asked, and through the aid of some local residents, university students and area pupils, it was answered.
Recently, city residents Katie Gesto and Katie Hess viewed a YouTube video titled "Kid President Pep Talk" and wondered how to do something similar for Steubenville.
Professor James Coyle at Franciscan University of Steubenville and his TV production class were brought into a project to make a video using Steubenville youth talking about what's great about the city.
And recently their hard work was praised as they premiered their two-minute video - created by 11 university students and starring several city children - in a university classroom. Filled with the children's unique ideas and music, "the video captured the excitement and spirit of the kids. And it talks about Steubenville in a positive way," said Hess.
Their plan is to put the video on YouTube and hope it catches on. They've even been in contact with the city schools and the parochial schools to ask them to consider showing the video at pep rallies or school events.
And Gesto and Hess said they want to continue their efforts by inspiring children, older students and even adults to create their own video about what's awesome in Steubenville.
"We need a pep talk about our town and ourselves. We want to harness the optimism and energy of our youth and transform it into a dynamism that will motivate our community. We know about the greatness and potential of Steubenville, but in recent months for a number of reasons much of the positive energy has been stifled," Gesto said.
To carry on that effort, Coyle said his students will be at at Mama Nita's Coffee House at the corner of Dock Street and North Fifth Street downtown from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday to help students to make their videos.
We applaud the visions of Gesto and Hess and for their leadership in creating the initial video, and others yet to come. We also appreciate Coyle and his students' efforts in creating the videos. Their end goal, we believe, is to help people in our community come together and to help Steubenville, and other surrounding communities be the best they can be.
Young people have ideas, thoughts, even dreams, for our city. This project will definitely help get them on their way toward reaching those goals.


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Okay sorry to keep doing this but another one is bugging me...the dialogue goes something like:
Character 1 : "I have faith"
Character 2 : "In what?"
Character 1 : "That the universe will unfold as it should."
Anyone know what movie that's from??
molly1216 wrote:Spock: "History is replete with turning points, Lieutenant. You must have faith."
Valeris: "Faith?"
Spock: "That the universe will unfold as it should."
Valeris: "But is that logical? Surely we must....."
Spock: "Logic, logic, and logic..... Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end."
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Kettle Falls goes 1-2 at State 2B tourney
Kettle Falls High, making its first State softball tournament appearance since 2007, fin¬ished with a 1-2 record at last Friday and Saturday's Class 2B Tournament at Gateway Sports Complex in Yakima.The Lady Bulldogs (20-4) outscored LaConner 13-10 in their Friday morning opener before falling 10-0 (five innings) to Mossyrock on Friday eve¬ning.In a loser-out game Saturday morning, Kettle Falls dropped a tough 7-6 decision to Toutle Lake."It wasn't what we were looking for," KFHS head coach Amy Owens said of her team's goals at State. "We just didn't play like we have all season. Our lack of experience at the State level, me included, hurt us. There were some things I could have done to get us bet¬ter prepared."Short game issuesOne thing first year coach Owens laments is the fact that the short game, so integral in the game of softball, caused Kettle's defense problems at times in Yakima. There was plenty of bunting and slap hitting going on in Yakima."We didn't see the short game that much during the season," Owens said. "That hurt us."Be rest assured that Owens will have that issue remedied next season. "We were more of a power hitting team this spring," she said. "We have six seniors and we lose a lot of that off this team. This is a great time to take advantage of what we learned at State …it's a good time to change our game up a little."RECAPIn the opener against La¬Conner, Kettle Falls built a comfortable 11-1 lead into the fifth inning. But LaConner got back into the game with a seven run outburst in the fifth inning. Kettle Falls committed two errors in the fifth that didn't help.Senior Tory Bircher, who played solidly in Kettle's three games at State, had a double, a single and a home run against LaConner. She drove in three runs.Kettle Falls scored seven runs of their own in the fourth inning. Bircher's home run was the big blow. Senior Devon Stomley had a pair of doubles.Kettle Falls had four doubles and a home run in the win.Mossyrock breaks open scoreless gameBircher picked up the win. She got relief help in the fifth from Krislin McInelly, who struggled. McInelly surren¬dered seven hits and walked three. She struck out two.Bircher scattered three hits, issued a walk and struck out three.Kettle Falls and Mossyrock were locked up in a 0-0 tie un¬til the Lady Bulldogs surren¬dered 10 runs in the Mossy¬rock fourth inning. Five walks and four errors in the fourth inning contributed to the big Mossyrock inning. A first inning double by Kayla Eslick and Sara Larsen's single in the fifth inning was all the offense KFHS could mus¬ter."There wasn't much to say about that," Owens said. "That was a really bad inning for us."It didn't help Kettle's chances any when Stomley broke her collarbone sliding head first into second base against Toutle Lake.When Stomley went out, KFHS and the Ducks were tied at 4-all. Bircher's triple earlier helped the Lady Bulldogs to an early lead. She had two triples in the game. McInelly also tripled in Kettle's five-hit attack."That was a very tough loss," Owens said. "We lost one of our players, but we were able to battle. I was proud of them for their ability to keep their heads up and stay positive."Down 7-6 in the seventh, KFHS got Bircher to second base. But the Lady Bulldogs couldn't get her home. Six seniorsOwens said she will miss her six seniors—Bircher, Stomley, Sam Charlton, Michaela Fredrick, Kayla Eslick and Sara Larsen."Replacing six seniors won't be easy," she said. "They are great athletes who did a very good job in leadership roles this season."But for the kids coming back, I think some eyes were opened (about the State experi¬ence). It was a good run and a very good season." Adna routed Pe Ell to win its second state 2B fastpitch title in three years. Adna used a pair of big innings to beat the defending champions, 10-0 on Saturday. Adna broke a scoreless tie with a six-run fourth inning. They added a four-run fifth in¬ning and the rout was on.


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Your actual caloric needs are fairly subjective. A good way to get an estimate is via the activity level score. Your activity level score is based on how you work (sit in a chair all day? Sedentarty, walking around a warehouse? Light activity. Lifting and moving things around a warehouse? Moderate activity. Two serious workouts a day? High physical activity.)
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SALADO (February 18, 2013)--The Silver Spur Theater, a venue for vaudeville shows, stage plays and live music, is closing its doors after eight years because of economic challenges it can't surmount.
"It's difficult," said co-founder and owner Grainger Esch.
"There are a lot of things I'm going to miss about it, but I have to take off the rose-colored glasses for a bit and realize that it's just not economically sustainable the way it's going."
Esch said it costs anywhere from $10,000 to $12,000 to operate the theater monthly.
"We're very reliant on tourist traffic, and that has not been enough for the rising cost of production, overhead and utilities," Esch said.
Esch said the theater has been "running on a shoestring with a skeleton crew."
He said he even tried leasing the theater for public events and live music shows, but that still didn't bring in enough revenue.
He said he opened the theater because he wanted to provide family entertainment for the community and make everyone laugh.
"We've been successful at that mission, so I feel accomplished," Esch said.
Esch, and the theater's staff, which consists of a technical director, a musical director, a house manager and several actors and singers who are contracted, don't feel that they're leaving empty-handed.
"We've made people happy and enabled people to forget their troubles and have a good time," he said.
Before closing its doors, the theater will be presenting a Vaudeville show titled "Schtick Happens" on March 1.


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6 WTF Japanese Trends (You Can Blame on White Guys)
It's practically a meme in the West: The Japanese are insane. But, you know, loveably insane -- all squid-penises and liquor vending machines, not boring-old-crazy stuff like murder and cannibalism. What we don't realize, however, is that most of this madness is totally our fault. In the past, we've brushed up against the issue in a crowded train car -- discussing how Japanese manga was totally inspired by Donald Duck comics, for example -- but it goes beyond that. It turns out that much of Japan's iconic wackiness was actually imposed upon it by Western culture. Let's take a look at ...
Connoisseurs of Japanese porn (hi, every single Cracked reader!) will readily note that, when they start getting down to business, all of the sexy bits are pixelated out like they're trying to keep it PG-13. In the meantime, the uniquely Japanese export of "tentacle porn" has become one of the highlights that illustrate just how bizarre Japan really is.
How It's Our Fault:
Despite what the censored porn might imply, nudity has never been taboo in Japanese culture. Not only were women used to walking around topless, but what we call porn was just another common genre of books, like cooking or travel. Japanese porn, or shunga, was a traditional form of visual media that had no stigma attached to it. Most artists created it without violating any type of social code. They were just making pictures of people fuckin'.
Just the way God intended.
It was only in the 19th century, when Western morality came to Japan, that the Japanese government decided to crack down on such traditional practices as public nudity, in order to make the case to the West that Japan was totally a civilized country. By the time World War II rolled around, Japanese porn had gone from an everyday part of Japanese culture to a demonized art form that, as the Pulitzer-winning expert John W. Dower noted, now inexplicably valued idealized Western versions of beauty, like long legs and big tits.
After the war, the Americans occupied the country and enforced American cultural values. This further stigmatized porn in Japan, to the point where they enacted one of the strangest porn laws in the world: It's OK to have sex on camera, but any display of genitals is strictly forbidden. So now all porn in Japan has the genitals pixelated out.
That of course didn't stop Japan's enterprising purveyors of smut, who quickly found ways to get around the Great Wang Embargo by producing porn that portrayed women being penetrated by tentacle monsters. Tentacles aren't technically dicks -- even when they're explicitly dick-shaped and behaving in a very dickish fashion -- so the government is powerless to censor them. And now the Japanese can enjoy pornography with the power of ... imagination. Or just squinting a little bit.
SFW, apparently.
Seriously, those tentacles are very dick-like.
#5. Consumer Culture
We all know that Japan has a lust for technology -- look on the back of any of your high-tech gadgets, and chances are it says "Made in Japan."
How It's Our Fault:
For most of Japan's history, wealth and consumerism were looked down upon in total disdain. The early Japanese basically lived like the Amish, if the Amish had kickass swords and unflattering haircuts. In fact, merchants and capitalists were always traditionally considered the lowest rung of society, below bureaucrats, farmers and artisans. Japan didn't trade with the outside world, and even banned technological innovation in warfare, like guns, because the samurai were trained with swords and didn't want lowly peasants to threaten them with firearms -- it would be ungentlemanly.
"We are not savages; we murder each other with decorum."
In 1853, U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry drove his ships into Japan and offered a compromise -- either they would open trade up and buy America's shit, or he would raze their country to the ground. Realizing that they were defenseless against Perry's giant guns, the Japanese opted to fall in line with the rest of the world and industrialize. It's just that when the Japanese do something -- from perversion to social reform -- they don't half-ass it. In a matter of mere decades, they turned their feudal society into a completely industrial nation.
History buffs know what Japan did next -- they suddenly morphed into a sinister industrial empire that conquered large parts of East Asia to feed their newfound technological machine, soon becoming one of the top ten industrialized nations of the world. Their hunger for resources to feed Japanese industry would cause Japan to make the worst decision in its history -- attacking the United States of America. SPOILER ALERT: It didn't end well.
In our defense, they were being total dicks.
After World War II, the occupying U.S. soldiers influenced the Japanese in channeling their energies toward less-threatening forms of technology, like consumer electronics. So to recap: A few centuries ago, we sent the guy from Friends into Japan like a techno-vampire, threatening them with death if they didn't turn into one of us. When they did turn, they found that they liked it a little too much, so we put them back down and told them to make little phones instead. Now we make fun of them for making said phones, because we're all huge mega-jerks. Hey, speaking of mega-things ...
#4. Giant-Monster Movies Are a Reaction to the Atomic Bomb
The Japanese sure do love them some giant monsters. Tokyo has been flattened by monsters more times than aliens have destroyed the Statue of Liberty. It's actually its own film genre, called kaiju. Godzilla is only the most famous example -- screaming, out-of-sync Japanese citizens have since been terrorized by all sorts of towering beasts, like Rodan, Gamera and Mothra. It's a weirdly specific thing for one culture to become obsessed with.
Glass houses, America.
How It's Our Fault:
As we've discussed before, the most successful horror movies tap into what society is really afraid of. So when director Ishiro Honda needed a monster for his horror project, he came up with something that reflected the terror of a nuclear attack. You don't need to be a history buff to understand why Japan specifically might have been afraid of that.
In case the analogy wasn't clear enough, the creators of Godzilla wrote the A-bomb right into the monster's origin story. A mutant who was created by nuclear testing, Godzilla is a force of pure destruction that comes out of nowhere and reduces Japan's bustling capital to ashes in a single night, leaving everyone wondering what the hell just hit them. In Honda's own words, Godzilla wasn't just created by nuclear war: "He would be twisted and mutated by it, into a rampaging uncontainable force; the A-bomb made of flesh."
Curiously, this seems exactly like the sort of problem A-bombs were designed to solve.
Japanese culture couldn't get enough of the kaiju phenomenon; Honda made a career of it, being responsible for Rodan, the giant nuclear pterodactyl, and Mothra, the giant nuclear moth. Japan's very specific fear of obliteration by the West lasted long enough for kaiju to become an iconic tradition in Japanese film -- and it clarifies why it was such a dumb idea for Hollywood to transplant the idea to 1990s New York. Although it might explain why they cast Matthew Broderick (he's slight, and good with machines).


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How are the transfers in your long saves. Ive only played up to 5 years and Man City don't seem to spend much.
Year 1- 50mil
Year 2- 0
Year 3- 0
Year 4- 30mil
Year 5- 30mil
Liverpool outspent City by about 70 mil.
Surely City should spend more, not realistic!


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History's 9 Most Terrifying Beauty Tips
You can say the world is shallow and vain these days, what with our fake tans and breast implants, but the truth is, we've always been that way.
In fact, when you see the lengths to which people used to go to make themselves look or smell a little better, it makes Botox look downright rational.
#9. Bird Shit Facials
The Geisha facial is an ancient beauty secret so awesome, it's been brought back to the present so modern women can experience it. Experience what, you ask? Why, having the shit of a nightingale spackled on their face, of course.
Guanine is a chemical that does wonders for the complexion and poop is a wicked source of it (hence the word guano). How anyone discovered the value of a face smeared in bird poop is unclear, but apparently it's been around long enough that Japanese kabuki performers and Geisha used to swear by it. And now you too can pay about $180 to have a stranger put shit on your face on purpose. On purpose.
Naturally, bird shit isn't for everyone. So thank God for ingenuity, as some crafty lady named Diane Irons has assured everyone that kitty litter is pretty much the exact same stuff they'll put on your face at a regular spa. So really all you need to do to acquire the ingredients for the perfect complexion is train your pet bird to shit in the litter box.
#8. Treating Bad Breath With Charcoal
Fresh breath is a valuable commodity. As any gum commercial will show you, it's the key to picking up women and not smelling like you just ate the ass out of a dead bear. These things are important. And not just to us, but to our ancestors.
While modern oral hygiene offers many wonderful things like toothpaste with stripes of other toothpaste in it and minty dental floss, back in the day they had to be a little more creative. Sure, fingers and twigs made great toothbrushes, but what was going to remove that colon smell from your food hole? Charcoal, of course.
Ancient Romans were some of the first to use charcoal while other cultures used burnt sticks to help reduce stank, and there is some precedent for that as it will filter odor. In the 1800s, when young ladies were looking to improve their own stink they borrowed this technique and adapted it to simply sucking or chewing lumps of charcoal, leaving them minty fresh and black-toothed.
#7. Curing Baldness With Spanish Fly
Back in the day they didn't have Propecia which can have bizarre side effects of its own), so what were our forefathers to do? Something stupid as shit? You bet.
One old-school method for hair growth was to rub in a mix of various household ingredients along with nux vomica and cantharides. Not familiar with those last two? They're usually better known as the poison strychnine, a poison, and Spanish Fly (or cantharidin a less poisonous but still deadly poison that causes priaprism). While it may not have lead to hair growth, at least you'd have horrible spasms and paralysis, possibly with an erection. But if they wanted all that they could just go watch Pokemon.
For those not in the market for something quite so insane, there was also the paraffin wax treatment. Just grab some of this solid form of liquid methane and rub it into the roots and get ready to enjoy long, luxurious Lorenzo Lamas hair. Of course, since this tip was from the early 1900s when open flames were used a bit more liberally than they are today, it would be in your best interests to keep your remarkably flammable head away from everything until that sick mullet grew in.
These fancy and deadly methods were developed to replace the extremely old-school baldness cures, like the one proposed by Pliny back in ancient Rome, that was basically making a tasty salad dressing, then mixing in mouse shit and putting it on your head, which didn't work, but probably made the average bald man look like a poppy seed bagel from a distance.
#6. Fixing Skin Blemishes With Hallucinogenic Drugs
Because clean and clear skin is pretty much the be all and end all of a shallow person's existence, there's really no excuse not to do whatever it takes to achieve that end, even if it means smearing a hallucinogen all over your face.
The Pokitonoff acne treatment recommends mixing some sweet Vaseline with Ergotine to cure those little blemishes, which has to work out for you no matter what happens, as either the pimples go away or you just start absorbing the lysergic acid that exists in Ergotine (ya know, the fun part of LSD) and in no time you're flashing back to when you did have clean skin, possibly while being chased across a desert by a giant, tooth-filled anus.
If all you're worried about is freckles, then fear not as you don't need to trouble yourself with anything dangerous like toxic hallucinogens. Instead, there was lavender freckle lotion, which sounds just lovely. Unfortunately, aside from lavender, it inexplicably included hydrochloric acid, apparently according to the theory that you won't worry about freckles once your face has melted off, Raiders of the Lost Ark-style.
#5. Skin Bleaching
While today's fake tan is all the rage for people who want to look like they're from the Jersey Shore without all the hard work and barbed wire tattooing that requires, back in the day it was the pasty, cave-born, C.H.U.D. look that everyone wanted (because back then, a tan meant you were a filthy, common laborer). The whiter and sicklier, the better. Cracked writers would have been living gods.
But those burdened with some manner of natural huehad to turn to science to help wash the color away. Science in turn tried to murder them by offering up the one-two punch of mercury and arsenic.
Both chemicals were used to make a variety of creams and lotions that could be applied to bleach your complexion, probably because both would be slowly sucking your very soul out through your pores.


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The density of a wrapped normal distribution is given by $$\frac{1}{\sigma \sqrt{2\pi} }\sum _{k=-\infty }^{\infty }\text{Exp}\left[\frac{-(\theta -\mu -2\pi k)^2}{2\sigma^2}\right]$$ Considering two density functions $f(x),\ g(x)$ of a wrapped normal distribution with respective parameters $\mu_1,\ \mu_2$ and $\sigma_1,\ \sigma_2$, is the product $h(x)=f(x)g(x)$ a density function of a wrapped normal distribution?
This is really a follow-up on Suvrit's comment. There are plenty of formulas for products of theta functions, many of them found in this Iowa State report. (see particularly page 7). Whether any of them answer the OP's question is for the OP to find out (and tell us...)


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When traveling from country to country, local laws and regulations can vary from what someone is used to in their home country (sometimes drastically, for example caning in Singapore for visiting foreigners overstaying their visa by more than 90 days). When visiting other countries, what is the best way to learn the difference between their legal code and the one you're accustomed to, to avoid any unpleasant surprises?
The ministries of foreign affairs of many countries offer travel advice on their websites.
etc ...
These sites are well known for their advice on safety and security and entry requirements. Nevertheless, they also have sections on "local laws and customs". Look for instance what the FCO says about Singapore.
If I have the slightest doubt that something I am gonna to do is legal in the country I just ask some local people about it. Depending on the activity I even ask a police man.
Plus I read a bit about any country I am visiting in a guide book. If there are certain laws that are very different from the 'Western World' they are usually mentioned in guide books.
That should cover you for most things you do as a tourist.


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This is Napoleon and he joined me for some breakfast last week at Fego cafe. Now most places don't even give you Nutella with your croissant let alone a generous pot spilling over the sides. The croissant was perfectly warmed and ideal for dunking in that glossy chocolate.
I was pleasantly surprised as was my little friend, Napoleon!


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This question comes to mind because we are tinkering with the idea of going VM with some of our servers. KVM is a bit involved, VMWare acts like they want to be a free product, and Microsoft is just out of the question when it comes to virtualization. However, the machine is going to remote location with electrical issues long enough to surpass the capability of our UPS units.
In short, I want to be able to make phone call and tell somebody to push the power button back on and have services running again on the guest machine without have to talk somebody through logging on (which ivolves giving user name and pw to the machine) and starting the virtual machine. Is this possible?


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Fanotec Pole 1 and 2, together with pole rotators and footplate have been great successes. User feedbacks for these systems have been very positive. Our community good friend, Wim Koornneef, an expert in panoramic pole photography, has shared with us images made with Pole Series 1 and 2.
Wim also shares sample scenarios and workflows for use of each series of poles (1&2) and displays them at various extensions. His works demonstrate that our pole systems are just what one needs for a portable and easy to use setup in typical outdoor situations during the day.
However, in low light or windy situations, a rigid support base is a must. It is of great help for making HDRs. It helps to remove lots of anxiety for new players in pole photography.
Now, I am glad to announce that the wait is finally over. Moreover, we have used the extra time to refine the original design. The tripod adapter now has a rotation lock and big knobs for easy and secure installation on a tripod.
The tripod adapter works for tripods with a 3/8" male thread on top and a 3/8"male / female thread at the bottom of center column. Rigid center column is essential because a long pole can amplify torque exerted on center column by as much as 15 times. The tripod adapter requires the use of our advanced rotator or pole rotator. It is works for Pole 2, and Pole 1 by using a step-down ring which is under production.
As an apology for the delayed release of the tripod adapter, we now offer the Level for Pole 2 free of charge for any purchase of the tripod adapter before 30th September, 2011. The level is also available separately for $24.95 each.
Tripod Adapter is available in the store for $49.95 each.
Over the past months, we have introduced more products than we did in the past years. Our small factory has been running in full capacity. It has been a great challenge in making tens of new parts while continuing to develop many eagerly awaited new products. I would like to express my appreciation for early supporters and those who patiently waited for our new products. We are developing easy to use guy wire system to further enhance the stability of the pole and to act as a safety device for horizontal application of pole.


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daniel bedingfield is a pop singer who produces songs that are easy on the ear. some of his hits include "if you're not the one" and "gotta get thru this"
person 1: "who is daniel bedingfield?"
person 2: "one of the best singers of all time in my opinion"
person 2: "one of the best singers of all time in my opinion"
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One of the crappest artists of all time who admitted to recording his first album in between wanks in his room at his mother's house. His sister natasha is fit little whore who cant sing or write songs either no matter how hard the slapper tries. hopefully we will never hear from either of this ear murderers again!
Daniel Bedingfield is not only a crap singer/songwriter he is also up for Britain and World Tosser of the year!
by Daragh "innit?" McGuinness July 20, 2006
pop star whose name is all too easy to say
" ummmmm.....daniel bedingfield/craig david........."
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Hey guys I'm a new linux user, I figured it would be the best for the laptop I just purchased because it's said to be faster than Windows 7. I'm currently dual-booting with Windows 7 Professial and Ubuntu 12.04. The laptop I am using is the LG X Note P210
Intel Core i5 470UM Dual Core clocked at 1.33GHz
12.5" HD LED LCD Screen at 1366 by 768
4GB DDR3 @ 1333 MHz RAM
Integrated Intel HD Graphics Card
4 Cell Battery with 3150mAh
It comes loaded Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit, it runs fine on that but my Ubuntu 12.04 runs slower than it and I don't understand why, it definitely has decent specs to run even a 64-bit operating system and do some gaming. Granted I know it's not the best but for a laptop it does the job so Ubuntu should work especially since it's said to make older units with worse specs run even better.
I'm not all that familiar with coding and all so what are things I can do to optimize speed without overclocking? Boot up is fine, its program response time I believe, once Im in the actual OS, it lags, slows down, apps stop working, take forever to load up apps.