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This is related to another question of mine. Suppose you met someone who was well-acquainted with the basic properties of rings, but who had never heard of a module. You tell him that modules generalize ideals and quotients, but he remains unimpressed. How do you convince him that studying modules of a ring is a good way to understand that ring? (In other words, why does one have to work "external" to the ring?) Your answer should also explain why it is a good idea to study a group by studying its representations.
In short, I'd tell your friend: "If you believe a ring can be understood geometrically as functions its spectrum, then modules help you by providing more functions with which to measure and characterize its spectrum."
Elements of a module over a ring $R$ are like generalized functions on $Spec(R)$. We can talk about the support of a module element, or its vanishing set. More concretely, think of how global sections of a line bundle can act as functions you can use to define map into projective space.
When you glue together a module on open sets of a spectrum or a scheme, you get to glue using maps which are module isomorphisms, which are more flexible than the ring isomorphisms required to glue together a scheme. Borrowing intuition from smooth manifold land, the twist in the Moebius band (as a line bundle on the circle) is formed by gluing a copy of the reals to itself via multiplication by $-1$, a module map, not a ring map. This allows us to think of functions like $\cos(\theta/2)$ as being globally defined: as a map to the Moebius band.
In the same vein, when you have a representation $V$ of a group $G$, each element $v\in V$ gives you a nice evaluation map from $G$ into $V$, so lurking everywhere we've got these morphisms from our object of interest into a known object, which are nicely related to each other via the group laws. A fortiori, this certainly doesn't capture the full utility of group representations, but a priori I think it's a decent justification.
I want to answer your question twice: first with a "top-down" approach and second with a "bottom-up" approach. Let me limit myself to the first answer here and see how I do.
I claim the following analogy:
abstract groups : group actions on sets :: abstract rings : linear actions of rings on abelian groups (= modules)
I will take it as mostly self-evident that it is desirable to study groups acting on sets. If you are not doing this -- but thinking of groups only as sets with a certain law of composition -- then you are thinking about groups "in the wrong way". You are missing out not only on powerful tools for studying abstract groups (e.g. the Monster was constructed as the automorphism group of a certain algebra), but also, even more importantly, on why groups are important and interesting to mathematics: they come up as automorphisms of things, not (or rather, rarely) abstractly.
The way to think about a group action is that you have a set S, and it has an automorphism group, Sym(S), the group of all bijections from S to itself. Then an action of G on S is simply a homomorphism of groups G -> Sym(S). More generally, if x is any object in a category C, then it has an automorphism group Aut(x), and one can think of a homomorphism from an abstract group G to Aut(x) as a group action on x.
Now in place of a set, we take an abelian group M. This has more structure -- apart from a group Aut(M) of Z-linear automorphsims, it also has an endomorphism ring End(M): the ring of Z-linear maps from M to itself. Note that End(M) is in general noncommutative, so this construction is more general than any "ring of functions" construction in (commutative!) algebraic geometry.
So given a ring R, the analogy is completed by considering ring homomorphisms R -> End(M). As for rings, this provides a bridge between the abstract notion of a ring and the "real world" notion of endomorphisms of an abelian group. Moreover, just as the notion of a symmetry group of a set generalizes to that of an automorphism group of an object in a category, similarly, any object x in an abelian category C has an endomorphism ring, and hence one can consider "ring actions" of an abstract ring R on x, via homomorphisms R -> End(x).
In the first part of the analogy, a distinguished role is played by the category of [left, or right] G-sets for a particular group G. In particular, this provides a way for every group G to be the precise automorphism group of some object in a category: it is the automorphism group of itself. It is of course not true that any abstract group is equal to the full symmetry group Sym(S) of a set S, so this is an important construction.
In the second part of the analogy, a distinguished role is played by the abelian category of [left, or right] R-modules. In particular, End_{R-Mod}(R) = R, so every ring is the precise endomorphism ring of some object in an abelian category. (I am pretty sure that not every ring is isomorphic to the full endomorphism ring of an abelian group, although this is less obvious than the other case. It might make a good question in its own right...)
This is I think the right "general" answer to the question "Why is studying modules of a ring a good way to understand that ring?" A different kind of answer would give instances in commutative algebra when theorems about rings are proved using modules. I'll try that at some future point.
This is a bit late, but here is one example I like:
Theorem. A localization of a regular local ring at a prime ideal is still regular.
One way to prove this is to deduce it from
Theorem. Let $R$ be a local ring. Then the following are equivalent:
(To use it, let $P$ be the prime ideal. Since $R$ is regular, $R/P$ has a finite length projective resolution. Now localize--this is exact, so we get a finite length $R_P$-projective resolution of $(R/P)_P$, which is the residue field of $R_P$)
This stuff is in Chapter 19 of Eisenbud's Commutative Algebra.
It's not clear to me how one would try to prove the first theorem from the definitions of regular.
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One way to convince the guy would be to make him list interesting questions he can make about rings, and show him which can be solved by looking only at the category of modules.
Somewhere in the middle of that conversation, one should make the point that it may very well happen that two different rings have equivalent categories of modules, so in answering any such question we can change the ring.
I think the main reason is the flexibility of working in the category of $R$-modules rather than just with the ring $R$. For instance suppose we stick to rings - we have some ways of building new rings like localization and taking factor rings and limited ways of "building new things" - basically linear combinations of elements and maybe taking limits if $R$ is complete with respect to some topology.
At the level of module categories we still get all of this, torsion theories deal with localization (and make it clear that this is really an "internal" concept), instead of a quotient map we get useful adjoints, and we can still add and compose endomorphisms of $R$. But we also have lots of other structure to work with. We have all limits and colimits, possibly a tensor product, injective modules (which can have a lovely structure theory), duality, etc... So not only can we build a lot more objects but one can prove that just the existence of certain objects gives us a lot of information about the ring.
In a sense (which one can make precise) the category of $R$-modules is the same as $R$ (which is the same as $D^{\mathrm{perf}}(R)$ with its tensor product for $R$ commutative with unit) so the distinction between a ring and its modules shouldn't really exist!
I thought I would add the following quote which sprang to mind when I read the question:
"Grothendieck would later describe each sheaf on a space T as a "meter stick" measuring T."
taken from McClarty's article The Rising Sea: Grothendieck on simplicity and generality I (which can be found here).
In the commutative with unit case this can be interpreted literally, however, I still think it is relevant (suitably adjusted) in the case of noncommutative rings.
Cuz otherwise it'd be like getting to know a bicycle without riding it.
In homage to Serge Lang, I might suggest that your friend pick up any book on Morita theory and solve all the exercises. Less facetiously, I might point out that many interesting ring-theoretic properties can be characterized, sometimes unexpectedly, by properties of the (right) module category over the ring. For instance, consider what it means for all right $R$-modules to be injective, or what it means for all right $R$-modules to be projective, or what it means for all right $R$-modules to be flat, or what it means for all direct sums of injective right $R$-modules to be injective, or what it means for all direct products of projective right $R$-modules to be projective, or what it means for all flat right $R$-modules to be projective, or ...
This is closely related to Pete Clark's answer, but stated in a slightly different way that I personally find helpful. I think it's not too hard to convince people that when studying an abstract object, it helps a great deal to be able to "write it down concretely," i.e., to consider a representation of the object. It's not an accident that the word "representation" is used for a homomorphism of a group into the group of matrices over a field; matrices over a familiar field like $\mathbb{C}$ are, intuitively, "more concrete" than an arbitrary abstract group and hence can be thought of as providing a concrete representation of the group. When you write something down concretely, often some structure will emerge that is not immediately evident from the original abstract definition. For example, the character table is an important invariant of a finite group. I don't know how you would come up with this invariant without considering representations of the group.
Similarly, modules are representations of rings. I think the Artin-Wedderburn theorem is a good illustration of the usefulness of considering representations of rings. Even if your interest is only in rings themselves, it's clearly an important result that you can classify all (Artinian) semisimple rings as products of matrix rings over division rings. If you possess the concept that a ring can be represented as a matrix ring, then it is not too shocking (and may even seem natural) that something like the Artin-Wedderburn theorem should be true, and moreover you can even see that to prove it you should somehow construct the matrix rings by having the original ring act on something. Without the concept of a representation (or equivalently a module), I don't know how you would proceed; it seems like a difficult and clumsy task at best.
I always thought one should regard issues like ring theory/module theory or theory of (abstract) groups/ representation theory of groups in an analogous manner to theory of abstract manifolds/embeddings of manifolds. So you can disentangle "mixed" notions and work out the concepts more clearly. It's not like embeddings of manifolds were "more interesting" than the theory of manifolds - on the contrary, the gist is distinguishing both.
The "categorical" approach: Understand an object not via intrinsic properties (rather ignore them, they are not part of the categorical data) but via the morphisms.
By choosing a category to work in, we choose the class of properties that are interesting. If we choose to work in the category of groups and group homomorphisms, then two groups with different underlying sets but having a group isomorphism between will not be distinguished.
A group representation is a group morphism G -> End(M) and this way we get properties about the group itself.
A module M over a ring R ist nothing else than a morphism R -> End(M) and so we get information about R from this morphism (or, better: from the collection of all these morphisms).
Then, you could continue asking "why should we do this and not study the ring/group intrinsically"?
My answer is: what is a group, to you? For me it is a set satisfying the group axioms - and two groups are the same if there is a group isomorphism between them.
The "intrinsic" study makes sense only if you want to distinguish different groups/rings that are isomorphic. But then you could also choose a different category, with less isomorphisms :-)
If your friend knows well rings and ideals, he has certainly encountered quotient like $I/J$, hasn't he? What are they for him? sets? abelian groups? This point of view is wanting. You can formulate basic and very useful results, such as (for $A$ local, noetherian): if $I/mI$ has a set of $n$ generators, so has the ideal $I$ (Nakayama), only if you can see $I/J$ as a module...
This relates to an earlier question you asked:
What representative examples of modules should I keep in mind?
My answer is the same: look at the frontispieces of Miles Ried's book undergrad commutative algebra, which visualize this central fact: Modules to rings are what bundles are to varieties.
If the ring $R$ is ${\mathbb R}$, then the modules are vector spaces. Vector spaces are more interesting and more useful. Modules over an arbitrary ring, then are analogous to vector spaces. Moreover, the places where the analogies break down form the interesting parts of the theory.
For groups and representations, I think the question is different. A group can be thought of as a set of symmetries --- the original meaning. Symmetries of what? Well, for example a particular vector space, or rather, for a family of vector spaces. The relations among those spaces tells you about the group.
First, category of commutative ring is opposite category of commutative affine schemes(whether in classical algebraic geometric sense or presheaf view point sense)
Second, considering an affine scheme (Spec(R),O),where R is a commutative ring. Qcoh(SpecR,O) is R-mod (category of R-modules). You should know, we can reconstruct the affine scheme (SpecR,O) from this R-module up to isomorphism. So study the ring and module category over it is the same. (Actually this is from Grothendieck view point: to do geometry, we just need category of sheaves on "would be space", this view point is supported by Gabriel-Rosenberg reconstruction theorem).
But, the module theory is just the theory of linear algebra. It is much easier to deal with than theory of ring. In fact, if we study quasi compact and quasi separated scheme. According to Barr-Beck's theorem(in particular,Grothendieck flat descent),all the algebraic geometry turns into linear algebra.(for affine scheme, we deal with module over monad, for non affine schemes, we deal with comodule over comonad, for all semiseparated scheme(all algebraic varieties), we even have simpler form for comonad). But I have to remind you. I assume you are talking about unital ring.
For non-unital ring, we can still consider R-module as category of associative action to some linear vector space. This is just the quasi coherent sheaves on quasi affine scheme(which is called cone). In fact, this is also not very difficult to deal with. A good reference for general framework is "Des categories Abéliennes" or more recent, O.Gabber's work on almost ring theory.
For your question about studying representation theory of G. The reason is the same. We can use Tannaka formalism to reconstruct locally compact group from its representations. Moreover, if G is an algebraic group. Then all algebraic geometry on group scheme can be turned into study on Rep(G) which is a symmetric monoidal category with linear algebra.
I guess they are dozens of points of view. Here are the one that I found most useful (for group representations) :
A simple example: If you have a representation of a group presented by generators and relations, you have an explicit algorithm to solve the word problem for this group. Another example: the proof of Burnside's theorem.
A representation of an algebraic structure gives, generally speaking, additional tools for understanding the structure. See for instance the topological proof of the Nielsen-Schreier theorem.


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If a player explores the Mansion with more than one Explore (ie: +1 Explore from a Shotgun), they normally have the option to draw more than one card and resolve them both at the same time. While this is fairly straightforward when both cards drawn are Infected, the situation when one of the cards is an Item or a Token is not quite as clear.
At what point would the Item/Token be resolved? Is it immediately after the card is revealed, as would be the case if it was a single draw? Or maybe it would be after the Infected itself is defeated. Or maybe it's just after the Infected is battled, win or lose, so long as the player doesn't die.
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Wintergrasp on Aman'Thul has always been dominated by the Alliance.
Horde might win it in the early afternoon, when only the teenagers are online. They might even win it during prime raiding time when Alliance are occupied with the Lich King.
Generally it's held by us. Which of course means easy access to the loot pinatas and Wintergrasp vendor items for us, not so much for them.
If we can't have it, neither can you!
This seems to have led to a different strategy by the Horde. Sure we win it, but now they aim to deprive us of the benefits.
Wintergrasp may be ours, but VoA isn't, without a fight.
Initially it was one Warlock, safely ensconced on the pillars in the keep before the VoA entrance portal.
Not much to worry about, the occasional dot here or there, the death of an AFK occasionally.
I mentioned once before that the presence of a couple of rogues had my 10 man VoA group quivering in their boots, not prepared to leave VoA to help their healer get in.
You and what army?
Now they have ramped it up.
Sunday there were a good 10 of them holding the keep against VoA raiders, last night there were 15, apparently there was a Lock in there summoning more to the final line of VoA defense.
One or two is irritating, like that invisible mosquito on a hot summers night. 10-15 leaves most Alliance safely in Dalaran.
Are they griefing the raiders?
I like to think so, I almost hope so. Yeah, I know, I'm cheering the Horde on for making Alliance raiders life difficult, but then I might be a little PvP biased.
I see it like this:
- If you're a raider, you get access to high end raiding gear AND reasonable PvP gear. You can buy PvP gear with your Emblems, you can convert your stonekeeper shards to honor and buy more – Yet you may never have entered a battleground.
- If, on the other hand, you are primarily a PvPer, while you have access to the same PvP gear, you can only get access to the top PvP gear if you are exceptional at Arenas and you can't buy PvE gear with your honor.
So for me, where the right to raid VoA, is via the efforts of PvP and I beleive won more often by the efforts of competent PvPers, who know what to do, and when, VoA is a PvP raid.
I sometimes feel (when surrounded by Kingslayers in VoA raids) that you should need to earn the right to raid VoA.
Each week:
- Earn 10,000 honor
- Gain 20 HKs
These are easy goals and can be achieved in one Wintergrasp fight. Maybe it should be a bit harder. Whatever the case, I think you need to earn the right for a shot at the loot piñata in a PvP zone.
Of course, this is coming from me, who loves to PvP, who runs VoA on 2 characters twice every week and has only ever had 3 drops.
- 1 for Gnome – I'd already earned through PvP.
- 2 for Squidly, as the only shaman in the raid, both useless as they were Enhancement pieces.
5 seconds till destruction.
As I mentioned, Sunday night there were 10 Horde holding the keep. I was heading in for a 10 man raid on Squidly, all PvE geared.
I should have realized they were there as there were 10ish Alliance hovering on flying mounts outside the keep
The second I zoned in, I was demolished. This happened again and I put out the call in Wintergrasp zone chat for help to take them down.
When I got to the portal the 3rd time there were 1/2 a dozen there wondering what to do, in addition to those flying.
Quickly I said:
Get ready to go in!
In we went. I was down pretty much immediately and judging by the quantity rezzing with me, the others didn't last that much longer. Still I hoped we had taken one or two with us.
We all flew back to the portal together. I noticed as we dismounted that those in the air dropped down to join us.
This time a slightly longer count
I didn't last much longer this time either, but something was different this time.
There was only a couple at the spirit healer and when I returned to the keep I couldn't see red bars through the keep door, just green ones.
When I zoned in there was still one, a Horde rogue now doing everything in his power to avoid the revenge seeking Alliance. He wasn't there for long, as the odds had changed. No longer 10 Horde against 1 zoning Alliance, it was 15 Alliance after one Horde.
Zone chat & raid chat erupted. There were some proud Alliance there that minute. We had fought for the right to raid VoA. Not just win a meaningless Wintergrasp battle, but actually fought the Horde from our keep.
I was pretty proud of myself too. I had coordinated that attack. I'm not sure I managed to drop a heal or scratch the Horde, but I know that without my willingness to engage in PvP, to coordinate the attack, no one would have been raiding VoA for the next 2 hours.
Get your PvP on!
So next time you go to the loot piñata party and there are a bunch of the opposition drinking the punch, speak out, drive your allies to break the siege, the real siege.
Ohhh and if you don't PvP, don't whine when you need to fight to earn the right to raid VoA.
Getting on the pillars.
If you are wondering how you get on the pillars in the keep, here's the answer.
There is only one time when you can get on top, which is just after a fresh capture of Wintergrasp keep, when the doors of the keep are gone.
Then you can fly in and land (or drop, as you will be dismounted) on top of the pillars. It might take you a couple of attempts.
If the doors are only partially damaged, or completely closed, you are out of luck.
My guess is that people do this with "disposable" characters, ones they don't need immediately. Log out, then log in again when the time is right to "grief".
The impatient griefers do it while the doors are still open and pay the price as anyone can fly in at that point. The patient wait for the next WG to be won and the doors are closed.
Gnomer and Out!
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How to show that $f(x)=x^2$ is continuous at $x=1$?
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To prove the limit exists using the fundamental definition. Here is how you proceed.
We must show that for every $\epsilon >0$ there is $\delta >0$ such that if $0<|x-1|<\delta\,,$ then $|x^2-1|<\epsilon$. Finding $\delta$ is most easily accomplished by working backward. Manipulate the second inequality until it contains a term of the form $x-1$ as in the first inequality. This is easy here. First $$ |x^2-1|=|x+1||x-1| \,. $$ In the above, there is unwanted factor of $|x+1|$, that must be bounded. If we make certain that $\delta<1$ $$ |x-1|<\delta<1 \,,$$ then $$ |x-1|< \delta \implies |x-1|< 1 \implies -1<x-1<1 \,$$ Adding $2$ to the last inequality gives $$ 1<x+1<3 \implies |x+1|<3\,.$$ So, if $$ |x^2-1|=|x+1||x-1|<3|x-1|<\epsilon \implies |x-1|<\frac{\epsilon}{3}\,. $$ Now, select $\delta = \mathrm{min}\left\{ 1, \frac{\epsilon}{3}\right\} $.
Check: given $\epsilon >0$, let $\delta = \mathrm{min}\left\{ 1, \frac{\epsilon}{3}\right\} $. Then $0<|x-1|<\delta$ implies that
$$ |x^2-1|=|x+1||x-1|<3|x-1|<3 \delta=3 \frac{\epsilon}{3} = \epsilon.$$
If you want to know if a function is continuous, then the definition of what it takes for a function to be continuous is important. From Calculus by Varberg, Purcell, and Rigdon:
Notice, this actually contains three parts,
So, you need to show the 3 parts of this are true with the function $f(x) = x^2$ and when $c = 1$, or figure out which part is not true.
Is $f(1)$ defined? What is it? Does $\lim\limits_{x \to 1} x^2$ exist? What is its value? Are the two values the same?
The product of continuous functions is continuous. The function $x$ is continuous, hence also $x^2=x\cdot x$ is continuous.
The proof that the product of continuos functions is continuous, simply relies on the theorem that states the limit of the product is the product of the limits.
Let $\epsilon > 0$ be arbitrary. Choose $\delta = \sqrt{\epsilon+1}-1 > 0$. Assume that $|x-1|<\delta$. Now $|f(x)-f(x_0)|=|x^2-1|=|(x-1)(x+1)|\leq |x-1||x+1|<(\sqrt{\epsilon+1}-1)(\sqrt{\epsilon+1}-1+2)=\epsilon$
, because if $|x-1|<\delta \Leftrightarrow -\delta < x-1 < \delta|+2 \Leftrightarrow -\delta+2 < x-1+2 < \delta+2 \Leftrightarrow |x+1| < \delta+2 =\sqrt{\epsilon+1}-1+2$
then $|x+1|<\sqrt{\epsilon+1}-1+2$.
Is this right?
In his 1821 text "Cours d'Analyse", Cauchy defined continuity of $y=f(x)$ by requiring that an infinitesimal $x$-increment should necessarily produce an infinitesimal change in $y$. According to this definition, if $f(x)=x^2$, then for $\alpha$ infinitesimal, the change in $y$ is precisely $f(x+\alpha)-f(x)=(x+\alpha)^2-x^2=(x+\alpha+x)(x+\alpha-x)=\alpha(2x+\alpha)$. Since $2x+\alpha$ is finite, the product $\alpha(2x+\alpha)$ is infinitesimal. Therefore $f(x)=x^2$ is continuous by definition.


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Detailed steps to setup OpenSSL certificate authority
By Ashok Anumandla on Aug 31, 2009
Here are the detailed steps to setup OpenSSL as Certificate Authority
Most of the unix operating systems comes with OpenSSL installation, if not, you need to install OpenSSL , then follow the following steps.
Step 1: Run the following command to check openssl is already installed.
$ which openssl (If you see output like /usr/bin/openssl, that means your system already has openssl installed, if not, install openssl)
Step 2: Create directory called openssl-ca
$ mkdir openssl-ca
$ cd openssl-ca
Step 3: Download Makefile file from http://sial.org/howto/openssl/ca/Makefile
Step 4 : Download openssl.cnf file from http://sial.org/howto/openssl/ca/openssl.cnf
Step 5: Edit following line in Makefile( use "-newkey rsa:2048" if running OpenSSL 0.9.8a or higher)
@openssl req -nodes -config openssl.cnf days 1825 -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -out ca-cert.pem -outform PEM
Step 6: Edit following section of openssl.cnf file as per your per organization details
[ root_ca_distinguished_name ]
commonName = openssl CA
countryName = US (Make sure you specify abbreviation only)
stateOrProvinceName = California (No abbreviation)
localityName = Santa Clara
0.organizationName = Sun Microsystems
emailAddress = mailto:email@example.com
Step 7: Run make init to create openssl-ca certificate authority.
$ make init
Step 8: Check all the folders are created to make sure certificate authority is configured properly.
$ ls Makefile crl newcerts private ca-cert.pem index openssl.cnf serial (Note: ca-cert.pem is root certificate)
This concludes the creation of openssl as a certificate authority to generate certificates for your applications.


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Extended Stay America - Peachtree Corners
Norcross, GA 30092
770-582-9984 | 800-646-8000
Welcome to Extended Stay America - Atlanta - Peachtree Corners. Our hotel is designed especially for longer stays with large studios featuring fully-equipped kitchens and plenty of work space… amenities you won't find in a typical hotel room.
Info & Amenities
Hours of Operation
Sunday: All Day
Monday: All Day
Tuesday: All Day
Wednesday: All Day
Thursday: All Day
Friday: All Day
Saturday: All Day
Facility Amenities
Complimentary Breakfast, Free Parking, Laundry, Outdoor Pool
General Information
Pets Accepted
Internet Connectivity
Free Wi-Fi
Near Interstate Highway
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Room Amenities
In-Room Coffee Maker, Iron/Ironing Board
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Beyond the Easter Bunny: 10 Other Famous Rabbits
8 of 11
Thumper (Bambi)
Considering all of the devastating moments in Bambi - such as the death of Bambi's mom and the forest fire - Thumper is memorable for his good cheer as much as for his signature foot stomping. In one famous scene, Thumper teaches Bambi how to ice skate, with mixed results.
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This question may be considered subjective (I got a warning) and be closed, but I will risk it, as I need some good advice/experience on this.
I read the following at the 'About' page of Fog Creek Software, the company that Joel Spolsky founded and is CEO of:
Back in the year 2000, the founders of Fog Creek, Joel Spolsky and Michael Pryor, were having trouble finding a place to work where programmers had decent working conditions and got an opportunity to do great work, without bumbling, non-technical managers getting in the way. Every high tech company claimed they wanted great programmers, but they wouldn't put their money where their mouth was.
It started with the physical environment (with dozens of cubicles jammed into a noisy, dark room, where the salespeople shouting on the phone make it impossible for developers to concentrate). But it went much deeper than that. Managers, terrified of change, treated any new idea as a bizarre virus to be quarantined. Napoleon-complex junior managers insisted that things be done exactly their way or you're fired. Corporate Furniture Police writhed in agony when anyone taped up a movie poster in their cubicle. Disorganization was so rampant that even if the ideas were good, it would have been impossible to make a product out of them. Inexperienced managers practiced hit-and-run management, issuing stern orders on exactly how to do things without sticking around to see the farcical results of their fiats.
And worst of all, the MBA-types in charge thought that coding was a support function, basically a fancy form of typing.
A blunt truth about most of today's big software companies! Unfortunately not every developer is as
gutsy (or
lucky, may I say?) as Joel Spolsky! So my question is:
How best to work with such managers, keep them at bay and still deliver great work?


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UNCTAD to work with Istanbul Commerce University to prosper creative economy in Istanbul.
UNCTAD participated at the YEKON Creative Istanbul Ateliers, an intellectual platform that aims to bring together different sectors in the ecosystem of creative industries in Turkey. The event was held on 16-17 April and was supported by the Istanbul Development Agency.
UNCTAD works with UN partners to help the government of Cabo Verde get the most from its tourism sector and creative economy.
The African Creative Economy Meeting was organized by ARTERIAL Network with the support of the Western Cape Government, the City of Cape Town and the Cape Craft and Design Institute. It attracted around 400 delegates from over 40 countries in Africa and beyond.
The Shanghai Design Week was organized by the Shanghai government with the purpose to promote the construction of "city of design" and support the innovation driven transformation and development of Shanghai.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told a joint Leaders' Summit of the Global Services Forum (GSF) and the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) on Wednesday that services sectors around the world represent the most important opportunities for growth and economic "upgrading" sought by developing countries.
Culture, as exemplified by thriving creative industries around the world, has many positive spillovers for human development, UNCTAD's Deputy Secretary-General has said in China.
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When a spellcaster is controlling undead that they have created, does this count as part of their challenge rating or are they considered separate?
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A good rule of thumb is that anything that was prepared ahead of time should go into the CR, while anything summoned or animated normally during combat would not.
This is brought up in the official 3.5 FAQ, page 114. (It's a long FAQ!) It uses the context of whether you should award XP, but that's pretty similar.
It goes on to discuss several different scenarios, using animate dead as a specific example.
No, minions gained through spellcasting or class abilities do not count extra for their CR.
The GP value for the black onyx gems and the capability to cast animate dead, or command undead, or to have commanded undead via divine ability - all of these count as part of a character's challenge rating. Just make sure they have paid the gold for the gems (from their available treasure) and are still limited by the confines of the spell (two or four times caster level, depending on if desecrate was used).
The canonical answer to this is that anything a creature can do with its power and abilities is included in the CR. But a referee can judge that setup make the encounter harder (or simpler) and increase (or reduce) the CR but there are no rules for this only a suggestion.
For example a wizard is encountered having already used up 90% of his spells for the day might be though of as less hard to beat and I can see no reason not to reduces the CR. IMO if a creature has had chance to fully prepare its power before the encounter starts it should be treated as a harder encounter and give a CR boost, but I never been in a game where the referee has but I have see the CR reduced.


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Teach Kids to Diversify Their Investments
Money ABCs
Dividends are payments by companies to people who own stock in them. Dividends usually are paid in cash, but they can also be made in stock or other property. For example, if your child owns one share of McDonalds, he'll earn a 36¢ cash dividend on that share for the year.
Capital gain distributions are paid by stock mutual fund companies. This represents capital gains the funds have received on selling the stock they've held. It's paid to fund holders like a dividend, but it gets more favorable tax treatment.
Income Versus Growth
Two main categories of investments exist: those that produce a fixed income, and those that go for growth. Fixed income mainly means interest income earned on savings accounts, bonds, and similar investments.
Other types of income relate to non-fixed income investments, such as stocks and stock mutual funds. These two types of income include dividends and capital gain distributions from mutual funds. This income is paid when companies make money and share their good fortune with their shareholders.
Fixed-income investments offer your child certainty. She knows when she buys a fixed-income investment exactly what she'll have when she's through. For example, if she buys a CD paying 5 percent interest for five years, she can figure today to the penny what she'll be paid five years from now.
Fixed-income investments, however, don't offer any possibility that they'll be worth more than expected later on. There's no possibility for growth.
Growth investments, which include stocks and stock mutual funds, are so named because they're held primarily for the chance to have the investment grow in value over time. This growth in value is translated into more money when the stock or fund shares are sold and result in capital gains.
Money ABCs
Capital gain is the appreciation in the value of assets since they've been bought. If your child paid $25 for a share of stock and sells it when the price has risen to $100, the $75 appreciation is capital gains; it's another word for profit.
Adults are always talking about capital gains, and this topic is important for two reasons.
- Capital gains are taxed only when something is sold. So, if your child buys Microsoft and the value of the stock rises by 200 percent, there's no immediate tax to him. The size of his savings has grown because of increases in the price of the stock he owns.
- Capital gains receive special tax treatment. Unlike ordinary income, such as salary, interest, or dividends (which is taxed according to graduated tax rates running from a low of 15 percent to a high of 39.6 percent), capital gains on assets held more than one year have a lower fixed rate of tax. Generally, they're taxed at 20 percent, but people in the lowest tax bracket on their other income pay only a 10 percent capital gains tax. For example, if your 16-year-old's only income for the year is a $3,000 salary, $1,000 in interest and dividends, and $5,000 in capital gains, the portion of his ordinary income that's taxable is subject to a 15 percent tax rate; the capital gains is taxed only at 10 percent. (For kids under 14, the kiddie tax can make them pay the 20 percent adult rate on their capital gains.)
Even without selling growth investments, your child can receive income from them. As explained earlier, growth investments may throw off income in the form of dividends or capital gain distributions by mutual funds.
Changing Allocations
As you've seen, kids have long time horizons for investments and so can wait out the ups and downs of the stock market. They can expect that over the long haul, as has been historically true, stocks will perform better than fixed-income investments. But your child may need money for something that's coming up—buying a car, going to college, starting a business. If the money is targeted for certain special uses, you may have to adjust allocations over time.
- Very young children. Here, allocations may be weighted more heavily toward growth investments. It's still many years away until college or other needs for the money.
- Mid-teens. If money is intended for college, then most experts agree that when your child is about three or four years away from starting, some or all of the money in growth investments should be shifted into fixed income. This will assure that the money needed for tuition will be there even if the stock market dips at the time your child enters college.
More on: Money and Kids
Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Money-Smart Kids © 1999 by Barbara Weltman. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
To order this book visit Amazon's web site or call 1-800-253-6476.


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I have a question about the ranking/list order in the results at Google. Where should I post my question?
Would it be best on Stack Overflow, Super User or Server Fault?
I have a question about the ranking/list order in the results at Google. Where should I post my question?
Would it be best on Stack Overflow, Super User or Server Fault?
Questions about how the Google algorithm work really doesn't fit into any of the Stack Overflow sites (SOFU for short) as it's not the target audience or field of capture for the family of sites.
Your comment:
Stack Overflow
Won't fit here as it's not a programming question. You would need to ask it in a way of how you would create an algorithm like Google has if you were to ask the question at SO.
Server Fault
Won't fit here as it's not about servers or system admin. For it to be, the question might have to be asked like you wanting to work out how to do some load balancing across the servers that are being queried by millions per second. But right now, it would not fit here.
Super User
Won't fit here as it's not a computer question. Unless it was about prefences or something other than how your site is returned.
The Stack Exchange network has grown a lot since this was originally posted, and there is now Webmasters SE, and they have a pagerank tag. If this is still an issue, try asking over there. :)
Well, from what angle are you asking? As a developer? As a web-master? Or as a user?
If the question isn't directly related to one of these roles... perhaps preview the actual question here so we can make a sensible statement.
In case you're curious, the answer is because Google uses secret sauce. That secret saucing process reshuffles everything fairly regularly.


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Steven R. Splitt, 58, of North Platte, died Aug. 15, 2013 at his home. He was born Oct. 20, 1954 to William and Dorothy (Horner) Splitt at Nebraska City. Steve grew up in Nebraska City and graduated in 1973.
He started his employment with NPPD in Beatrice and transferred to Sutherland Gerald Gentleman, where he was currently the operations supervisor with 37 years of service.
On Jan. 10, 1992, he married Judy Lashley. Steve loved Husker football and the N.Y. Yankees. His passion was on Splitt Creek Ranch, where he and Judy raised miniature Herefords. He was instrumental in the Youth Miniature Hereford Association with scholarships and other programs.
He is survived by wife Judy of North Platte; children Amie Splitt of Lincoln, Audrey (Jay) Ediger of North Platte, Kily (Shaun) Brott of North Platte and Briton (Kelli) Gorley of Lincoln; seven grandchildren; brother Dwight (Marni) Splitt of Hastings; sister Sharon (Ron) Buman of Florida; and other relatives.
He was preceded by his parents.
Online condolences may be shared at www.carpentermemorial .com or www.marshall funeral.com. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the Miniature Hereford Youth Foundation.
Memorial services will be 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 19 at Carpenter Memorial Chapel in North Platte. Inurnment will be 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 20, at Lewiston Cemetery near Murray.
Marshall Funeral Chapel in Nebraska City is in charge of local arrangements.
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Boneless Chicken Breast Recipes (Slide 2)
Sorry I had closed this b4 I remembered to say that "not everyone drinks alcoholic beverages" so when a recipe includes it, it would be great to suggest or incl. what you used and define in ( ) ingredients unknown to those embarking upon a cooking experience
— Constance_19
03/03/2013 - 2:58pm
I was expecting delicious - I got bland. The oranges I feel should have been sweeter, there was almost NO sauce for the pasta. The overall taste was watered down even without the water. I would suggest regular whole orange juice and no cinnamon stick. My next time will be with Ginger.
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Up until last week, I had both Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 4.0 installed, which was good for testing web applications.
But now the nightly channel contains Firefox 6 instead of Firefox 4. I tried using the stable channel, but that replaced Firefox 3.6.
in the answer below, "Firefox 3.6" is the installed version, "Firefox 4" is another version you want to use
The Firefox package from Mozilla can be extracted to any directory, like
Important: if you download Firefox from Mozilla, the auto-update feature of Firefox is enabled. The package manager (
Optional steps if you'd like to run Firefox 3.6 and 4 simultaneously with a single command:
Here is what I did for checking out firefox 4 along with pre-installed firefox 3.6 in ubuntu 10.10. You can run only one version at a time and some extensions may not work.
If you download the packages of firefox 4 or later, you can extract the folder, and run the script in the folder named firefox: firefox will open up, with your addons, setting, and bookmarks in place.
NOTE: but in this way the two browsers cannot be used at the same time: one has to be closed (check task manager) for the other to start.
To be able to start both at the same time and to avoid searching for compatibility with addons and so on, you might consider using modified versions of Mozilla Firefox ('clones', re-branded browsers) that do not interfere with each other, like Icecat instead of Firefox 4+ (


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Going through the motions one last time.
My deal hasn't been deleted, just blacklisted. (I won't reference it so as to avoid the "don't post a question about a deal to get more attention" rule.) I know we've been through this before and I vaguely recall the reasoning as being that deals for free items are kept off of the main page because they don't bring any revenue. But it still boggles my mind.
So it was on the main page for about 30 minutes. Doing quite well I might add. And then it is gone. So Woot is paying people to keep deals like mine off of the main page. This is counterproductive. It is precisely those kinds of awesome deals that have prevented me from giving up on deals.woot.
Participating here has officially become burdensome for me. I won't make some melodramatic statement about never coming back, but I do want deals.woot to know that you guys have actually removed all of the fun out of this. And this is something I really enjoyed.
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Wait, now I'm really confused. There's a free content deal on the main page for "Top" deals and it's been there for a few hours.
@thepenrod: It doesn't have the "free" tag on it though.
@bsmith1: So the key is to come up with 5 legitimate tags so that it won't get bumped?
Also, to be fair to everybody, I should point out that my statement about deals.woot taking all the fun out of this is in fact melodramatic. But my melodrama only goes so far.
@thepenrod: they may get changed to 'free' tags regardless.
In my opinion...
free video game content > free dumb recipe book
Thanks woot mods for keeping the stuff I'm interested in at the top!
It is 100% dependent on what mod is on duty. As soon as the haters start tattling (and they do) the mod will make a personal choice to:
1) Tag the item in such a way that it disappears from the Top tab
2) Ignore the tattlers and let it stay
3) Delete the deal entirely.
Anyone who tells you it's not personal is either delusional or lying. This is the reason they will never post official rules.
I only saw the deal after reading the question here. It's a totally goofy, fun freebie worthy of a pole position if the community thinks so via their voting. While it won't make any money for deals, it will steer people to Amazon. In the end doesn't all the money end up in a giant Amazonian piggy bank any way?
Stupid weighted tagging system.
@bsmith1: I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not.
@thepenrod: Just poking you with a stick a bit. All in good fun. :-D
Looks like the other deal was removed from the front page...oops.
Edit: other deal has the "free" tag now
@bsmith1: Ah nuts. I certainly didn't mean for that deal to get removed.
Come on @Mods, put it back up, even if mine doesn't get Tops (although it should).
@ohcheri: I find it terrible (for Deals.woot) and terribly ironic that a business that posts regularly and is generally respected and liked by the community has come to that conclusion. I don't disagree, I just find it sad for woot. I'm curious to know if they've alienated you in past in this regard.
I dunno, maybe it's just me. At least once a day I do a search for free, so I don't miss any deals. Guess the newbs don't know to do that, and the regulars probably do it if they don't want to miss a free deal.
@questionsanswered: I'm not a newb, but I am lazy. Why make this harder on us?
@thepenrod: The #lingerie tag is used to prevent my deals from appearing on the Top tab. If the mod can't call it #lingerie they will tag it #sexy for the same result.
While my regular fans search for me (as you can see by the Leaderboard) this seriously reduces the number of potential new customers and my business has taken a huge hit since they implemented this manipulation tactic.
Obviously it is of no concern to WOOT corporate that I have suffered financial losses, I am using this site for free advertising. But, yes, I am a little bitter.
@ohcheri: thats messed up I remember reading awhile ago a thread you were upset about something but didnt get all the details that is pretty wack the way it's being filtered. As much as I dont love to see certain deals all the time a deal is a deal thats the point of this website.
@questionsanswered: I totally had not thought of that! good idea!
@ohcheri: I was wondering why I was not seeing any more sexytime items on the front.
Bummer they had to create a special tag to discriminate, tho.
Otherwise...Any Serenity postings today? It's been a while and I'm jonesing
@ohcheri: Ouch, I had no idea that had happened. As active and helpful as you are in this community I can understand how that would be a tough pill to swallow. Doesn't anyone take your activity here into consideration?
I wonder if the older school woot! staff members cringe when they hear these new rules.
Last week I posted a question that I asked everyone to downvote. This week I am nine on the leader board without trying. Tides are changing.........
@thumperchick: may have switched a couple letters in my mind there and severely misread that button.
If they do not make money off of it they bury it. Free = no profit. Who cares what your users want, its all about making a buck. They are blind to the fact that these types of deals may attract new users and keep your current user base happy; or they simply do not care. The tag battle is very old news and MANY users left over it. When it was finally addressed @jumbowoot made comments on a question that was something like 3 weeks old to ensure the fewest members possible would see anything about it.
@ohcheri if you want your deals to no longer be buried look into paying them their referral kickback. If Woot is making money off of your deals they will find their way back to page one. You will have to decide which is lesser of the evils.....your deals not seen costing you business or essentially paying Woot to have them listed.
!00% support for all that you have said @ohcheri. I agree. Have raised the question previously about the #free tag. The explanation for that by jumbowoot was: Caution: This IS paraphrased: We don't want customers seeing free (or lingerie or sexy) items when they land (when you click on deals, you see the Top tab) on deals. In essence (my words), saying: You my dear deals members. are not important; the masses of 1 clickers, passers-by, ships-in-the-night people are.
Odd thing: Us, the people who actively post deals are discounted. No matter how much we B & M, nothing will change.
And yes, it IS their site. We must comply w/their rules. Whatever those forever undefined rules are.
What if we had a 'really the top' tab that would show deals in order without the tag punishment.
We would need to have a different name and top would still be the default.
The Tagless Top Tab
Voters Choice
This may get help. It would satisfy the 'oh no too much lingerie' crowd. And make deals fun/fair/great again.
@caffeine_dude: It seems to me the brilliant minds working for WOOT could figure out a way to manipulate just the top three items on deals.woot so the shoppers on the other WOOT properties can see exactly what the Suits o' Woot want them to see.


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Faith in the Audience
Director Rachel Chavkin at Elevator Repair Service's 'Arguendo'
Rachel Chavkin directed "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812," which premiered at Ars Nova and is continuing its commercial run at Kazino. She is a co-founder of the award-winning Brooklyn ensemble the TEAM, whose new production, "RoosevElvis," begins previews at the Bushwick Starr on Tuesday. She opted to see Elevator Repair Service's "Arguendo," directed by John Collins at the Public Theater.
Legalese is the primary language spoken in "Arguendo," which addresses "Barnes v. Glen Theatre," the 1991 Supreme Court case challenging Indiana's nudity ban. It's a language in which Ms. Chavkin, the daughter of two civil-rights attorneys, is fairly fluent.
She's also fluent in Elevator Repair Service's theatrical vocabulary, which combines video, borrowed text, dance (by people who aren't trained in dance) and a meshing of intellectual history with absurdity. "I've tried to see everything they've done since I first moved to the city as an NYU student," she said. "They're hugely inspirational to me."
Elevator Repair Service and Ms. Chavkin's ensemble, the TEAM, both depart from the traditional play-making model with their collaborative approach, which alters the rehearsal process and the power structure therein. "Everyone is functioning as a generator of material," she said.
In "Arguendo," performers Maggie Hoffman, Mike Iveson, Vin Knight, Susie Sokol and Ben Williams have created the show with director John Collins and play multiple roles as justices, attorneys, reporters and dancers. Together they make a kind of joyful chaos, using verbatim discussions from court transcripts on a range of unlikely legal topics: Does the First Amendment protect dance as speech? If so, does stripping constitute dance? And if so, does enforcing the use of g-strings and pasties infringe on a performer's free speech?
The real coup, Ms. Chavkin said, is that they honored the original material while subverting it. "It captures not just the justices' original intentions but also captures the context, the absurdity of talking about stripping in the highest, most formal forum in the country," she said. "They are meeting their source material. They aren't just mocking it. They're manifesting it so that you can see it."
Ultimately "Arguendo" threw down the gauntlet for Ms. Chavkin, who is in the final stages of rehearsals for "RoosevElvis." "The desire to try and engage with ideas, and historical texts, and personal mythology, and national mythology—that ambition, conceptually, is thrilling," she said.
In "RoosevElvis," we meet Ann (Libby King), a lonely 35-year-old meat-processing worker in South Dakota struggling in the morass of gender identity. In search of self, she sets out on a road trip from the Badlands to Graceland with an unusual set of spirit guides, Theodore Roosevelt and Elvis Presley. TEAM members worked on physical and verbal improvisations, or, as Ms. Chavkin called it, "writing on our feet."
They sometimes sat in a circle, each on their individual computers, writing the same scene, with arguments to follow about which worked best. They conducted research about Roosevelt and Presley and borrowed material as they saw fit. As the company's director, Ms. Chavkin served as "the final decider," she said. "I'm not satisfied fully in the theater unless it speaks to my brain as much as my heart."
"Arguendo" had been more than merely satisfying. Elevator Repair Service, she said, had the imagination and the intellect to blend court transcript legalese with their signature theatrical vocabulary, and assumed their audience would keep up. The play, she added, "has faith that its audience will be at least half as smart as it is."


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Let $R$ be a ring (commutative with unit).Let $f_1,...,f_n\in R$ elements that generate the unit ideal. The map $R\to R_{f_1}\times ...\times R_{f_n}$ is faithfully flat, since this is just a Zariski cover. Now, my question is
Is the map $R[[t]]\to R_{f_1}[[t]]\times ...\times R_{f_n}[[t]]$ faithfully flat?
Note that in general $R_f [[t]]\ne R[[t]]_f$, so it is not a special case of the previous map.
I general, I am quite confused about how to work with rings like $R[[t]]$. Objects such as $R_f[[t]]$ seem much more natural then, say, $R[[t]]_f$. Yet abstractly, $R[[t]]_f$ is just a localization, where $R_f[[t]]$ is something more complicated. I guess $R_f[[t]]$ is a "completed" version of $R[[t]]_f$, but what is the formal description that allows one to derive properties of it?
Edit: As said in the comments, every maximal ideal of $A=R[[t]]$ is of the form $\mathfrak{m}+(t)$ and hence its extension in $B=R_{f_1}[[t]]\times ...\times R_{f_n}[[t]]$ is not the unit ideal (looking at the factor where $f_i \not\in \mathfrak{m}$). So the question is whether $A\to B$ is flat or just whether $R[[t]]\to R_f[[t]]$ is flat, since this is trivially equivalent.


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Replacing dimmer. Old dimmer has two black wires attached to two white wires in box. There are two black wires in box not attached to dimmer but wire-nutted together. Is it ok to wire the new dimmer switch the same way?
The quick answer is yes, it is ok however I'd advise to switch the wires. That is, wire nut the two white wires and connect the black wires through the dimmer switch, I'll explain.
You switch box is a hot box, any switch system has a hot box or hot lamp. If power is run directly to the lamp and only switch cables run to the switch you have a hot lamp. In this case you have a hot box, one set of those cable is live and the other set runs to the lamp outlet. On a hot box you want to bridge the neutral lines together(white) and switch the hot lines(black) that way your lamp isn't powered when change a light bulb (and the switch is turned off). Side note to complete: a hot lamp typically runs a black and white to the switch so you'd have one color on each side of the switch.


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This only works as a case for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, but as a Bluetooth keyboard for many.
This is the lowest price I have seen this keyboard as well. Sure, its only a case for the tab... but most smartphones fit in the slot as well and 9.99 for a bluetooth keyboard from a good manufacturer (samsung) that has a built in battery... thats cheap as it goes. Needless to say, I picked one up and no I don't have a Galaxy Tab.
@corrosive: This is made by Logitech and Zagg...not Samsung. It is a good device. I actually bought several last time this site had it at the same price (actually 14.98 with shipping). It took 3 1/2 weeks to finally get them, but they arrived.
Anyone know if these can work with a ps3?
I just got this from woot for 12.99 plus shipping. Typing this on the keyboard as we speak. Very little delay between typing and having the text appear on screen. The edges are a little uncomfortable to rest your hands on, and depending on your version of Android, some of the shortcut keys might not work. I am running stock 4.0 and the brower and gallery keys don't seem to work. Having said that, this is a great addition for your tab. The case fits snugly over top of the screen and hugs the sides of the tab. The only contact point between the case and the screen is a rubber strip, so I feel good about not getting scratches on the screen. Shortcut keys for volume, mute, and music player are awesome.
It's no Razr gaming keyboard in terms of quality, but if you are looking to add some functionality to your Galaxy 10.1 tab, it's definitely worth it.
Says it's compatible with iPads. Anyone know if this will work with 1st gen iPads??


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M's birthday blanket
A few months back Margery was coming up on a "birthday worth noting" and a few of us who love her wanted to mark the occasion by knitting a little something. Thus the idea for this afghan was born. Granted, it was a rather insane thing to take on in December, right before Christmas, and with our rather full schedules, but Adina Klein, Carla Scott and I each slaved over our 16″ x 60″ strips for weeks. Margery loves African textiles, so we made that the theme. I picked out the palette in ultra alpaca and then we were each on our own.
Taking the project very seriously, Adina carefully composed her strip of mitered squares and stripes:
Carla wowed us all with her interpretation of African textiles:
Meanwhile, I was going on the theory that the best tribute to Margery was to try to think like she would. M loves black and white stripes so I threw them in my strip with abandon. I changed colors when I felt like it and I changed the pattern stitch when I felt like it. When I ran out of black, I substituted dark grey…
I rather think Adina and Carla out did me, but I love the finished results and so does Margery. If only I had a movie of the look on her face when we gave it to her!
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In my opinion the 3 strips work beautifully together! I think if the center panel was too fussy it would not have looked so fantastic!March 20, 2008
I really love how you each came up with a different interpretation of African textiles– yet, in the end I also sense a strong Prairie style design component in the finished blanket. I bet FLW would have 'allowed' this blanket into one of his many home designs in a flash.
–a great collaboration, and a lovely gift!March 20, 2008
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DEAR MARGERY! Happy Birthday! And what a gift– awesome! I have nothing to offer but wishes for decades of happy knitting!
Your Providence knitting pal,
DeborahMarch 21, 2008
Candy #
What a stunning blanket! I love the colours and the patterns and it all works so well. M is one lucky girl.March 21, 2008
Eleanor #
What a gorgeous blanket!! And a great idea! Where's the pattern for it?March 21, 2008
Christine #
OH MY G—! That is just breathtaking! when I first read, I thought "Oh…afghan….how nice", but this is such an artful work.
Lucky you, Margery.March 21, 2008
Jenifer #
I just sat a stared! What a stunning blanket. Margery you are a lucky woman to have such a beautiful present, but more lucky to have such wonderful friends. Treasure both always!March 21, 2008
Miriam #
Wow! Wow! Wow! Thanks so much for letting us see it. It is filled with thought, skill, and creativity. Happy birthday, Margery.March 21, 2008
Kate G. #
The palette is wonderful and the mix of patterns definitely works. It's a mash-up of textile history. Any chance the three of you will publish the pattern, now that Margery (who is an original) has the original?March 21, 2008
Arlene #
I love the blanket, amazing how the 3 work together, each made by a different person. Will you publish a pattern?March 21, 2008
Jo Nardi #
How wonderful to know you are so loved!
Would you be offended if I asked you to share the pattern. I have wanted to make an afghan for my youngest son for a few years and until now I have never seen anything that just says "that's him".March 21, 2008
Kathy #
STUNNING! But one word can't describe how all these complexities and simplicities work so well together. We all are fortunate Margery had a BD AND talented friends! Will this pattern or a variation be forthcoming? Normally I crochet afghans but this one I'd start knitting today.March 21, 2008
Alicia Barnes #
Please add me to the list of those hoping you'll share the pattern! Echo Margery's comment…March 21, 2008
Bev Hearn #
I'm in for a pattern of this! I love African textiles and I've never seen such a stunning combination. I love it!March 21, 2008
Laurel #
What an incredible afghan! I'm completely obsessed–I've gone back online just to look at it about 10 times today.
I would love to have the pattern too!March 22, 2008
Susan #
Happy Birthday to you! My wish is that you and your talented knitting friends can turn this into a pattern to share with us. This is indeed a beautiful work of art. You're fortunate to own this AND to have such caring friends.
SuanMarch 22, 2008
Maureen #
What a fantastic Birthday gift! It is absolutely beautiful. Margery is one lucky recipient!March 22, 2008
Rose Metz #
truly a beautiful afghan! would love to have the pattern. However I can understand that it was created with love and so artistically designed that you may want to keep it a secret.March 23, 2008
Carol #
mmmm, that's such a beautiful afghan. Very inspiring. I have a friend who loves animal prints who would love this too. Thank you for sharing – what a bunch of great friends you all are.
(mtmom – I think you are right – hadn't noticed the texture before)March 24, 2008
portlandia #
What a cool design exercise this turned out to be….it showcases the strength of a pre-determined palette and three creative clever brains.March 24, 2008
thiemchan #
hmmm;I love it and i would have a pattern too….pleaseMarch 31, 2008
Mary #
I just love this blanket, absolutely beautiful. In reading some of the comments, I agree, I would love it if this pattern were for sale. I guess I'll check your site to see if it's ever offered.May 5, 2008
Barbara Koffsky #
lovely blanket – am going to take my available yarn and try to come up with something (not as unique), but my own creation. Thank-you for the wonderful inspiration.June 27, 2008


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'GAME will turbocharge eSports in the UK'
GAME's £20m swoop for Multiplay can transform eSports in the UK, say leading industry execs.
SONY: Gamescom 2014 roundup
Microsoft may have impressed with its Gamescom 2014 presentation, but Sony stepped up to steal this year's Cologne show.
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It's almost 20 years since Lara Croft made her video games debut yet the star of Tomb Raider has today proved she's more relevant than ever.
E3 2014: Day Two News Round-Up
Day two of E3 2014 is over and gamers have been treated to one of the best shows in recent memory.
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Day one of E3 2014 has been and gone and certainly gave everyone plenty to talk about.
E3 2014: Sony news roundup - did PS4 go and win it again?
The race to declare a 'winner' of E3 each year can often verge on the idiotic and essentially comes down to a host of immeasurably subjective criteria.
Dedicated virtual reality website VRFocus arrives
A new independent website focusing on virtual reality is now live.
Huge coverage for FIFA 14 Bale cover reveal
4.2m Facebook users saw the news that Spurs winger Gareth Bale will be the cover star in this year's FIFA 14.
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It is known that passport stamps are a kind of collection for many people. But, inside European Union, we -EU citizens- are allowed to travel without passport, just with our national ID card (if we have in our countries).
Is there any way to get passport stamps like non-EU citizens? If you identify yourself with the passport instead of ID card of course it is allowed, but they don't stamp your passport.


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Published: Thursday, November 8, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 11:01 a.m.
Pardee Hospital's breast cancer support group, Breast Friends Forever, held a special Celebration of Life Ceremony Oct. 25 at the Elizabeth Reilly Breast Center. The event is the third annual ceremony which celebrates women who have overcome issues related to breast cancer and survivorship.
Survivors of breast cancer were able to share their stories and experiences with others. Kristy Capps, breast care navigator and support group facilitator, led the group of breast cancer survivors in a special balloon release using biodegradable balloons. The Breast Friends Forever support group meets monthly at the Elizabeth Reilly Breast Center at Pardee and is open to women who currently have breast cancer or have previously been treated for the disease.
This group is free and open to the public. For more information about this support group, contact Kristy Capps at 828-698-7334.
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Zippo All In One Kit (Lighter/Fluid/Flints) for $12.95 + free shipping
All In One Kit Street Chrome
Contains: Street Chrome Zippo
Pack of Flints
4oz Lighter Fluid
This is worth the price for the lighter alone.
Paired with their lifetime warranty this is the way to go.
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For an extra $0.54 you can get it from Amazon with Prime/Super Saver.
(correct me if I'm wrong, but when I'm logged in... anything that's Prime Eligible is also Super Saver Eligible?)
Not necessarily but supersaver shipping for those without prime requires a 25 min purchase price. Prime is great but not everyone has it.
I don't think this deal is that great, the zippo itself is ~$9.50 always on Amazon and the flints + 4oz fluid is ~$3 at any store. (or you could get 12oz of fluid and the flints for ~$4.50)
I'm not saying that this isn't a good product at a good price, because it is, but it is not any cheaper than it always is so this doesn't belong on a deal website.
ps- each old bic lighter contains a flint that is 3x the size of a zippo flint so if you keep your old bic lighters you will never need to buy zippo flints.


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By David G. Styles.
Volvo's P1800 was designed in Sweden and Italy, built in England, Scotland and Sweden, and sold throughout the world; thus, it has a fascinating history.
David Styles takes a look back to the first Volvo and traces its design and traces its design and development through to its launch in 1961.
He covers the various variations of the 1800 coupe and the 1800ES sportwagon.
He includes the complete history of all 1800 variations, full technical specs for each model, and advice on buying and maintaining an 1800.
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"I would urge in the name of the suffering people that the focus on constructive media news rather than look for sensationalism and try to pass the wrong message across the continent. There is no easy undertaking in a peace process. It is challenging. So we wish you to be objective and constructive."
Since the day of independence began South Sudan, it heralded to the people of south Sudan that they would ultimately be crowned with the dividend of independence and peace. But within a short period of time, only in two years, we witnessed today that again parents are burying their loved ones, their sons and daughters. This is painful, painful to the people of South Sudan, painful to all of us in the region because peace, tranquility, development and success is indivisible in our region."
"The parties have agreed to tackle two critical items of agenda both of which are to clear the way for going into substantive talks that brough the conflict in the country. These are the cessation of hostilities with all elaborate mechanism for verification and monitoring, but also the status of detainees. Addressing these issues would naturally and obviously create a conducive environment for the talks."
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Insecurity continues in South Sudan, more than a week after pro- and anti-government negotiators signed a cessation of hostilities agreement.
The ceasefire deal follows a week of direct talks between negotiators for David Yau Yau's rebellion and the Juba government.
In a message recorded during a visit to Washington, Ambassador Susan Page pledges continued U.S. support as South Sudanese work to build a peaceful, democratic country
South Sudan releases seven of 11 political figures arrested after unrest broke out in Juba on Dec. 15, and hands them over to the custody of the authorities in neighboring Kenya. Four other detainees could face treason charges.
U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos warns that fears among the displaced that the fighting is not yet over could cause an already dire humanitarian situation in South Sudan to get worse.
In the largest of South Sudan's 10 states, only the town of Lankien still has a functioning secondary hospital, MSF Executive Director Arjan Hehenkamp says.
Islamist scholar Khalid Tigani, member of Movement for Change, says President Omar al-Bashir should instead focus on greater political freedoms
Borge Brende tells AFP South Sudan needs proper verifying and monitoring tools
But aid agencies warn that the end of fighting will not immediately alleviate the suffering of the people, nearly 600,000 of whom were forced from their homes by the conflict.
Pro-rebel general says attacks occurred in South Sudan's Unity and Jonglei States
The deal calls for fighting to stop within 24 hours and for an end to rights abuses and attacks on civilians, thousands of whom have died in nearly six weeks of conflict in the world's newest nation.
Foreign minister says government in Juba has demonstrated commitment to politically resolve South Sudan's conflict
President Salva Kiir's order for the governors of Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile states to prepare assessment reports of damages in their states from nearly six weeks of fighting came just hours before the two sides in the conflict signed a ceasefire deal.
Representatives for President Salva Kiir and his opponents sign plan in Ethiopia's capital after three weeks of mediation
Opposition and government forces swap blame for destroying the town, where local officials say some 2,000 people have been killed since South Sudan plunged into unrest just over five weeks ago.
Annual report, released by Human Rights Watch also finds that gays and lesbians are under severe threat in several countries
President Salva Kiir calls the U.N. Mission in South Sudan a parallel government to his own.
Senior human rights official says 'thousands' of people have been killed in violence and some of worst human rights violations may constitute crimes against humanity
South Sudan government expresses surprise as Information Minister is denied permission to enter U.N.site in Bor where 10,000 people are sheltering, but the U.N.says it is merely enforcing its no-weapons rule and remaining neutral in the five-week conflict.
MSF says it is stopping work in Malakal, which a resident says is under the control of anti-government forces.
People who fled Bentiu in Unity state say women are being raped, people killed, and shops looted, and a top U.N. official says the town has been wiped off the map.
The announcement that members of the SPLA have been detained comes after a report says there have been widespread ethnic killings in the country's month-long conflict.
Doctors Without Borders says attacks make it difficult to continue the medical group's work in South Sudan, where it has treated hundreds of people in the month since fighting broke out between pro- and anti-government forces.
Group calls for commission of inquiry into alleged abuses and crimes
A spokesman for President Salva Kiir also denies that rebels have retaken the town of Malakal in oil-rich Upper Nile state.
Conflict, insecurity hinder aid efforts
The UN announced on Tuesday that the number of people displaced by a month of fighting has reached nearly 500,000
A spokesman for former vice president Riek Machar says rebels retook the key oil town after several days' fighting, and vowed to keep crude production on stream.
Internal displacement rises above 350,000
Citizens are fleeing in enormous numbers, taking refuge across Nile River in the small village of Mingkamen, where there is little shelter
Spokesman says accident happened on White Nile river near city of Malakal
Around 3,000 refugees a day pour into Uganda, where they have to wait in crowded transit camps to be registered.
With no end in sight to country's conflict, UN stepping in to assist growing number of displaced, already nearing 400,000.
Foreign minister says President Kiir could only intervene after 'legal process' against detained officials is concluded
Riek Machar says main sticking points are continued detention of 11 opposition politicians, reports of Ugandan military support of Juba government
The capital of South Sudan's second biggest oil-producing state was retaken from rebels loyal to former vice president Riek Machar after a two-hour battle Friday, army spokesman Philip Aguer says.
Analysts say tensions began a few years ago when former VP started envisioning himself as a more fitting leader in what was then the semi-autonomous region of southern Sudan
Peace talks in Addis Ababa stumble, civilians flee fighting in South Sudan, a senior U.S. State Department official warns South Sudan is on the brink of collapse three years after its citizens voted "peacefully and joyfully" for independence from Sudan.
According to UN, more than 200,000 people have been displaced since violence began December 15, with numbers increasing by the day
Impasse continues as President Kiir insists rebels drop demand for release of 11 detainees, arrested late last year over alleged coup plot
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, says well over 1,000 civilians have died in the fighting in South Sudan and vows to continue providing assistance to them, despite many challenges facing humanitarian agencies.
Rebels have signaled they are unlikely to sign proposed cease-fire agreement unless government frees 11 pro-rebel officials detained soon after fighting began last month
Most South Sudanese have fled to Uganda, putting a strain on the country that has already received thousands of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The SPLA and a retired bishop say long-time rebel leader David Yau Yau wants to sign a ceasefire deal with the government to help alleviate the plight of civilians displaced by the current unrest in South Sudan.
IGAD chief mediator Seyoum Mesfin says the two sides in the South Sudan conflict are ready to start substantive talks, and pleads with them to bring peace to their country, where generations of parents have lost their children to war.
The initiative in Western Bahr el Ghazal to recruit young men and women to fight alongside SPLA forces gets a mixed reaction from residents.
Ugandan officials are moving many of the refugees to settlement camps and taking steps to vaccinate them against hepatitis E and polio
Sudanese leader's pledge comes during brief visit to southern capital, Juba, where he met with South Sudan President Salva Kiir
Following delays, two sides were set to meet face-to-face in Ethiopia but disagreements over 'protocol issues' continue to forestall actual negotiations
Machar says he supports prosecution of those who commit gross human rights violations in South Sudan's conflict
Representatives for President Salva Kiir and ex-vice president Riek Machar are expected to discuss details for a cease-fire and rebel demands for the release of political prisoners
Negotiators for President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar meet separately in Addis Ababa with African mediators to try to hammer out the ground rules for face-to-face talks to end three weeks of violence in South Sudan.
U.S. Ambassador Susan Page will stay in Juba, but the State Department urges Americans still in South Sudan to leave immediately, citing the deteriorating security situation.
The number of displaced persons is growing by thousands each day and will continue to grow if the South Sudanese leaders are unable to reach a peace deal at talks in Addis Ababa, a top U.N. official says.
Fighters aligned with former vice president Riek Machar make demand known ahead of face-to-face negotiations to start Friday in Ethiopia
Former Vice President Riek Machar says President Salva Kiir has "disunited" the government and calls for him to step down.
Representatives of President Salva Kiir, rebel leader Riek Machar in Ethiopia following weeks of violence that has left more than 1,000 people dead
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South Sudan in Focus airs at 7:30 pm in Juba (1630 UTC) and can be heard on FM stations throughout South Sudan, on shortwave, and on VOA's 24-hour channel in Nairobi at 8:30 pm. The program is hosted by John Tanza in Washington D.C., and a network of stringers around South Sudan, and reporters in Washington, D.C., produce the stories that are heard on South Sudan in Focus.
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Feature request: Support for Ext.picker.Date
I get into the rare condition that I need to put an Ext.picker.Date in a view.
I know that I can use override class but I see no reason why this component is not supported in SD.
Is in the backlog?
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Can Date Menu serve your purpose? It uses Ext.picker.Date internally so all the functionality should be available? You can configure hideOnClick to false to make it function exactly like Ext.picker.Date
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ExtJS4 developers generally rely on third-party plugins for DateTime functionality, as the default (dropdown) widgets are ugly and generally unfriendly. At the very least, good third-party plugin support would help this greatly.
2 Apr 2012 11:46 AM #4
We have said multiple times in the last weeks that third party plugin support is coming but not in 2.0. If anything you want to ask has to do with that, you already have the answer . We know it's important and we'll do it for sure, just give us time.--
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