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I am studying Computer Science and as a group of other students we tend to stay behind in university to do our coursework. Being computer science students we tend to work on a problem for hours on end with no break. We are there for a number of ours e.g. we didn't leave til 2am tonight. I want to break the habit of working and banging our heads on a problem for hours non stop by having little breaks or big breaks. I've been thinking aobut some activities but I don't know what we can do during these breaks. I've thought about card games but not everyone know how to play or wants to play. What can you guys recommend?
Perhaps the best is physical activity of some kind. That doesn't necessarily mean pumping iron or riding a stationary bike to nowhere...simply walking and getting out of the work environment might be enough.
I'm in no way a visual artist, so I find it helpful to challenge myself with something visual: Zendoodles, origami, whatever. It just has to be something completely different from the work activity and something I don't have any hangups about being particularly good at.
Sometimes it is good just to free your mind but it depends how you work with your team but if your working pattern works, why to change it?
If you want to be more creative I would say change the activity completely. I wouldn't say card games is the best when you worked on the computer science, in my opinion is quite close, as you still trying to thing about patterns and algorithms.
Maybe try something still creative but completely different and fun. I would say Charades. There is a few advantages. You may control your time. Making three teams with 5 minutes each, you exactly control your break. It is still creative, but you may choose to play with a movie's title or cartoon characters or whatever you wish and it is fun in most of cases.
You may also try some physical activity which will get your blood going faster. In general change the subject and have fun.
Also, did you met pomodoro technique. There are a few nice apps to have better control on your time.
Taking regular breaks is a great way to relax a bit and regain sanity, which makes you more productive at work. You could have some coffee or talk things that are unrelated to work.


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There's a big celebration in the works for the 250th wedding anniversary of the marriage of Abigail and John Adams.
The Abigail Adams Historical Society, Adams National Historical Park, and First Church in Weymouth will proudly commemorate the 250th anniversary by presenting the 250th Wedding Anniversary Celebration Weekend of Abigail and John Adams, from Friday, October 24 through Sunday, October 26.
Events will be held at the Abigail Adams Birthplace, 180 Norton Street, Weymouth; The First Church in Weymouth, 17 Church Street; and Adams National Historical Park, 135 Adams Street, Quincy.
Open to the public, this series of events will span three days.
The public is invited to wear eighteenth-century attire to the events.
This is just the first event listed in an extravagant unfolding throughout the weekend: On Friday, Oct. 24, a living history presentation welcomes the public to travel back in time and witness the presidential couple on their wedding day.
Abigail Adams descendant Abigail Elias LaCroix prepares for the wedding at Abigail Adams Birthplace, then travels by horse and carriage to The First Church, where a commemorative wedding will be held.
Reenactor Michael LePage portrays John Adams, and Henry Cook portrays Abigail's father, the Reverend William Smith, who officiates the marriage.
Students of Weymouth schools and the public line the route to wish them well.
Admission is free; reservations are highly recommended, seating is limited to capacity. Event will be held rain or shine. The public is invited to wear eighteenth-century attire to the wedding reenactment and reception that follows.
Complimentary reception including colonial treats and tours immediately follows at Abigail Adams Birthplace.
For a complete schedule and detailed information on the events of the 250th Wedding Anniversary Celebration Weekend of Abigail and John Adams, to make event reservations (available after September 1), or for membership, program, or donation details to support Abigail Adams Birthplace, visit www.abigailadamsbirthplace.com. The weekend's events are generously co-sponsored by The Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, The First Church in Weymouth, and Adams National Historical Park. To learn more about The Adams Papers, please visit www.masshist.org. For more information on First Church, visit www.firstchurchweymouth.webs.com. For more information on Adams National Historical Park, visit www.nps.gov/adam/index.htm.
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Durango resident Jessie Mae Winecki died of heart failure Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012, at Four Corners Health Care Center in Durango. She was 98.
Mrs. Winecki was born to William and Hilda Greget on Nov. 3, 1913, in Mayville, Wis. She completed the eighth grade in Mayville.
On May 13, 1936, she married Benjamin Winecki in Stevens Point, Wis.
Mrs. Winecki was the head chef and restaurant manager of the well-known Hot Fish Shop in Stevens Point for more than 25 years.
She was an accomplished quilter in her retirement, and she rescued and loved a number of cats and dogs, her family said.
Mrs. Winecki moved to Durango in October 2011 to be closer to her granddaughter Jessie Kileen and great-grandchildren.
�This was Jessie�s first time in the mountains, and it was a grand adventure,� her granddaughter said. �She played Yahtzee almost every day, and she could add up the points on the card faster than anyone.�
Mrs. Winecki was preceded in death by her husband of 69 years, Benjamin Winecki, in 2005.
She is survived by her children, Robert Winecki of San Antonio, Susan Winecki of Milwaukee, Ronald Winecki of Hot Springs, Ark., Richard Winecki of Walnut Grove, Calif., William Winecki of Pensacola, Fla., and Mary Lou Lineberger of Bluffton, S.C.; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Cremation will occur. A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, at Hood Mortuary Chapel, 1261 East Third Ave. Chaplain Susan Winecki will officiate.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the La Plata County Humane Society, 1111 South Camino del Rio, Durango, CO 81303.


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Why is string theory in 10 or 26 dimension not divergent? Due to the high number of spacetime dimension (10 or 26) it should have a lot of UV divergencies of the form $ \int k^{n}dk $ and gravity within the approach of the string theory should be non-renormalizable too, or shouldn't it?
Bosonic closed oriented string theory is divergent in flat space time, see for example Lecture 3 of D'Hoker in "Quantum Fields and Strings" Volume 2. The reason is the presence of the tachyon. To my knowledge for the NS-NS string finiteness is only known up to one loop and already difficult.
Edit: Apparently a little bit more is known for the superstring, see Lectures on Two-Loop Superstrings by D'Hoker and Phong. This seems to be the most recent result.


text: Real Life Scenario: Do you Take the Cookie? By Kary Woodruff May 16, 2014 Eating healthy in public can be difficult when people aren't on the same page. Especially at work meetings. Here's a scenario that many people find themselves in at work, and I'm interested to see how everyone handles such a situation. Read More


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SPEAK! A Spoken Word Open-Mic Event
Location:St. Helena Branch
Date & Time:Monday, April 1, 2013 - 3:00pm
Date & Time:Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 3:00pm
Date & Time:Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 3:00pm
Pace! Punctuation! Presence! You need it all to SPEAK! Learn the best techniques of drama and poetry, then step up to the mic and "perform" your creation as Spoken Word. Instructor: LaShanta Smith. For ages 12-18.


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I'm quite new to bash scripting and have been going reasonably well but have run into an issue.
I am trying to create a script that uses a forward slash (/), however, I keep getting the error message
/: is a directory.
So basically what I need is to pass the command
test/(hello) to a program in the terminal. So I have added backslashes to make it work:
test\/\(hello\), however, I get this error. What is wrong here?


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Enjoy an evening of multicultural music that promotes peace, justice, and equality!
Part of the proceeds will be donated to SARA.
Donations accepted at the door.
Suggested donations:
Adults: $5-%15
Children (5-12 years): $4
Under 5 years: Free
The Charlottesville Women's Choir sings primarily a cappella music from a variety of cultural traditions; our themes include women's issues, peace, justice, and spirituality. CWC started in 1984 with just 11 members; 25 years later, CWC has grown to 30 members and continues its tradition of singing at various vigils, services, and an annual spring benefit concert.
© 2016 National Sexual Violence Resource Center – Founded by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
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HARKER HEIGHTS (January 24, 2013)--Centex Homes in partnership with the Fort Hood Fisher House are hosting an event to give back to soldiers.
The Fisher House provides Fort Hood families who are facing a medical crisis a temporary home away from home.
On Saturday, those who visit a model home during the grand opening of Tuscany Meadows in Harker Heights will be contributing $5 for the Fisher House, donated by Centex Homes.
A similar event is scheduled February 9 in Killeen at Yowell Ranch homes.
For more information, call (512) 448-4950.


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In the Water's Edge Way level, I know there is an alternate exit that allows me to get to the one level in that area that I haven't finished. Problem is, I have played the level a few times now and haven't been able to find the alternate exit!
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The 7 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Movies of the Decade
RiffTrax are hilarious movie commentaries written and performed by the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000, the TV show that taught many a Cracked writer how to speak smartass. As a sign of our gratitude, we offered them the chance to do our jobs for us for the day.
At RiffTrax, we spend a lot of time watching bad movies and making them funny, because we're big fans of laughing, and also making ourselves suffer. There are many breeds of bad movie. Some are so inept that they're unwatchable, some so psychotic and bent that the viewer comes away feeling like his very soul has somehow become greasy, and some are Transformers movies, which manage to combine both. Our favorite breed, though, is the unintentionally hilarious movie -- the movie that misses its mark so widely, all you can do is cackle through confused tears of joy, delighted by the raw, stupid chaos of the void. Or maybe that's just us. One timeless great of this genre is Manos: The Hands of Fate (which, incidentally, we'll be riffing live nationwide August 16). But you don't have to go all the way back to the '60s to find these accidental gems -- they're still being made today. Here, now, are some of our absolute favorites from the last decade.
#7. Sex and the City 2
The lovely ladies of Sex and the City have baked you a tasty gourmet cupcake! A cupcake prepared from the dandruff of that homeless guy who wears a Fran Tarkenton jersey from 1977 made crunchy by his own accumulated effluvium and still sleeps on his dog that died three weeks ago; one filled with the earwax of Norway rats and frosted with lard left over from Nick Nolte's liposuction. (So you can see that while my calling it "tasty" may have been misleading, it is technically accurate.)
Much like the title of this movie.
Sex and the City 2 is such a shocking misfire that it is almost literally impossible to watch it without scrunching up your face and backing up a few inches from your television. By the end you'll be behind the couch weeping, cursing God and gnawing skin off the back of your hand.
It's not very good.
Spot the camel.
Oh, all the main characters are back. There's that whore-y one, that other whore-y one, the one who's supposed to be cute but isn't and the one whose face looks like a dromedary camel who used a moisturizer with methylparaben, causing all its hair to fall out save for the thick black ones on its wart (dromedary camels are, as you well know, allergic to methylparaben). There's also Mr. Big, of course, who, improbably, is not a circus strongman, but rather the oily, repulsive husband of one of them (do you really care which one?).
When the pressures of modern life, which as far as I can tell consist wholly of swilling liquor and buying crap, start to wear on them, does our cast seek relief as any normal person would, e.g., eating a four-person portion of smoked pork shoulder straight from the aluminum tray it came in from the store? No, they hustle off to that hotbed of drunken trampdom, Abu Dhabi. Really, they do. The stars of Sex and the City spend the bulk of their time in the city of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
Above: The gang is rescued by Sarah Jessica Parker's parents.
Though as a film it is 99 percent twisted wreckage, in one scene it does ably cater to an underserved audience: That is, those few but highly passionate people who long to see a woman hurl fistfuls of condoms at a crowd of devout Muslims and then flip them double birds while shrieking vile profanities that would cause the demon Pazuzu to say, "Hey, whoa, back it down there, lady. We're not animals." If you are one of those people, seek help.
For all others, I believe you'll enjoy surgery on that bone spur in your foot more than this film.
At least the surgery comes with painkillers.
So what, then, is hilarious about this? It is a hilarious trick to invite someone over for a movie, show this and watch their intestines boil as they claw their own eyes out!
#6. Battlefield Earth
There's a lot of Travolta going on here, and I promise we'll get to that. We are not made of stone! And we all know this is a legendarily bad movie. But did you know that the people who created this unintentionally comic classic were deadly serious about its important message? Oh yes they were! Battlefield Earth is one of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's dreary sci-fi tomes that some dum-dum Hollywood people (and some dum-dum others, too, to be fair) literally treat as the Gospel. In this particular story, L. Ron's goal was stated by the proto-fascist charlatan himself: "I was a bit disgusted with the way the psychologists and brain surgeons mess people up so I wrote a fiction story based in part on the consequences that could occur if the shrinks continued to do it."
Aha -- so this was Freud's plan all along!
Yep. A "fiction story." He just went ahead and wrote that thing. Battlefield Earth tells the tale of humanity's bleak future, in the conveniently round year of A.D. 3000 (can you imagine using that in the title of any respectable piece of entertainment?!). Earth has been conquered by a bunch of smelly, dreadlocked giants called the Psychlos, who somehow represent that great demon psychiatry. Subtle nomenclature, I know, but if you think about it, the words sort of sound the same: Psychlo, psychiatry, OF COURSE I AM KIDDING IT'S AS SUBTLE AS A CINDER BLOCK UPSIDE THE HEAD. It is a ridiculous book, but for some reason the people at St. Martin's Press published it in 1982. Its initial title was Man, the Endangered Species, and the fact that a respectable publishing house put it out made a good case for that title as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
This is Mitt Romney's favorite novel. No, seriously.
Well, years later, a decent-for-a-white-guy dancer/fan of exciting massage/Hollywood dum-dum named John Travolta -- acolyte of all things L. Ron -- decided that it needed to be a movie, and achieved the impossible: He made the book look great by comparison. The great pleasure of watching Travolta chew scenery in Battlefield Earth is knowing that he really thought he was saying something deep, man. But it's a clown show through and through: All the poor bastards playing Psychlos along with Travolta (including genuinely excellent actor Forest Whitaker) join him in gnawing the furniture, performing like drunk thespians at a particularly down-on-its-luck Renfest. The actors playing the humans must have all been told on pain of being fired, "Your main job is to portray incredible, mind-bending dumbness, and with the least amount of charisma mathematically possible." The Psychlos call things they don't like "craplousy" -- one word -- and while awkward, it describes every single goddamned second of this film perfectly. The "hero" humans' battle cry is, I swear to God, "Blow the Dome!" Man, nobody gets out of this Scientological poo-fest with any dignity, and that makes it all the more Schadenfreudentastic. Praise Xenu!
Nothing Travolta does will ever make this un-happen.
#5. Crossroads
The pitch meeting for Crossroads must have gone something like this: "We should make a movie and Britney Spears should be in it." No surprises there. In 2002, she was still the hottest pop star on the planet. If you'd have suggested that a guy like K-Fed might one day popo her zao, you'd have been laughed out of one of the thousands of Britney forums where middle-aged men posing as 12-year-old girls slowly whiled away the final years of their once-happy marriages.
We hereby retract this entire segment of our article.
The Crossroads meetings that I wish we'd seen took place a bit farther down the line. Meetings like the one that must have happened at some point in time, where a junior executive timidly raised his hand and said, "Should this low-budget pop star vanity project really have a scene where it turns out that Britney's best friend's fiance got her other best friend pregnant by raping her?"
Then, after that unfortunate person had been fired and production continued, there definitely had to be another meeting where an assistant junior executive cautiously cleared her throat and asked, "OK, but in this movie targeted toward the pre-teens that make up Britney's audience ... after the boyfriend is revealed as a rapist, should the pregnant friend really flee the scene, trip down a flight of stairs and have a miscarriage?"
Frankly, we're tired of this go-to trope.
After that firing, an unpaid intern most assuredly chimed in at a meeting and said, "I'm just an unpaid intern, but should Britney's dad really be played by an enormous garbage bag filled almost to bursting with turkey stuffing?" Then he said, "No, I've never heard of Dan Aykroyd, I'm 18." Then he said, "You're kidding! That's the Blues Brothers guy? Did he eat John Belushi?"
That guy wasn't fired because his uncle is McG, but finally, a caterer chimed in at a meeting and said, "I know I don't work here, but you're not really going to have the fiance reveal himself as the rapist by taking a sip of beer from a blue bottle, which the girl he raped mentioned he was also drinking the night that he raped her? Not only do I not think they make beer in blue bottles, but the mere act of drinking one would hardly be construed by any rational person as solid evidence that you're a rapist. Which of you idiots had the Reuben?"
Definitely a rapist, or maybe blue beers were just on sale.
The point I'm making is that if you went into Crossroads expecting a dippy little road trip movie where the three childhood friends sing Sheryl Crow songs in a convertible and improbably win hundreds of dollars in a Bourbon Street karaoke contest, you would have been right. But the movie also attempted to tackle weighty, real-life issues such as teen pregnancy, rape, murder and parental abandonment, with hilarious consequences. It's like a blender full of Lifetime TV movies set to puree and then poured straight into a toilet.
When the 18-year-old girls learn that the stranger who is driving them to LA has been in prison for murder, one of them brushes it off by saying, "So he may have killed someone, OK? So what? He did his time, he's paid his debt to society!" When valedictorian Britney Spears arrives at her mother's house to meet her for the first time, her mother promptly tells her she was a mistake and that she never wants to see her again. Would it make it even funnier if in this supposedly tragic scene, Britney's mom was hamfistedly played by Kim Cattrall? Done and done!
We thought Baby Geniuses would be her rock bottom. We were wrong.
The only explanation that makes any sense to me? Director Tamra Davis, of Billy Madison, Half Baked and CB4 fame, knew she was making another stoner classic. "No, seriously, guys, they'll be howling. By the time the Apple Guy from the ads coats himself in baby powder and literally begs Britney for sex on prom night, they'll completely forget that this movie was meant for sixth-grade girls. Now pass the bong and button up Aykroyd's shirt, I think some stuffing is starting to leak out."
#4. The Wicker Man
Odds are, you know the memes. You've seen the highlight videos. Nic Cage in a bear suit. Nic Cage in a bear suit, punching women in the face. Nic Cage screaming "NOT THE BEES!" as a fun-loving gang of honey cultists pour bees onto his face -- a scene that, many critics argue, could only be improved by the inclusion of a bear suit. And that stuff's all great, obviously. But there's so much more. If you're someone who likes laughing for the wrong reasons, and I sense that you are, there's no better treat than sitting down to feed your brain every delusional second of The Wicker Man.
If you only watch one movie this year with a full-body bee dress, let it be this one.
Not only is the comedy unintentional, it's unintentional as hell. This remake of the well-regarded 1973 British original was definitely meant to be taken seriously. They hired popular celebrity man-rodent Cage as the lead, and Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn to rule the honeypot in full Braveheart makeup. It was written and directed by Neil LaBute, a controversial playwright whose previous work included one of the first major plays about the 9/11 attacks -- so, yeah, serious. He's known for exploring gender roles, and The Wicker Man explores them with all the subtlety of a tire fire in church -- did I mention the repeated punching of women in the face? Or the fun, flirty subplot with Leelee Sobieski that culminates in Nic kicking her into a wall? Or the fact that the movie ends with Cage burned alive by the daughter he was tricked into conceiving years before by a group of conniving women? The misogyny would be unsettling if the whole thing wasn't such a goofy-ass cartoon.
Cartoons generally have more-believable action scenes.
But that's what makes The Wicker Man so great: the giant abyss between what it wants to be and what it actually is. It's a horror movie with no scares, occurring entirely in broad daylight. It's a psychological thriller with no thrills, or psychology. When it goes for creepy, you just laugh, partially because Nic Cage's reactions are just as nonsensical as the movie itself. He's in the movie, but clearly doesn't know what the hell it's about. He goes back and forth between sleepwalky mumbling and full-throttle shouting madness, always at the wrong times. When he learns the cult is into selective breeding and ritual sacrifice, his response is a mild "I don't GET you. I don't GET this place." When faced with unspeakable horror, Cage seemingly thought to himself, "What would Chandler Bing say?"
The film's finest WTF moment, and one you won't find in the Best Of compilations, comes right after policeman Cage arrives on the cult's island to search for a missing girl. He meets some villagers carrying a large burlap sack, and whatever's in the sack is squirming and dripping blood. He takes a good look at this -- remember, he's searching for a missing girl -- musters his years of police experience, and asks, "What's in the bag? A shark or something?"
There have been no sharks. There's no reason to think of sharks, or, really, anything other than THE MISSING GIRL HE IS THERE TO FIND. He gets no answer, and asks no follow-ups. Shark was all he had. He took his best shot, and his best shot was shark. And that sentence makes about as much sense as the whole movie.
He didn't even start with "baby seal" and move up from there.
Every great joke needs a punchline, and The Wicker Man doesn't disappoint. After Cage meets his screaming, charbroiled death, the film ends and a title slate appears: "For JOHNNY RAMONE." Sure. I don't know why it's there, and I don't want to find out. As it stands, it's the perfect absinthe-soaked cherry on the cyanide-and-gravy sundae that is The Wicker Man.


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CHARLESTON - Former West Virginia Democratic Party Chairman Nick Casey acknowledges "it doesn't matter anymore whether you are a Democrat or Republican" when one seeks public office in the Mountain State.
Casey, 59, of Charleston, announced Tuesday he will seek the Democratic nomination to West Virginia's 2nd District U.S. House seat next year. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-Charleston, now holds the seat, but has indicated she will run for U.S. Senate in 2014, rather than seek an additional House term.
An attorney for 36 years, Casey is the managing partner of the Lewis, Glasser, Casey & Rollins law firm.
"The businesses I work with don't need a Democrat or Republican representing them - they just need someone to work for them," Casey said. "They want someone who is a rational, main stream individual. They don't want a knucklehead who goes there (to Washington) for the sake of a fight - who only says 'no.' They want rational, normal people ....
"Most people don't care if you're a Democrat or Republican - they just want something done."
The 2nd District encompasses the state's Eastern Panhandle, then extends westward diagonally across the middle-section of West Virginia - taking in Charleston and extending to the state's border with Ohio.
In addition to being an attorney, Casey also has worked as a certified public accountant. He presently serves as treasurer-elect of the American Bar Association, where he said he oversees a consolidated budget of $205 million.
"I know how to work a budget, and I would like to take a pencil to the U.S. budget," he said. "If you put an accountant's eye to it, you can squeeze the budget a little. You don't have to cut.
"I understand the budget."
Some political reports suggested Casey might be considering a run for U.S. Senate, and opposing Capito in the 2014 general election.
But he explained he has always lived in Charleston and the 2nd District, and understands well its "true logistics and size."
Running for Senate, Casey continued, would have required excessive traveling throughout the state to get to know other areas - and someone wanting to effectively do this would have had to start their campaign six months ago, he added.
Casey said he instead wants to focus on the issues of the 2nd District.
"It's a big district - but not very wide," he commented. "You have to reach out to folks ... because they are all different. It's a really diverse district.
"You have to work hard to make sure you understand the diverse needs, and the different priorities in different parts of the district."


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I have an external hard drive connected to macbook. When I am listening to music and my mac is not in sleeping mode everything is fine, but after 15 min. when display is turning off and music is still playing my hard drive has very weird behavior - it looks like it turning on/off every 40 seconds 'to load a little bit of music and continue sleeping' making simultaneously ugly sounds/snaps. I don't remember the same behavior when I used Windows.
It's likely just the parking of heads and the disk wanting to stay in "sleep" mode. You can read more about that here.
One way to stop the disk from going to sleep (some external enclosures have extreme disk sleep settings to conserve power) is to use pmset.
For example, to prevent an attached disk from going to sleep while your device is plugged in to AC (charger) is as follows:
It's of note that this prevents all disks from going to sleep, not just the external enclosure.
pmset is the program that handles all power management settings on OS X. The Power Management Preference Pane is just a front end to that utility. All settings are persistent (saved on reboot) and are actually written to a plist (
Additionally, you could try using HDAPM (I ran this for months before I moved to an SSD).
I would suggest trying to use pmset to prevent the disk from sleeping. It works on most external enclosures, but if you find that it's not honored by your manufacturer, you may have to find an alternate method. I've found WD and some Seagate enclosures to be problematic. pmset is not a hack and should be honored by all device manufacturers; however if you find that yours is not, try heading over to their support forums. They may have a firmware update or more information.
Lastly, if you suspect the drive of premature failure, you'll have to run a proper analysis of the drive's physical health. Disk Utility is not a reliable program in this case, as it deals with filesystem structure and integrity. You will want to use either a 3rd party utility (like Disk Warrior) or better yet, the free tools supplied by the hard drive's manufacturer (which will most likely require Windows).
You may have a drive hardware problem. If you are new to macs, you may have a drive that is formatted for Windows, and this possibly could also cause the noise.
To make sure that your drive is ok, you use Disk Utility. It's in the Utilities Folder, that is a sub-folder of Applications.
Run Disk Utility, select your drive, and then Verify Drive. It should not take too long. If it does turn out you have a problem, you need to get your information off of that drive asap. Then you reformat that drive (again, using Disk Utility). Then finally, check the drive once again.


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5th Annual Laura's March: A 5k Walk/Run to End Violence Against Women
Register online! Registration is free, but supporters are encouraged to set up fundraising pages at Firstgiving . This year, the primary beneficiaries of Laura's March will be Parallel Justice and Dirt Divas!
Parallel Justice helps victims of any crime occurring in Burlington, VT. Through money raised at Laura's March, it will be able to supplement the medical and counseling assistance customarily available for survivors of domestic and sexual assault, with auxiliary funding for alternative healing opportunities, such as yoga, meditation, fitness classes, and other holistic programs. The ability to support survivors regardless of how long ago the sexual assault occurred acknowledges the long-lasting and continuing effects this kind of crime can have.
Dirt Divas, a mountain-biking program for middle school girls, will integrate a self-defense component that includes developing physical and emotional skills and learning tactics to deal with bullying, harassment, and sexual assault--all with the critical goal of prevention. The program will also work on building self-esteem and sense of self-worth so that girls learn early how to value themselves, set boundaries, and recognize that assault of any nature is not their fault.
Questions? Please email!
Tony Moulton of the Women's Rape Crisis Center will give the keynote address at Laura's March on September 17. As the Director of Education and Outreach at the Women's Rape Crisis Center, Tony Moulton oversees all education and outreach programs. One such program is "Intercept Social Change through Sports," which works to dispel gender stereotypes and myths and to train athletes to intervene in abuse situations.
Musician: Antara Gatch, a Burlington musician and teacher, will perform again at the March.


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I wonder if there should be a the in front of week in "the end of next week". Context:
I will give you updates on how things work out by the end of next week.
I wonder if there should be a the in front of week in "the end of next week". Context:
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It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, visit the help center.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
The current week began on Monday 19 November. Any reference to the end of the week that begins on Monday 26 November would be to the end of next week. Any reference to any other week would normally be to the end of the following week. I'm not sure that the end of the next week is ever needed, but, as always, I should be interested to hear of counter-examples.
Both "The end of next week" and "the end of the next week" are right, it's depending upon you what you mean to say.


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Guesthouse Dover
Barbados Guesthouse Dover, St.Lawrence Gap, south-coast of Barbados.
There are different accommodations in this flat available depending on your need of affordable holiday letting accommodation. This charming duplex guest-house flat or apartment is built from coral stone. This accommodation is elegantly furnished in a Caribbean-European style. The beautiful decorated flat has 3 bedrooms, a large living-dining room, a small lounge, complete kitchen, 2 baths (one en-suite), balcony, terrace and a tropical garden. We let a large, medium or small bedroom as well as the complete guesthouse. All bedrooms have matching decorated finishes and either ceiling fans or if requested air-condition at cost. There are mosquito nets on the windows which are tinted and a free safe box.
Free wireless available, please bring your own laptop.
The guest-house rooms share a lounge and balcony. In the lounge you find a SAT TV, Stereo System incl. MP3 player. Coffee-maker, toaster, fridge, iron and board are provided upstairs for the guest. Complete shared kitchen downstairs.
Small bedroom has 2 single beds which can be converted by zip to a king-size bed.
The medium bedroom has a 54 inch and a 36 inch wide bed.
Large bedroom has two 48 inch beds, en-suite bath tub-shower, sitting area, LCD SAT TV, DVD, Stereo System with CD and Taperecorder.
When booking the complete holiday flat we let additional a large living-dining room were SAT TV, Stereo System and Video is additional available and the front terrace of the holiday-home.
The distance to Dover beach is approx. 100 yards and the Casuarina + Turle Beach Club Hotel is approx. 200 yards away. Other beaches are close by.
Fresh sheets, towels (not beach towels) and room service are provided twice per week.
The Maid will do your washing in the laundry room.
From the airport it will take about 20 min. to your accommodation.
Our terms & condition of booking:
cash payment on arrival
Cancellation or no show:
the full payment would be taken from your provided credit card.
This house is located in the preferred area of St.Lawrence Gap. In this area you will find anything what you might want including the night life of Barbados in 5 minutes walking distance.
Bus transportation and buses are going nearly to any part of Barbados.
예약 가능 여부 및 가격예약 가능 여부와 가격을 보려면 날짜를 선택한 후 '날짜 업데이트'를 클릭하세요'
- 에어컨
- 자전거 대여
- 자전거 주차
- 천정 환풍기
- 환전
- 무료 시티 맵
- 무료 인터넷 액세스
- 무료 주차
- 무료 와이파이
- 청소
- 인터넷 액세스
- 키친
- 세탁 설비
- 수하물 보관소
- 통금 시간 없음
- 주차
- 안전 금고
- 세금 포함
- 차&커피 시설
- 타월 포함
취소 정책이 숙소는 7일 취소 정책이 있습니다. 이 시간 내에 취소하지 않으면 체류 첫날 밤에 부과되는 숙박료와 똑같은 금액의 취소 수수료가 발생합니다.
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We are located on the south-coast of Barbados. We are off H'way 7 bus route from the airport depending on arrival time. Main road with bus stops 200 meter / yard away which bus route to get to all over the Island.
The distance to Dover beach is approx. 100 yards and the Casuarina + Turtle Beach Club Hotel is approx. 200 yards away. Other beaches are close by.
From the airport it will take about 20 min. to your accommodation
The bus stop is about 200 yards/meter away. There are buses, mini-buses and route-taxis going to the capital Bridgetown (appr. 15 min) and to other parts of the island until midnight.
The bus fare is 2.00 BDS$.
You can either take a taxi at the airport or a bus.
We will be monitoring the flight for its actually arrival time.
Just be aware that when taking a bus at your arrival time that all school Children are using the bus at that time as well.
It might happen that you will have to wait 1-2 hours to get into a bus.
If you are planing to take a taxi please note that the rate should be 17-20 US one way.
Make sure you ask the driver before going in the taxi.
If they call Barbados Dollar rate than it would be 34-40 BDS
In case you want to go by bus please use a bus going to Bridgetown on the # 7 highway.
Make sure you have 2.00 BDS$ in change as the bus drivers just have a box to put the money in and no change.
After you come trough a small village you will see on your left side next to the road the sea.
After passing that area look out for a shell gas station on the left.
As you sea the shell gas station either press the bell or call loud next bus stop.
You will see a sign :
*Charles Water Sports turn left*.
Please turn left there and follow the road until the end.
Than turn left there and follow that road.
You will see a big yellow building on your right sight *Saphire Condominiums* pass that complete building and look to your left side for a corner property which has no building
Turn left in front of that bank.
Just follow that road about 100 yards / meter and you will see on your left a double townhouse this house marked #109. Take the right entrance of that house as that is were you are staying.
Please take the booking form with you as you might need to show it at Immigration.
You also need the address which is on the form for Immigration as you have to fill out an Immigration card prior your arrival.
In case you get lost call us.


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A western Kentucky county has approved an alcohol referendum in a move that makes the city of Eddyville eligible to sell booze.
The Paducah Sun reports that Lyon County voters approved the measure Tuesday by 258 ballots. Lyon County Clerk Sarah DeFew said final unofficial vote totals were 1,530 for sales and 1,272 against them.
The ballot given to Lyon County citizens had one question on it: "Are you in favor of alcoholic beverage sales in Lyon County?" It will allow both restaurant and package sales in liquor stores.
It will take 60 days from the time the election results are certified until alcohol is allowed to be sold.


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Interceptors provide bonuses for microwarpdrives. However, I'm worried about using them for solo PvP because they can be scrambled. Should I downgrade to an afterburner and play it safe, or is the threat of scrambling negligible?
Scramming is a tactic usually relegated to squads. If you're going to be going up against someone running Damps or some other tactic that's trying to get you in close, then I'd avoid the fight. You lose such an incredible speed advantage by going to AB that you may have to change your tactics altogether.
On the other hand your signature radius is much smaller in an afterburner kit so you're harder to hit, not to mention the fitting you can manage with only an AB.
Ultimately if you're not a sniping cepter the risk vs reward is pretty high to stick to the MWD. But again, it all depends on who you're fighting. You can build up a pretty incredible transversal velocity with an MWD and those turret folks seem to hate that if you are good at zig zagging. If you're used to the MWD and you switch to AB I'd definitely consider practising A LOT so you get used to the differences and when/where your proverbial hitbox is the largest.
Just as camster342 said, It's extremely hard (and dangerous) for a inty to maintain a safe distance with another frigate when orbiting that frigate.
I would suggest using a dual-prop fit like this battleclinic fit.
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I have written about this question in my blog. I appreciate your opinions.
Digitally speaking, the SNR should remain the same when you simply increase level. The SNR in the digital world is the same as the SQNR (Signal to Quantization Noise Ratio), which is determined by your bit depth. 16-bits gives you 96 dB SQNR (ideal case, assuming your signal is captured at maximum level before clipping), so if you captured some quiet audio at say around -30 dBFS, and normalized the audio file to 0 dBFS, your digital noise floor would also increase by 30 to -66 dBFS. That's why with quiet or unpredictable recordings, using 24-bit gives you more leeway to boost levels in post without worrying about your quantization noise. In the previous example with 24-bit your SQNR would still be less than -100 dBFS after normalization.
Of course if your audio signal has captured a higher level of analog noise (i.e. background ambient noise or circuitry noise), that will take precedence over the quantization noise, but once digital should still increase linearly as you boost amplitude. Hence as @TheFaderJockey says get your analog signal hottest at the preamp gain to minimize noise ahead of digitization.
In the analogue world, the "gain knob" at the top of your console is often actually an attenuator, rather than an amplifier. The mic pre boosts the signal by a fixed level, and the gain knob actually reduces that level as the knob is moved to the left. Add to that the fact that the preamp is probably the cleanest sounding amplifier circuit in your signal chain: introducing the least amount of noise.
Therefore, for the highest SNR, the best practice is to get your gain up as high as you can right there at the pre. Set it so that you have just a little headroom before clipping, and you'll have the highest SNR you can achieve.


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Anderson Police said a woman was stabbed multiple times while taking a shower in her home late Sunday afternoon.
According to police the stabbing was reported at 3:36 p.m. from a home on the 1300 block of Diamond Street in Anderson.
Police said the woman had been stabbed between three to five times with a kitchen knife on her hands and arms.
The woman told police nothing appeared to be missing from the home.
The victim was taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
Police said they were able to locate the knife at the home.
The suspect is described as a thin, white male in his 20s and was wearing a dark-colored sweatshirt.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Anderson Police Department.


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Do you still keep in touch with people you graduated high school with?
Social media has changed the way we keep in touch with friends. 5-10 years ago it was a lot harder to stay in touch with people. Do you still keep in touch with high school friends? How often? Do you travel to spend time together?
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I recently Googled the name of my best friend in High School, I had not talked to him in years. It turned out that he owned a web design business, so I emailed him. We have actually become friends again and talk frequently.
My 2 best friends from middle school and I still live in the same area (now), get together at least monthly or more for drinks, and we talk by phone or email all the time. We've survived moves across the country, marriages, divorces, kids, etc. I'm fortunate to still have them in my life.
Went to two different high schools. Keep in touch with the friends from the one I went to first.
I don't get to see them as much as I like. Schedules!
Nope. High school was 25 years ago. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go drink away the sudden realization that high school was 25 years ago.
I'm Facebook friends with a few people I went to high school with and actually chat/email with one girl who graduated a year ahead of me. I'd enjoy the chance to go visit her and her family. But, otherwise, no. I didn't get along all the great with a lot of the people I went to high school with when I was in high school. Twenty (yikes!) years hasn't changed that fact. Friends from college, that's a completly different story. I still keep in touch with and go visit a number of those people. I hope to continue to be friends with them for the rest of my life.
There's a few folks I stayed friends with through the years. But, once I joined Facebook a few years ago, I got back in touch with a bunch more. Some I called on the phone to catch up with, but now mainly just do the Facebook thing with them.
Not really. A couple of people I would occasionally say something to when I was on Facebook, but there's no one from that time that I keep in touch with regularly.
I honestly dont even keep in touch with college friends, and I just graduated a year ago. Granted there weren't that many to begin with (my school was the complete wrong environment for me, but oh well), but so it goes.
I think a big part of it (at least with respect to potential) is my choice to not be on any social networking sites. There's hardly any people I keep in touch with regularly through calling or texting. Were I on FB, I'm sure there would be a few more people I'd keep in touch with.
I'm actually probably a bad example. I don't waste time on nostalgia, and I can never seem to keep consistent contact with a friend once I stop seeing them in person regularly. It's part drifting apart, part other stuff. I could definitely reach out some, but so could they.
People from my past really tend to just stay there.
I attended over a dozen schools BEFORE high school, so settling down in one place for four years was very significant for me. Although I left town after graduation, I have reconnected with many classmates. We had a pretty large graduating class, and hold reunions every five years. Even though those held on years that are multiples of 10 are better attended, nearly half of the classmates show up for even the smaller reunions, including many who no longer live in the US. I set up a website several years ago for the class, and that helped to reunite many of us. Since then, Facebook has reached even more. Amazing when you consider that I graduated over 35 years ago when no one had even heard of the interwebs!
Not a big fan of admitting this, but I have to say Thank You for Facebook.
I am in touch with people I really miss from both HS and College. It's nice seeing how we have all grown, what we have become and the accomplishments we have all had.
I don't use social media period.
I do, however, keep in touch with one person from our over 400 graduating class. My high school sweetheart, who has been my wife now for 33 years.
I'm Facebook friends with quite a few people from HS, but I haven't had a real conversation with most of them since graduation. My 10 year reunion is actually this year, and I'm debating about even going. That's probably one of the biggest changes with Facebook, why bother with the reunion when you're already "in the know" with most of the people you'd care to catch up with anyway?
I still hang out with three people I went to highschool with. After college, everyone came right back to the area (Northern VA/DC) for the jobs. Easy to stay in touch.
totally without facebook, i've stayed very close with 4 friends from my youth: 2 that I met in 5th grade, 1 from 6th grade and 1 from freshmen year of high school. we've stayed in touch through college, summerstock theatre, different cities, having babies, etc. we may not talk every week, but we're all always there for one another. facebook has caught me up with a few people that it's nice to see updates about, but i'm more of a tight-knit kinda gal, so there's noone i was thrilled to find again.
@mtm2: awe, that's so sweet!
Nope, I moved 3500 miles away from where I grew up, not because of them but because I don't like 6 months or more of winter. And I don't use Facebook at all.
I do not speak with anyone that attended my high school. After my freshman year of college I had already lost contact or fallen out with anyone that went to my high school which is pretty funny considering I went to a local college. I have never joined Facebook because I do not feel it necessary to participate in the daily high school reunion....I am in contact with the people I would like to be I do not need a "social network" to find out or tell people I have no interaction with about events in our respective lives.
As for old friends I have kept in steady contact with a friend that in elementary school moved 1500 miles away for 4 years and then returned to the area (15-20 min away) to start high school and keep in phone contact with a friend from nursery and then elementary school who moved away in middle school 4 hours away.
went to college with a lot of my friends from high school, but people change... I met new people, made new friends; high school friends are just acquaintances now. I haven't talked to most of them in forever. My best friend is still my best friend however, even though he lives about a thousand miles away.
Didn't like most of classmates when we were in school, so have no real desire to hang out with them now.
Like others above me stated, I don't use facebook. I have an account, but I only use it occasionally to see if there is something in my kid's/family's life that I might need to know but haven't been told yet. Back to the question, the only ones I keep in touch with are the ones currently living here. I don't go out of my way to contact any of the others.
All I have to do is go to the local bar to see half of my graduating class (of 200). Small town problems.
Anyway, I never hung out with anyone much outside of school except for my cousins (due to family issues, a.k.a. I was embarrassed by them). Now that I'm older, I've gotten back in touch via facebook with about 7 of my friends from high school and throw a family game night about once a month. They bring the booze and their significant others, and my boyfriend and I supply the food and games.
@woadwarrior: love your answer. you would have liked the look on the face of the girl that told me "they've been trying to find you to invite you to the 10 year class reunion" when i responded with "no one in that class ever liked me, nor i them. i don't drink at all, or like to hang out in bars. i have always been fiscally conservative. why would i pay to hang out in a bar around a bunch of people that use to treat me like poop?" (edited for this post).
Thanks to FB, many of us have reconnected in the last year or so. We've done lunch a few times too. Kinda fun actually and I'm one that didn't enjoy high school.
I've reconnected with a few old friends and even had coffee with them a very small handful of times.
But for the most part, "keeping in touch" means I publicly "Like" a photo of their cat.
The ones I was close with, yes. The other ones not so much, they are on my facebook but we rarely speak... If I'm invited to a party from one of them I feel obligated to go but then I usually get over it. ;)
I actually do keep in touch with several people I graduated highschool from, but at the same time I haven't really kept in touch with close friends I went to college with. It's weird how that worked out. Anyway, my two best friends from highschool at still my best friends.
My experience my be atypical though, I don't know. I graduated from a class of only 80 some people in a semi-rural area. I've also only been out of highschool for eight years, which isn't really that long of a time.


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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana The Southeastern Conference will release its 2014 football schedule Wednesday, with LSU to play Kentucky as its second opponent out of the SEC East and Texas A&M on the final weekend of the regular season, a source familiar with the situation said.
LSU will play Kentucky in Tiger Stadium.
The Tigers' game at Texas A&M will be on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, per the Aggies' wishes.
LSU will not be playing home games against Texas A&M on Thanksgiving Day, the source said. As has been the case with the LSU-Arkansas game, the Tigers will play the Aggies in Tiger Stadium on Fridays or Saturdays to end the season.
Arkansas has been LSU's regular-season finale since the Razorbacks joined the SEC in 1992, except for 2001 when LSU ended the season with a rescheduled game against Auburn because of the 9/11 attacks.
The Arkansas game will move to somewhere in the middle of the season, the source said. LSU is scheduled to play at Arkansas in 2014.
The SEC announcement will allow LSU to unveil its entire schedule, including the Aug. 30 season opener against Wisconsin at Reliant Stadium in Houston.
The Tigers and Badgers are also set to open the 2016 season against each other at Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers.
LSU's other 2014 nonconference games are scheduled for Sept. 6 against UL-Monroe, Sept. 13 against Georgia Southern, and Sept. 27 against New Mexico State. All three of those games will be in Tiger Stadium.
LSU's other SEC home games in 2014 will be against Alabama, Ole Miss and Mississippi State. The Tigers' remaining SEC road slate will be against Auburn and Florida.
The SEC schedule will be for 2014 only. The SEC is still working on creating a long-term scheduling format, which means LSU may not necessarily play Kentucky in 2015.
Florida is LSU's permanent opponent under the SEC's current 6-1-1 schedule. In that format, LSU plays all six teams from the SEC West, one permanent opponent from the SEC East in Florida, and rotates the other six opponents from the East.
LSU officials have lobbied strongly the past two years to eliminate permanent opponents, also sometimes called crossover opponents, in favor of rotating everyone from the other division. The SEC is considering that option among a number of eight- and nine-game schedules.
LSU's 2013 schedule calls for the Tigers to play Florida and a road game at Georgia, its rotating opponent, on Sept. 28.
Florida and Georgia tied for first in the SEC East last season with a combined 14-2 record.
Meanwhile Alabama, ranked No. 1 in the preseason polls and favored to win the SEC, plays permanent opponent Tennessee and rotating opponent Kentucky from the SEC East. Those teams were a combined 1-15 in SEC play last year, with Tennessee's only conference win coming against Kentucky.
LSU also played South Carolina as its SEC East rotating opponent last year. South Carolina, Florida and Georgia have represented the East in the past five SEC Championship games.
By placing Kentucky on LSU's schedule in 2014, the SEC is avoiding having the Tigers play a pair of perennial powerhouse teams from the East for the third straight season.
Next year's game will be the first between LSU and Kentucky in football since 2011.
The Tigers and Wildcats played every year from 1952-2002 but only three times since then. LSU leads the all-time series 39-16-1.


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There's a general rule that non-Mezonos (or Hamotzi) items can be eaten outside a Sukkah (not should, but can). Does the same apply to rice, which is only "somewhat" Mezonos (Borei Nefashos is said after eating it), or does rice also fall into the same category as bread and cookies?
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The Shulchan Aruch O.C. 639:2) requires a sukkah absolutely only by a significant amount of bread, and the 5 grains when you are subjectively kovea seuda (the Magen Avraham doesn't require kvias seuda). The halachic relation of rice to the other 5 grains is that rice satiates enough to get a mezonos, but is not similar in its use as a seuda. It would not require sukkah absolutely.
[However, the acharonim strongly suggest eating any significant kvias seuda in a sukkah (M.B. 639:15)]
Rav Ovadia Yossef Shlita allows to eat rice outside a Sukkah (Halichot Olam, Helek Beth, p281).
Moadim Besimh'a.


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Hi guys
new to this so quick question am i right by thinking that if i just want to shoot a 180x180 skydome i can just shoot at 4 images every 90¬? at +60¬? pitch and no zenith?
Can anyone also expalin how you know how many you have to shoot. as when i use a pano calcluater it says that i can get away with 6.4 shots in landscape.
But from reading the forum they recommend 1 image at -90¬? pitch (Nadir), 4 images every 90¬? at -60¬? pitch, 8 images every 45¬? at 0¬? pitch, 4 images every 90¬? at +60¬? pitch, no zenith image required


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My Apple TV (3rd generation) doesn't connect to the internet any more because it doesn't succeed in getting the network time from my router.
I tried restarting, updating, resetting both – the Apple TV and my WLAN router (TP-Link 1043ND), I double checked the network time in my router, tried out an alternative firmware (DD-WRT), put down all security settings (no password), tried direct connection per cable (LAN) on Apple TV – but nothing worked:
I always get the screen that Apple TV tries to fetch the network time (I'm in Germany) – the manual selection of Berlin as time zone doesn't help.
It all worked a few weeks ago – after an update of the Apple TV Software it all went away ... my Apple TV got useless because it needs the correct time settings to connect to the internet.
Does anyone have an idea what I can do?


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If I were to do a taste-test of the beer at racking/bottling time, how indicative of the end result would it be?
Somewhat. Lack of carbonation can really alter the flavor, but you should be able to pick out major characteristics or flaws in the beer. But I wouldn't advise reaching any real conclusions until the beer is carbed and has an appropriate conditioning time. That time will vary from beer to beer.
Agreed, you have to 'see past' the lack of carbonation, and I have found that the lighter, lower ABV beers that have had a yeast that settles really well do taste OK at bottling at as little as 7 days and are a good indication of the final outcome at say a few weeks or a month in a bottle. I've brewed some with Nottingham yeast that already seem ready to drink! Conversely the higher alcohol, stronger flavoured, less floculent yeasts can taste awful at bottling, but don't give up on them! After a month they may still be poor but try again at 3 months and you may be delighted.


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Looking at semidefinite programs, are there any sufficient conditions for the solvability (i.e. the optimal value can be achieved, that is infimum=minimum)?
Obviously if the problem is unbounded, the optimal value cannot be attained. Also, if my objective function is continous and the domain is compact, everything is fine, right?
Any help or hint to literature would be appreciated.


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Consider an extension of the Riemann zeta function $\zeta(s)$ where $s$ now runs over a non-standard enlargement of the complex plane.
Observe that if $s=\sigma + it$ with $\sigma>1$ real and finite (or at least infinitesimally close thereto), but $t$ infinite, then the summands $n^s= n^\sigma(\cos \ln(n)t + i\sin \ln(n)t)$ still have values infinitesimally close to finite complex numbers. Indeed, by fixing an infinite real $T$, we can obtain from $\zeta(s+iT)$, by passing to standard parts, a convergent standard Dirichlet series.
At least with a sufficiently saturated non-standard enlargement, I believe these same Dirichlet series arise from starting with the standard Euler product and shifting, arbitrarily and independently, all the various factors vertically by various amounts.
My questions: What can one say about the possibility of finding analytic continuations for any or all of these Dirichlet series to larger domains? Does the functional equation speak to this matter? If any of these functions have natural boundary at $s=1$ on the standard view, but analytic continuation one the non-standard sense, I would welcome any insight into how such could happen.
(Corrections welcome if my question betrays any basic misunderstanding!)


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As far as I know,
java.util.Hashtable synchronizes each and every method in the
java.util.Map interface, while
Collections.synchronizedMap(hash_map) returns a wrapper object containing synchronized methods delegating calls to the actual
hash_map (correct me if I am wrong).
I have two questions :
What difference does it make to synchronize each and every method and to have a wrapper class? What are the scenarios to choose one over the other?
What happens when we do
Collections.synchronizedMap(hash_table)? Will this be equal to simply using a normal


text: Originally Posted by Hacking ExpertI think this topic will go long enough if we talk on each one of them here. Like as it happened on Google Group. You have mentioned above that let's not make the same situation here too. So, instead of going for the links, and discussing here may not be good enough. Though if you think it should be then let me know i will get back to you with some of them.


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Windows Build Environment Setup
Some requirements must be met to build the "Official" win32 Twisted. The Official build produces two files with the following features:
- One is for Python 2.4, the other one for Python 2.3.
- There is a shortcut in the start menu for the Twisted Command Prompt which is a standard Windows command prompt with PATH and environment variables set up to invoke the Twisted commands the same way you would on Unix; e.g. "mktap".
- There are shortcuts for some, but not all, of the GUI interfaces to the Twisted command line tools. Currently only tkmktap appear in the Start Menu, as the other GUI tools do not work well if at all.
There are two ways to get Twisted installed from source. One is to do the bare minimum necessary so that 'import twisted' works; the other is the Official method.
This method is only necessary if you are trying to install Twisted from e.g. the Subversion repository, and you don't want to acquire all the tools necessary to do the Official build.
- Install either Python 2.3 or Python 2.4
- Install ZopeInterface 3.0.1 or later for Python
With MSVC
Without Cygwin installed, you need MSVC installed for the cl.exe compiler, which is the default on windows. Just issue the command:
$ python setup.py install
With Cygwin
With Cygwin installed, you need to make sure these two packages are installed:
- gcc
- gcc-mingw
You also need libpython22.a (or libpython23.a as appropriate). Instructions can be found at http://sebsauvage.net/python/mingw.html .
Once that's done, just issue the command:
$ python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 install
If for some reason extensions won't build, try this instead:
$ python setup.py build_py build_scripts install --skip-build
The Official Twisted is built with native Python 2.3 (latest), not the Cygwin version of Python, however it is built with the help of Cygwin packages.
- Python 2.3 AND Python 2.4
You need both.
- ZopeInterface 3.0.1
Download and install it for both versions of Python.
This is what actually does the building. http://www.a-a-p.org/download.html After installing it, make sure the file aap.bat is in your system PATH, using (for example) the environment variable applet.
- winreg
You need this little module: http://www.rutherfurd.net/python/winreg/ # FIXME -- make aap fetch it
- Cygwin
You will need Cygwin, with the gcc-mingw package installed. Get Cygwin at: http://cygwin.com
(Install Native Windows Python.)
- Inno Setup
This creates nice self-installers with uninstall functionality: http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php You need version 4.0.8 or above. (5.0.8 or later preferred.)
- Bootstrap Twisted
You will need an existing installation of Twisted, as the build script uses some utilities within Twisted. The "bare minimum" install described above will suffice.
- Issue the build command
Bring up a Cygwin prompt. Change directories to the root of your Twisted source tree. It should contain the directory "win32/". Now run the following:
$ aap.bat -f win32/build.aap
The four distributable files will be in dist/ when this is done.
If you have trouble building the official build, try the following:
- Remove "C:\winnt\aap.bat" or "C:\windows\aap.bat" which will have incorrect contents.
- Make sure that your system PATH includes C:\Program Files\AAP\Exec
- Make sure your cygwin .bash_profile isn't clobbering this system PATH
- Make sure you don't have Cygwin's Python package installed.
- Make sure both Python 2.3 and Python 2.4 are installed.
- If you're doing an official release, see maintainer-notes.txt.
Windows Maintainer Instructions
- Wait for an official release of some kind
- Download the Sumo Tarball of that release. (Now just the "Twisted" tarball.)
- Unpack this tarball.
- In the unpacked sumo directory, svn co svn+ssh://svn.twistedmatrix.com/svn/Twisted/trunk/win32
- aap -f win32/build.aap
- Rename twisted.pth -> twisted.pth_ so twisted is not in the python path
- Install dist/Twisted*2.3*.exe\
- Run Twisted Command Prompt
- Run mktap, twistd with no args. Observe no errors.
- Repeat steps 7, 8, 9 for dist/Twisted*2.4*.exe
- Rename twisted.pth_ -> twisted.pth\
- Bug someone to give you g+w to /twisted/Releases/Twisted/2.?
- Upload dist/*.exe to twistedmatrix.com:/twisted/Releases/Twisted/2.?
- Make sure uploaded files are mode 664, group cvs-twisted
- Update the Wiki front page and the TwistedProject page with the new urls.
- Repeat at step 1.


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Do you live in the City and feel like you need a short or long weekend city escape? Get away from all the noise and stress in the city? Sometimes a short break to the countryside is maybe just what you need, but what will you be looking for?
What to look for when finding that perfect countryside escape?
The Beeches
Maybe you're someone who prefers to visit a location with a nice beech? It isn't uncommon to want nice sandy beeches and hope that the weather stays clear but sadly in England this is sometimes hard to come by, With only the summer time to enjoy our coastal beeches there isn't many choices but this beech based in Grimsby would be the perfect walk when you wish to clear your head.
Luxury Hotel Rooms
You can't beat a luxury hotel room to stay in just to help relax yourself more, if you're one of them people who like to escape the city and book a luxury hotel room to never come out of then this is common too, thousands of people per year visit hotels to escape the city and say they never usually go out even to explore the wonderful towns around.
Attractions in the area
If you're not one of them people who prefer to sit in the hotel room when escaping the stress of life then maybe you're the one to visit as many attractions as you can, if you want to escape the city life then you'll be willing to travel to a destination packed of historical or breath taking attractions.
Last but not least would of course the cost of city escapes, in today's world paying top prices to get away isn't everyone's cup of tea, resulting in everyone trying to find the best deals or cheapest hotels.. please don't be fooled to book a sham of a stay! But also don't over pay for a stay you could of got cheaper, the only way to do this is to just keep looking & scanning the internet.


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The SPARC T5 Servers have landed
By Karoly Vegh-Oracle on Mar 26, 2013
At last, the SPARC T5 servers are announced! They are worthy heirs of the SPARC T-series, and even more powerful than their popular technology predecessors the SPARC T4.
Before we'd go into the technical details, here is a very important message:
Having announced the T5 servers doesn't make the T4s go away. It is not a platform replacing technology, but a platform extending one! Oracle is going to offer SPARC T4 and T5 servers side-by-side!
Having said that, let's dive headfirst into the details to soothe the techcrave:
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How does Judaism deal with paradoxes relating to the omnipotence of God?
For example: Can God create a rock that he himself cannot lift?
How does Judaism deal with paradoxes relating to the omnipotence of God?
For example: Can God create a rock that he himself cannot lift?
Questions relating to God's omnipotence were discussed at length by the Rishonim in the Middle Ages in such great works as Saadia Gaon's "Emunos V'deos", Rambam's "Moreh Nevuchim", Ralbag's "Milchemes Hashem", and others. The consensus among them (in opposition to the authorities cited in @HodofHod's answer) is that God cannot violate the rules of logic. This prevents such paradoxes such as the one you mentioned, as well as other like "Can God assume physical form?", "Can God create another God?", etc.
Why does this not undermine God's omnipotence? Because saying that God cannot do X, where X is a logically impossible task, does not limit God's power any more than saying that a person cannot drink a Wednesday (h/t @DoubleAA) limits that person's power. The verb "drink" simply does not make sense with "Wednesday" as an object. Similarly, the verb "do" does not work with "X" as an object, if X is logically impossible. Here's how Saadia Gaon says it (Emunos V'deos, Ch. 2):
According to some Jewish authorities, especially Kabbalists and Chassidic Rebbes, G-d does not have to obey the rules of logic, since they are just another creation of His. As I wrote to a similar question:
From Chabad.org's "Can G‑d Create a Rock That's Too Heavy for Him to Lift?"
I heard someone once say that you can begin to understand God only when you acknowledge that you can never fully understand God.
Part of faith in God is understanding that we are finite and unable to ever understand the infinity of God.
So I guess the answer is that God is all powerful and we dont fully understand how that manifests itself in our world we can only have faith in that He is there and all-powerful.
To add a bit in the same vein as Jake's answer:
This is not a real paradox; it is simply a matter of definitions. "He who can make five more than ten without adding to it" is a great example of this; making five more than ten requires adding by the very definition of the ordinal system. A rock is by definition material, and lifting is by definition an act applicable only to the material.
Since God is omnipotent, he can lift anything that is definitionally subject to lifting. Therefore, to put it clumsily, "God cannot create such a rock" because God would by definition have to make it something other than a rock in order for it to no longer be subject to lifting.
In the back of the first volume of Chassidut Me'vueret on the Holidays, there is a discussion similar to this. The question asked there is, if, as the Maharal of Prague says (In his sefer Gevurot Hashem), G-d is simply whole, without any parts or definable qualities, how can we give G-d descriptions, like Merciful, etc.? How can we say the Sefirot (at least in the world of Atzilut), which are specific attributes, are an extension of G-d's light?
The answer given is based on the statement in the Avodat HaKodesh: "Just as G-d has the power of the infinite, He also has the power of the finite. For if we were to say that G-d was only infinite, and not finite, we would be limiting G-d's completion."
In other words, to say G-d can't limit himself is itself limiting G-d.
It then goes on to explain that when we say G-d is infinite, we're saying that G-d has all the advantages of everything without the deficiencies (in Hebrew this is expresses as Shlemut HaKol). Everything in the world has an advantages and corresponding deficiencies. For example, a big car might be safer in accidents, but it takes more gas and needs bigger parking spaces.
G-d has the upside of everything without the disadvantages. Going back to the Avodat Hakodesh, G-d is infinite. If you tell me that there is a deficiency in being infinite (i.e. not being able to be finite when it is advantageous to do so), I will tell you that G-d can make himself finite too, when he needs to. That finiteness is not a limitation, but an expression of his infiniteness and completion.
Here is a chapter of Heaven on Earth, by Rabbi Faitel Levin which explains this all a lot better and more thoroughly than I just did.
So, to say G-d cannot create a rock so big he can't lift doesn't take away from G-d's completion, it doesn't mean G-d is deficient. Not being able to lift a rock is a deficiency, and G-d has none.
I don't have any source on this but my understanding has always been that these paradoxes stem from human perceptions and interaction with the world. The hardest thing about understanding the nature of god is that it is, by definition, beyond understanding. We use a term like "omnipotence" and impose on it our version of what that means and what paradoxical limitations could be applied to it. This simply points out our inability to grasp what god is.
When people ask me that particular paradox I simply say "Yes. And then he lifts it."
i'm surprised that none of the answers have addressed the fact that God himself creates and abides by these contradictions. Things like God's omniscience and human free will or the kabbalistic concept of tzimtzum indicate that there are already plenty of "immovable rocks". from these examples it would seem clear that God puts limits on himself and, from our human perspective, abides by those limits. How this can be reconciled with our definition of omnipotence and "God" seems to take for granted that we understand completely what those latter two terms mean, which i don't believe is the case. If we admittedly do not know everything there is to know about God is it not the height of hubris to believe that we have "caught" him in a contradiction?
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A rerelease of this award-winning, critically acclaimed novel just in time for its major motion picture release, directed by two-time Academy Award® winner Ang Lee; screenplay by Jean-Christophe Castelli; and featuring Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, and Garrett Hedlund, with Vin Diesel and Steve Martin.
A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents - caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew - has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America's most sought-after heroes. For the past two weeks, the Bush administration has sent them on a media-intensive nationwide victory tour to reinvigorate public support for the war. Now, on this chilly and rainy Thanksgiving, the Bravos are guests of a Dallas football team, slated to be part of the halftime show.
Among the Bravos is Specialist William Lynn, a 19-year-old Texas native. Amid clamoring patriots sporting flag pins on their lapels and "support our troops" bumper stickers on their cars, the Bravos are thrust into the company of the team owner and his coterie of wealthy colleagues; a luscious born-again cheerleader; a veteran Hollywood producer; and supersized pro players eager for a vicarious taste of war. Among these faces Billy sees those of his family - his worried sisters and broken father - and Shroom, the philosophical sergeant who opened Billy's mind and died in his arms.
Over the course of this day, Billy will begin to understand difficult truths about himself, his country, his struggling family, and his brothers-in-arms soldiers both dead and alive. In the final few hours before returning to Iraq, Billy will drink and brawl, yearn for home and mourn those missing, face a heart-wrenching decision, and discover pure love and a bitter wisdom far beyond his years.
Poignant, riotously funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a searing and powerful novel that has cemented Ben Fountain's reputation as one of the finest writers of his generation.
Motion picture artwork ©2016 CTMG.
©2012 Ben Fountain (P)2012 HarperCollinsPublishers
"Oh-ooo Say, Can We See?"
Can't say what drew me to this odd title--I knew that Ben Fountain received the PEN/Hemingway Award for the collection of short stories, Brief Encounters With Che Guevara--but I hadn't read the reviews or the publisher's summary. I didn't know that some critics are calling Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk this era's Catch 22, (oh! did we love Yossarian!) and THE best novel about the Irag war. I just saw this title on a list of suggested Beach Reads; "Beach" and "Read", two of my favorite words, and I was in. Turns out this was an unexpected treasure, the perfect approach, and an experience I won't be forgetting soon. So, I don't want to go into details and ruin your experience other than to say....WOW; I loved this book!
I thought it was almost perfection, from the very concept, to the brilliant depiction of Billy's youthful naivety and his contrasting soldier's wisdom, to the sentence structure, and every perfectly placed word. It was laugh-out-loud funny, then at once sobering, like laughing at someone that just biffed it on the stairs, then realizing the tumble resulted in a compound fracture. There are a lot of cliche's as far as characterizations go, and Texans probably won't like this one, but the powerful message contained in this short read goes far beyond little criticisms--indeed to the very core of what we as Americans value. The detailed description of the football team's equipment (in it's context) was as powerful and perfect as anything written, and could alone justify getting this book.
A short listen, at just 6 1/2 hours, but what an experience--what an impact. I'm just sorry that what I am sure will be the highlight of my summer reading is over before summer even begins.
"Moving, Poignant, Ironic Tale of Young Vet"
I loved this book. It's the closest thing to Mark Twain I've read in a long time. Entertaining, poignant, ironic, and a tribute to decent people being manipulated by the charlatans.Then protagonist is a young soldier whose heroism in battle was captured by a Fox news crew. The Army sends him and his buddies on a publicity tour of the US. The high point is their attendance on Thanksgiving day at a Dallas/Chicago football game at Cowboys Stadium. The author does a marvelous job of showing Billy's inner turmoil, knowing he has to go back to the war when the game is over. He meets a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and it's instant love for both of them. Meanwhile, the owner of the Cowboys, a sleazy, manipulative Jerry Jones type, exploits Billy and his buddies, putting them on display in front of the thousands in the stadium and millions watching on t.v., throwing them into a halftime show as props for Beyonce and Destiny's Child.
The author does something few contemporary writers do - skewers American culture and politics while making us care about the individuals - Billy and his fellow soldiers, their families, the girl Billy falls in love with. The Cowboys' owner schemes to screw the soldiers out of their story so he can produce a movie, and the fans start out fawning over the boys, later either ignoring them, or wanting to fight them.
The book made me realize how hollow it must sound to vets to say "thank you for your service and/or sacrifice," and to talk about courage, honor freedom and the American way of life and so on, while 99% of us never serve, and go about our lives worshipping pop culture icons like Beyonce and pro athletes. Or as George W. Bush said, after 9-11, go to Disney World or go shopping.
The narrator does a great job of pacing and portraying the different characters.
This book is destined to become a classic that withstands time, and should be required reading in English classes, like Dickens and Twain.
Constant Reader
"Never Thought I'd Love It"
When the rave reviews started for this book, I was dubious. Not my thing. A story about a 19-year-old Iraqi war vet? And from Texas? And a lot happening at a football game? Please give me another English upper-class mystery.
But I want to learn, expand my horizons, understand other people....and my book club agreed to read it. Was I in for a surprise.
Ben Fountain is a magician cleverly disguised as a writer. The reviews said the sentences were elegant, and they were, but they were more than that: they were transformative. The voice of a young decorated war veteran, describing what he had seen and experienced, and what witnessing the death of his closest friend in battle had done to him. Billy's visit to his own family in Texas, how they see him, their relationships, true, real. Billy's head-over-heels meeting with a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, their sky-rocketing reaction to each other. All the events led up to a conclusion that was not what I expected, but still feels authentic and right.
I've been thinking about Billy Lynn for weeks now. He and Ben Fountain did what great writing is supposed to do. They brought greater understanding and deep sympathy for the book's characters, and a new way of looking at the world. I can honestly say that his is one of the best books I've ever read.
"Loved Billy Lynn's Walk"
This book is insightful, funny, heartbreaking all at the same time. A modern war masterpiece. And Oliver Wyman's narration is pitch perfect.
Billy Lynn, of course. Too young to drink (legally) yet old enough to have his best friend die in his arms, Billy Lynn has wisdom born of combat. He's still an innocent but not a sucker. His keen assessments of people and events around him provide the beautiful narrative arc of this book.
Oliver Wyman was perfect in every way, especially the way he captured the soldiers of Bravo Company.
Lawyer/law professor , I'm interested in science, history, literature. I can tolerate a bad movie, but not bad writing. I read to learn .
"hilarious and insightful"
A great satire of the Iraq war and the young men fighting it. A wonderful send up on American values and ignorance of the war's purpose. I loved the whole Dallas Cowboy/money machine riff. I laughed many times at the young soldiers vocabulary and emotions. Great narration. A book better listened to then read.
"One of the best I've read in a while!"
This one is near the top. I think I enjoyed the audio more than I would have the book - I'd have been tempted to skip over some of the dialog - and definitely wouldn't have had all the voices so distinctly in my head.
Not sure - war and football wouldn't be my go-to kind of book, but I read about this as one of the year's best fiction reads. It didn't disappoint. Amazing, laugh-out-loud funny at times, could bring you to tears at others. I don't have a personal perspective on war, but his depictions of Billy, his friendships, his family, his memories all seem very true to me. I kept thinking that this book would make a great movie - all the while our characters are trying to get their movie made. This speaks volumes to me - a book that takes place in one day at a football game that can develop characters, scenes, conflicts, suspense...enough for a movie is an amazing feat.
No - at times I thought his narration was a bit over the top...unnecessarily.
No - don't think I could sit still for that long, but I definitely had some driveway time as I wanted to finish a particular part.
One master-passion in the br east, like Aaron's serpent, swallows all the rest. A. Pope
"Fortunate Son"
Nearly 12 wonderful hours of audio about a day at a Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game which allows the author Ben Fountain to masterfully provide us with a sometime-satirical panoramic view from the seat of Billy Lynn, a U.S. soldier who is flying back to Iraq the following day. He and the fellow members of the heroic Bravo Squad are being recognized as halftime.
We get a cinematic look at
a pro football game;
the war in Iraq and its impact on these young men's lives;
how heroes may be treated after all the hubbub or exploited;
our culture generally, and specifically, in movies and the entertainment (movies and music) industry, big time sports, billionaires blow-hards, the overwhelming emphasis on sex in advertising and television and how our society has reached the point that our press covers no-talent trog-GLAM-mites like Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton while ignoring legit stories.
There's a bonus: a near-fantasy sequence when Billy meets a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader.
Maybe you hadn't heard of Ben Fountain before this brilliant book was published. Pay attention. I'm not capable of quickly using the vocabulary needed to heap worthy praise upon Ben Fountain and "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk."
So I'll say:
"Too much apple pie. "
Too much of a stretch to be believed it's almost science fiction. War hero comes home to tour the US (flags of our fathers) the bangs a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. Racial stereotypes. The author tried too hard to write something he doesn't seem to know a lot. I heard this was "the best novel about the Iraq War." needless to say this most not be that book. I heard they are making a movie. I won't be watching it. This book was a continuous let down.
"Caricatures, not characters"
Ben Fountain's short stories "Close Encounters with Che Guevara" was one of my favorite books. This is an experimental novel, with no plot, in a nondescript setting. There are no characters either. There's a movie producer who's a caricature of movie producers. Billy Lynn is a 19-year-old who was given a choice between prison or the army. Beyond that he has no backstory. No other character has a backstory. The soldiers on leave just eat pizza and drink beer and call each other gay. I gave up after 2.5 hours. The writing is good but it's not a novel.
"Worth the credit"
I hesitated to download this book but I found it to be an interesting take on the war. Billy's trip home is alternately funny, sad, and eye opening, and I liked the book. Give it a try.
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