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Clever Home-Built Saw Horse Work Station
Brian Campbell
Tri-horses are designed to be cut from a double-layer of 3/4-inch plywood. The components shown here are enough for one 4-foot and one 8-foot Tri-Horse.
This is one way to set up a mobile shop. Note the various home-made attachments for supporting saws and stock. There's no reason the saws couldn't be turned to face the opposite direction or that longer or shorter horses could be used for either leg.
In this photo Tri-Horses are being used as traditional saw horses—probably the least likely way for them to be used since there are so many other ways to support material. The best use for Tri-Horses is as part of a work station.
This is an interesting setup because instead of a plywood top rail that curves down to land on the floor; the top rail on this work station is a 2x10 or 2x12 supported by plywood leg sections. This would likely be an easier and more economical build than a conventional Tri-Horse, but perhaps not as stable on uneven ground (because it has 4 rather than 3 points of contact).
Here's one you don't see every day—a traditional woodworker's bench attachment.
The plans consist of a 12-page PDF that sells for $10. They include detailed instructions on how to build Tri-Horses and suggestions for how they might be customized. These are the main components and one suggestion for how they might be combined.
Brian Campbell is a finish carpenter in St. Paul, Minnesota, who I am acquainted with through Facebook. For the last year of so he has been posting photos of a sawhorse/work station he was developing in hopes of turning it into a product. He has, and it's called the Tri-Horse—so named because each horse has three points of contact with the ground. At this point Brian is selling plans; but who knows, someday it will be possible to buy ready-made Tri-Horses.
It's not my intention to promote the Tri-Horse, any more than it was to promote the Micro-Blaster or Multi-Function Tool Cart when I wrote about them. I just think certain products are cool and that if they interest me then they might interest you. This product is cool because:
Tri-Horses are shaped like saw horses and can be used as such, but are best suited for use as saw stands or supports for work tables. They are designed to be made from a double-layer of 3/4-inch plywood or MDO. Two sheets of plywood are enough to make one 4-footer and one 8-footer. They look pretty simple to make—just some cutting, drilling, and gluing. To me, the worst part would be gluing up the double-layer pieces of plywood. It's not hard to do; I just don't like doing it. Too bad there isn't an inexpensive material that's already the right thickness.
If there's a flaw in the design of the Tri-Horse, it's the likely weight of the pieces—which has to be greater than that of the average manufactured stand. Then again, manufactured stands are difficult to customize and can't be set up as many ways as Tri-Horses can. It's a clever design that appeals to me because I'm one of those guys who'd rather build than buy.
The video below shows one way to set up a Tri-Horse work station. The slideshow on the left contains photos of various details plus a page from the plans. The plans consist of a 12-page PDF that Campbell sells for $10.
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Yaaaayyyyyy, i also gaot that #the game is unavailable#.... Thanx SI, wonderfull DRM, very effective, so effective that even customers cannot play... :-P
Got the message myself there as it happens, although I am more the, glad others are getting it rather than preparing to burn down SI HQ due to it
I'm sure it will resolve itself in a bit, lets not worry.
Guys at SI, I know you're doing your best and it's not really your fault, but I too got this unable to play message blah blah. Verified the cache thing as instructed and then it started downloading something.
It then came up with a message saying "FM12 is now updated" or something like that, went to play it, it started installing the update and now all I get is an error message saying:
A serious error was encountered and the application will close. An error file has been generated in:
Now leaving me unable to play the game, any suggestions?
Verify the cache again, then try.
Done that, it says 3 files failed to validate and will be reaquired (Steam updates again). It says it's finished downloading, I click play game and it works. Thanks dafuge.
However, if it is possible I would take the update offline (if this is possible) until this has been fixed, because otherwise you're going to have a fair few pissed off people.
Failing that how about making a sticky at the top of the forum explaining the steps that you should go through, saving everyone having to read through this thread and post their own problems?
Also, is there a possible issue that 3 files failed to validate?
Unfortunately got the same issue.
Tried validating the cache once and it gave me a serious error but trying it again.
EDIT: Ahh, it's finding more bits that need updated.
Obviously been an issue with the original update attempt. Shouldn't be a problem if I just keep doing this until it's fully patched, hopefully.
Yeah, same problem here. Verified the cache and it works now, but taking previous updates on FM into account and the final patch always broke my game more than the previous one. I`m not saying how SI does a ****** job at updates, far from it, but some patches seem to work better for some people while others get a broken game from it. In that light it would be disastrous if you have a working game and Steam updates the game for you and you end up with a crippled game. I would like to be able to tell Steam that I don`t want the update, but despite my settings and being offline, it still updates it. I really hope that there won`t be any gamebreakers due to Steam installing the patches without my consent, but I`m seriously anxious for it.
Mines working again.
Took a few times to verify that it was fully patched but it's all good again.
No idea why people are going mental about it. Just follow the instructions SI have set out and it'll be fixed in 5-10 minutes.
The game is currently unavailable. Please try again at another time...
this is the message i get when i try to start the game today.... WTF WTF WTF
MODS! react!!!!!
Jeez. Wanna wait more than 2 minutes? Maybe that could be time you spent searching the forum for answers that are already out there.
Just came home from work and get this message.
I've paid for this game and i want to play it now.
If i'd known it was going to stop me playing it when i wanted i would never have gone with Steam (spit) and i certainly won't again.
I'm away to do the 'verify cache' thing (again) and sincerely hope that it works.
Can SI or Sega please tell me - what benefits does Steam give me, the paying customer? And please don't say "it applies patches etc" because i am quite capable of doing that myself.
Yours Disgruntedly,
Erm, this happened a few times yesterday but got through okay after two or three clicks, 40mins later im still sat here waiting to start my third season...
SI? wtf?!
Right, now its validating the files....2 need to be validated? I dont remember this on old CMs/FMs....
But will it now work...
Oh no, it finally loaded....a serious error has occurred; something about crash dumps...will take a screenshot for any admins who might want it....
As said in one of your admins posts Steam is a business decision for SI; in my opinion that means it has nothing to do with the consumer
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Number of copies of FM sold - 400,000?
So, you can fairly safely assume that for every single person on the forum that have had this problem (complaint or no) there are around 250+ people out there with the same problem and no threads to read through for a work-around.
That's why this is a problem, why a few posts hidden in forum threads are not a solution, and why a lot of people are angry about it.
For what it's worth, my FM2012 game has been updated, I did not have to verify cache, game started without problem.. Never had any problems with Steam. Ever. With any game.
Keep up the good work, SI
the cachy thing worked for me, sorry about the rant mods...
My update seems to have worked aswell after following instructions from neil..
But I believe most of you and mostly SI have missed the point
Not all computer users know what to do and advising them to go into the registry is monsterously stupid.
I drive a car that does not mean I can fix it.
SI are taking the Pi**
I have been playing this since 1991 this is the worst.
Again the normal paying public have to suffer.
The game has already been cracked so all this is just to make more bucks $$$$$$$$$$$
If there is a cracked version it is well hidden because its not on any of the normal pirate sites i visit, what i have seen is a tone of angry little thieves unhappy because they cant play the game for free.
I was being facetious as your premise of "99.9% of steam users will receive help while non-steam user would have to not receive help" was ridiculous, and so I assumed was meant tongue-in-cheek.What Fairies? I said that most users have the steam platform now to get help through, which they did not before. How is that related to fairies? And where did I say that "none of the would have been able to get help"? Dont put words into my mouth.. But surely you can see that before steam ALOT of users never installed the patches and therefore had to "live" with the bugs and such? If you want to have a debate on this I suggest you stop posting nonsense and be concrete with your points.
But that still doesn't change the fact that there appears to have been no in-game or in-client information about the update (as there wasn't for the "licensing issues" one detailed here), and that is a problem. If the game needs to be updated, it needs to make the user aware of that and, ideally, get the user to confirm the update. It should not just do it on its own, and if some people in this thread are saying that even turning off automatic updating didn't stop it, that's also a concern. In this case, it looks like it didn't even tell the user that it was an update which was required, just that the game was "unavailable", leaving people to turn to the forums to try and find out why. Yes, the answers are there, but the onus shouldn't be on the customer to search and find them when all they want to do is play a game they've paid for.
Purchased from Steam and been getting this message all day? Why can I not launch the game?
Okay, validated two more files, crashed, crashed some more, then validated again (third time); this time three validated and it has worked!
Back to getting hammered in the Premiership....
Do companies have an obligation to inform customers before they release updates to their software?
I cannot think of me ever having received an email from Microsoft before any update has been needed, or the makers of COD when they release a game update, it just happens and you have to live with it. I think SI are one of the few companies who give us a lot of info on what they have fixed/updated.
If re-validated files and now I have a serious error trying to launch?
Its the frankly useless Steam message. "You can't play this right now, bye" or something.
Why couldn't the instructions to fix it, as listed by the people on this thread, be given right there and then by Steam?
Pretty poor showing if we're being honest.
am i the only one that didnt have to confirm the cache?
so these days you can't play the game without installing the latest update, that's a shame, I preferred how things were for all these years.
[QUOTE=Elohir;7230250]So no FM game has ever been able to start on release, until a patch is applied? and you say I need to be concrete with my points?[/QOUTE]
- are you really this thickheaded?.. Whats with your "lets put words into other people's mouths".. I said that NO FM has EVER had NO "unable to start the game"-experience.. ALL revision of FM have had X amount of people that are unable to play the game.. The world isnt black and white you know.. there is a thing called "grey"
Thank you Nick Brock. The problem is fixed for me.
What's the deal with this? I'm forced to use this programme that has caused me nothing trouble in the past and I've got home after a 12 hour shift at work and I can't play the game, the game I paid £29.99 of my hard earned cash for, the reatil copy I bought to avoid having to use Steam. As a regular paying customer I am livid that we have to use this. Why can't I play the game? Getting fed up with this now for christ sake SI/Sega just leave the activation how it was instead of trying something new every year which will eventually get cracked anyway.
Had this problem myself just now. But I managed to sort it after coming here and reading bits of this thread and verifying my cache twice.
That said, a message from steam stating "Game is unavailable; please try later" (and the associated crashes that occur after one cache verify) is not what users should be seeing from a mature product that is meant to make things easier for us to play our games. I've still no idea why it was unavailable. Was steam downloading an update? Is it because my internet is screwed? Are the steam servers down? If I'd not verified my cache would I have been there all day waiting for it to do something? Do I have to sacrifice a chicken to play?
On the premise that it was downloading an update in the background, why not tell me? Or, why couldn't I play with the previous version till the update was ready to be applied? Even better, why doesn't steam ask me if I want to apply the patch and even perhaps let me know what's in the patch before I decide?
Another very good point has been raised. Many players of fm2012 never come here, and will never have used steam. All these steam issues will be reflecting straight back on SI.
[QUOTE=smythw;7230646] Even better, why doesn't steam ask me if I want to apply the patch and even perhaps let me know what's in the patch before I decide? [QUOTE]
Eminently sensible and would avoid alienating people unecessarily.
Frankly after reading this and other bits on the forum I think I'll skip this one - I can't see any benefit Steam brings to me as a user and I frankly don't want to end up faffing around trying to start a game.
Yea 100% concur, I am a noob at this. I remember where FM games used to be about the easiest of access and could've been played anytime. It gave a sense of security and a sense of consistency(as in like the feeling where you can go to any Burger King in the world and you know exactly what to expect) of a basic cell phone game like snake yet the fun factor of one of the most deepest games.
Plus previous version of FM such as 2011 are still good games and would more than do that job as I have learned.
OK - I have easy access to my games, they are on a shelf, I could get patches from appropriate websites and they generally had auto installer.
And in 20+ years of gaming I've had zero days of downtime.
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RAGING!! after spending an hour trying to get the game to work after all the crap with steam i get 4 hours into my game and it say an error has occured and need to close this application down, now whats that all about? i pay £30 for this game and its not working properly i want an answer as to y its doing it as im not playing it again for it t unexpectdly to close, and im no saving my game every week, very very very unhappy here
Guys I had same thing, had to do cache thing twice but now update is starting to download.
I purchased disk version as I dont think you should have to deal with Steam if you dont want to. And although auto updates are fine, there is more than one example where an SI update has corrupted many games, that is my main worry I am years into a game - one stray update and the game is gone.
Steam should be optional if you have bought the disk version, fair enough for those people who want to use steam - but it should not be forced onto anyone. This is clearly because selling a game through steam is so much more profitable.
This issue is a major one and could cost many game players, as has been said I dont have as many hours as I used to play and I really cant be bothered messing around with steam every time I want to play. Really, really disappointed in SI over this.
So, I've been trying to play FM12 for the past hour. In my library, it says FM12 - Download starting but nothing happens even after leaving it for 20 minutes and if I try to launch the game it says validating files then successful but I then get a message saying "steam servers are too busy at the moment". Anyone else with a similar problem?
EDIT: Tried the verify cache thing several times with no change.
Last edited by Vazza; 27-10-2011 at 18:01.
When i do the cache validation it takes a few seconds and says it is successful, i then click play and the "Preparing to launch football manager" box appears then disappears then nothing. When i try to quit steam it tells me to shut down FM first
Thanks to the good advice on page 1 of this thread & comments by Neil, mine after several Verifications decided to start downloading the update. It took at least three verifications, along with two reboots of the steam client. On the third try it then started downloading. Have to say it's pretty poor how this has updated but pleased the SI chaps are on hand to help us out.
They arn't helping the rest of us who still have problems though, it's all gone quiet!
Same sort of issues for me, which were all easily resolvable using the cache business. Not ideal as I thought Steam would advise me when a download was downloading, and a warning that "Game is unavailable; please try later" is initially a bit disturbing if you don't know what's going on. I'm definitely no technophobe, but this was an irritant for me and a hassle I didn't expect. It's no dig at SI, but my experience of the wider FM platform has been tarnished to a minor degree by the Steam interface.
someone from si going to explain why i got a error and game had to close, remember this is after the update was loaded and 4 hours of gameplay played???????????????
good luck with everyone with issues.
Last edited by fmcanbefun; 27-10-2011 at 18:48. Reason: nm
I came on here because I wanted feedback on whether I should buy the game. Its safe to say I won't buy it. Why should the person who's payed a lot of money have to verify cache and fix the mistakes steam and SI have made. It's not as simple saying well download 100 mb file when some players have a limited internet usage policy and can't download these files every few weeks
Thankfully I've come on and seen this. Now I don't want no childish insults just because I'm not buying it, I've given my reasons and I hope SI will improve value for customers
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I have to say that I enjoyed the demo and was going to purchase this version having skipped '11 but having seen the issues I think I'll stck with FM10.
That was some edit!
Im not happy with this to be honest. I will read through previous posts and i'll fix it, but i have to say im disgusted that this can happen so soon after release.
Before anyone starts having a go at me for being negative, please bear in mind i am entitled to my opinion as a customer.
Got the same error message on my laptop. Have to say I'm hugely disappointed, angered and frustrated at this whole "Steam-thing". Theres been nothing but problems all the time, from trying to download the demo, trying to play the game, trying to play a network game with my brother (with the game installed on my two computers). Have used hours trying to get in touch with steam support, searching in here and in google. Now I am completely fed up. And its a huge shame because I rate FM the definite best managergame released. But the frustration over this - in other words, Steam - I will seriously look into other games like CM and FIFA manager. But before I reluctantly say goodbye to FM for now, I'm seriously wondering what the arguments are for fixing something that isnt broken? FM worked beautifully fine wothout Steam, and could have done if using Steam was optional.
Same fun, fun error for me. I've followed the instructions and the update has been downloaded/cache verified multiple times, but to no avail. Never had any issues with Steam before so I'm not going to start calling for heads to roll. Tis mildly annoying, especially as I've switched it on to play as NBA 2K12 has been spanking me all evening.
FM, you're not giving me the comfort I was hoping for...
Now have it working. It does seem essential to restart steam in between verifying the caches. I feel sorry for those gamers who either dont know about these forums or who know zilch about computers. Its only easy if you know how.
verifying method works thanks neil.
but it is a total joke that we have to do this to play the game weve payed for! great game supported by this awful steam junk. i hate having it installed on my computer, FM takes longer to load up as it has to wait for steam then i get all these steam popups when i quit FM! WTF! SI should hang their heads in shame at making us use it. the game is 2 steps forward and steam takes it 3 steps back! rubbish
feels good to vent
I have tried the earlier suggestions, however in my steam library it only has the FM editor and FM Resource archiver, am I missing something here or should it also have FM 12 because checking the validity of the editor and resource archiver is having no effect (they are %100 fine by the way) and FM12 is not automatically updating itself, what do i do?
Validating now... so hopefully I will be able to play soon.
Still this whole situation is a bit ridiculous...
I'm getting this error as well. I'm all for SI getting sales for the people who play the game but a happy medium has to be struck between preventing piracy and making life difficult for those of us who've supported the game for years... Very disappointed I'm again having DRM issues with Football Manager.
Great, i have payed 30 and cannot play my game, while a pirate that steals the game can play without problems. Great DRM!
Sorted...Originally Posted by jase19
for me, as with others, i had to verify the files twice and the game worked without a problem.
without complaining.
so for people not wanting to go back through and actually read how to do it, and would rather ask "how?" and then complain...
1. open steam
2. right click fm12
3. click properties
4. click "local files" tab
5. click "verify integrity of game cache..."
wait for it to complete verifying, then downloading.
exit steam.
restart steam,
then you should be good to go.
Frustrating to begin with.
Gotta love the forum.
I must say that I do not expect to pay £30 and then not be able to play the damned thing when I want. I do not think that verifying cache (twice). One major crash dump is an acceptable way to do a patch. Neil said that it is as easier than downloading from a patch from a website.
Scenario 1. Buy game verify with Steam. Play game. no internet access due to Virgin repairing cabinet. Can still pay game no internet needed. Can patch when I want.
Scenario 2. Buy game. Verify with steam. Unable to play due to Virgin reapairing cabinet as game requires steam to run. Unable to find fix as no internet access. Unable to play game. ****** off.
This is not acceptable. Scenarios are fictitious but do happen. Not very impressed. Have brought game since 00/01. Maybe the last unless Steam is dropped. I have played Shogun 2 with steam doing updates without issue why cant they do it properly with FM.
Completely horrendous... Home from work at 6:45, dinner, shower, catch up with family... then sit down at 8:30 for an hours play on the new FM before getting ready for bed only to find it's taken me 30 minutes to get it working. Absolutely shocking and totally unacceptable. I've played FM since Tommy Johnson and Kitson were superstars and I feel totally let down that they can't seem to find a DRM system that doesn't penalise me for actually BUYING the game year after year.
1. open steam
2. right click fm12
3. click properties
4. click "local files" tab
5. click "verify integrity of game cache..."
wait for it to complete verifying, then downloading.
exit steam.
restart steam,
then you should be good to go
Just a note, it wasn't working for me but a system restart and trying again forced the issue.
Can't see how this can be an SI fault, but then Steam have never done this with another game I've used so...oh well, always help in the forums regardless. Thanks all.
i have just tried to play football manager, and i got the same message, that it was unavailable,
i did that daft verifing thing, now i cannot run it at all and have had to un install it, and got to wait 3 hours again for it to install,
how would i go about a refund, as gamestation wont entertain me???
I know it may seem like this is all ok, as as we speak there is not a working pirated copy available, although nosing at one of their forums, the releasers were all waiting for the hotfix before attempting a crack anyway (whether that is true or not I do not know). But this is why I was so anti SI using Steam, not everyone is PC savvy like the rest of us, and really people shouldn't have to jump through hoops not just to install the game, but everytime there is an update.
I don't really care if this solution has prevented a pirated copy being released, I still don't think SI should release it this way next year, as this has caused more problems than the 09 release which they admitted was a mistake, so surely this has to be a mistake too? I saw a Sega person type the other day, "our main aim is what is best for us in protecting our game from being pirated", their main aim should be what is easiest for paying customers imo.
1) Not pop up with confusing messages saying "Game currently unavailable, please try later".
2) Not create crash-dumps when clicking on play AFTER its told me my cache is verified.
I should be clearly informed when a patch is being downloaded.
I should be clearly informed why I cannot play a game I have purchased, and when I will be allowed to do so.
If steam is a mature piece of software it should do the basics well.
I don't have any irrational hatred of steam or valve. If steam made my life easier I wouldn't be complaining, I'd be playing FM2012. I dislike steam because I can maintain my software library more effectively manually. I've never had a crash dump in any previous versions of FM after applying a patch. Nor have I ever had it tell me that it was unavailable to play, with no further explanation about why I can't play or when I might be able to do so.
As always it couldn't have happened at a worse time, i.e. when so many people are just (reluctantly) getting to grips with Steam for the first time.
whenever i try to re install it automatically connects to steam???

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However, according to the ballistics expert hired by Mumia's own attorney, the bullet fragments pulled from Faulkner's body were a ballistics match to a gun registered to Abu-Jamal. A gun which, it should be pointed out, was found next to Abu-Jamal at the crime scene along with five empty casings. There's also the matter of the four witnesses who were at the scene of the crime who all implicated Abu-Jamal as firing the fatal shot. There's also the fact that, in almost 30 years, his story has changed numerous times, including the recent claim that it was, get this, a mysterious mafia hit man who killed Faulkner because he was a dirty cop. Faulkner's widow, who was spat on and screamed at during the trial, must especially love that theory.
The only thing more traumatic than losing a husband: Bad reggae music celebrating the guy who killed him.
The Low Point:
Arguably the saddest thing about the entire circus is that there were plenty of racist convictions celebrities could have been throwing their weight behind. DNA evidence has exonerated a disproportionate number of wrongly convicted African Americans who Paul Newman had never heard of. Meanwhile, Mumia has the distinction of being the only person to ever give a college graduation commencement address from a jail cell (Antioch College, 2000). At least he's not getting rich off his celebrity or anything. Well, unless you count all the books, like Live from Death Row, for which he was paid an advance of $30,000.
#5. Free Leonard Peltier
Peltier is right up there with Abu-Jamal as far as celebrity causes go, except he's been locked up longer, his support network is bigger and his case involves the FBI. Also, he's a Native American, so the opportunity to tap into white guilt couldn't be better. Take that, Mumia!
See how his head is fused with a hawk? Clearly he's a Native American.
Peltier was convicted and sentenced in 1977 to life imprisonment for the murder of two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. That day, the two agents followed a car they thought belonged to a man wanted for robbery and assault. What they found instead was Peltier and two other members of the American Indian Movement who, after fleeing the agents, initiated a shootout that left them both dead.
Since his conviction and sentencing, his legend has grown to practically saint-like proportions, as if he not only didn't commit murder, but is incapable of so much as swatting a fly. U2 count themselves as Peltier supporters, along with the Dali Lama, David Geffen, Danny Glover and Amnesty International.
Cracked's support is limited to appreciation of Peltier's mustache.
What these people ignore is that Peltier ran from the agents that day at Pine Ridge because he thought the agents were there to arrest him for a previous warrant for his arrest in Wisconsin. The charge? Attempted murder of an off-duty police officer. Then, in 1979, he led a violent prison break attempt that resulted in the death of a fellow inmate.
The same man that did all that has reportedly been nominated for multiple Nobel Prizes.
All of that is enough to get you a supportive song from Rage Against the Machine ("Freedom") and U2 ("Native Son"). Though it appears U2 did some further research on the subject, because they rewrote the song and removed all reference to Peltier (the tune would be re-released as "Vertigo" and win a Grammy).
The Low Point:
While Peltier never got a $30,000 book advance like Abu-Jamal, he did run for president in 2004 (fun fact: in the USA it's illegal for prisoners to vote for President, but perfectly legal for them to run) and got nearly 30,000 people to vote for him.
#4. Free (Insert Repeat Offender Here)
It's not just bleeding heart types who take up the "Free _______" cause. Back in 1957, a guy named Edgar Smith was convicted of murdering a 15-year-old girl. It only took a jury under three hours to declare him guilty, and he was sentenced to death. Somehow, he wound up in correspondence with conservative commentator William F. Buckley (the founder of the National Review). Buckley worked for years to get Smith released until, in 1971, he was.
"Awww. We can't stay mad at you."
After his release, Smith appeared on Buckley's talk show and collected $1,000 speaking fees touring college campuses around the nation. All was well until five years later, when he abducted 33-year-old seamstress Lefteriya Ozbun while she was going home from work. She survived, but Smith is back in prison, serving a life sentence.
"Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, life sentence."
Then we have George Davis, a convicted bank robber who was serving a 20-year sentence for aggravated robbery. His friends started a movement to get him freed and once more, celebrities jumped on board. Davis's case got mentioned in several UK rock songs, culminating in Roger Daltry of The Who wearing a "George Davis is Innocent" shirt on stage.
If Tommy says it, it must be true.
After galvanizing his cause to the point where it became a national priority, British Home Secretary Roy Jenkins recommended Davis's release in 1976, determining his conviction to be "unsafe."
Davis lasted two years on the outside before he was caught trying to rob another bank.
The Low Point:
Topping them all, however, has to be Jack Abbott. He was sent to prison for forgery, but had his term extended for stabbing another inmate to death. His cause was taken up by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer. Riding Mailer's coattails for Abbott's release was none other than Random House Publishing, who wanted to publish a book by Abbott when he got out.
He was granted parole in 1981, then appeared on The Today Show and got interviewed by Rolling Stone.
Six weeks later, he killed a guy in New York. Why? The poor sap wouldn't let Abbott use the bathroom in the cafe where he worked.


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Presented by the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, the event will showcase various fascinating cultural attractions and traditional art performances of the Toraja ethnic group. The event will also highlight the legendary Torajan Coffee which has made worldwide reputation for centuries. Visitors will also be indulged with a wide range of selection of Toraja's finest handicrafts and souvenirs.
"Discovered" and opened to the world from their long isolation only since the beginning of the last century, the Toraja today still adhere to their age-old beliefs, rituals and traditions, although many of her people are modernized or have embraced Christianity. Toraja is most well known for its elaborate funeral ceremonies that can take days and involve entire villages. These are not only moments for mourning but are moreover events to renew family ties and to ensure continued unity among villages and communities. One of the best sites to observe these unique traditional ways of life is at the Ke'te Kesu Village.
The most iconic feature of Torajan culture obviously is the amazing cave cemeteries. On the walls of a steep hill, coffins are laid in cracks in the rocky face. Lifelike wooden sculptures or effigies complete with clothes stand in neat rows in hollowed out cliff faces, very much like windows and balconies of a house, representing the deceased who are buried within the rock. Among others, these unique rock cemeteries can be found at Londa.
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I am sorry if this problem is too elementary for someone. I just want to get confirmation. Suppose $f\in L^1(R^d)$. Since almost all points are Lebesgue points by the Lebesgue differentiation theorem, can we say that for almost every $x\in R^d$,
$$ \lim_{x'\rightarrow x} f(x') = f(x)\:? $$
I think it is true probably only for $d=1$. Does anyone know some results about this problem?
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As Capt Morgan used to say "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead". Pentaho is going full speed as evidenced by the press release we issued this morning giving the community insight into the past quarter and the great momentum happening at Pentaho. Here are just a few highlights from the release:
- Compared to Q1 2009, Pentaho had a 177 percent increase in new Enterprise Edition customers* including:
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- 229 percent growth in total bookings from Q1 2009 to Q1 2010.
- Finished Q1 2010 with the most successful quarter in company history for the second quarter in a row.
- Record number of new OEM partners including MICROS Systems, Inc.
- Best launch in company history introduction of the revolutionary Pentaho Data Integration 4.0.
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I'm interested in how the SO family sites were bootstrapped in terms of the reputation value? E.g. if everyone starts at rep 1, they would need a fair amount of time to gain valuable capabilities like edit, vote and semi-moderator, and with it an action capable community. How did it happen?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
The rules on Stack Overflow have changed a lot since it was in private beta. I used to be able to delete other peoples comments to my own questions/answers, now I can only delete my own. I used to be able to answer a Community Wiki question with a non-CW answer, that is no longer possible. It used to be possible to get significantly more than 200 rep points in a day, that has changed.
So your question doesn't really reflect how easy it was for people with very little rep to affect the system in the early days.
Check out people's profiles here on Meta.
A lot of us started out with 101 rep (1 + 100 point bonus) and only a few like Jeff and other SO moderators with full rights (but still low rep). In the couple of weeks it's been active there are 16 people with > 2000 rep who can edit other people's post and 9 with > 3000 rep who can vote to close. No one has > 10,000 rep yet, but that won't be long.
There were, however, a significant number who started out with just the single rep point.
If you check Super User you'll see people with > 1000 rep, others in the 100's and quite a few with only 10's. Check back in a week or so and see how those values have increased.
All this has been achieved by the simple process of asking and answering questions. There was only one tweak to the "normal" rep allowances and that was to reduce the amount of rep needed to leave comments.
There's no magic, people just participate.
stackoverflow.com started off as an invite only beta. By listening to the stackoverflow podcast and doing wiki transciption you could get an invite. serverfault was next, you had to have a stackoverflow account, pay attention to the blog, and a certain amount of stackoverflow rep. to participate. By linking your stackoverflow and serverfault accounts you got +100 to your serverfault rep. That's been the paradigm for meta and superuser: Be a member of one site, sign up for the other site, link the accounts and get +100 rep.


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The disclosure by PetroChina came one day after its state-owned parent, China National Petroleum Corp., said a fourth executive was under investigation for the same reason. The phrase "severe disciplinary violations" is typically used by Chinese officials when investigating cases of alleged corruption.
By WAYNE MA and YVONNE LEE
BEIJING -- State-controlled PetroChina said three of its
senior executives are under investigation by authorities for
"severe disciplinary violations" and have resigned, as the
Chinese government appears to ratchet up efforts to root out
official corruption.
The disclosure by the Chinese oil giant on Tuesday came one
day after its state-owned parent, China National Petroleum
Corp., said a fourth executive was under investigation for the
same reason.
While neither PetroChina nor its parent have released
specifics of the probes, the phrase "severe disciplinary
violations" is typically used by Chinese officials when
investigating cases of alleged corruption.
The announcements mark the latest investigations into
high-ranking officials at Chinese government agencies and
state-owned enterprises, amid a campaign led by President Xi
Jinping to root out official corruption. China's top leaders
have acknowledged that persistent corruption and rising public
concerns about graft pose a threat to the Communist Party's
grip on power.
The disclosures come at a pivotal time for PetroChina, which
is in the middle of pursuing two massive overseas investments
in a quest to boost overseas profits and secure energy
resources for its home country.
The company is poised to buy a stake worth billions of
dollars in one of Iraq's largest oil fields from ExxonMobil and
is a possible suitor for a $5 billion stake in a giant oil
field in Kazakhstan held by the Kazakh government. Mr. Xi is
expected to announce a number of oil and gas agreements during
his first trip to Central Asia next month as president, a
Chinese foreign ministry official said Tuesday.
While China's biggest state-owned companies can be opaque,
their operations are of increasing concerns outside the
nation's borders. Chinese companies announced $34 billion in
overseas energy deals last year, which included Cnooc Ltd.'s
record-breaking $15 billion acquisition of Canadian oil-and-gas
producer Nexen Inc., according to data provider Dealogic.
PetroChina identified the executives as Li Hualin, chairman
of PetroChina's natural-gas distribution unit Kunlun Energy Co.
and a vice president at the parent company; Ran Xinquan, a
PetroChina vice president and head of its Changqing oilfield in
northern China; and Wang Daofu, PetroChina's chief geologist.
None of the executives were available for comment.
"The company's normal business operations are not affected,"
according to a PetroChina official. "We will disclose relevant
information in a timely manner."
The official said PetroChina's board intends to nominate Wen
Qingshan, the company's chief financial officer, as the new
chairman of Kunlun. Zhang Bowen, a director at Kunlun, will
perform the duties of chairman in the interim, the official
It isn't clear how the moves might impact PetroChina's
efforts to broaden its operations in natural gas. China is
looking to increase its use of the cleaner-burning fuel as part
of an effort to wean itself off its dependence on coal and on
oil imports. PetroChina bought control of Kunlun in 2008.
"Mr. Li was the major driving force behind [PetroChina's]
transformation into the natural gas business in the past few
years," said BOCI Securities analyst Jeffrey Fang.
All three of the PetroChina officials have held executive
positions there for decades, according to profiles on the
company's website, which have since been taken down. Mr. Li,
who joined CNPC in 1983, had been chairman of Kunlun since 2007
and was appointed PetroChina's board secretary in 2009. Under
Mr. Li's leadership, shares of Kunlun have almost tripled, with
the company at a current market capitalization of $13
Mr. Ran was named head of PetroChina's Changqing field in
2008 and was appointed a vice president at PetroChina in 2011.
Mr. Wang was appointed chief geologist at PetroChina in
The disclosures follow the departure of Jiang Jiemin, who
left PetroChina in March after serving as chairman since 2007
to become the head of the commission that oversees China's
state-owned companies. That commission on Tuesday confirmed the
investigation into PetroChina's three executives. It didn't
return calls for comment.
On Monday, Chinese authorities said Wang Yongchun -- a CNPC
vice president and head of China's largest oil field in the
northeastern Daqing region -- was under investigation by
China's Ministry of Supervision, the country's antigraft
agency. It also cited "severe disciplinary violations." Mr.
Wang wasn't available for comment and CNPC declined to
On Tuesday a CNPC spokesman said Mr. Wang had been replaced
as head of the Daqing field by Liu Hongbin, who has served as
one of six vice presidents of CNPC since July.
Last week, China Mobile Ltd. said a provincial head and
former senior executive was being investigated by the Chinese
government for the same reason cited for the four Chinese oil
executives. China Mobile didn't elaborate on what violations
are being investigated. The former China Mobile executive
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Guess The MARDEK Character (GTMC) is a guessing game played over several days or weeks at a time. The aim of the game is to guess the correct character by deciphering the Challenger's clues. Before posting, please read and adhere to the rules (listed below).
This game is not under the ownership of myself, nor has it ever been. You are entitled to reuse or edit this template for your own usage.
How to Play:
There are two roles to play in GTMC: the Challenger, and the Guesser.
The Challenger:
The Challenger is, as the name suggests, the user who supplies the challenge that the Guessers will attempt to solve. You have (almost) absolute control over how you choose to run your challenge, provided that you follow the rules.
Your aim is to stump the Guessers for long enough to get a few bragging rights. To do this, you must post a challenge, starting with one clue and a number of incorrect guesses needed to release the next clue. The clue can be anything – some text, a link, a video, an image, practically anything. However, you must be able to link it to the solution (which you confirm when it is guessed or when the active Guessers surrender).
You remain the challenger until…
- The correct answer is guessed
- The Guessers surrender (refer to the Rules for more details)
- You resign (refer to the Rules for more details)
- You are inactive (refer to the Rules for more details).
The Guesser:
The Guesser is the person who is attempting to solve the Challenger's challenge. When you first join GTMC, you automatically become one of the Guessers. You remain one of the Guessers until you crack the challenge or react quickly (refer to the Bill of Inactivity for details).
Your aim is to defeat the Challenger before any other Guessers so to become the Challenger, and receive bragging rights. You can guess anything that is a valid character (refer to the Character Definition for more details), and that, besides conversation (refer to the Conversation Act 2013), is your sole role.
You remain a Guesser until…
- You guess the correct answer
- Another Guesser guesses the correct answer
- You join the Blacklist (refer to the Blacklist for details).
Every person playing GTMC, be they a Guesser or the Challenger, has a rank. This rank is decided by that person's activity, or lack thereof. Higher ranks provide some benefits, or rather, one benefit: the ability to guess more often. This is done through a mechanic known as "Guess Points," or GP for short. GP is gained and lost in several ways:
- You gain 8 GP when the Challenger posts a clue.
- You gain 2 GP every hour.
- You gain 2 GP after 3 other Guessers guess.
- Your GP is set 0 after you guess.
Regular players have no benefits. A player needs 8 GP to guess.
- All unlisted people who play GTMC.
Very Important Players (VIPs)
VIPs need only 5 GP to guess. Participate a few rounds to become a VIP.
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Über Important Players (UIPs)
UIPs need only 3 GP to guess. Becoming a UIP is difficult, and requires persistence, luck, and/or community service to enter.
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Rulemasters also need 3 GP to guess, but deserve special mention for their outstanding devotion. Rulemasters are people who have dedicated lots of time to help improve GTMC, including development of rules, banners, coding, and much more. Because of this, the Rulemasters generally know the GTMC rules like the back of their hand, and will probably inform you if your guess is not valid. Becoming a Rulemaster is nigh-impossible, so don't get your hopes up. Also, Rule Masters can start Guessing Sprees.
- DarthKitty ∑!
The Game Master:
The creator of GTMC, the almighty Yven! Yven, being the creator of GTMC, needs only 2.95 GP to guess. But, since GP is dealt with in whole numbers, he essentially needs 3 GP, same as the Rulemasters. Yven can also start Guessing Sprees. Yven's word is as law (only in GTMC though); breaking it will cause you to end up in…
The Blacklist:
The blacklist is the place where people who disregard the rules go. Some horrible punishment will happen to you, if you end up here… To be more specific, your posts will be treated as nonexistent. To join the Blacklist, troll harder! Not that you want to join the Blacklist, mind you…
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There are several rules which must be followed while playing GTMC. If you break these, you'll end up in the Blacklist.
- You must always provide a clue, no matter what. People aren't going to read your mind.
- One (1) clue isn't going to cut it; you must always provide at least two clues. Clues must get easier as the round progresses. See here for more details.
- YOU must provide a list of clues and incorrect guesses every X guesses. How many guesses is up to you, but the amount cannot exceed twenty six (26).
- One (1) Guess per post. Breaking the GP mechanic counts as making multiple guesses in a single post.
- Don't cheat by looking things up on the wikia or a similar site. Playing MARDEK also counts as cheating.
- Don't put up clues if you are not the challenger, unless rules X or Y apply.
- One (1) Sarcastic Guess allowed per round.
- If you're the Challenger, you have sixty (60) hours to respond to a guess. Otherwise, the first person to post clues becomes the Challenger.
- No posting a guess which has already been posted.
- If, after forty eight (48) hours, the Challenger does not put up a new clue (after reaching the amount stated in their post) the first UIP, Rulemaster, or Game Master to post clues becomes the Challenger.
- If the answer is revealed, the first person to post clues becomes the Challenger.
- No quoting the challenger.
What Constitutes a Character?
When playing GTMC, it is important to know what counts as a "Character," and what does not. Here is the current official definition of a "Character," written by DarthKitty:
Something is considered a "character" if it meets all of the following criteria:
- A character must have lines in-game.
- A character must exist inside the MARDEK series (things from other games in the same universe do not count, such as Deliverance.).
- A character must exist outside of battle in some way.
- A character must have a unique name (such as "Mardek," or "Injured Soldier").
Deities also count as "characters." Inanimate objects (such as books and save crystals) do not count. People mentioned in books or by NPCs do not count (Lone Wolf and Bernard Stormkiller, for instance, are not characters).
Guessing Sprees:
Guessing Sprees have been suspended until more people become active, or until we come up with a proper definition for one.
Guessing Sprees are the though-children of Bananananananana (a.k.a. SAPPHIROS).


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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Following the massive mid-January floods and landslides in Brazil, The Salvation Army continues to respond to need in affected communities. The Salvation Army of Brazil has posted photos to their Flickr account of damage and disaster relief efforts. We've included a few below to share with you a clearer picture of some of the work being done and the challenges that remain for survivors. You can find the full album here.
Supplies, logistical support, and more than 10 tons of donations have gone out to key areas, as well as financial support from The Salvation Army's World Services Offices (SAWSO), the international arm of The Salvation Army USA. Local Rotary Clubs, businesses, and churches in São Paulo and Sorocaba have also pitched in to assist with disaster relief efforts. It is expected it will take months for local communities to recuperate.
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Does anyone know a good build order for the mech race in the Squadron TD mod for Starcraft 2? I've read through their forums. There's one thread for Mech and the BOs listed in there don't work.
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Start with an infantry and a Peewee, then get a Tempest as soon as you can. Next upgrade the Tempest to a Leviathan as soon as you get the money. After, build a cyborg as soon as possible, then you can start to produce more scvs. Upgrade the cyborg to Krogoth, and start getting Neotanks and upgrading them to Doomsday machines. All the while steadily get scvs.


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Everyone has at least one horror story about some douchebag neighbor, and if you don't it might mean you were the douchebag.
Whether it's an obnoxious couple having a screaming match at three in the morning or some old guy that stinks up the entire apartment building with Ben Gay and curry, the archetypal asshole next door can make our lives miserable with an array of time tested dick moves. However, you have never truly felt the black flames of the Neighborhood Inferno until you've lived in close proximity to one of these balls of skullduggery.
#7. Michael Carroll - The Racetrack Neighbor
Everybody probably has at least one person living in their neighborhood that spends every waking moment in their driveway loudly perfecting the performance exhaust on an old Mustang GT while listening to Whitesnakeat an unreasonable volume (note: any volume louder than "off" is unreasonable for Whitesnake). Michael Carroll in Norfolk, UK, upped the ante by building an entire demolition racetrack in his yard.
Judging by this photo, Whitesnake was probably involved.
Carroll was the perfect storm of bad neighbor--a 20-year-old convicted criminal who won over $14 million in the lottery. Rather than putting the money away in the bank, Carroll invested his money into a Norfolk estate, which he promptly turned into a 24-hour manslaughter-scale bumper car ride.
The dust and noise generated by his gearhead boner monument were so bad that the family next door had to start living in their bedroom, the last somewhat-quiet place in the entire house. Imagine if instead of worrying about dodging piles of crap your neighbor's dog left on your lawn, you had to dodge old Thunderbirds with hastily applied custom graphics rocketing through the air at 70 miles-per-hour.
"Hey guys? Can you stop for a minute so I can get my newspaper?"
Besides prolonged exposure to a cancer-tastic cloud of automobile fumes and enough noise pollution to constitute a war crime, Carroll's neighbors also enjoyed the occasional thrill of potentially fatal fire hazards whenever the $14 Million Asshat felt like launching industrial grade fireworks and emergency flares over other people's houses.
Some homeowners did try to talk to Carroll about maybe not being such a massive dickpenis, but it's hard to negotiate with a man whose hobbies include wrecking cars and attacking his own sister with a samurai sword. However, we're fairly certain that cookouts at Carroll's house are stupefyingly awesome.
#6. Charles Hart - The Great Wall Neighbor
They say good fences make good neighbors.
This is especially true if your neighbor is a Tyrannosaurus.
Based on that, Dennis Hawes of Fleetwood, England should have described Charles Hart as the greatest neighbor in the history of professional neighboring, instead of as a psychotic bastard who built a 16-foot high wall between their two properties.
"Go ahead, complain some more. I can totally make this wall higher."
The trouble started for Hawes when he decided to build a sun terrace on the roof of his house, which according to Hart was less of a terrace and more of a penis-peeping voyeur deck. So, in order to protect his privacy (and apparent perpetual backyard nudity), Hart took the reasonable step of erecting a two story concrete wall right along their property lines.
Evidently he needed to protect the secret identities of his gas grill and patio furniture.
Hawes is of course partially at fault here. Even if he didn't plan to spy on Hart, he at least could have given Hart some time to express concerns about his privacy, because we've all known some asshole on the block that suddenly started having trucks come in to pour concrete for a new pool without giving anyone else a heads up. Although, it's not like Hawes threw the terrace up overnight, so Hart probably had more than a few occasions to point out his privacy concerns before tossing up the Great Wall of Irrational Paranoia like a suburban Dr. Doom.
#5. Paula Bolli - The Shitty Neighbor
When it comes to neighbor feuds, dropping poop on each other's property is a time honored tradition, whether it be direct deposits on the lawn from a pet's buttchute or flaming bags placed on the doorstep. It's what community is all about, really.
However, there are times when this admittedly gets out of control, like in the case of Gus and Lucille Midura of Mariners Harbor, Staten Island. The octogenarian couple's neighbor Paula Bolli took about 60 cubic yards of horse manure and dropped it on her own front and side yard just to piss them off, a plan that we argue could have spent more time in the development process.
"So... so why didn't we put the manure on their yard?"
There had been bad blood between the Miduras' and Bollis for over two decades, which somehow escalated to the point of two dump trucks full of noxious animal shit. It's natural to assume that they had to deserve it somehow, like by strangling Bolli's entire family with a used condom or something, but according to the other neighbors the mountain of manure gambit literally came out of nowhere, unlike the army of rats that quickly showed up to feast on it.
Neighborhood spite is a powerful thing, just ask any guy who leaves the rusty car in his front yard specifically because he knows his neighbors hate it. But Bolli is clearly a cut above because she's willing to live in the center of a metropolis of shit-eating rats just to piss off a couple of old people.
#4. Jeanne Wilding - The Obstacle Neighbor
Picture that one person on your block that goes all out for every holiday, throwing up elaborate decorations and annoying inflatable licensed characters in their yard every time there's a date with bold text on their calendar. Now imagine instead of decorations it's a minefield full of sharp and dangerous objects, instead of their yard it's yours and instead of "every holiday" it's "every day." You have now imagined Jeanne Wilding.
The folks lucky enough to call themselves her neighbors enjoy a life of constant surprise and professional stunt driving, because some of Wilding's many antisocial hobbies include littering the local roads with animal carcasses, shards of glass, nails and animal crap, which she also diligently spreads on people's lawns. She also blasted floodlights into a neighbor's home like Samuel L. Jackson in Lakeview Terrace.
We're assuming that Wilding's neighbors probably sleep with semi-automatic machetes under their pillows just in case Jeanne completely loses her shit one day and decides to litter the roads with human corpses instead of just dead animals.
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Are there any keyboard shortcuts for controlling Notification Center on OS X Mountain Lion? Of particular interest is a shortcut equivalent of the
Click to Tweet button that appears at the top of Notification Center (when the requisite option is selected in the Notifications settings pane), but if it happens to have other shortcuts (either predefined, or definable in System Preferences - I couldn't see any) those would be useful as well.
Are there any keyboard shortcuts for controlling Notification Center on OS X Mountain Lion? Of particular interest is a shortcut equivalent of the
There is a configurable keyboard shortcut to open Notification Center:
Other than that, there seems to be no way to configure any keyboard shortcuts. The closest I could get is discovering that you can set Notification Center as the action for a hot corner. If you wanted to do this when a key is pressed, you can try combining this with AppleScript (like in this post).
The proper answer to this question is "No." But that's not a very satisfying answer. So if you're determined to have keyboard shortcuts for Click to Tweet in Notification Center, this is what you can do:
Warning: this is a complete and utter hack, but it seems you can (for now; this might break easily) trigger the Tweet button through a very delicate use of UI scripting.
If this looks convoluted, that's because it is. If this isn't something you want to use, I don't blame you, and you can fall back on the answer of "no, there aren't keyboard shortcuts."
While it doesn't work for "click to Tweet", there are indeed three keyboard shortcuts that work with Notification Center. They are ↑, ↓, and return. Combined with the ability to assign a keyboard shortcut to open Message Center, normal messages can be responded to using the keyboard alone. The Share button and the Mute switch do not seem to respond to these inputs, however.
Here's what I do:
While not related to Notification Center, you can achieve this easily using the official Twitter client for OS X. This has a configuration option for "Global New Tweet" which lets you compose a tweet with a key combination without the Twitter app being in the foreground.
Here's an alternate:
If you are using a trackpad, there is also a new gesture to show/hide the notification center: swipe with two fingers from the right border of the trackpad towards its center.
This setting can be enabled/disabled in Settings -> Trackpad.
Found a great one!
Alt + ↑, when notification center is open, reveals an additional switch above the Tweet area, to temporarily disable Notification Center:
Once you click the switch:
@siracusa Documented it in his epic Mountain Lion review: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/os-x-10-8/4/#notification-center


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5 Dec 2012 8:06 AM #11
Isn't that what should happen? What could it do instead other than break if the intermediate model is null?
I just replied to another post where you asked a related question - we could continue this conversation there if you like. I tried to give a full example of a) why this must happen, and b) how to build your own ValueProvider with custom behavior.
5 Dec 2012 9:24 AM #12
17 May 2013 12:16 PM #13
My solution
Hey folks,
Here's a possible solution that I whipped up to solve NullPointerExceptions coming out of otherwise perfectly good ValueProviders.
import com.google.gwt.core.client.JavaScriptException; import com.sencha.gxt.core.client.ValueProvider; /** * The purpose of this class is to wrap a value provider but handle NullPointerExceptions gracefully. * * Note: JavsScript doesn't throw java.lang.NullPointerExceptions (that's a Java thing) so this method technicallly catches both NullPointerException * (for hosted mode), and JavaScriptExceptions (for production mode). */ public class HandleNullValueProvider<T, V> implements ValueProvider<T, V> { private ValueProvider<T,V> innerValueProvider; private V defaultValue; /** * @param innerValueProvider The provider to delegate calls to. * @param defaultValue The value to provide if innerValueProvider should throw an exception */ public HandleNullValueProvider(ValueProvider<T, V> innerValueProvider, V defaultValue) { this.innerValueProvider = innerValueProvider; this.defaultValue = defaultValue; } @Override public V getValue(T object) { try { return innerValueProvider.getValue(object); } catch (NullPointerException e) { return defaultValue; } catch (JavaScriptException e) { return defaultValue; } } @Override public void setValue(T object, V value) { try { innerValueProvider.setValue(object, value); } catch (NullPointerException ignored) { } catch (JavaScriptException ignored) { } } @Override public String getPath() { return innerValueProvider.getPath(); } }
new HandleNullValueProvider<Person, Long>(properties.companyId(), 0L)
P.S. I think it would be great if Sencha GXT included a class like this (or another mechanism to solve null values). It's painful to write custom ValueProviders for every value that *might* be null some day.
23 May 2013 2:54 AM #14
Nice solution!
I also think Sencha should include a way to handle the Null values coming from DB via Beans
26 Nov 2013 9:06 AM #15
Check out this related thread.