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Trojans Continue Road Stretch at Brevard This WeekendMarch 27, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Looking to break away from its recent losing skid, Anderson University baseball returns to its South Atlantic Conference schedule this weekend as it hits the road to Brevard for a three-game series, beginning on Friday with a single game beginning at 3 p.m., followed by a doubleheader on Saturday at noon.
The Trojans
After dropping the final game of a three-game set with conference rival Tusculum last Saturday, AU suffered back-to-back setbacks to nonconference foes North Greenville and USC Aiken this week. With the losses, Anderson stumbled to 11-22 for the year, but holds an 8-10 mark in SAC play which ties the Trojans with Newberry for sixth place in the league standings, with AU and the Wolves a game behind Mars Hill for fifth, and two games behind Tusculum for fourth.
The middle of the Trojan lineup, consisting of sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper and senior outfielder Nathan Galliford have provided the offensive spark throughout the year. Cooper and Galliford are currently tied for fourth in the SAC in RBI with 32 apiece, while Cooper leads the conference in hits with 46. The sophomore is currently on a five-game hitting streak and has blasted five home runs for the month of March.
Hitting home runs all season long, Galliford is second in the conference with nine round-trippers this season, as he trails Lincoln Memorial's Josh Coker, who leads the country with 11. The senior ranks third in the SAC in runs scored with 29, while also ranking sixth in total bases.
On the mound, the AU pitching staff ranks third in the league in strikeouts as one of four teams with over 200 strikeouts for the season (209). Junior right-hander Landon Beck ranks second in the league in strikeouts with 57, but continues to pace the SAC in strikeouts per game at 12.31. Mid-week starter David Thompson ranks sixth in the SAC in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.92.
The Tornados
Brevard has fallen on tough times, entering the weekend on a five-game losing streak and 12-19 overall. In the league, the Tornados hold a 6-14 record, as BC was swept in its last SAC series against defending conference tournament champion, Lincoln Memorial. With the setbacks, the Tornados ranks 10th in the conference, a game ahead of Lenoir-Rhyne, which sits in 11th.
Freshman outfielder Brock Helton has made the most of his first collegiate season, making 29 starts with a .330 average with two home runs and 14 RBI. In 109 at-bats this season, Helton has struck out just 13 times and carries a .440 slugging percentage. With 32 stolen bases for the season, redshirt senior Eric Renegar ranks fourth in the SAC in stolen bases with 13 for the year.
Defensively, right-hander Zach Joyce was named the SAC Pitcher of the Week on Feb. 18 when he tossed a complete game shutout against Catawba, allowing just one hit and tallying six strikeouts. For the season, Joyce carries a 3.30 ERA in 43.2 innings, while striking out 33 hitters.
The Series
After Anderson swept the first ever conference series in 2011, Brevard answered with its own sweep of the Trojans in 2012 in Brevard. Last season, the Tornados took two-of-three from AU, capped off by a 10-6 win in the series finale.

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When I fire up remote desktop on Windows and connect to my server (Windows Server 2008), the fonts look pretty smooth. I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 yesterday and when I use rdesktop to connect the fonts look terrible.
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I have installed Ubuntu using the Wubi installer. So I have the default swap size of only 256MB. I have 1GB of RAM, so many times the system stars crying demanding more swap. I have read the Swap FAQ, but I'm still not sure about how to increase swap size when Ubuntu is installed using Wubi.
Just follow the Wubi Guide. While some of the other answers may work, you must make sure you don't create the swap file on the loop mounted device, which may see decrease in performance.
See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#How_do_I_increase_my_swap_space.3F
I've never used Wubi before, but I'm guessing that adding partitions might be complicated. However, there's no rule that says that you need to use a swap partition. You can use a swap file, as well, and store it anywhere you like on the system. I'd likely choose
I took much of my answer from the Swap FAQ. Scroll down to the part that talks about swap files.
I think that here they explain how you can do that in a easy way. I don't know how exactly wubi works so I'm guessing you want to add a file as a swap. If you are using a partition then you'll need to use something like parted to resize your disk partitions.


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Who can I contact to find out why a site was banned from being listed on community deals?
We were posting my Dad's site on Community Deals and I was contacted by Woot to create a Woot ID for the business rather than using my personal ID and only post up to twice a day. I went ahead and did that and two days later the site was banned without any explanation other than "it's not a good fit". He's sold a number of items to Woot customers and has had nothing but compliments from those customers (great price, fast shipping, etc). I emailed the person who originally contacted me from Woot to ask why the site was banned and never got a response. Is there an official procedure for having this determination reviewed or at least find out what we could do to to make the site a "better fit"? Any help you could provide on this would be appreciated!
If you need me to post the site's domain please let me know.
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From my understanding @jumbowoot has the final call on these situations.
@jsimsace: How do I contact @jumbowoot???
@innovadjc: like that.
also, if your dad's store is "everchangingitems", deals.woot generally doesn't allow ebay stores with small quantities of the listed item.
Guidelines for eBay are:
Buy It Now, several items available, from established retailers with great reputations and a long history of selling and that have stores on eBay.
Individuals are not allowed to post, link, or otherwise profit by posting their eBay listings on Deals."
@questionsanswered: Yes, it is everchangingitems.com. It's not an Ebay store but it does have limited quantities (at least for now since he's starting out). If that's the reason it was banned that's fine, I was just trying to get a more specific answer than "not a good fit" :) If this is the reason he was banned, is there a way to get removed from the blocked list when he begins to carry larger quantities?
Also, is there a list of these posting rules somewhere so I can review them so as not to violate them in the future? I wasn't trying to spam or anything, I was just using this great tool that Woot has provided to promote the great deals his site is offering. When I was emailed and told that I should create a new ID and only post a max of two deals a day I promptly followed the directions and did exactly that. That was why I was so confused when it was banned...
Here is a link to The Unofficial Official Rules.
@innovadjc: Woot unfortunately still sees themselves as too cool to provide actual published rules or policies. This has been the cause of periodic revolts by the membership. Unofficial FAQs exist, but that's far from the kind of thing that'd be useful here.
Woot has gone so far in the past to repeatedly promise that rules/policy publication was coming, but it never has.
We need some damn Magna Carta action around here, or everything will stay arbitrary and capricious .... and that's a very unprofessional way to run business dealings. (As you're finding out.)
@innovadjc: You may also wish to point out to them that they're clearly operating on a double standard given that they openly allow @ohcheri to operate a joint personal/business account. I'm not anything even closely resembling a lawyer, but I was under the impression business policies have to be uniform to not leave them open to discrimination claims etc...
@psaux: The deals from my store follow all of the WOOT guidelines as well as the dozens (hundreds?) of other vendors who post deals on here every day.
One of the reasons I doubt we'll ever see official rules is because if there were people would try to get around them.
For example, if the official rules read "No selling counterclockwise widgets!" then pretty soon some knucklehead would post something like "My store counterclockwisewidgets.com is NOT selling counterclockwise widgets, these are just widget-shaped Christmas ornaments, see the piece of yarn on the top for hanging?" followed by accusations of discimination, racism, legal threats, etc.
It's just human nature that it feels good to get away with something even if it's ridiculous. I'm not always the biggest fan of woot's policies but I absolutely see why that haven't, won't, and shouldn't have published official rules.
@jsimsace: Well from what I can tell from this list of rules, I didn't violate anything so I'm still stumped again. I didn't mean to start a huge debate on the issue, I'm just trying to make sense of it all. I've seen plenty of other vendors posting an offer or two per day and they are still up and running. I know Dad's business hasn't been around as long, but you have to start somewhere. He even sends a follow up email to each customer to make sure that they received their item and are satisfied with it.
I would just appreciate if someone from Woot would let me know the actual reason for blocking the site and if there is a way to change that decision (more stock, different items, less postings, begging, etc.)
I have been a long time Woot customer and have never had a problem with anything I've purchased. In addition, DealsWoot has been a great tool for driving traffic to my Dad's site and I'm hopeful that I will be able to continue using it to promote his site in the future.
@innovadjc: This is far from a large debate on this issue, much larger debates have been had before. Rules are arbitrary, confusing, and will never be published. Sucks, but that's the way the people in power want it.
@innovadjc: I think a big part of it may be what @questionsanswered posted:"established retailers with great reputations and a long history of selling and that have stores on eBay." Your dad has one feedback. I'm sure he's an honest guy, but you couldn't say he's established or has a long history of selling by any stretch of the imagination. It also isn't a store, which seems to be required for ebay deals.
@kylemittskus- I don't think @psaux was saying anything negative about @ohcheri; he was just pointing out the hypocrisy of allowing her personal account to be the same as her business account but then not allowing others to do the same. I know they used to say they encouraged retailers to use the same name as their store for transparency, but never heard of it being required.
As an aside, I personally think that the way deals are moderated is absolutely terrible. There's a reason it's been so many months since I've posted a deal and why you won't see me adding another.
@panthiest: Woot does require vendors to have the same name as their store. I had a different name when I started and I opened my email one day to the Big Guy telling me what my new username and password would be.
Also, I'm not sure why you feel I should create a different name for my "personal" stuff? I have a store but I'm still just a person.
@ohcheri: Where did I say I felt that way? I was just referring to the first sentence of this question: "We were posting my Dad's site on Community Deals and I was contacted by Woot to create a Woot ID for the business rather than using my personal ID"
@panthiest: You said "pointing out the hypocrisy of allowing her personal account to be the same as her business account but then not allowing others to do the same."
Hence my confusion. Woot not only allows others to do the same, they require it.
@ohcheri: I don't think he was expressing any of his own personal feelings on the situation.. I'm pretty sure he was just trying to explain what @psaux was saying.
(I'm trying to explain to @ohcheri what @pantheist was saying about @psaux's comment regarding @ohcheri.. how's that for convoluted.) :D
@drchops: I wasn't taking anything personally. The fact is none of us know why the Gods o' Woot do anything...the rules change by the hour...so we really can't help the OP.
I was merely clarifying that one thing we do know for certain is vendors are required to have a username that reflects their store.
@innovadjc: This is just my guess, but I think it may be because of the way his website is setup.. It doesn't really seem to be a "store" in the traditional sense, it seems a little more like a garage-sale/Craigslist ad..
There only seems to be a few items for sale and they all seem to be either used/opened, have only 1 in stock and don't seem to have any packaging..
And just to be clear I don't have any kind of problem with that - I'm just saying that's probably how Woot! see's it.. Then again I could be completely wrong seeing as how there's absolutely no system of rules :)
@ohcheri: I wasn't attacking you or saying you do anything wrong. I was just saying that, IF his report that Woot! requires him to keep the personal and business accounts separate is accurate, THEY (Woot) are holding him to a different standard than they do you. Again, IF that's all the case, it seems like something that people could get righteously bent out of shape about.
Of course, it's possible he just misunderstood the whole storename vs. username issue, in which case it's all moot. Personally, I'd be curious to see the actual text of their communication with him, but that's up to @innovadjc or Woot to provide.
@kylemittskus: No hating at all. Please see my comment directly above for further explanation.
@innovadjc: It's true that "everyone has to start somewhere," but that doesn't mean that this is the place to do the starting.
The rules for eBay sales are fairly straight-forward, at least in my view:
* The seller must an eBay storefront; this is apparently not a negotiable issue
* There has to be an adequate quantity of items available for each deal posted. (This used to be "at least 10," but there has been some flexibility in that in the past few months.)
* The storefront has to be well-established and have significant, positive feedback (We don't know those definitions, but I've been an eBay user since June 1999 and on Woot since February 2005, and my personal marker for eBay trustworthiness is at least six months selling experience, at least 200 feedback entries, and a FB score of at least 99.5%. Those are also the guidelines I use here for whether or not to tattle on an eBay seller.)
* Only Buy It Now deals. NO bid-only auctions are permitted.
@magic cave: I'm perplexed why you're still citing eBay sale policies. @innovadjc has stated this is NOT an eBay store. Visiting the site itself (Have you done that yet?) leaves no indication that it's in any way affiliated with eBay.
Still, people keep talking about the eBay rules.
@psaux: The one deal that was posted by the OP was from eBay: http://deals.woot.com/deals/users/innovadjc . Granted the seller still has a website, but the only deal we have to go on is the eBay one. And I'm not a huge fan of the website either (no offense to OP, just I wouldn't purchase from there).
@psaux: I think we're discussing eBay stores because the original deal posted was for an item being sold on eBay. There's an item there right now, in fact. If that's not where the original deal was located, then I apologize for being as confused as other folks were.
Yes, I've been to his dad's website. I wasn't impressed. What does "refurbished" mean? Factory refurb? "Used, but I cleaned it up real well?" There's no warranty info at all, which makes me think items aren't factory refurbs; if they are, he should be stating that, since it's a major selling point.
If the original deal posted here was for that website, then I'm in even more agreement that it's not a good fit for deals.woot.com.
@hackman2007: I took down all the other ones when I was told to use the other ID (trying to comply with the rules as I was learning them). It won't let me remove the old Ebay one for some reason.
As far as the site goes, I have a nicer one in the works but I put this simple one up in the meantime to get the ball rolling. The new one is a much better design and will be much more custom. Just trying to find time here and there to finish it up. You know how it gets around the holidays :)
@magic cave: The items range from new to open box/returns that haven't been used. He listed them as refurbs since technically they aren't new but he does test each item before listing it to ensure its a quality product. He actually hasn't listed a number of items that work just because they don't work to his satisfaction. He also offers a 14 day return policy on all items just in case. I agree his descriptions could use some work but he's still learning the whole web thing :) To date he's sold quite a few items and has not had one complaint (in fact he's received a number of emails from the customers who were impressed with the condition the items were in).
Like I said originally, I just wanted a simple answer as to why the site is blocked so that if it's something I can fix (i.e. website redesign, less postings, more products, etc.) then I will fix it. If it's something that I can't fix (i.e. hasn't been in business long enough) then I know there's nothing I can do to fix it. And if it is something I can fix, how do I get the blacklist lifted? (Do I submit it for review to someone or something?)
I do appreciate all the input. I didn't expect this thread to get this much attention :)
@innovadjc: I used to hang out with some full-time, professional eBay sellers; some of the tips I got from them might be useful on your dad's site:
Clean up the photos. Don't use a bare chunk of 2x4 (is that what it is?) as a prop; paint it, cover it with solid-color paper or fabric, or find some other object to use. Keep "simplicity" in mind. Make sure the backdrop is large enough; it doesn't serve its purpose when the basement walls and floor show above and to the side of the backdrop.
Make sure the focus of the shot is on the most important item: the picture should show all of the circular saw, not part of the saw and all of the bag. Take some time to smooth out the manual's crinkly pages.
On the gas trimmer, get everything else out of the picture. Remove the box of Hefty bags, the roll of tape, the unidentified tool, and all the clutter in the background. You want a buyer's eye to go immediately to the trimmer, not to the junk surrounding it.
In the photo of the RC car, the big, clunky measuring tool and the gift-wrapped box over-power the image of the car and controller. Buy a $1 kid's plastic ruler (white, no exotic colors) that serves the purpose without grabbing all the attention.
On the menu bar, the "products page" doesn't go to the products. I had to hunt into the text to find a way to see what's for sale. When I put an item in the cart and headed to check-out, the page that showed up is not an encrypted page. I wasn't interested in adding my personal info to get to a payment page, so I was left wondering if that page is encrypted either?
It's hard to get a website running smoothly; my son's a professional website designer, and he's shown me several iterations as he tweaks sites to get exactly the result the client wants (tempered by what he knows will and won't work well).
Folks today pretty much expect a clean, user-friendly site with good, clear pictures of the merchandise. Improving the photo quality is generally an easy task that yields big benefits improving a prospective buyer's overall perception of the quality of the merchandise.
@magic cave: Yes, I'm heading up to Dad's over the holidays to work with him on the photos and provide him with a new camera as well as backdrops and lighting for the photos (he's not a tech guy) :)
As far as the website goes, I'm actually a web designer but I haven't had time to finish my custom site for him (have to finish up my customers sites first). I put up this WordPress one for now but it is secure and using Paypal to process payments. I'm hoping to have the new site up in the next few weeks but I didn't want him to miss out on holiday sales in the meantime. (trust me, I'm not happy with the site either, but it does the job for the moment) :) The new site looks nothing like the current site, it's much cleaner and much more user friendly.
I appreciate the input on the site though, at least I'm not the only one who's not happy with the design. :) Check the site again in a few weeks and I think you'll be impressed at the changes!
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Let G be a locally compact Hausdorff group, and C*(G) the full group C* algebra.
I found in some books that "representation theory of both is the same". Can this be expressed as "the categories are equal"?
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- [Some context] that is relevant to my employment with the company.
- [Some context] that is relevant to my employment at the company.
Which of the following options are correct?
The typical distinction between the two options is that with with a company strongly implies that you work for them. Working at a company could imply that you are simply there doing work on their building or network or something like that:
But this isn't a necessary distinction. Both work with and work at usually mean that you work for the company and, typically, people say "I work at Starbucks." With sounds a bit more formal to me and has a more "us" quality about it. At feels less formal and feels more like the company is disembodied or distant.


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I used to practice karate earlier. 5 years ago I was diagnosed with minor disc herniation at L4 and L5. I haven't undergone any surgery and pretty much cured just by physiotherapy and can do all my day to day activities without any problem. I do a little bit of yoga everyday as suggested by the doctor. I want to restart my martial arts training. Is it safe to do so?
Disclaimer: I have no medical background. Please consult your Doctor.
First and foremost, (and I really can't say this enthusiastically enough) Please consult your Doctor! His/her word will be much more valuable than anything you read here. Second, I suspect that it should probably be OK to start up again, but do so very cautiously. Here are some (non-medical, common sense) things to keep in mind:
Good luck.
Tony's answer is great, I won't repeat it here, though it's largely what I would have written.
I will add that I had a herniated disk when I was in my early 20's while in, and certainly exacerbated by, my martial arts practice (I think also L4/L5). With extensive physiotherapy, I avoided surgery, and did (several months later) ease gradually back into martial arts practice. That was 20 years ago, during which time I have studied various martial arts on and off. I'm careful to have good posture, good sitting and exercise habits, avoid things that would be especially straining on my lower back, and generally try to keep my core strength up to support the region. Being vigilant about those things, once I recovered fully, I have not found it to be an impediment to my martial arts training. So -- all caveats in place with a sample size of one -- it certainly can be done.
Go over it with your own doctor, don't do anything that hurts, but if you are already recovered enough that you don't notice it in your daily life and you're doing other exercise without incident, I don't see why you shouldn't try martial arts again.
Look up a biography of Masaru Shintani. In the early to mid 1980's, he was seriously injured in a car accident. Among his injuries were several spinal injuries. The doctors insisted he would never walk again. When he passed away many years later, he was one of the few 9th degree black belts that continued to train regularly. See https://business.highbeam.com/436167/article-1G1-159922549/masaru-shintani-making-modern-canadian-karate-master


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Food justice - Public Growing
Based on voluntaryism principles of taking neither government nor corporate money, I am trying to build a web application for allowing people to grow food in open, public space for free. And I need help!
We need someone to do the database and object model and Node.js hosting. If you want to get involved, please contact my gmail: dhtmlkitchen.
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I practice well and regularly these days. I can share this discipline with others of all levels. I need a room that is secure and where I can make some noise.
Berklee: Consumerism and putting money and marketing before education. Little emphasis on performance, even for performance majors.
My School is cooperative and doocratic. Payment is sliding scale and I accept bitcoins. If you are broke but can play and show up on time, you may be accommodated.
Kids who went to Berklee because they were inspired by Steve Vai got "financial aid" and student loans only to accrue $80,000+ student loan debt, which they slavishly repay over the next 10-20 years, working a job that requires a "bachelor's degree".
There is no good reason why the cost of music school must be so high.
Stuff I like
I like to play and teach. Some of my musical influence include J.S. Bach, Paul Gilbert, and Yngwie Malmsteen.
Strength training, martial arts, and parkour.
Nutrition and Health
I am interested in organic, medicinal foods, local foods, food sovereignty raw milk, pastured eggs.
I wrote many articles on former dhtmlkitchen.com, comp.lang.javascript newsgroup, and the c.l.js FAQ.
I've built things for companies where marketing needs weren't necessarily geared towards generating actual value to the world.
Professionally trained at School of Traditional Thai Massage. I practice deep work, ideal for those who exercise hard (like me).


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ASP.NET is greater than WebForms, just as ASP.NET is greater than ASP.NET MVC. As MVC evolves so does WebForms. Join Damian Edwards for a tour of new features in the next version of ASP.NET WebForms, some of which you might recognize as friends of the ASP.NET MVC world. Learn more about Routing, Model Binding, optimizing CSS and JavaScript, advanced control templating techniques, and new thinking around how to structure applications using your favorite Web Framework.
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See you there Damian :)
Some nice stuff, especially the model binding. One thing that bugs me is that with the 2 way data binding there's no way to have a default value on insert forms. In ASP.NET MVC i would feed in default values to my view by passing them along with my model but i can't see a way to achieve this in web forms.
Sweet. Looking forward to the model binder featues and updated providers. Maybe I won't have to switch all my stuff to MVC after all
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Earlier, I went to a site that required a number and special character, and it got me thinking – wouldn't that make the password easier to brute force? If you assume most passwords have around 12 characters, wouldn't requiring a number remove about 90% of the possible passwords, making brute force much faster?
It removes a lot of passwords only if you consider that all combinations of 12 letters were possible passwords. In practice, users don't consider random passwords; they want to use passwords with a meaning and there are not many of those.
In other words, what matters is not the number of passwords which fit into the password entry field, but the number of distinct passwords that the user chooses among (the "generation process"). Requiring an extra digit enlarges that space for most users. Users for which the forced digit reduces the space of possible passwords are users who choose really random passwords, and even at 11 letters and 1 digit, these will be strong.
From a purely theoretical standpoint, yes. The set of all strings of a given length will be larger than the set of all strings with any further restriction on them.
But the bank is gambling that the space of passwords that the user would practically choose from is actually much smaller than the set of all possible passwords, and that by mandating a number and special character they are increasing the set of passwords the user will choose from since the user may not have included those restrictions on their own. (All other things equal.)
And while a reasonable percentage of the available passwords will indeed be eliminated by the requirements this doesn't really matter, practically or theoretically, because password strength is measured logarithmically and 90% doesn't change a lot on the logarithmic scale. Assuming that the set of passwords with restrictions is only 90%* of what it could otherwise have been, this is only a difference of about 3.3 bits of information. At a length of 10 total characters and about 72 possibilities per character (52 alphabetic, 10 numbers, and 10 special characters), the set of all possible character strings has about 63 bits of space. So with the restrictions we have 59.7 bits of password space instead of 63 bits. Not a big deal.
(* The OP's 90% estimate is a very large over-estimate for how much the password space is reduced. See these comments or other answers for better approximations of how the password space is actually reduced.)
My answers are "maybe", and "no". If you consider a brute force attempt which covers the complete possible set of passwords:
So strictly, yes, if you look at ideal bits of entropy per character, but really only maybe. You can find a more empirical analysis of this in NIST SP-800-63-1 (Appendix A).
Correctly calculating permutations with restrictions is tricky. If we assume 96 valid characters:
That ratio indicates a loss of ~89.5% (with a more realist set of 64 characters it's about 85%) -- but that's not the right calculation, that's the number of permutations for a digit in a specific position.
(Aside: I'm disregarding passwords shorter than 12 characters for simplicity as it barely affects the numbers:
which is ~1% of the total: for passwords from 1-12 characters, 12 characters ones account for ~99%. As the character set size gets smaller the ratio increases, it's ~1.5% for 64 set size, it doesn't change much as password length varies in the range [7-16] in either case.)
There are two obvious ways to calculate the correct number of permutations with a digit-required restriction:
Option 1 quickly gets out of hand when you try to form permutations with no overlaps. Option 2 is near trivial (at least for simple cases like "must have at least one digit"):
This shows for 12-character passwords chosen from a set of 96 characters you loose ~27% of the total number of permutations with the "at least one digit" restriction. Repeating with a 64 character set for passwords:
So you only loose about 13% in that case.
Requiring digit & punctuation is a little trickier, my calculation (96 chars, length 12, >=1 digit, >=1 punctuation) is 4.46E+23 or ~73% of 96^12, ever so slightly less than the digit case.
Brute force is not "much faster", only ~25% faster, which is quite acceptable given the benefits.
These sorts of rules are sensible mainly as they prevent many weak passwords in practice, and require that you considered using special/numbers symbols when generating your password. Any password like a dictionary word is automatically excluded requiring at least the addition of a number and symbol somewhere in the password. Yes you can still construct weak passwords following the rules, but you have dramatically increased the space to do so.
Let's do some math assuming you were randomly creating an 12 character password that was randomly generated. Let's say you are randomly picking symbols out of a set of symbols of size N; e.g., N=26 if you only allow lowercase letters (also 26 if you only allow uppercase letters); N=52 if you allow both lower and uppercase letters; N=95 if you allow all printable ASCII characters etc. That is there are 26 lowercase letters, 26 uppercase letters, 10 numbers, and 33 other printable ascii symbols.
You can easily find that the number of available passwords is N^12 for an 12-character password (there are N choices for the first letter; N for the second/third/fourth, etc.) so the number is
Now if you required that you must have at least one lowercase, uppercase, number, and symbol in your 12 character password, that effectively excludes the previous possibilities. Imagine the simplified scenario, where you originally allowed only lowercase passwords, and then decided to require at least one number and one lowercase letter in the passwords (and still forbid symbols/uppercase letters), the number of 12-char passwords would not be 36^12 passwords, but would now be 36^12 - 26^12 - 10^10 passwords - though this only shrinks the effective password space by 2.01 percent. However, the entropy of the password barely changes from 62.04 to 62.01. When brute forcing passwords entropy matters -- a small constant factor like 2% faster time to brute force doesn't matter.
In our case requiring at least one lower+upper+num+sym in our passwords results in:
The multiplication by two for some values accounts for how my table only considered lowercase-only cases; also have to consider in uppercase-only. This reduces the entropy from 78.8 bits into only 78.3 bits. Yes it did eliminate 31.9% of possible passwords (and ~26% of it came from requiring a number), but it made a minimal dent into the intrinsic entropy. Now compare that to a scheme where your original password was randomly generated from lowercase letters and symbols. That has an entropy of 62 bits instead of 78.3 bits, meaning its about 65000 times easier to brute force.
Granted its almost always better to just increase password length than increase the size of your symbol set. E.g., a random 17 digit lowercase password has ~80 bits of entropy (e.g.,


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This review is intended for the Xbox 360 version of Modern Warfare 2. The scores given in this review do not reflect the overall PC or PS3 versions.
Published by: Activision
Developed by: Infinity Ward
Genre: First-Person Shooter
Release Date:
US: November 10, 2009
Platform: PC/Xbox360/PS3
There are many games that try to mimic Call of Duty, but none can manage to pull off the same hectic game play and presentation. Its no surprise that Modern Warfare 2 has already broken sales records. The hype for this game was intense, the only question is if it lived up to it or not.
Well rest assured my friends, this game not only lives up to the hype but it shatters it into pieces. Youd think for a series like Call of Duty with the sheer amount of games they have put out, it would start to fall flat. Infinity Ward manages to keep the game feeling fresh and exciting throughout all these years.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 gives players a series of things to accomplish throughout your play through. Youve got the standard campaign, a deep multiplayer mode and a newly added Spec Ops mode which essentially takes pieces from the campaign and makes them into challenges you can complete on your own or with a friend. Simply put, you cannot and will not be disappointed with any of these modes, they all offer several hours of playtime and enjoyment.
Get Ready For Hell
If youve never played a Call of Duty game before you can only expect the best when it comes to controls. Everything is exceptionally tight and responsive. This is crucial as many of the games elements require quick and decisive movements that could not be performed with sloppy controls. It leans towards more of an arcade style shooter but some of the elements can feel very realistic such as aiming through the sights (which is a staple now of the CoD Series). You will learn quickly in this game and come to love how it handles in under a half hour.
Taking a deeper look into the campaign you will find that not much has changed from the first. Many of the missions are jam packed with action sequences you have come to know and love. Although, I am finding that even with some of the suspenseful and intense scenes that you will play through it's starting to lose some of its edge. I feel like the first modern warfare blew me away more. This could be because Ive come to expect it from these games. I am betting if you never played a Call of Duty before you would think the opposite.
What is great about the campaign is that the missions offer lots of variety. You do not play as the same solider throughout the entire campaign. You will switch between countries and solders after every level. This keeps the scenery and other aspects of the game fresh. No level will feel entirely the same. For instance one level you will be scaling an icy mountain and shooting down baddies from a snowmobile while the next mission you will be in Brazil running through the streets chasing after a kingpin.
To put this games story in laments terms - it sucks and will confuse you to death. The amount of things that happen and the quick transitions will make the story very hard to follow. Near the end of the game you will probably find yourself beyond confused, but you probably wont care. I had to replay some of the campaign in order to follow the events that happened to better understand it. Once you finally do put the pieces of the story together you probably wont be glad you did. Its really not that great.
Even still, youll be having a lot of fun with the campaign and youll be sadly disappointed when the game comes to a close so promptly. You can easily finish the campaign in less than 5 hours when playing on regular difficulty. There is no doubt that the campaign should be longer, but at least what you do play is fun and worthwhile. The campaign is also good for another play through on veteran for achievements.
Every level feels fresh
Spec Ops is one of my favourite additions to the call of duty series. Gears of War 2 and Halo 3:ODST were on the right track when they made their horde and firefight modes. Modern Warfare 2 expands on modes like that by offering 25 different challenges that can be completed with a friend. Challenges will test you on your stealth, survival, and assault skills. Each missions can be completed on a certain difficulty which the higher the difficulty the more stars you will earn. The more stars the higher the bragging rights and missions you unlock. Completing these challenges on veteran will take some serious teamwork.
Missions are creative and original. For example in one mission you will have a buddy on the ground and another in a helicopter. You have to cover your buddy on the ground by blasting threw enemies with your machine gun until he makes it to the rally point. The amount of dedication and focus you can muster to beat these missions on veteran is unbelievable, Ive never been in so much communication with my friends before. As far as Im concerned spec ops is a shining example of a game play mode that should be added into most games.
Last but not least is the selling point of the CoD series the multiplayer. Much has changed since MW1 and for the better too. For those that are unfamiliar the system plays off of levels. The more games you win and people you kill the higher your level will become. You can unlock different items like scopes and guns. You also get to choose between different perks such as steady aim or extending the explosiveness of your grenades. You can form your classes into pretty much anything you wish which gives you a lot of variety for your play style. The balance of the game has changed greatly for the better, especially when it comes to kill streak rewards. Now you have to choose between 3 specific rewards. No more endless abilities to use the more kills you get. Theyve added a lot more rewards though such as gunning down people from an AC gunship which is very cool. All in all, you really have to play a lot in order to unlock everything. There is such a wide variety of guns and attachment you will want to collect. The game keeps rewarding you the longer you play which will keep you interested for a long time.
The graphics are nothing to scoff at
The maps have been designed carefully and in my opinion are much better than MW1. In addition to several well thought out maps there are several game types. All of which provide a great deal of fun. The better you get the more intense you can play. Hardcore game types try to take out the more arcade style elements of the game and make you rely purely on teamwork and good aim. If you are more than a casual gamer and enjoy competitive gaming this will be right up your alley.
The aesthetics of Modern Warfare 2 can be jaw dropping. Theyve defiantly improved from the first. The lighting effects and viewing distances are awesome. Theyve got some really nice scenery and solider models. Everything is highly detailed and the best part is that it runs exceptionally well on xbox. The entire game is appeasing to the eyes. The sound is also unmatched, in many situations you will have to rely on your ears to get you out of a mix. When you hear enemies reloading or bullets wising from behind it makes the game more realistic and engrossing.
Closing Comments
For a series that has been going on forever it doesnt skip a beat. New and old players of the series can get sucked into the game play quickly and not look back for a long time. So many things have been improved or added to make this one of the best game purchases you could make all year. My only complaints rely mostly on the campaign mode. Not only is the story hard to follow but it literally goes all over the place. The campaign is also extremely short and most of the events wont impact you as much as the first game. Ultimately, with endless hours of spec ops and team deathmatchs at your fingertips you wont be disappointed with this purchase.
Presentation - 8.0/10
Follows the same style of the first Modern Warfare. Story is very confusing. Unmatched action sequences.
Graphics - 9.5/10
Beautiful scenery, high detail, great lighting - so much to make this game appeasing to the eyes
Sound - 10/10
Great sound effects and on par voice acting. Compliments all aspects of the game
Game Play - 9.0/10
Tight and responsive controls. Spec Ops is a wonderful addition. Deep and rewarding multiplayer. So many fun things to do hours will fly by like minutes
Lasting Appeal - 9.0/10
The campaign wont last long, but its good for another play through. Beating all the spec ops missions on veteran will keep you busy, and dont forget about the multiplayer. You could be playing this game for a long time
9.3/10 - Outstanding
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Announcing Your Pregnancy at Work
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Reciprocal respect & understandingMaking a Smooth Transition
The first step for good workplace relations is to treat your employer and coworkers with respect and understandingbasically, the two most important things you want and need from them during and after your pregnancy. For example:
- CooperateDevelop an attitude of mutual support among your peers by pitching in during vacations and sick days.
- ReciprocateAlways be quick to return favors. If someone covers for you when you visit the obstetrician, make sure you make up the time within the next week. Be generous with thanks and appreciation; sometimes a little gift is appropriate. Better yet, build up a bank of favors with your coworkers that you can draw on when needed.
- Don't complain about how you feel or how busy you areNobody wants to listen to someone moan about their situation, especially if they have been given a new, easier work arrangement.
- Stay on top of your workload during your pregnancyDon't get behind. If possible, get ahead on some duties. Never expect an associate to take over some of your work because you're in this new condition.
- Talk things overDiscuss your anticipated leave with your colleagues and address any questions, or problems, they may have. Remember, they may not be looking forward to the changes when you're absent. Keep any doubts about returning after your leave to yourself. Don't forget to let contacts and clients know when you'll be leaving and who'll be handling your work while you re away.
- Change your voice mail message and reroute your mailFind out who will be handling your mail while you're gone. When recording your out-of-office voice mail message, include the length of your absence, the approximate date you expect to return, and the name and number of the person(s) covering for you. Set up an automatic email reply with the same information.
- Train your replacement wellDon't wait until the last minute to discuss your replacement. Find out if you're expected to find and train him. If your colleagues are expected to pitch in and help, start long-term projects before you leave and hand off smaller tasks to other workers. Never withhold any information from your substitute out of anxiety about being replaced. When you've trained that person very well, the flow of work will not be interrupted, and you will get the credit.
- Trust your replacementOnce you have delegated your work or trained your replacement, be prepared to let her do the job. If you continually call or pop into the office unannounced attempting to check up on her, you could cause confusion and resentment.
- Put your desk in orderOrganize your files, reports, and other material that will be needed while you're away. Create a clearly labeled folder with contact information, file locations, and other relevant information.
- Clean your virtual deskPlan to leave a tidy computer behind you, particularly if supervisors and coworkers will have access to it while you're on leave. Remove any personal files and even remotely inappropriate documents. Make sure your files your coworkers will need during your absence are easy to access and understand. Create a master list detailing how your files are organized and make a hard copy of this master list. Make copies of important folders and files; back up copies for the workplace on floppies or CD-RW, and make an extra copy you can take home if you need to access it while you're out. Don't forget to pass on your passwords.
- Stay in touchCall once or twice to catch up on the latest office talk. Toward the end of your leave, make arrangements to call in once a week. Be available by cell phone for emergencies. Accept calls from work. Designate a contact person at your office and try to have all office communications go through him at regularly scheduled times to give you and your family as much privacy and rest as possible. Ask that copies of memos, mail, and other important correspondence be sent to you. Let everybody know that you'll be back soon.
Not everyone will be thrilled with the news of your pregnancy. Conflicts between associates stem from many sources; among them is a belief that a working mother will have family problems that conflict with work performance, a feeling of jealousy over perceived special treatment, or a belief that mothers, or expectant mothers, belong in the home. The trick is to try to manage people's reactions and their treatment of you.
Practically speaking, you need your coworkers cooperation to accomplish your job. A hostile associate could cut you out of the loop or forget to give you phone messages with the result that your clients or superiors might begin to think you're unresponsive or worse, incompetent. The time and energy you would devote to such a conflict could be much better spent on improving your production.
The best way to control the situation, as with any management issue, is to be proactive. If you sense any newfound tension, here are some suggestions:
- InvestigateThere's always the possibility that you are at fault. Perhaps you're making errors that someone else has had to correct because you're preoccupied with your pregnancy or approaching parenthood. Or you may have been unintentionally abrupt with coworkers. Ask a trusted colleague to explain what's wrong.
- Clear the airSet up a private meeting with each person involved in the conflict. Approach the discussion in a matter-of-fact, neutral manner. Keep your voice free of emotion, and your coworker might realize that his or her emotions might be intensifying the conflict. You're not there to point fingers or defend your position, but to find a solution to a problem that is disrupting the workplace. State your experience as nonjudgmentally as possible. Then give your colleague a chance to respond without interruption. Bite your tongue if you have to, but listen carefully with respect to the other person's point of view. Demonstrate your willingness to adapt.
- Consult your boss Only as a last resort should you discuss the matter with your superior. Perhaps an adjustment in your duties will ease the tension. Be careful on this stepit could backfire. The people who are resentful of you now may only harden their attitude if they feel the boss is taking your side.
Many pregnant women experience having their tummies rubbed by strangers who do it because they are just unthinking and don't realize they're being rude. Try to understand the point of view or the motivation of the people saying or doing offensive or stupid things. Although a sarcastic response may be on the tip of your tongue, humor mixed with information is usually a more effective approach in the long run.
Be firm with people who are genuinely offensive or whose actions constitute harassment. Ask them politely to stop and tell them it makes you uncomfortable, or gently guide their hands off your belly. You'll have to adjust the response to the situation for example, when it's your boss or an important client but don't snap back. It'll make you look unprofessional. (See Managing Your Maternity Leave)
Here are five ways to say "none of your business" to unsolicited advice:
- That's something my husband/partner/doctor/midwife has already worked out.
- Thank you for your concern.
- I'd rather not talk about it.
- My, that's awfully personal!
- What a question!
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Special jury opens Tuesday
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STEUBENVILLE — A special grand jury investigating additional charges in the August rape of a 16-year-old Weirton female is scheduled to begin hearing testimony Tuesday in the Jefferson County......
All the bloggers must be either subpoenaed or stepping up. No more chatting going on......
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Anyone hear any news from the secret proceedings?
Lets hear some scoop.
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Refuse to cooperate now and it is contempt....Hopefully they will bring charges against all the adults who failed the kids in this case..From the coach who would take of it to the administration and school board who showed a complete lack of integrity to the parents who failed as parents
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I hope people will believe when we're done we did everything we could to find the truth and that justice was done," said DeWine.
This statement bothers me.
Again I say; a shipment of Charmin is on the way.
I hope we are not looking at a trial as depicted on the movie "Eight Men Out". evidence lost.
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Word is out that more people recently stepped up to openly provide information to investigators.....to get in on immunity deals......that is why the seizure of all the computers and hard drives was done. Good sources tell that they will find plenty of solid evidence on school hard drives, software, including stuff located at both academic and sports practice places. O-BOY!.......It's really going to hit the fan once the indictments start. Advice to those in hiding.....if you are smart, you may want to be in the first group to fess up and tell what ya know....those will be the folks who get the breaks. The ones still in hiding better have lotsa bucks for some good lawyer talent for both criminal charges and civil suits. The next month will be verrrrrrrry interesting my friends.
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I hope this is a VISITING GRAND JURY, otherwise nothing will be found.
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Christians say that Jesus is the Messiah spoken of in the Old Testament; Jews disagree. Why couldn't Jesus be the Messiah spoken of? Or could he possibly have been?
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I used to be a Christian but converted to Orthodox Judaism more than 32 years ago. I have a website called: "A Primer: Why Jews Can't Believe in Jesus" that should more than adequately answer your question (although I actually designed it for Jewish education and not to combat missionaries). But let me just touch on the basics:
Not only isn't Jesus the Messiah, but it is obviously so that the Messiah has yet to come, although, G-d willing he will come soon. We know this definitively because we do not live in the Messianic Age. If we lived in the Messianic Age you would know it because:
If you have read the papers recently, you would know that none of these things has yet occurred.
Now, many missionaries tell me that Jesus will rise from the dead and do all the requisite things that Messiahs are supposed to do that he didn't get to. In golf, they call that a "mulligan" -- a do-over. There have been a lot of people who claimed to be, or were acclaimed to be the Messiah over the last 2000 years or so. If you give one guy a mulligan, they all have to get mulligans. So where are you now. You cannot say that Jesus gets exclusivity to the mulligan because he is the Messiah, because that is just circular.
You can tell me how Jesus raised the dead. Well, so did some of the rabbis who were almost his contemporaries, if you choose to believe in the Talmud's stories of the rabbis. My friends here cited some examples in response to this question.
You might tell me that Jesus suffered. He did? How long? Was it more than a half a day that he was crucified? Have you ever heard how ten of our sainted rabbis died at the hands of the Romans? See this. And do you know anything about people like the Klausenburg Rebbe (Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam (1905-1994)), zt'l, who were imprisoned by the Nazis. The Klausenburg lost his wife and 10 children who were killed in the death camps. For more than a year he was personally starved, beaten and tortured by the Nazis, and yet kept the commandments in the camps, even though no one had to under the circumstances. He even saved any rolls he received until the Sabbath eve when he would say the blessing over two rolls in honor of the Sabbath, and give that bread to the other inmates. When he was rescued at the end of the war, he weighed about 85 lbs. But he was undeterred. After the war, he went on to build schools for children and hospitals for the sick on three continents. Please read Judah Lifschitz's translation of the Klausenburg Rebbe's biography. You will see that although he had no claim to be the Messiah, he litterally fed the hungry, took care of little children and healed the sick, and over a far longer time than the Christian messiah.
And, if you tell me that he is the "suffering servant" defined in Isaiah 53, please go back to your copy of Isaiah and see who he defines as "the servant." No, it's not in chapter 53, but there are at least four verses in Isaiah that define Israel as G-d's "servant." (Is 44:2, 44:21, 45:4, and 49:3). Origen, the 3rd century Christian scholar, in Contra Celsum, admitted that this was the Jewish understanding of Isaiah 53, that the entire Jewish nation was G-d's servant and that they indeed had suffered for centuries before (and to come). But I will admit that Jewish liturgy and thought also suggest that Isaiah 53 does refer to the Messiah, among many others. The Messiah, like righteous people have in every generation, will accept upon himself suffering for the excessive sins of others that G-d chooses not to give to the sinner because then they might lose all faith in G-d. This belief, described at Talmud Bavli, Brachot 5a, is an explanation of why we see good people suffering for no apparent reason.
Please see my Primer for other points.
For a complete treatment of the subject, see a work like this. There are anti-missionary sites that certainly go through the various Biblical descriptions of the Messiah; these aren't hard to find if you google around a bit.
In brief, here's how Maimonides codifies the job description of the Jewish Messiah, in Chapter 11 of his Laws of Kings & their Wars; this is normative Jewish belief:
Suffice it to say that Jews believe Jesus failed to meet that description.
This question is not just about 'Who was, or will be, the Jewish messiah?' It's also about things like what 'the messiah' even means, and whether or not the whole religion of Christianity could also be true.
That would include the assertions that a man was an incarnation of God; that you need to believe in a messianic claimant in order to have forgiveness from and relationship with God; and that only Christian Jews are the fulfilment of Isaiah 59:21, while no other Jewish group is the place where God is speaking. Most communities of people who believe in Jesus adhere to one or more of those points.
It's also important to think about the starting points of the question. Why listen to Jesus/Yeshua, out of all the people who have claimed this? Should we take it seriously because of something in the Christian community or experience that stands out to us? Or because of prophecies in Tanach? Or because of a feeling of admiration for the personality of the messianic claimant described in the Christian gospels?
The divinity/incarnation claim is the most serious issue, because if it is not true then to worship a human as God is plain idolatry. For sure, a lot of Christians truly love and seek God, and He responds to them in their sincerity. But it's still destructive, and it's still off-limits to Jews and to anyone who knows better. At the heart of Tanach, and of Judaism, is the relationship between Creator and His creation. If you read Psalm 148 you can gain a beautifully clear sense of this attitude that pervades the biblical Israelite understanding. For us to treat something or someone around us in creation as if they were the one who made and deserves our hearts, or a power that we can completely trust and admire in and of themselves, is spiritual adultery. It's also humiliating to worship a fellow creature who owes worship to God as much as we do.
So clearly with this point, you have to be totally careful in light of the Torah and the prophets. When it comes to knowing God, it's good to cling to Him in faith even when our knowledge is small or unclear for a time. But when it comes to worshiping something that seems to be created, or possibly distinct from God, you can't allow something into your worship if you're not 100% sure that it's our Creator alone. The commandments about worship in Torah are clear and there's no room for ambiguity. A couple of questions arise. First, is it possible that God should become incarnate as a human? And also, how does the Torah expect anyone to test such a claim according to the standards of absolute carefulness regarding worship?
Most people who believe in divinity for Jesus think he was 'fully human and fully God'. In the New Testament, it's clear that Jesus prayed and that he had a relationship with God, calling Him Father. So one question would be, in this fundamental relationship between Creator and created, which side of the relationship was Jesus on? If 'Creator' then he was not one of us. If created, then he didn't deserve to be called God. We could talk about this for a long time, and it's not the deepest or clearest point here, but it is an important one. The most defining feature of 'what it means to be human' is our relationship of worship towards God, and the interesting thing is that (according to the gospels) Jesus portrayed himself as having the humility of a worshipper and a servant of God (in line with the idea of what the Davidic king 'should be'). If he was also going to ask for worship from us as well, then that is a fundamentally mixed signal.
The other issue on this point is the question of how Jews should test such a claim according to the Torah. For example, Torah expects that prophets will come and that there will be particular ways of testing them. Even miracles or fulfilled prophecies, though they might be a sign of a prophet, aren't a guarantee according to the Torah standards. In the commandment about tzitzit (Numbers 15:38-41), the Israelites were taught to hold onto the commandments so they wouldn't be led astray by their hearts or eyes. So, does the clarity of commandments in the Sinai revelation, where Israel met her God, point someone to expect that a new way of meeting with and worshipping God may one day be commanded? If so, what is the test; how can you know which incarnations are true, and which are false? Did God expect Israel to take any such claim seriously about a human they could meet or remember, or anything else with breath? Many Jews have loyally chosen to put up a wall around their worship with a door that will only ever be opened to God; they do not open it to Jesus because no reason to do so can match the carefulness taught in the Torah.
The question remains about whether Jesus might have been the messiah even if he was not God to be worshipped. It becomes difficult to ask this question, though, firstly because most of the Jews never accepted him, while most of the people who did ended up using him as an idol. Unless you're going to assume that the testimony of God could be held in Islam, but that's beyond the scope of your question and would only be considered for reasons quite different from the ones why people consider Christianity. Just quickly, a problem with Islam from the Jewish perspective is that Muhammed asked Jews in his time to follow him because of what they already knew of God and His Law, but Muslims insist that by that time the Jewish scriptures and traditions had been corrupted. To follow Muhammed would have been to violate Judaism as they understood it, so they would first have to stop trusting in the Jewish testimony; only then could they listen to Muhammed. There could be no continuity. If God set up a method of preservation in His covenant with Israel, what was it?
But for all of those communities who do believe in Tanach (as currently preserved) and who also believe that Jesus was messiah, regardless of whether they think he was God, the thing that they are lacking most is the sign of the covenant between God and Israel. I'm not saying that the rabbinic/Orthodox Jewish community is infallible or perfect, by any stretch, but there's no other claimant to being the 'righteous remnant' of Israel who can say that in every generation, there were people among them keeping Shabbos, keeping testimonial signs, mitzvot, and observances, and passing them on to their children along with the messsage of their God who brought them out of Egypt. That's a big problem for them: how can Jesus be the messiah if in some generations, all the people keeping the signs of the remnant of God, and living righteously according to the Torah and prophets, didn't accept him? No matter what feelings, miracles, or beautiful expressions of community and love for God exist in Christianity or in 'Messianic Jewish' (following Jesus) groups, how can they claim that they are the only Jewish remnant living by faith, and that all other Jews have no concept of grace or of coming close to God in love and His forgiveness?
When you look at the proof texts that are brought by Christians to support the idea of Jesus being the messiah, you can see from the context that most of them are not even clearly about the messiah, the/an anointed one, or the king who will restore David's line. A lot of them can also be read legitimately in a number of different ways. The description of someone suffering is not necessarily a reference to Jesus(!), and there are also some translation issues in Christian Bibles. I can't go into them all because it would take a long time, but suffice to say that these parallels seem much bigger to someone who thinks 'messiah'='Jesus'; who equates the idea of moshiach with death and resurrection, with incarnation, or with a sacrifice for forgiveness; and who has truly known God in the Christian community and setting while reading the 'Old Testament' with a structure that highlights their belief in (and thankfulness for) Jesus' 'sacrifice'. They (and Tanach as a whole) can always be read very legitimately, and more naturally, in different ways. And you should remember that the people who wrote the New Testament knew Tanach and the imagery of the hope of Israel, so some parallels could be because of their understanding of what happened (influenced by biblical imagery) rather than the reality that everyone else could see.
The idea of needing forgiveness for sin is a non-issue. God clearly promised this forgiveness to the Jewish people and already built it in to the Torah. It's a gift beyond words that we can't understand, but Isaiah 55:6-9 makes it clear that we don't need to understand how it happens. Christianity looks at it retrospectively and says that they can now explain it, but that in itself is no proof for anything. Also see Deuteronomy 30 for the way in which God taught Israel to return to Him and be forgiven, even in the last generation, and Ezekiel 33:10-16.
A good parshah to give foundations for considering all the claims that people make about Jesus is Va'etchanan (Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11). This is where the caution and loyalty, which Christians often perceive as pride or stubbornness, is coming from. Remember also how important the community of the righteous remnant is in the prophetic understanding of God's program in the world concerning Israel. If Jews who love God and rely on His mercy while keeping His commandments carefully are really holding His light in our world, then to ignore them and listen to another cult or sect or religion is to ignore the word of God in our midst and to cause a lot of pain and isolation to members of the real firstborn-son and servant of God (Israel) who are holding on to their testimony and to His Law, which is their life and the method of preserving the covenant. It's true that they're still waiting for the restoration of many things, but what is the standard in Tanach for defining the righteous among Israel? Doesn't it involve justice, faithfulness to God, and mercy for people who are suffering? Nothing is said about accepting a messianic claimant in the time before he has fulfilled any actual messianic prophecies, or else losing your relationship with God, especially if the trusted leaders and the righteous community of Israel (whom we trust as the ones who recognised the prophets) don't recognise a person as such. No one can tell you that you owe this, and there is no clear reason to draw the circle of 'salvation' so small as to take the words of God away from the people who are so loyally and lovingly, obediently guarding them.
Some Christians also believe that the Torah is no longer valid in the 'messianic age' of Jesus, and that Jews who try to follow it are rejecting grace. I don't think that this was the message in most, if not all, of the New Testament. But for groups who believe it, there are some very severe biblical issues with accepting an idea like this as well. Obviously this comes from a lot of misconceptions about how grace and a law 'on your hearts' are already a foundational part of the Jewish experience of Torah.
Basically, the question of whether Jesus was / will be moshiach and the one of whether Christianity (or Messianic Judaism) is true are two very different questions. But I can see no reason to seriously consider or accept either claim, and in each case there's a lot at stake in doing so if you're wrong.
As a student of early Christology, Patristic theology, biblical hermeneutics, textual criticism of the bible, and the history of the bible and the early church, I can answer this question the way I wish it had been explained to me.
The Jewish messiah is expected to be and do many things, but Jesus simply doesn't fit the description, and he certainly didn't fit the description which was widely popular in the first century. At that time, Israel was dominated by heathen pagans from Rome. These pagans even appointed the high priest of the Temple. The messianic expectations of the first century were reflective of this context, and the expectations included:
All of the above facts are relevant in their own way, but the most basic reason for rejecting the claim that Jesus was the messiah is simple:
He died.
Not only that, he died in the most horrific and humiliating manner imaginable. He was stripped naked, flogged in public, spat on, nailed to a cross, and mocked and ridiculed by jeering crowds. It is difficult to imagine anything less messianic than this. When the messiah comes, he will not be crucified. He will rule the world.
you have two completely different question here, one on the topic and other on the question body. so in order: 1) they have a tradition that goes ultimately to his first 12 students which believe because he said so. 2) the rambam brings several points on how to detect false prophets, see mishne tora. we have a tradition that the messias in a prophet. there are also several point that the messias need to fulfill, and this is basically how we would recognize him and how we can know which ones to reject (in plural, note that the one you mentioned was not the only one in the last ~3 thousand years).
I could make a list here but that would be the answers for a different question, one simple point that I believe anyone can check for himself is the temple, we simply have no temple (until this writting). you can come and check yourself.
there are a few reasons 1) the Messiah must be a human descendant from the linage of King David on his fathers side and he apparently didn't have a human father 2)belief in G-d as a human being is heresy. G-d is infinite and putting him in a body incarnate limits his being. In Christianity when Jesus rose from the dead he was no longer in the grave he was laid to rest in. This is a limited being and G-d is all places at all times and without exception. 3) anyone who attempts to negate the prophesy of Moses isn't considered a prophet but a liar. A liar who can preform miracles is a liar who relies on impure sources to get these abilities. 4) the messiah is required to accomplish specific things such as cause all of the Jews to keep the Torah, influence non-Jews to observe the seven laws, wage the wars of G-d against amalek, rebuild the temple. 5) the messiah cannot have been someone who was killed.
essentially the Messiah is someone who will bring Jews to observe the Torah and influence all of humanity to become moral people. The teachings of Christianity have not accomplished any of those things and post the crucifiction of Jesus the world has experienced large amounts of evil done in his name
On the simplest level,like mentioned in the other answers here quoting Rambam, Mishnah Torah, Hilchot Melachim, Chapter 11:4 he was killed, meaning executed, by the Romans. That disqualifies him.
If you are actually looking for a more involved answer, he is the false prophet that was destined to arise from the Jewish people that Moshe Rabbeinu told of in Sefer Devarim 13:1-6. Even though technically you could call this a type of 'moshiach', meaning one sent by G-d, it is for a completely different mission like Moshe tells us.


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- Pour a small amount of glue into a paper cup or small plastic container, and add about a quarter cup water to get the consistency of paint.
- Have your child use a paintbrush to paint the glue solution onto a piece of paper.
- Then, crumple up strips of brightly colored tissue paper and press them onto the paper.
- Use a variety of colors and add sequins, beads, and glitter for a real piece of art.
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10 Tips to Engage Reluctant Readersby Lindsay Hutton
According to the U.S Department of Education, a child's interest in reading for fun diminishes after the age of 3. Lack of interest, reading difficulties, and a fear of being made fun for what they read are all reasons why your child might be hesitant to pick up a book. Use these tips and ideas to help spark your child's interest in reading, and find out how to choose the right books in order to get the pages turning.
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It sounds obvious, but children (especially boys) are more likely to read when they find stories about things they find fascinating, like Harry Potter, or relatable, like Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Stories that transport readers to another time and place they could only visit in their imaginations are also great options: The Steampunk Riders find adventures in the Wild West and the crew of Galactic Hot Dogs makes mischief in outer space.
For more ideas, Guysread.com is an excellent resource to find books on subjects that have captured the interest of boys, including a featured "Book of the Month," and a library containing multi-volume short stories and illustrations.


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You can't buy your kids clever. What's more, if they're merely above average, by sending them to some hideous Holland Park hothouse, you're probably buying them miserable.
As far as I know, clever and miserable are both adjectives, not nouns. So why were they used with to buy? Is this an idiomatic way of saying You can't buy your kids intelligence and you're probably buying them (moral) misery? If so, what is the idiom used here? I'm not familiar with it.


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Unanswered: Inject VBScript include and function call into ExtJS 4 w/ MVC
Strange request, but bear with me...
We need to do some spell checking on an internal ExtJS application.
The key there is "internal" which means we have a known platform of Internet Explorer with Microsoft Word installed, and one of the "nice to haves" is to use the user's own dictionary in Word.
I have a nice little piece of code which I've used a lot previously to do exactly this... but my problem is that it's in VBScript so I will need to either inject this script into my page at some point, or a reference to an include, and then call that function, all in my ExtJS 4.1.3 MVC app.
What is the best/recommended way of doing this?
The VBScript function is very simple, and is currently in an include file, and consists of the following code. Remember that this needs to stay as VBScript to interact with the Windows environment and launch Word.
function Spelling_Grammar(TextValue) Dim objWord, objDocument, strReturnValue Set objWord = CreateObject("word.Application") if objWord IS NOTHING then MsgBox "Microsoft Word is not installed!" & vbCr & "This is required to check spelling.", vbCritical, "Error" else objWord.WindowState = 2 objWord.Visible = False 'Create a new instance of Document Set objDocument = objWord.Documents.Add objDocument.Content=TextValue objDocument.CheckSpelling 'Return checked text and quit Word strReturnValue = objDocument.Content objDocument.Close False objWord.Application.Quit True MsgBox "Spelling Check Complete!", vbInformation, "Spelling" end if Spelling_Grammar=strReturnValue End function
onClick="document.all.boxId.value = Spelling_Grammar(document.all.boxId.getText())">
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So I've had some time to think about this and have managed to do pretty much the same thing in JavaScript rather than using VBScript:
... handler: function () { var box = Ext.ComponentQuery.query('#commentaryText')[0]; var wordApp = new ActiveXObject("Word.Application"); wordApp.Visible = false; wordApp.WindowState = 2; wordApp.Documents.Add(); wordDoc = wordApp.ActiveDocument; wordDoc.Content = box.value; wordDoc.CheckSpelling(); box.setValue(wordDoc.Content.Text); wordDoc.Close(false); wordApp.Quit(true); } ...
I'm trying to figure out where that is happening (it's not the returned text) and to see if I can work round this, but otherwise I think I've just about solved it!


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I am a little confused as to why sometimes they will treat $x$ in $\ln x$ as $\ln ab$ and other times its treated as $\ln x$.... To be more clear, here is an example:
$2\ln(3x^2-1)$ and $\ln2x$. Now, in $2\ln(3x^2-1)$ the $3x^2-1$ becomes $x$ and is written as $2\cdot1/x\cdot x'$. My question is why? because this could have been treated as $\ln3x^2/\ln1$.
On the other hand, $\ln2x$ they solve as $\ln2+\ln x$ then differentiate it.... So my question is: When do they choose to apply the log rules and when not to? Will not applying the rule give you the wrong answer? In the case of $2\ln(3x^2-1)$ could they have done it differently as oppose to treating $3x^2-1$ as $x$.


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For the 4.5mm lens, use the camera in portrait orientation on the top rail of the NN5 and take 3 shots around. The pano head will intrude very slightly on the right, but will be of little consequence. If you want to try 2 back-to-back shots, then mount the camera in landscape orientation on the bottom rail.
I haven't been very happy with the sigma 4.5mm. I need 6 shots for a full spherical and I loose a lot of resolution. I'm not sure how anyone is able to do one with just 2 or 3 shots.
So now I'm looking at trying out the Sigma 8mm or the Nikon 10.5 f2.8 AF DX Fisheye. Does anyone know where I can get samples from the Nikon 10.5 to try out? Does anyone have any opinions on the two lenses?
On NN180, R1 or R10, you only need 3 shots around+ nadir.
you can find some sample shots here
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Just thought I would let everyone know that I ended up going with the Nikon 10.5 f2.8 AF DX Fisheye lens and I couldn't be happier!
Here is a link to a recent tour I finished using the lens and the NN5...
Your panoramas are in need of levelling. In a equirectangular image, all the vertical features like sides of doors, walls, windows etc. should normally be exactly vertical - not leaning over to one side. If using PTGui, see http://www.johnhpanos.com/levtut.htm. Autopano Pro also has a levelling option.
Hey John,
I was wondering about the leveling thing. I'm using RealViz Stitcher Unlimited 5.6 on a mac. Do you know if there is a way to do it with that?
Greg, I don't know if there is a specific levelling tool in Stitcher, but you can roll the image and shift it up and down to level it visually, as far as I can remember. At worst, you could download Hugin for free and import the equirectangular image for levelling using t1 control points as in PTGui.


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Sometimes an answer is useful, but rather off-topic or in other ways not applicable to OP's specific scenario. Maybe the answer is too general, maybe the question is somewhat localized (but not TOO localized that it should be closed), perhaps there was a slight misunderstanding between the two, etc.
In any case, the answer was deemed useful enough by some people that it has received a few upvotes, but obviously it could use a better home. That is, the answer would be a really good answer for a different question.
Let's say there no dupe.
What should be done in this case? Should a new question be asked to which the answer can be migrated? (If so, what's the protocol?) Should the answer be deleted altogether? (I've seen this happen, and honestly I don't think it's the most ideal solution)


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I'm trying to decide whether it would be better to use traditional or simplified characters for an iPhone game I'm making. If something is written in traditional, how many people will be able to read it? If something is written in simplified, how many people will be able to read it? From my research it seems most people can read simplified.
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More people can read simplified than traditional, by a significant margin. There are roughly 1.3 billion people mainland China where simplified has been the standard since the 50s and 60s. Taiwan and Hong Kong, the three places traditional is the standard, total about 32 million between them (23 million in the Taiwan/ROC, 7 million in Hong Kong, 2 million in Macau). There are a lot of people from mainland China and Chinese outside of countries where Chinese in the primary language who can also read traditional, but I have no clue on the numbers.
Most people can get by more or less when reading the other character set because there are a lot of very standard substitutions. It is however easier to read simplified if you only know traditional.
Example substitutions (some standard ones):
Tools to convert between the two are readily available, although, as Ironfrost points out, these tools have a lot of problems with some of the 1:many conversion choices. Look at his comments below.
You are correct. Most people read simplified with the exception of Taiwan and HK (although, they can read it too).
Most Chinese can read the both. The reason is that only a small portion of Hanzi are different between traditional and simplified Chinese. (in other words, only a small portion is simplified from traditional version to simplified version.) Most Hanzi are the same. In mainland Chinese, you still can see traditional hanzi everywhere like plaques, posters, chess, academic philological periodicals. In Taiwan or Hong Kong, people also use some simplified ones in handwriting.


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The Otoe County Sheriff's Office suspects a stolen pickup truck was used in an Otoe County burglary Sunday night.
Deputies received a report of a stolen 2004 silver Dodge 3/4 quad crew cab diesel truck from a residence near the county line on Van Dorn Street.
They later received a report of a burglary near 5300 L Road, where forced entry was gained into the home.
Chief Deputy Mike Holland said the stolen truck may have been used to transport items away from the home.
Stolen were various firearms, swords, jewelry and televisions.
Holland said deputies are developing leads in the case today.
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I AM anti-drug as they come. I have never had an illegal substance in my body and never will. That is why I love what the Belmont County Drug Task Force is doing....
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I would like to send a voicemail I received to someone else for them to be able to listen to the exact same audio.
Is there a way to forward an individual voicemail to someone else, whether by email or some other means?
Hopefully someone else can provide an easier answer or an app that automates this, but the method I've found so far only works for jailbroken phones:
A sidenote is that doing this I was able to find some orphaned .amr files that seemed to not have been completely deleted (.amr files are still stored when deleted until they are cleared from Deleted Messages). I was able to safely delete these old voicemails (over a year old, probably persisting from backups) from the folder.


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By CASEY JUNKINS
Special to the Herald-Star
PITTSBURGH - Some environmental groups are concerned about the Center for Sustainable Shale Development. So are some industry groups.
For Andrew Place, that means the center must be doing something right.
Place, interim director of the Pittsburgh-based Center for Sustainable Shale Development, said the center's mission is to "support continuous improvement and innovative practices through performance standards" for drilling in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations. The organization formed last month.
To date, industry representatives are Consol Energy Corp., Chevron, EQT Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell. Chesapeake Energy and Range Resources are two companies that have yet to sign on.
While not directly addressing a particular company, Place said conversations continue with those companies that have yet to sign on to the center's mission.
He also noted a number of environmental groups - the Group Against Smog and Pollution, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Heinz Endowments - are signed on as partners.
"The Heinz Endowments has a long track record of supporting environmental causes," Place said. "I think that says a lot about our organization."
Membership and purpose
Place said the center's work and standards would cover West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania - areas with burgeoning drilling and fracking activity - as well as New York and other states that have placed a moratorium on fracking.
Chevron Corp., which has drilling operations in Marshall County and maintains some acreage in Ohio County, is one of the founding members of the center, as is Consol Energy, which also has active drilling operations in Marshall County in collaboration with Noble Energy.
"The group's standards will certainly make an impact in the areas where these founding companies are operating," Place said. "I have a farm in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Wearing my landowner hat, if I know that a company abides by these standards, I will think better of them."
Other founding members of the center include the Heinz Endowments, GASP, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Center are the Clean Air Task Force, EQT Corp., Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Royal Dutch Shell and the William Penn Foundation. The new standards established by the voluntary organization include:
Limitations on the flaring of excess methane, which is identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a potent greenhouse gas, and other hydrocarbons.
Reduced engine emissions from drilling rigs, compressor motors and trucks.
Vapor controls on condensate tanks.
Groundwater monitoring and protection.
Improved well designs.
Stricter wastewater disposal methods.
The use of less toxic fracking fluids.
The elimination of diesel fuel for fracking.
Seismic monitoring before drilling begins.
Companies will be encouraged to submit an independent review of their operations to the center. If they are found to be abiding by a list of stringent measures to protect the air and water from pollution, they will receive a stamp of approval with the idea that this will give them an advantage over those who do not have the certification.
"After this gets going, when an operator comes into an area, they will get asked if they meet the standards," Place said. "The people of the community will want to know if you are certified with us."
Jacque Bland, manager of corporate communications for Chesapeake Energy, directed questions regarding whether Chesapeake would join the center to the Marcellus Shale Coalition, a Pennsylvania-based trade association to which Chesapeake belongs.
"We appreciate this diverse group's support for our member companies' development of natural gas and engaging in a process to embrace its clear environmental and public health benefits," said Kathryn Klaber, chief executive officer of the coalition. She added her association's members are "vigorously committed to compliance with this stringent framework."
Other companies, such as Range, have declined to participate.
"This is one of many avenues in which companies may choose, or not choose, to engage," Place said. "Organizations like the Marcellus Shale Coalition are good organizations."
Environmental groups also have expressed concern over the center. According to The Associated Press, the Sierra Club opposes its work, and the group No Frack Ohio said the plan "simply puts green lipstick on a pig."
Regarding the thoughts that the center is heavily tilted toward favoring the industry, Place again notes the participation of the Heinz Endowments, GASP, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Center are the Clean Air Task Force, Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. One expert told the AP the possibility of industry working with environmental groups concerns extremists on both sides of the fracking debate.
"As moderates in the gas industry and in the environmental community work together more in coming years to improve drilling practices, I think you will see the extremes in both camps become increasingly marginal and isolated, and I think that's a good thing," environmentalist Michael Shellenberger wrote in an e-mail to the AP.
In addition to his interim role at the center, Place serves as corporate director of energy and environmental policy for EQT. He said no one at the center is discussing ways to help natural gas replace coal in electricity generation.
"No one is thinking about how natural gas and coal interact," he said, emphasizing Consol's long history of coal mining operations, such as McElroy and Shoemaker in Marshall County.
Place said the center's goals do not include seeking to change federal or state laws, noting he believes these performance standards are "no substitute for regulation."
"This was always seen as version 1.0," he said of the initial standards set forth. "We have weekly meetings now. Environmentalists and industry representatives are in the same room, thinking of how we can work together."


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Does the expression "within the same day" make sense? I want to say something like "if I go today, I can't come back within the same day," or "I if I get banned from a forum, I can't log in within the same day." Or, like, "I can't post the same thing twice within the day."
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While it's not technically wrong, it's confusing because "within the same day" can mean within the same calendar day or within the same 24 hours. It's typically better to say "If I've been banned from the forum, I can't post anything for 24 hours."
It might be written in the sense of "within the given time". But it is technically improper using "within the same day". For example:
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How does one install ArcView3 on 64bit Windows?
There are numerous threads on the ESRI forums for how to accomplish this, but the solutions are scattered, inconsistent and disjointed. So this is a request to post integrated and "cleaned-up" solutions, don't just copy and paste. Please indicate if the method is specific to x64 XP, Vista, or 7 (and post seperately, e.g. win7 method in one answer, vista in another).


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I know that Android 3 and 4 use MTP on Windows to allow access to the storage, I have tried the developer switch and the only connection you get is still MTP.. I really need a drive letter to enable several programs that I want to use with my ASUS slider (this question has a good chance of being needed on many Android 4 systems). is there any app or driver that will allow mass storage / drive letter access to Android 4
Unfortunately, it's a big problem. Google apparently decided to go MTP only route since it does not require unmounting the storage from the Android side when you connect it to your computer. So:


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27 Nov 2012 11:39 PM #1
Unanswered: How to export panels content to an image
Hi everyone,
I have a panel with some sprite components as the content.
Now I want to export this panel to an image / excel / pdf formats.
Please help me in resolving this issue.
28 Nov 2012 2:33 AM #2
do you want to get the content accordingly how they placed in the panel????
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Hi... Thanks for the reply....
I have some Sprite components like, rectangle , circles at some specified points. Now i want to export those contents in the panel to an image.