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15 Aug 2012 3:50 AM #1
Unable to select last option of picker
Sencha Touch version tested:
- Sencha Touch 126.96.36.199
- Sencha Touch 2.1.0-b2
Browser versions tested against:
- Chrome 21.0.1180.79 (Windows)
- If i user a selectfield with the config
usePicker: true
i am not able to select the last option in the picker.
- If i don't use a picker
usePicker: false
the selectfield shows a list and evrything works fine.
Steps to reproduce the problem:
- Open the console
- go into SDK-Folder
cd C:\xampp\htdocs\sencha-touch-188.8.131.52
cd C:\xampp\htdocs\sencha-touch-2.1.0-b2
- generate a new app
sencha generate app -n TEST -p c:/xampp/htdocs/TEST
- go to new generated folder
cd c:/xampp/htdocs/TEST
- replace the generated code in Main.js with selectfield (see code below)
The result that was expected:
- I should be able to select each option in the picker even the last one.
The result that occurs instead:
- If i click into the selectfield, the picker is shown with its 5 options.
I can select any option i want but if i choose the last one, the picker jumps back to the penultimate item (4/5)
Test Case:
Ext.define("TEST.view.Main", { extend: 'Ext.form.Panel', requires: [ 'Ext.TitleBar', 'Ext.field.Select' ], config: { items: [ { xtype: 'titlebar', title: 'Test', docked: 'top' }, { xtype: 'selectfield', label: 'Test', options: [ { text: '0ption 1', value: '1' }, { text: '0ption 2', value: '2' }, { text: '0ption 3', value: '3' }, { text: '0ption 4', value: '4' }, { text: '0ption 5', value: '5' } ], usePicker: true } ] } });
Debugging already done:
- I only used the console from the Chrome Developer Tools (Ctrl + Shift + J) and there were no errors or warnings.
Possible fix:
- The only way to make the last option(Option 5) selectable, seems to attach an empty (6.) option to the end of the options.
Additional CSS used:
- only default app.css
Operating System:
- Windows 7
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15 Aug 2012 11:24 AM #2
Seems odd, what device are you seeing this issue with?
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16 Aug 2012 12:08 AM #3
I'm also having this problem with Sencha 2.0.1 on Google Chrome on my computer. I think it's a Chrome issue or an upgrade issue because :
- If I copy my app folder in 2.0.1 to another computer with Chrome, it seems to work properly
- Then, I upgrade to 2.1.0 B2, I got the bug
- I roll back to 2.0.1 with my backup folder, I still have the bug
16 Aug 2012 5:43 PM #4
I had this happen to me on Chrome (21.0.1180.79 m)...
But it didn't happen on Safari or on my ipad that I was testing on...
I also found that the display of the items, in my case year values on a date picker, were not displayed vertically centred in the div/row... as I scrolled through from 1900 to 2012, the gradually were displayed higher and higher up in the row until they were displaying where the value from the row above should have been...
21 Aug 2012 2:42 AM #5
I had a look at the inspector in Chrome and Safari for a simple picker with two options/items.
Actually, the expected behavior when I select the second and last item on Safari is:
-webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, -45px, 0px);
-webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);
5 Nov 2012 12:03 AM #6
I have the same problem. Has anyone found a solution/workaround yet?
30 Dec 2012 7:44 AM #7
I'm having the same problem on Android 2.3.3, Sencha 18.104.22.168
From the last item, jumps right back to the previous one.
1 Feb 2013 7:44 AM #8
any bug fix in sight?
Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, but is there a way to find out if this is on a list of bugs to be fixed in the next release?
Does someone have to open a support case using credits to put it on a priority list?
Again, please pardon my ignorance if there is some clear way to figure this out that I have missed.
1 Feb 2013 2:12 PM #9
example app that shows the issue
From the kitchen sink examples:
Using a Chrome browser: http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/touch/e...nk/#demo/forms also shows the issue, but, on the very same chrome browser this link http://docs.sencha.com/touch/2-1/tou...tml#demo/forms works just fine.
Seems like maybe this is fixed in 2.1.1?? But existed in 2.0.1?
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Let's take the sine of $30^\circ$ which is one-half. If you take $\sin^2(30^\circ)$, would that just be the sine of $900$? Or would it be equal to one-quarter, or would it be equal to something completely different?
I think you are confused with the following notation:
$$\sin ^2(x)=\sin x \cdot \sin x \neq \sin(x^2) ~~\mbox{very often.}$$
So, $\sin^2(30^\circ)=\dfrac 1 4$.
And, $\sin 900^\circ$ is not untractable either.
$$\sin 900^\circ=\sin 5 \pi=0$$
I am being nitpicky now:
When you write $900$, I assume that you mean $900^\circ$. But, in Mathematics, it is a convention that $900$ means $900^c=900$ radians. For definition of a radian and other details, you may want to look up Wikipedia.
The usual convention is that $\sin^2(X)=(\sin(X))^2$. So for your example $1/4$ is correct
As many people have pointed out by now, $\sin^2 x$ is simply a "nickname" for $(\sin x)^2$. Therefore, $\sin^2\ 30 = (\sin 30)^2 = (1/2)^2 = 1/4$.
As it happens, though, there is another useful thing we can say about $\sin^2 x$:
$$\sin^2 x = (\sin x)^2 = \frac12 (1 - \cos (2 x)).$$
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$$\frac12 (1 - \cos (2x)) = \frac12 (1 - (1 - 2 \sin^2 x)) = \frac12 (2 \sin^2 x) = \sin^2 x.$$
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What is the difference between group and band when applied to assemblages of musicians who play music together?
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There's no absolute difference.
Band originally had closer associations with larger assemblages of musicians (Brass Band, Big Band, etc.). When smaller ensembles became more practical because of new music technology (amplifiers, electric guitars, etc.) mainstream parlance tended to use the term group rather than band.
Group has always remained a bit more 'mainstream'; it tends to get used more by people outside the music industry, and those who aren't so interested in the music itself. For example, a TV news item is more likely to refer to U2 as a Group.
Band remains common within the music industry itself, and among devotees of the product. People who listen to U2 are more likely to call them a Band.
Musical ensembles working with many specific 'genres' are commonly referred to as bands even in mainstream parlance. For example, this graph shows that Jazz Band is far more common than Jazz Group. But that doesn't apply to all genres; as this graph shows, Pop Group outweighs Pop Band by a considerable margin.
In short, Band today has a little more 'street cred' than Group, even though the actual meaning isn't really any different.
They are given as synonyms by the dictionaries, although the OALD says that group is rather old-fashioned when it means "a number of musicians who perform together", and it can refer to a general gathering.
Plus I must say that (in the same dictionary) the "music-meaning" for group is the third entry, while for band it's the first.
Group is a word which usually refers to anything such as gathering of performers in music. On the Other Hand band is a term which is more specifically refers to people who are all playing musical instruments.
In the musical sense a Band is expected to be able to play musical instruments. Modern so called Boy Bands and Girl Bands are nothing other than groups of "jumped up" Karaoke singers. Original musical singing groups did not call themselves Bands in this pretentious fashion


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A successful marriage relationship will need a full measure of agape love. Here's how Paul defines it with particularly relevant words bolded:
Let's take these in reverse order:
Rejoices with the truth
Presumably, the husband does not think he is telling the truth. By this standard, lying to your wife is not loving.
It is not arrogant or rude
However, if the husband said exactly what he thought, that would be rude (and possibly arrogant):
Honestly, given the choice, it would be more loving to lie to your wive than to be rude.
Love is patient and kind
But there's another way. The patient thing to do is to ask questions or let the wife down easy. I've found that saying things like "I wonder if it would be a good idea to accessorize?" communicates that something is not quite right, without being rude. (I don't know what accessorizing means exactly or how it could help, but it shows my wife that I care.) Another thing that works for me is to spend "too long" appraising the outfit. After a minute of looking and contemplating, my wife will get the hint: something isn't right.
If we are about to go out and I think there's a good chance she will be embarrassed if someone posts a picture of the outfit on Facebook. The kindest thing I can do is let her know:
Then I will (Lord willing) spend whatever time is needed helping her look her best.
Just as a small counter-argument to the obvious answer, remember that Jesus said the entire law was summed up as this:
The question, of course, is whether being a true witness would cause injury.
Oddly enough, if your wife is just looking to see that you love her, I would argue it is loving to "lie". A better tack, however, might be to answer a different question - to say that indeed, to you, she looks beautiful. And really, her words may be "Am I fat?" but she's really wanting to know, "Am I beautiful?" Answer that question instead, and you'll be safe.
If she were asking a medical question, a loving answer might be, "Dear, the doctor does want to you lose weight, and because I love you and want you to be with me for a long time, yes I think you need to do what the doctor says."
If she insists on asking the question out of vanity, however, then may I suggest the best answer is found in Job 40:14:
I don't see the problem here. The honest answer to "Does this dress make me look fat?" is never yes. Tell her "No, It's being fat that makes you look fat." Tell the truth. Then be prepared to outrun her.
In all seriousness, however, my wife would prefer that I tell her when something isn't flattering because she'd rather have me tell her in private before she can go out in public. If I answered "no", and later one of her friends told her the opposite (and one of them would) she'd be mad at me for letting her go out and embarrass herself.
This question is simply a variation of a question I am amazed that people keep getting wrong:
What is more loving? Telling someone the truth (lovingly) to save them from one type of pain, embarrassment, or some other worse fate, or lying to spare their feelings (another type of pain)?
Telling the truth and hurting someone's feelings short-term is not necessarily the un-loving thing to do. What some people perceive as "mean" is really more loving than giving/telling them what they want to hear.
Sometimes it takes a more extreme example of the application of the same principle to clarify the issue, so here's a more extreme example of the same basic question.
If one of your family members is a drug addict, or is drinking themselves to death, it it more loving to confront the problem, or to turn a blind eye, keep your silence, and let them destroy themselves 9and perhaps their marriage, hurt their children, you name it.) They would think you're a jerk for confronting the issue rather than letting themlive their own lives, but keeping silent is not the loving thing to do in that situation.
Back to the whole "does this dress make me look fat" question, that is often used as a straw-man argument against the idea that we are to tell the truth at all times. The simple fact is that a lie is a lie. We lie for different reasons, sometimes to protect ourselves, sometimes out of a desire to avoid unnecessary conflict. It's cowardly.
If you're really serious about the question, tell your wife the truth in a kind and loving manner.
If it were me speaking to my wife, I'd say something like "Honey, I'm biased. To me, you're the most beautiful woman on earth, and would look great even if you were wearing a burlap sack, but the dress isn't very flattering... I think you look much hotter in this one." Or simply "This one looks better".
As a side note, my wife has an extremely good sense of humor, so I can get away with statements like the one in my opening paragraph. (One of the many reasons I love her so much.) And she hates being lied to above all else, so my answer is a bit "flavored" by my own relationship with her. Not all marriages work the same.
I think the real answer here is to know your wife. My wife requests that I be completely honest with her in that kind of matter. She, believe it or not, really wants to know, so she can change into something else if something isn't the most flattering on her.
I know it goes against everything you've been taught on the matter on how to treat your wife, but really, just like the dress, there isn't any one size fits all answer for this one.
I agree with some of the other comments that say that it takes wisdom to know what your wife is really asking, so you can answer the question appropriately, but if you don't know your wife, that's the bigger issue.
Here's what the bible says:
Leviticus 19:11 NIV
Psalms 31:18 NIV
Proverbs 8:7 NIV
Proverbs 26:28 NIV
and there are a 100 more that I can post. It shows that there is no good enough reason to lie. However, if you're asking about losing your salvation for lying, I'd point to this:
Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV
Which means that your works do not get you into nor out of grace.


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The day after Christmas is traditionally a day for frenzied shoppers to scoop up holiday deals, or to return a gift from Santa.
Some braved the weather and the crowds to cash in.
Stores were ready to cater to you as retailers such as Target opened their doors at 7 AM.
"We open up a little early today to give guests the chance to get in the store and return any gifts they didn't want, also gives them a chance to do some shopping,"says Jim Sauerheber, Store Manager at Target.
With 50% off signs throughout the store, most stocked up for next Christmas.
"It's the best time to get my paper and my name tags for next year. Everything is half off you can't beat it."
For the past 9 years the 26Th has been a day of tradition for the Helms.
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"It's always great to save money and have a good time with your friends."
"It's a good time to spend all your gift cards and it's nice to go out with your family."
It's not just about the deals today some are returning those unwanted Christmas gifts early.
"It was a little baby toy that never came to life after we put batteries in it,"says a customer returning an item.
"If you could avoid the weekend return I would recommend doing that and maybe today or tomorrow do your returns,"says Sauerheber.
To avoid hassle have your receipt in hand.
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Seven Butler County residents have been indicted in connection with the May 17 beating of Ed Beasley.
Beasley's daughter, Deanna Embry, says she pulled up to her father's house that night and found a full-out brawl in the yard, and then found her father lying in blood on the ground.
Embry says even though she wasn't there during the fight, she knows what happened. "He (Beasley) was turning to go back to the house, then Jeremy Findley beat him over the head with a club," Embry says.
Findley and 6 others face assault or complicity to commit assault charges, but one suspect who spoke to WBKO off-camera said that Beasley was hurt by a Beasley family member's ax blow that was intended from someone else.
Adding to the confusion are charges made by the victim's family that Butler County Jailer Terry Fugate arrived on the scene during the fight, but did not do enough to stop it. Fugate refused to comment, saying he would wait until the state police investigation is complete.
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Now that the election is over, it's time for Washington to focus on some important issues before the year is over.
The Fiscal Cliff is a series of spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to go into effect January 1st.
That's because the tax cuts George W. Bush put into effect stop at the end of this year.
Congress and the President must decide by New Years Eve whether to keep the tax cuts in force.
"We are all going to see a reduction in our take-home pays so the paycheck we take home every two weeks or every month. The number is going to be going down simply because the tax rates are going up," says financial planner, Dr. Indu Chhachhi
Right now, 4.2% of your paycheck is going to federal taxes.
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I am evaluating the Crowd SSO by Atlassian. Now to get apache to use CROWD for authentication, there is a connector available by the vendor.
Unfortunately they do not provide anything for my OS (AIX). Instead they provide source code with instructions. Now the example here uses
yum -y install autoconf automake gcc httpd-devel libcurl-devel libtool libxml2-devel mod_dav_svn subversion-devel to download the required packages for which there is no alternate in AIX (AFAIK). So I went to AIX toolbox and got some packages. For the rest, I took Mr Perzl's help. And while installing the
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- IBM way
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No, it wasn't a helicopter crash
Crews battled steep terrain, gusty winds and heavy timber on the Rogers Mountain fire last Thursday on the Colville National Forest (CNF). Localized thunderstorms created wind gusts and aggressive fire behavior Thursday afternoon on the fire line, pushing the Rogers Mountain fire to 90 acres. "We know it was human caused," said CNF spokesman Franklin Pemberton. "But the exact cause is still under investigation." Pemberton quelled rumors that the fire was caused by a helicopter crash last Tuesday. "By the time KREM 2 News called us, it had gone from a helicopter crashing to a guy who claimed he had actually seen it (the helicopter) go down and start the fire," Pemberton said. "What happened was a helicopter contracted from a third party by the Forest Service had its check engine light come on and it had to make a cautionary landing. But there was no crash and no one was hurt; it was an incident unrelated to the Rogers Mountain Fire." Despite dry conditions and gusty winds, firefighters with the assistance of aircraft, have checked a portion of the fire's progress southwest of the south fork of Rogers Creek.*See the complete story in the 8-17-11 edition of the S-E.


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The 6 Creepiest Gifts Ever Given
Most of us are pretty bad at giving gifts. It's hard to know what people want, and making them tell you feels heartless and perfunctory. But below us there is another tier of people who are really bad at giving gifts. They give the kind of gifts that make people wake up screaming in the night ...
#6. James Allen Re-Gifts Himself in Book Form
James Allen was a notorious highwayman in the early 1830s. He robbed and killed people mostly because, you know, in 19th century Massachusetts what else was there to do? The only two jobs were bandits and cowboys, if movies have taught us anything. Anyway, the long arm of the law caught up with Allen when detective John Fenno, Jr. apprehended him and sent him off to be hanged. Allen, having some respect for the man who caught him, decided to give the detective a little gift. One made out of his own skin.
So Allen wrote out his life story and confession and, well, let's just say that he put a lot of himself into the book.
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The Late James Allen. Five stars on Amazon.
It was Allen, who had once declared himself to be the "master of his own skin," who specified in his will that a copy of the book was to be bound in his own skin and given to Fenno as a final gift to the man who was skilled enough to bring him down. The detective accepted it and, presumably wearing the thickest pair of gloves he could find, took it home to display on his mantle.
Next to the shrunken head, Satan's antlers and the rusty fishing reel of the dead.
As the years went on, the book was passed on from generation to generation with Allen's descendants supposedly using the flesh-book to spank and/or traumatize children. Perhaps wanting to save on money being paid to trauma counselors, one of the descendants finally donated the book to the Boston Library. Patrons and staff haven't heard any screams or noticed the book levitating and they describe its creepy cover as, "a slightly bumpy texture, like soft sandpaper."
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"Inside is also the compacted remains of the cutest Walton child."
So ask yourself this: Would it be creepier if they had a skin book and didn't know whose skin it was? Because that's the case with the ...
#5. The Human Lampshade
When collector Skip Henderson first saw the lamp at a New Orleans store, he knew it was unique. It looked old, and because of the style of the welds that hold the wire frame together, he could deduce that it was from Europe. But what caught his interest was the lampshade. Made of a material that was thin and yet had a strange texture. It was something he had never seen before. He paid the $35 price and took it home.
A lot of short stories in horror anthologies start like this, don't they? The lamp turns out to be cursed or something?
Or belongs to a particularly high-tech genie.
Anyway, over the next few days, Henderson began to investigate and it became clear that not only was the lamp unique, the strange material was probably, as you've already guessed, human skin. The realization was too much for Skip. The lamp creeped him out so much that he decided it would make the perfect gift.
He got on the phone with his friend, Mark Jacobson, who happened to be a reporter. Henderson told him he'd just returned from a professional tanner who told him that animal that the shade was made of had no fur. Oh, and he said, "Since this thing appeared, it's like my face has been shoved into hell." Henderson then dropped the bombshell telling Jacobson that the lampshade was in the mail on its way to New York. Enjoy your new lamp, fucker!
Ooh, it has tassles. Classy.
Jacobson, not content to just stick his new lamp on an end table or re-gift it to his in-laws, sent it off to get tested. When the results came back, the DNA tests "found a 100 percent probability that the profile was human." Whose skin? Who knows? The furthest they can trace the lamp's origins is to an abandoned house in New Orleans. Some of you may be thinking it's a gruesome product of the Nazi concentration camps, but there has actually never been any evidence the Nazis made such lampshades, and no such objects have ever been found -- that's considered a myth.
They were interested in the more delicate arts and crafts, like making lace doilies.
Once he confirmed what it was, Jacobson was also seriously creeped out by the light fixture and refused to have it in his home. He stashed it in a storage shed two states away. He has since written a book about the lamp (The Lampshade) and he has tried to get a museum to take it off his hands but it's useless as a museum piece without some knowledge of the origins. Maybe Jacobson will find out once the hauntings start.
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Eyes of the weary; mustache of kings.
#4. Saddam's Hammers
The 80s saw acid wash jeans, big hair and a huge Middle Eastern war involving regional powers Iran and Iraq. As Iran started to win, the Americans became concerned that Iran would spread their Islamic revolution across the region. So America became friendly with the Iraqis, who were led by a plucky young man named Saddam Hussein. Saddam, up to that point, was well known for torturing prisoners and killing Iraqi civilians, but regional security trumped all and in 1983, Reagan sent adviser Donald Rumsfeld to Iraq. What better way to get on a leader's good side than with a nice, tasteful gift? But what do you get the man who has everything?
Among the presents Rumsfeld brought were a pair of golden cowboy boot spurs and, oh yeah, some medieval spiked hammers.
"These will come in handy! I ... do a lot of D-I-Y."
Saddam -- not being one to be out-gifted by the U.S.'s torture hammers -- rummaged for the perfect gift for America. What do you get for the country that has everything?
Surprisingly skipping over some shocking genital clamps, Saddam settled on giving Rumsfeld a short video showing Syrian female soldiers biting heads off snakes in front of the Syrian President, and Syrian soldiers attacking the greatest threat to the Middle East: puppies. Yes, a video of soldiers stabbing puppies to death. Party time!
This puppy is obviously a Kurdish sympathizer.
Rumsfeld must've been impressed by the gift because during his run for 1988 Republican Presidential nomination, he had the media include his greatest achievements -- one of which was helping to "reopen U.S. relations with Iraq."
"We've learned some very interesting lessons from our Iraqi friends ..."


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If you've ever watched a road bike race like the Tour de France, you know the peloton is the big group of riders that cluster together during the race to reduce drag. It's a great example of collaboration in action. But let's face it: the people in the middle of the peloton may go faster than they... Read more


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RECOGNIZED: Eastern Gateway Community College Professor Ken Knox was named employee of the month for February.
Knox joined the college as director of the Business Management Program in 2004. He is active on the faculty development committee and was assessment coordinator.
Knox earned his doctorate in organization and management from Capella University, his master's degree in strategic leadership from Mountain State University and his bachelor's degree in human resource management from Wheeling Jesuit University.
He is the author of "Carpe Diem: Simple Strategies to Move from Average to Extraordinary" and is a contributing columnist for Community College Entrepreneurship.
His memberships include the National Association of Community College Entrepreneurship and Turning Technologies' panel of distinguished educators.
NETWORKING: The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce is launching a new networking opportunity, Coffee & Connections, at the Eat' n Park, Mall Drive, Steubenville, on Feb. 29.
Chamber President Sue Hershey said the event, a networking breakfast, affords chamber members to exchange information about their businesses, including things like new services, new locations and new products.
Admission is $10 at the door. Reservations are due by Feb. 24 and may be made by calling the chamber at (740) 282-6226 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
REMINDER: Need assistance filling out income tax forms? Franciscan University of Steubenville accounting students are ready to help.
Beginning Tuesday and continuing through April 13, students will offer free help to residents filling out 1040EZ and 1040A tax forms, as well as 1040 schedules A, B and D, and forms for calculating education, child care and earned-income credits.
The tax help site is located next to Le Nails in the Fort Steuben Mall.
This year marks the 24th year Franciscan students have helped area residents complete their tax forms. The students completed an income tax course and passed an IRS training course through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program.
Assistance will be available from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays; 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays; 10 a.m. to noon and 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays; and 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays. The center is closed Mondays.
No students assistance will be available March 10-18 or April 5-9 due to spring and Easter breaks.
CHECK-UPS: Hout Financial, 637 Canton Road, Wintersville, is offering free 20-minute check-ups to help area residents assess their life-planning and retirement needs.
Hout Financial, in partnership with TSA Advantage, is offering the planning service, intended to assist clients with budgeting, retirement planning, life insurance, long-term care and more.
More information is available by calling (740) 346-0075.
RECALL: Home-brewed coffee lovers, take note: More than a million popular coffee makers are being recalled after dozens of reports of the brewers spraying hot liquid, coffee grounds or tea leaves onto people.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says there have been 140 reports of problems with the Tassimo single-cup brewers dousing people, including 37 cases involving second-degree burns.
In one incident, a 10-year-old girl was hospitalized with second-degree burns to her face and neck. About 835,000 coffee makers are on recall in the United States; another 900,000 in Canada.
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5 Trends You Think Are Ruining Movies (Are Older Than Film)
#2. Cheap Knockoffs Trying to Cash in on Blockbusters
We Think It Started With: Straight-to-DVD "Mockbusters" like Transmorphers and Sunday School Musical.
If there is anything sadder than a cheap movie knockoff, it'd have to be, we don't know, some kind of terrible childhood disease. Today every blockbuster drags in its wake countless zero-budget ripoffs with similar titles and covers, meant to confuse elderly or stoned customers into buying the wrong DVD.
Not only do ridiculous versions of Western films turn up in places like China, but in the U.S., you have Asylum Films, a studio with a huge library of movies designed to go directly to video and scrape a little cash off of the famous franchise. So when Battle: Los Angeles hit theaters, Asylum crapped out Battle of Los Angeles.
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You'll never know the difference.
If you've ever heard someone say that constant remakes and sequels are the biggest sign of Hollywood's creative bankruptcy, you have to admit that this is a few levels lower than that.
It Actually Started: In the 1800s.
Back when movies were called books, the most popular ones weren't released all at once. Serial novels were more like TV shows; they were sold a few chapters at a time and released every few weeks so people had to keep buying them to find out what happened. These books were enormously popular and were written by reputable authors like Charles Dickens. They cost about 12 cents for every few chapters.
Predictably, to cash in on serial novel sales, smaller printing companies started publishing books that came to be known as "penny dreadfuls." These were cheap books that cost only a penny to buy, were printed on low-quality paper and told shitty, two-dimensional stories ripping off the premises of the popular 12-cent serials.
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To be fair, that does look kind of kickass.
Full novels during the 1800s also did the Transmorphers thing; more than three dozen novels came out at nearly the exact same time involving journeying to the center of the Earth. The "hollow Earth" fiction basically started after an American soldier, John Cleves Symmes Jr., proposed a real-life expedition to the "interior world" through holes in the North and South poles. Despite being completely insane, this idea influenced Edgar Allan Poe to write his only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, which in turn inspired dozens of similar stories borrowing the plot, the most famous being by Jules Verne and the weirdest probably being by S. Byron Welcome, who made a story about going to the center of the Earth an allegory for tax proposals, which we can only imagine was thoroughly riveting.
"But as a parallel argument, I feel it fails, since he appears to have no understanding of higher math--"
"Honey, let me stop you right there so I can go die of boredom."
Additionally, as aggravating at the recent surge in vampire popularity might seem, it helps to know that the same popularity has been ebbing and flowing for more than a century. After the (arguably) first vampire story, The Vampyre, was written in 1819, a wave of vampire stories followed, including the penny dreadful story Varney the Vampire and a novel you may have heard of by Bram Stoker called Dracula. All of which never would have existed without an unapologetic willingness to steal a plot.
#1. Arbitrary Ratings for "Adult" Content
We Think It Started With: The founding of the MPAA rating system in 1968.
As we've mentioned, the Motion Picture Association of America is responsible for sticking ratings on movies that go a long way toward determining how well those movies perform at the box office. Audiences and filmmakers alike have been complaining about the capriciousness of the system for more than 50 years, but they might quiet down about the issue if they learn how tyrannical censorship on productions used to be.
"Rated X? This is nothing less than fascism!"
It Actually Started: In the 1500s.
During Elizabeth's reign, England was in political turmoil. Bloody revolts and protests could spring up from anywhere, so the government enforced strict laws over the theater, since 3,000 people attending a play was more than enough to start a rebellion. Thus, the censorship board was born out of fear, and if you were a theater company at the time, the only thing worse than the rules were the punishments.
A no-cursing-allowed rap battle with Clay Aiken.
Under the eye of the government censors, theater troupes had to submit their scripts and have them approved before they could be performed. You know, to make sure the play wasn't morally tantalizing or overtly violent or contained any controversial political themes. In an ironic twist, the punishments for writers who didn't follow the censorship guidelines were insanely violent and included torture or mutilation.
Not only did this early MPAA terrify writers and bore audiences, it also was responsible for massive gaps in the literary history. Historians believe there are likely plays by both Ben Jonson and Shakespeare that don't exist today because they couldn't get past the censors and so never went into print.
In fact, after a performance of Jonson's play The Isle of Dogs, which was a satirical attack on Elizabeth's court, all London stages were shut down for almost a year. That meant that for months, the people of London basically had no means of entertainment to distract them from their shitty, plague-infected lives. We have to wonder if taking away their fun was really such a great way to avoid a bloody revolution from the peasants. Then again, if we know people, they found other sources for their banned content. It is the one enduring law of entertainment: Porn always finds a way.
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I have a plan to start a small business soon. It is going to be a type of freelancing to build websites and applications using ASP.NET. I want to focus on one thing Web forms or MVC. However, I have no idea if that has any importance to the client. I mean do the clients know about MVC or web forms? Do they prefer one of them?
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Customers/clients, in general, do not care about code or technology.
If they did, they probably wouldn't let someone else make decisions on what technology to use for their business solutions. This applies to MVC, web forms, Rails, etc..
What they care about is getting a solution to meet their needs on time, and under their budget.
The ones who should care about what is used: Developers, programmers, project managers, etc. Anyone who's actually delivering the solution to a customer should care.
In short they don't care but you should. WebForms is over 10 years old and is starting to show it's age. The pages usually end up being very heavy and slow, you can build fast light pages in WebForms but that isn't what usually happens.
With MVC you will find that you have more control as a developer. You will need to program in both a back end language "C#" and JavaScript. Which if you don't know JavaScript you REALLY need to learn it if you are doing any web development.
Over time I think you will get more out of MVC then WebForms.
It depends on the client. If the client is a technically minded person or a programmer himself or if he is outsourcing the code to you then he will most likely give you the specifications of the technologies that he wants you to use. If the client is the owner of a bakery whose online bread ordering website you're building then he won't care.
The client do not care about any technology whatsoever, what they care about is what the technology can do for them and their business.
What the client see with regards to technology is this:
So, if you wanted to please your client into buying your product, talk what the technology will do for their business in short and long-term and not sell them technological jargons.
They almost certainly have never heard of MVC and WebForms, and if they have, they almost certainly don't care.
The only thing that they're likely to notice is that the style of the URLs in an MVC site is more attractive than the
As a freelance developer, it will be your job to assess the customers needs and use the best technology for them. That means that means that you need to understand, and be able to implement their sites / applications in either technology.
Typical customers won't understand the technology and won't want to get their heads around it. But they will recognize if you do a bad job and leave them with software that doesn't do what it is required to, or that is a problem to maintain. So it is beholden on you to do a good job ... if you want recommendations, good references and repeat business.
In my opinion (and expierence based on 8 years commercial development), clients don't care about technology. They honestly don't care if you use WebForms, ASP.NET mvc, or write your own ISAPI filter in C, Prolog, and assembler and hook it into the Windows kernel and do it that way.
As long as the site works, is functional, reliable and fast, they will be fine with it.
You should care, regardless of the client. Speaking from experience most clients are ignorant - they don't understand or care to understand anything outside of their domain (and, sometimes, not even that!). That's why they are hiring you to do work in the first place.
Assuming you have a client who understands that you are the expert in web development, not them then the choice is largely yours. I would recommend MVC for any new development since that's where the .Net world is moving to, and it's much easier to maintain than WebForms.


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In signal detection theory, one typically uses "signal" and "no signal" responses to analyze the data (that is, the analysis is based on a discrete choice for each trial, effectively generating the four possible outcomes "hit", "miss", "false alarm" and "correct rejection").
Is there any standard way to also incorporate response time into the signal detection analysis? If so, what are some seminal papers regarding this?


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I am going to start making Ubuntu tutorial videos again but this time around I will like to know what is the best format for uploading videos to my personal blog or to youtube. In the past I was using xdiv with avi container. But now I want the communities experience with this and I am looking for:
The best or most recommended/used program to edit videos that comes with Ubuntu or has a PPA for Ubuntu.
The best codec that has a very good quality but at the same time makes the video's size smaller. As point 1, it should come with Ubuntu or have a PPA for it. This is a tough one for me since I am looking for a good one that shows good quality and good size. It has always been difficult for me to find the ideal one.
The best format or container for this type of videos. I get confused between ogv, mp4, mpg and which one offers better stuff.
In all 3 cases the software should be open source and I will be using/recommending Firefox and Chrome for the websites, so it will be limited to the technology that this 2 browsers can work with (NOT IE friendly).
The videos, if this help in some way will be captured with gtkrecordmydesktop since I find it, it delivers the best quality with several I have tested. If I am wrong please, with all do respect correct me. After the video is made I will start using the editor and codecs asked in the 3 questions above.
What I will be capturing is most of the time the desktop but also some screens of Virtualbox for showing 11.10 and 12.04 installation procedures. Apart from this some games running in Wine and some games running natively will also be showed (0 AD, UFO:AI..). I do not know if this will affect what codec will be recommended but I put this here as a bonus just in case.
Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.


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Police said a Bethany College student and his friend were injured when several men assaulted them outside an off-campus bar early Sunday during the college's homecoming weekend.
Bethany Police Chief Larry Palmer said officers responded to the corner of Richardson and Fair streets concerning a report of two white men being beaten and kicked in the face by "five or six" black men. One of the alleged victims is a student at Bethany, while the other is a West Virginia University student who was visiting over the weekend. Palmer did not say whether all the suspects are Bethany students.
Palmer said based on the information police have gathered, they are investigating the possibility the attack was racially motivated. Reports indicate "a white male was talking to a black female, and that caused some problems with the black males," he said.
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A University of Colorado Boulder-led team has discovered two prime targets of the Hepatitis B virus in liver cells, findings that could lead to treatment of liver disease in some of the 400 million people worldwide currently infected with the virus.
CU-Boulder Molecular, Cellular and Developmental (MCD) Biology Professor Ding Xue, who led the studies, said scientists have been looking for cellular targets of the Hepatitis B virus, or HBV, for more than three decades. Infections from HBV promote hepatitis (inflammation of the liver), cirrhosis (scarring of the liver) and liver cancer and can be transmitted through blood and bodily fluids, unprotected sex, unsterile needles and from infected mother to offspring during birth.
Xue said scientists have known for some time that HBV encodes a pathogenic, tumor-promoting protein known as HBx, but how it works has remained largely unknown. In two new studies, Xue and his colleagues showed that the "host targets" of HBx in human cells are two small cell proteins known as Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL, both of which are well-known cell death inhibitors but which have not previously been implicated in HBV infection.
The World Health Organization estimated in July that about 600,000 people die annually from acute or chronic HBV infection, which is most predominant in Asia and Africa.
Xue said there currently is no effective treatment for chronic HBV carriers, although some people with chronic HBV are treated with interferon and anti-viral drugs. But such treatments are either unavailable or too expensive in developing countries where most of the HBV infections are occurring. "That's why these new findings could have profound clinical and pharmaceutical implications for the treatment of HBV patients," he said.
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TEMPLE (October 22, 2012)--Andy Bagrowski started decorating his walkway for Halloween when he lived in his native Maryland, but since moving to Central Texas about eight years ago, his decorations have gotten bigger and more environmentally friendly.
Bagrowski uses only trash and recycled products that Central Texans and local businesses donate for the annual display at his home at 4315 Old Waco Road in Temple, near South Pea Ridge Road.
"I tell you what, these people who give me stuff every year, God bless them," he said.
The recycled products he uses range from bottles, foaming, tablecloths, and carpet padding to anything anyone is willing to donate.
"There's many people in the Austin and Killeen area who know I do one of these every year, and they save stuff for me." Bagrowski said.
Bagrowski's mother, Stella, said her son has always been creative.
"When he was young, he would be on the floor drawing soldiers," she said.
She said he spends months working on the decorations because of his love for the children of the neighborhood.
"Even though it's hard on him, he keeps doing it for the children," she said.
Bagrowski's wife, Margie, says he is naturally creative.
"The whole thing is inside of him and he has to let it out," she said.
Bagrowski is already working on next year's Halloween decorations, which will include some witches at his wife's request.


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I have been reading the appendix in Serre's Local fields, to do with explicit computations of cup products (pg 176), but I'm stuck on one bit of lemma 4. It goes as follows
Let B be a $G$-module, $u: G \times G \rightarrow B$ a 2-cocycle and $\bar{u} \in H^2(G,B)$. Then for all $s \in G$ with $\bar{s} \in \widehat{H}^{-2}(G,\mathbb{Z})$. Then $$\bar{s} \cup \bar{u} = \bar{a}, \qquad \text{with } a=\sum_{t \in G} u(t,s)$$
Now to prove it he begins by taking a sequence $0 \rightarrow B \rightarrow B' \rightarrow B'' \rightarrow 0$ with $B'$ induced. Now since $H^2(G,B')=0$, there is a 1-cochain $f': G \rightarrow B$ such that $$u(x,y)=xf'(y)-f'(xy) + f(x), \qquad x,y \in G.$$ Then composing $f'$ with $B' \rightarrow B''$ we get a 1-cocycle $f'':G \rightarrow B$, with $d(\bar{f''})=\bar{u}$. From which he deduces that $$\bar{s} \cup \bar{u} = \bar{s} \cup d(\bar{f''})=d(\bar{s} \cup \bar{f''})$$
Now by the previous lemma we know $\bar{s} \cup \bar{f''}= \bar{f''(s)}_0$ (here the subscript 0 denotes its class in $H^{-1}(G,B''))$. Now this is where I'm stuck he then says that $d(\bar{s} \cup \bar{f''})=d( \overline{f''(s)}_0)= \overline{N(f'(s))}^0$ (where the superscript 0 denotes its class in $\widehat{H}^0$), my question is why does the $f''$ change to $f'$? I cant see why this is so, he also does something similar in lemma 2 of this same appendix, but this is the lemma I need to use.
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These look interesting and decent value. Reviews are mostly positive and I've had good experience with all my monoprice purchases. But I'm reluctant to buy any bluetooth audio product without a good, explicit review of its performance and frequency response in wired vs. bluetooth mode from the same source. I've done this comparison with some bluetooth dongle type adapters and been uniformly disappointed with the thinness of the sound vs. direct connection from my phone.
I'm so on the fence about these :S
I'm in for one. Reviews on product site are good, hoping for the best!
I'm thinking about his as well. I had been using Monoprice for a long time for cables and the like the the thought that if they sucked, well, I only lost a few bucks. I decided to give them a go on a high value item: a 27" high definition monitor. I was holding my breath when I first used it, but I'm very happy with it. In this case, I'm willing to give these a go. The reviews are pretty good, and they are quite inexpensive for what you get.
The monitor I got, btw, is this one:
They make a cheaper one without the displayport or HDMI for $390.
does anyone know how the returns work with monoprice? I dont want to be out $20 in shipping if i decide i want to return the product.
after chatting with monoprice, looks like i will be out $20 in shipping costs if i decide to return these...
Had these and returned them after a few weeks. Sound is nothing but bass and some mids, no highs at all. Also started making a strange noise, sort of like a noise you would hear tuning in an AM radio station that would travel from the right to left channel every few minutes. Very faint, but noticeable. The only positive was the battery life, lasting about a week with usage of 5-6 hours per day.
@freakoutboy: Was this with bluetooth? If so, that would confirm fears of a loss of high-end frequency response. Would be interesting if you also tried it with the aux cable. Thanks.
@narquespamley: yes, used mostly via bluetooth. I didn't notice much difference at all when used corded.
I have a pair of these and I'm really happy with them. Before buying them I couldn't figure out if they worked while being charged or not. Just wanted to say that they can indeed be listened to over Bluetooth or the auxiliary cable while they're being charged, and they do last 20+ hours on a charge.
I just compared mine between Bluetooth and the auxiliary cable and they sound the same. I can hear audio from them from 15khz to 10hz via frequency generator just the same. That's probably the range of my hearing. Music also sounds the same too, with both inputs. I don't think the auxiliary cable circumvents the internal amplifier. The headphones have to be on and in the right mode to hear anything from the cable input, and they can still adjust the volume on both inputs.


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Tough Calls on Deficit Await the Winner
Pressure to Get Nation's Balance Sheet in Order Will Test the White House Occupant's Willingness to Compromise
If the winner of the presidential election wants to tackle America's groaning debt load, he will probably have to break a campaign promise or two.
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President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have hammered at each other's plan for tackling the nation's growing debt. They are similar, though, in one key regard: Both offer prescriptions that largely exempt the vast middle class from the bitterest medicine.
Mr. Obama's proposal makes mostly small changes to Medicare and doesn't include major cuts to benefits, even though the health-care program is the biggest driver of the U.S.'s future debt.
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Mr. Romney says he won't raise taxes as part of a deficit-shrinking deal. He instead wants to cut taxes sharply on the assumption that lower rates will juice economic growth and government revenue, an idea that divides economists, who debate the size of such an effect.
Both budget proposals cater to the outer wings of each party and lack key details. Both men say they would compromise to reach a deal but have offered few clues about how.
"It's an extraordinarily dangerous situation," said former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, describing the growth of the nation's debt and a lack of consensus about how to address it. "I believe we underestimate the size of current financial imbalances and how difficult it will be to resolve them. We're trying to do this without pain. There's just no credible scenario in which that happens."
Tuesday's victor faces an immediate test of his willingness to compromise, because after Dec. 31, absent congressional action, taxes will rise sharply across the board and mandated spending cuts will come into force.
If Mr. Romney is elected, lawmakers are expected to fashion a temporary solution to kick the issues into 2013, while they await his inauguration. Mr. Obama, if re-elected, likely will have to tackle the problem immediately.
Nervous lawmakers in both parties itching for a deal complain that neither candidate is being honest enough with voters.
"Anybody who thinks you can get there without putting everything on the table either isn't being honest about it or doesn't have their arms around it," said Rep. Steve LaTourette (R., Ohio), who is retiring from Congress this year, citing what he described as political intransigence.
The federal debt has grown rapidly in recent years through a combination of economic downturns, tax cuts and spending choices made by lawmakers and presidents from both parties.
The U.S. government's deficit has exceeded $1 trillion for four straight years, and the debt now exceeds $16.1 trillion. Moody's Investors Service Inc. has threatened to join Standard & Poor's Ratings Services and downgrade U.S. debt if the problem isn't tackled.
For Democrats and the White House, the biggest question mark is Medicare, the government-run health program for seniors that has roughly 50 million beneficiaries. The program is projected to be unable to pay full benefits in 2024, according to its trustees. In subsequent decades, it is projected to grow faster than any other part of the budget.
The White House's proposed changes to the program would largely find savings by cutting payments made directly to doctors and hospitals. That way, the White House could argue it isn't making major cuts to benefits. This focuses the cuts on providers and not beneficiaries.
Its September 2011 proposal to reduce the deficit listed multiple ideas to trim spending, but was careful to state, "The plan does not propose to change the eligibility age for Medicare benefits." Just a few weeks earlier, Mr. Obama was deep in talks with congressional Republicans to do just that, lifting it to 67 years old from 65. Those talks fell apart, and the White House retreated.
"I'm willing to work with anyone to keep improving the current system, but I refuse to do anything that undermines the basic idea of Medicare as a guarantee for seniors who get sick," Mr. Obama said in August.
Mr. Romney has proposed raising the eligibility age for Medicare over time. His plan also would shift Americans toward a program in which the government would help pay premiums primarily for private insurance plans to limit dependence on Medicare.
If Mr. Romney is elected, he will face immediate pressure on his tax plans. In the year that ended Sept. 30, the government collected $2.449 trillion of revenue, mostly through taxes. That was just 15.7% of gross domestic product, down from 18.5% in 2007, while spending made up 22.7% of GDP.
Mr. Romney has vowed not to raise taxes and has promised to cut corporate and individual tax rates substantially, which he says would be offset by limiting certain deductions and new tax revenue generated by economic growth. The Obama campaign has said Mr. Romney's tax plan isn't workable and would result in tax cuts for wealthier Americans, something the Romney campaign refutes.
His plan veers from the slew of bipartisan proposals published in the past two years that reduce the deficit by including about $1 of new taxes for every $3 or $4 of spending cuts.
Mr. Romney has said he "absolutely" won't accept any deficit-reduction plan that raises taxes and says cutting rates will boost growth. Mr. Obama has said he would veto any package that doesn't raise tax rates on upper-income households.
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I've been capturing a lot of awesome-quality 1080p video from my 7D, and now I want to step up the sound quality, as the motor is pretty loud and is definitely audible in the recordings. Are there any good mountable shotgun mics that I could get for it? I'd like something that could mount directly on the camera, so I'd be able to keep it fairly portable.
It looks like you already selected a best answer that was given within minutes of asking your question, but here is my opinion.
I would suggest looking at the Rode VideoMic Shotgun Microphone. They have pro as well as a standard version available depending on how much you are looking to spend and how serious you are about getting high quality audio.
The pro version will be a smaller version of the standard VideoMic, and it has also been optimized in many ways. Noise transference is one area that has been reduced using both a revised, shock mounting system and a better cable.
They both have the same basic features as outlined for the Azden model in the other answer here, but ultimately will produce better results due to high end features like the shockmount.
Any of these options are going to blow away the stock mic built into your DSLR, but if you want the highest quality and are serious about audio, I would look into the Magic Lantern Firmware. One of the best features of upgrading to this non-stock firmware is the auto gain control that will get rid of that background noise from the camera that you mentioned. This firmware along with one of the Rode Microphones will give you excellent sound out of a DSLR.
I'm not a video/audio expert, but it looks like something like this has good reviews and mounts to the flash shoe.
Your best bet is to get the mic off the camera and closer to the sound source. If you can't do that at least get an audio recorder to plug the mic into. Your video work will jump by leaps and bounds because of this. The Zoom h4n is brilliant. I've had a half dozen audio recorders over the years and that is the best, and most versatile, for the money.
Though you've already received some great answers, and though I'm no pro, I thought I'd share what I recently learned from speaking to several audio pros at a well-known local shop. If you just buy a shotgun, you'll still need a way to pull audio (I saw that you've already listed the Zoom), check that it's working, mix it, etc. Shotguns will only go so far, so wireless is also an option. Often, both are needed for different occasions. I'm also looking for portability (and have the same camera), so here's a list of recommendations that should help you out:
-Rode NTG-2 Shotgun Mic (kit includes w/SM3 & XLR Cable) - @ $300
-Birnsgear Hot Shoe Adapter - @ $30
-Remote Audio Stereo Output Mini Cable - @ $40
-Hosa Technology Stereo Male-to-Female Mini Y-Cable - @ $5
-Cool-Lux MD-3000 Light and Sound Bracket - @ $27
-Zoom H4n Recorder Kit w/SD Card and Remote - @ 320
-Sony UWP-V1 Wireless Lavalier Mic Package - @ $450
Obviously not all of these items are necessary, but unfortunately, just buying a shotgun mice isn't going to cut it! You'll need at least one windscreen (depending on indoor/outdoor), a device to set highs and lows when recording, etc. We're all still learning what works best (and I'm learning as well), but I do hope this helps. Good luck!


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I am suppose to use the substitution of $u = x + y$
$y' = x + y$
$u(x) = x + y(x)$
I actually forget the trick to this and it doesn't really make much sense to me. I know that I need to get everything in a variable with x I think but I am not sure how to manipulate the problem according to mathematical rules that will make sense. Also I know that at some point I will get an integral or something and that I have no idea how to do that with multiple variables.


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