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The 10 Most Improbable Celebrity Fistfights
Celebrities fight just like they have sex: randomly and with whichever fellow celebrity is closest at hand. At least it seems that way, based on the long history of odd and seemingly pointless brawls between famous people.
#10. Axl Rose vs. Tommy Hilfiger
The Backstory:
Axl Rose may not have released an album of new music in nigh on 15 years, but if there's one thing at which he' nothing but prolific, it's challenging other celebrities to fights and not having the stones to follow through.
He demanded that Kurt Cobain "shut [his] bitch up" at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, but was stymied when Cobain told Courtney Love "Shut up, bitch!" and the two laughed and walked off. He repeatedly challenged Motley Crue's Vince Neil after he beat up Izzy Stradlin for kicking Neil' wife in the stomach, but backed down when Neil proposed they settle things in a boxing match. Rose has even been known to engage in empty threats that don't involve his endorsing violence toward women, as when he singled out music critics by name and challenged them to fight in Use Your Illusion II' "Get in the Ring." Spin publisher Bob Guccione Jr., a nine-year karate student, gladly accepted, but nothing came of it, presumably because Axl became distracted by some celebrity' wife that needed a beating.
So how did he finally end up fighting 55-year-old fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger, of all people?
The Beatdown:
Well, he didn't-or at least, he didn't fight back. The dispute happened at Rosario Dawson's birthday party at New York club The Plumm in May 2006 when Rose moved Hilfiger's girlfriend's drink, supposedly to keep it from spilling. Hilfiger, allegedly already steamed about having been asked to make room for Rose' entourage and enormous hairdo, smacked his arm and told him to put it back. The argument escalated into a melee, with Hilfiger punching Rose on the cheek.
Hilfiger, who Rose described as "foaming at the mouth," was eventually pulled out of the club kicking and screaming by his own bodyguard. Rose then played a scheduled set, dedicating the song "You're Crazy" to "my good friend Tommy Hilfiger."
Actual photo of event
The Winner:
Hilfiger. Sure, Plumm owner Noel Ashman credited Rose for being the bigger man: "Axl was a gentleman and had the good sense not to retaliate." But, Rose's track record indicates that he once again fucked with the wrong guy' girlfriend and chickened out when he got called on it. Seriously, who has Rose ever actually beat up besides his ex-wife Erin Everly?
Hilfiger, on the other hand, not only defended his girlfriend-and it seems improbable enough for a male fashion designer to even have one-but also beat up the biggest rock star of the 1980s in the process. If there's anything less rock 'n' roll than getting your ass kicked by a fashion designer, we certainly can't imagine what it is. With all due respect to Buddy Holly's plane crash, Axl Rose having his ass handed to him by Tommy Hilfiger is most certainly the day that music died for anyone raised on Appetite for Destruction.
#9. Sinéad O'Connor vs. Prince
The Backstory:
"I'd kick her ass if she were a guy," Frank Sinatra famously declared after Sinéad O'Connor tore up a photo of the pope during her notorious Saturday Night Live appearance. But, gender lines were no barrier for Prince, a small but scrappy nymph whose previous bouts include a fistfight with Morris Day on the set of Purple Rain.
O'Connor may be a girl, but she's Irish, she's crazy, and going to the tale of the tape, she actually has 2 or 3 inches on the diminutive Prince. In 1990, O'Connor scored a hit with an unauthorized cover of Prince' "Nothing Compares 2 You." This upset the Purple One, who'd planned on giving it to one of his female proteges. Their meeting to discuss this did not go well.
The Beatdown:
"He invited me to his house in Los Angeles and started to give out to me for swearing in interviews. When I told him to go fuck himself, he got very upset and became quite threatening, physically. I ended up having to escape," says O'Connor. "He can pack a punch. A few blows were exchanged. All I could do was spit. I spat on him quite a bit." It's unclear whether Prince made her pancakes when it was all over. One thing is clear: If Prince invites you to his house, you should probably bring a video camera because nobody's ever going to believe the shit that' going on over there.
Computer simulation
The Winner:
Prince. Which brings up an important question: Is there another scenario in the world in which a man could invite a woman over to his house, beat her up, and rather than being horrified, you'd be sort of impressed that he won? Maybe if Prince beat up Serena or Venus Williams, but really all scenarios involve Prince.
#8. Bill Murray vs. Chevy Chase
The Backstory:
Chevy Chase is a dick, plain and simple. Between that and the star treatment he got as the breakout member of the Saturday Night Live cast, anyone who worked with him could be excused for taking a shot at him. But here' the thing: Bill Murray never actually worked with him. Murray replaced Chase after he left SNL for a film career. Murray also got a lot of hate mail telling him he was a shitty replacement, so there's that.
During the show' second season, Chase returned as the guest host and Murray, channeling the resentment of the rest of the cast, decided it was go time. "I got into a fight with Chevy the night he came back to host. That was because I was the new guy, and it was sort of like it was my job to do that," Murray says. "It would have been too petty for someone else to do that. It' almost like I was goaded into that."
The Beatdown:
Tension simmered between the two all week and finally boiled over in a pull-apart brawl only moments before the show went on the air. Witnesses say Murray started it by pointing out how everybody hated Chase, while Chase responded by comparing Murray' acne-pocked skin to the surface of the moon. "I don't know if Chevy provoked it or not," says cast member Laraine Newman. "But it culminated with Billy saying to Chevy, 'Why don't you fuck your wife once in a while? She needs it.' And I don't even remember who threw the first punch, Billy or Chevy. But it was ugly."
Recalls Blues Brothers director John Landis: "I didn't know Bill Murray, but he's screaming, you know, foaming at the mouth, 'Fucking Chevy,' and in anger he says, 'Medium talent!' And I thought, 'Oh boy, that's funny. In anger he says "medium talent."' That really impressed me. I went, 'So, Bill Murray - wow, who is that guy?'"
Computer simulation
The Winner:
Murray. Chase gets credit for going out and doing the monologue only moments later. It' true-you just can't reasonably call him a no-talent. And, he claims to have buried the hatchet with Murray when the two appeared together in 1980s Caddyshack. But look where the two of them are now. Murray' a critically acclaimed comedic and dramatic actor with triumphs such as Rushmore and Lost in Translation. Chase is barely working and was scarcely able to scrounge up any old friends to lambaste him at his Friar' Club Roast. Since this is more or less a battle of words, Murray wins for his scathingly precise diagnosis of Chase' talent years before Chase would prove him right.
#7. Mick Jagger vs. Charlie Watts
The Backstory:
It' hardly extraordinary for members of a rock band to come to blows (For example, Bret Michaels and C.C. Deville of Poison infamously brawled onstage at the MTV Video Awards in 1991.). And, it' inevitable that one of the Rolling Stones would eventually take a swing at the oft-insufferable Mick Jagger.
What' surprising, though, is that it wasn't Keith Richards, considering their decades-long love-hate relationship. It was quiet, unassuming Charlie Watts, the country gentleman who sits behind the drum kit and looks comatose most of the time.
The Beatdown:
The final straw was Jagger's unscheduled wake-up call to Watts during a band meeting in Amsterdam in October 1984. Richards and Jagger had gone out boozing, returning to Richard's room at five in the morning. Watts was fast asleep. Nevertheless, Jagger dialed his room, bawling "Is that my drummer? Why don't you get your arse down here?"
Watts reportedly got up, shaved, got dressed in a custom-made Savile Row suit, put on a crisply knotted tie and freshly shined shoes, came downstairs, and-in Richards' words-"dished him out a great fucking right hook." Jagger was knocked into a plate of smoked salmon, and Richards had to grab his leg to prevent him from sliding along the table, out the open window and into a canal 20 stories below. "Don't ever call me 'your drummer' again," Watts told Jagger. "You're my fucking singer."
Computer simulation
The Winner:
Watts. Getting dressed to the nines in the middle of the night specifically to, in a punch of Mortal Kombat proportions, almost knock some asshole out a window for waking you up? Charlie Watts may have more balls than anyone else on the planet.
#6. Jimmy Stewart vs. Henry Fonda
The Backstory:
Not only do they enjoy reputations as Hollywood' most saintly leading men, but Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda were also lifelong best friends. They met at age 20 while doing summer stock theatre. They also were roommates in New York and in Hollywood and even whiled away many quiet hours later in life painting model airplanes together. So, what could cause these heterosexual life partners to come to blows? Politics. Stewart was a staunch Republican, while Fonda was a flaming liberal Democrat.
The Beatdown:
After a heavy night of drinking during the spring of 1947, Stewart and Fonda had a bitter argument over Sen. Joseph McCarthy's investigations of Communism involvement in the film industry that escalated into a fistfight.
Computer simulation
The Winner:
Fonda. Afterward, they were both so appalled at themselves that they agreed never to talk about politics again. They kept this vow and remained best friends for the rest of their lives.
But not only did Hammerin's Hank reportedly get the best of Stewart in their dust-up, Fonda also went on to sire an even more radical daughter, dubbed "Hanoi Jane" for her sympathy for the Communist foe during the Vietnam War. Better yet, she then married broadcasting mogul Ted Turner, who so upset Stewart by colorizing his classic It' a Wonderful Life that Stewart appeared before Congress begging them to end this practice. In the long term, Stewart got owned.


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Are there different shitos for when fasts end? (Similar Motzei Shabbos, when some people wait 72 minutes past shkiya to do melacha, where other people wait less.)
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The people that wait Motzei Shabbos for 72 do not always wait 72 by a fast. The Shaalos U'Tshivos Divrei Yatziv (Klausenberger Rebbe Zatzal) Orach Chaim Chelek 2 Siman 230 writes that on a fast day you can break the fast after 60 minutes. However he says that on Tisha B'Av you should still wait till 72. The Igros Moshe in Orach Chaim Chelek 4 Siman 10 says that you can break your fast after 50 minutes and if necessary as early as 41 minutes after Shkia. So the answer is yes, there are different Shittos regarding how long to fast.
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You can have a discussion on liturgy at Fordham today, and one on religious freedom at Boston College on Wednesday. (Oh, and bourbon at Commonweal any time, morning or night.)Completing the Jesuit trifecta, and filling out your week, please come to Georgetown on Tuesday evening, if you are in Washington, for a discussion of religion and politics (something no one here discusses much, I'm told).Hosted by the Woodstock Center, the panel, "Election 2012: The Values Behind the Issues," will have a bunch of smart people, and me:Father Tom Reese convenes the program, Commonweal (and WaPo) columnist E.J. Dionne will moderate. Amy Sullivan of the Nation and Time and Tom Roberts of the National Catholic Reporter will opine, and I will pontificate. There will be a Catholic focus, no doubt, but we will strive to cover the waterfront, from Mormons to Evangelicals. Disclosure: okay, the 7:30-9pm event will actually be around the corner at the Catharine E. Nolan Center of Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School. But there's free parking.(Oh, and checking on availability of bourbon.)
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This is the entrance to Hell. Are those yellow areas paint or gilt? Maybe it's those two/three Romanesque arches thrown in for added variety that makes it so awful. They should have named the building St. Doodad's.Have fun at your discussion.
Will Ms. Fluke be there? And the Law faculty?Should make for a rousing evening - you'll need the bourbon.
Three more reasons I miss living in the 'corridor'. As for bourbon:http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.764/article_detail.aspWho else?
David Gibson,When are you getting in? Is there time for a quick hello?Ann,There is no gilt on that building. The yellow areas are cement. You need to see the whole building to appreciate that entrance.
Alan --Yellow cement? AARRGH!!!The Jesuits have a lot to learn from the Benedictines.
I think the architectural style is what we politely call "eclectic."
Any tapings for the internet?
Hey, don't make fun of Gothic Revival. Some day soon, the monstrosities we admire as masterpieces of modern architecture will likely be seen in the same light. You've got to admit that these old buildings are impressive. They seem ghoulish to us, but something made them seem terribly attractive then. This is a good reminder that our tastes, preferences, certainties may very well look pretty silly five or six generations from now.
David --I don't make fun of Gothic architecture -- except this monstrosity, and it's a hybrid (to put it politely). It seems to be difficult to make bad Gothic, but this committee (surely it was a committee?) managed.I don't defend most modern stuff. Designing an ultra-simple building requires an outstanding sense of proportion, but even architects with that sense are rare.
For Ann and David, our amateur architectural historians, Healy Hall is not an example of Gothic Revival, but is rather Flemish Romanesque. It was designed by John L. Smithmeyer and Paul Pelz, the two architects who designed the Library of Congress, rather than by a committee.
Alan,They sure fooled me :-) Actually, I've seen the whole building, and I don't remember it being ugly. But that entrance as picture? Ugh. :-(
Alan, I see that the wikipedia article on Healy Hallhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healy_Halland at least one web pagehttp://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/healy-hall-georgetown-university/call it Flemish Romanesque, but a quick google turned up no discussion of that school. ("Flemish Romanesque" in the wikipedia article is linked to the "Romanesque-architecture" page, but if you search there for "Flemish" you'll find nothing.) Are you sure Flemish Romanesque exists outside Georgetown? Perhaps Smithmeyer and Pelz made up the name specially for that building. Could we call it Victorian Ghastly?
Looks like fun!
David Smith,I am not even an amateur architectural historian so I have no idea of Flemish Romanesque is real. I have found a number of examples through Google (it appears to be popular in Canada), but I do not know how to embed the pictures. Healy Hall is often compared to the Parliament building of Ottowa, with which it shares some architectural features. I think the important thing is that it is a Romanesque building rather than a Gothic one. Copley Hall, which stand next to Healy is a Gothic Revival building and it is markedly different in style.
When in doubt about a style, call it transitional. And based upon the work of the talented sculptor-painter-architect Anonymo.
Hmm. I don't know whether one can embed photos here, Alan. Testing 1. Patrick, good solution. Flemish-Romanesque, also known as Nineteenth-century Victorian transitional, or Jesuit Imaginary.
ISTM that words like "Romanesque" and "Gothic" both are so ambiguous there is no use trying to define them, but both do have two pairs of contrasting characteristics: "Romanesque arches" are rounded while "Gothic arches" are pointed, and Romanesque buildings sit squarely on the ground while Gothic ones leap towards Heaven. Poor St. Doodad's tries to do both at the same time. It sits squat on the ground while those tiny little triangles pasted all over look up to Heaven, like a chorus of the damned. Sad.
Maybe the rather grotesque entrance is a fitting reminder of the movie "The Exorcist," also a Georgetown classic of extreme proportions.Since seeing it I absolutely refuse to eat split pea soup in any form.
We needed Claire there to rake(copious) notes. Forgey about the arcvhitecture since we've got miminal expertise here.


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Two of the world's largest and most recognisable entertainment brands will collide later this year with the release of Angry Birds Transformers, which developer Rovio says is coming to App Stores "soon."
While the only officially official news we can go on is this static screen on the Angry Birds website, Family Gamer TV has dug into some clues surrounding the game revealing that it features the exploits of the AutoBirds and DeceptiHogs, but there's a question over whether or not the game will make use of the familiar slingshot-based physics puzzle gameplay we've come to expect from the Angry Birds franchise.
Reports doing the rounds point to Angry Birds Transformers being the follow-up to Rovio's kart racing game, Angry Birds Go, only this time featuring Transformers characters styled after the vengeful birds and dastardly pigs. A tie-in with Telepod toys-to-life technology (similar to Skylanders and Disney Infinity) is also expected, with toys based on the characters going on sale later this year.
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Following the Silver and Black scrimmage on Wednesday, the Rampage trimmed their roster by six players and followed suit with another three cuts on Thursday morning.
The team took the ice in one group on Thursday afternoon for the first time in training camp with 26 players suited up.
"When you can get everyone out on the ice at the same time, that's when things start getting better really quick," said Rampage head coach Peter Horachek. "I want to start seeing the camaraderie, and the bonding as the guys start to get to know each other."
Skating in one session, opposed to split squads, allowed Horachek to be start formulating line and defensive pairings leading into the team's preseason games on Saturday and Sunday against Oklahoma City and Texas.
"For me, getting to know the defensive pairings and getting to know your defensive partner helps tremendously," said defenseman Zach Miskovic. "It helps getting some touches in different situations and knowing who might be around you."
Miskovic also said the team is coming together off the ice, as well.
"When you're in a split squad, you don't really get to meet or interact with that other team that often," he said. "It's been nice even in the room to get to know some of the new guys on the team."
The team worked on special teams for the first time on Thursday. After spending the last nine seasons as an assistant and associate coach with the NHL's Nashville Predators, it should come as no surprise that Horachek plans to implement a similar power play to what Nashville ran in the past.
The power-play practice didn't feature any penalty killers, as Horachek said he wanted the team to get comfortable moving the puck around with each other.
"We saw a few clips of what worked for Peter's team in Nashville and I think we're going to try and emulate that a little bit," said forward Jon Matsumoto. "Drills are starting to flow a little more freely and we're starting to get used to each other on the ice. I think we're only going to escalate the intensity and efficiency of practices from here on out."
With only one more practice leading into this weekend's preseason games at Cedar Park Center, there's still plenty for the team to learn and Wednesday practice ran nearly two hours. Horachek said been pleased with the work ethic of the group
"We just want to keep moving in the right direction," Horachek said. "Every time we take the ice, we have to take something out of it. There has to be a positive and so far every day there has been."
Matsumoto said the team is excited to finally square off against opponents who won't be wearing the Silver and Black this season.
"We've been beating ourselves up here the past few days," Matsumoto said. "It'll be nice to take our aggression out on another team."
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31 Aug 2011 8:35 AM #1
Possible memory leak with GridPanel and Store
Ext version tested:
- Ext 3.0.3
- Ext 3.3.2
- Ext 3.4.0
- ext
- only default ext-all.css
- Chrome 10
- Chrome 12
- Win 7 x64
- WinXP Pro
- There is a definite memory increase when using GridPanel with a store. Every time the store is reloaded and grid is rendered, the browser consumes more memory and it does not seem to free it. Best example is IE, which can consume over 1GB and crash within 30 minutes using the attached code.
Working code is attached. Unzip it into ext/examples
Steps to reproduce the problem:
- Open Click on Autorefresh button
- Observe memory consumption using e.g. sieve or Sysinternals Process Explorer
- Stable memory footprint
- Browser starts consuming memory until it crashes
- none
- not provided
26 Oct 2011 9:45 PM #2
I'm seeing this with EXT JS 4.0.7 as well.. basically calling store.load() refreshes the Grid, and the memory keeps being used (up to 1GB before the browser dies): IE + Firefox 5
27 Oct 2011 5:58 AM #3
Sencha Devs, have you gotten anywhere with this one? I suspect there may actually be two issues, one with record id's and another with reader. And yes, it's still present in Ext JS 4.x.
27 Oct 2011 6:45 AM #4
29 Dec 2011 9:39 PM #5
Does it also happen when using "reload" method instead of "load" ?Extensions:
Ext.ux.DatePickerPlus (Multimonth,Multiselect,...)
Ext.ux.menu.StoreMenu - Ajax Store as menu-item config
Extended Window - Aero Shadows, nested grayscaled modal windows
Ext.ux.plugin.triggerfieldTooltip (for Comboboxes, Datefields...)
Ext.util.Utf8 (encode/decode)
Ext.util.base64 (encode/decode)
ExtJS 220.127.116.11/4.2
Touch 2.3.1
23 May 2012 2:28 AM #6
We are facing the same issue. It would be great to have any answer from ExtJS team.
24 Jul 2012 10:40 AM #7
Has anyone heard from Sencha regarding this? It seems completely out of line that they're not even acknowledging it. There seems to be a similar leak in Sencha Touch that was fixed, but nothing has been done to even address the leak in ExtJS.
24 Jul 2012 3:56 PM #8
1 Aug 2012 1:20 PM #9
Hi All -
First off, apologies for the long delay in replying. We are looking into this issue now that we have some cycles with 4.1.1 and 3.4.1 having been released.
We will update you on whether or not we can reproduce it and if there are DOM leaks going on. If there are not, it is possible that it is a browser JS issue.
For IE, has anyone tried the (IE proprietary) CollectGarbage method to see if it helps?Don Griffin
Director of Engineering - Frameworks (Ext JS / Sencha Touch)
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2 Aug 2012 4:25 AM #10
Thanks for the heads up. My team hasn't tried the new IE CollectGarbage methods.


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I've written a patch for Ubiquity and I'd like to test it before I submit it, but I'm not sure how to go about this given the nature of Ubiquity (only used during installation). Is there a way I can build and run it on my own system, or would I have to pull the entire Ubuntu source code and integrate my patch into that, then run a test installation?
There are a couple ways to do this.
You could also use a virtual machine to test, but that has always been more work than it's worth for me. I usually just use method #1.
Those are the easiest ways. You could also grab the Ubuntu source, edit it, build a new package, install it, and then play with it. But you indicated you wanted to avoid that.
Just install the package, Insert the patch and In a Terminal run:


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If we can think about the universe as a wave function then many particles should be entangled with many other particles in the universe. The obvious question arises why we don't see those entanglements in everyday circumstances. One standard explanation given is those entanglements average out and cancel so we can ignore those. However, hardly any mathematical justification is given for them to cancel. My question is how much trust one should have on that particular assertion? Is there any mathematical arguments already put forward by anyone?
Dear sb1, the assumptions implicitly contained in your question are upside down. Exactly the fact that the degrees of freedom of the Universe are becoming increasingly entangled means that we cannot observe the quantum phenomena in practice.
The entanglement that emerges after a relatively short time is the entanglement among a huge number of degrees of freedom. So to detect that it is real, one would have to make an accurate and correlated measurement of all these entangled degrees of freedom that are relevant, and this is impossible in practice.
If one only studies a subsystem where some degrees of freedom is missing - because they become effectively undetectable - it is enough to "trace over" the unobservable degrees of freedom and to predict the observable system via its density matrix.
As Roy Simpson mentioned, the process of decoherence - which is extremely well understood as of today - guarantees that the density matrix for an observable system with many degrees of freedom - one that interacts with the environment (the unobservable degrees of freedom) - rapidly becomes diagonal, so observable interference goes to zero and quantum physics de facto reduces to classical physics.
What happens with the entanglement? Well, the entanglement between the observable and unobservable degrees of freedom is still there but it is unobservable because the unobservable degrees of freedom are unobservable. And when it comes to the entanglement between various observable degrees of freedom only, the part of it that has decohered disappears (and classical behavior takes over), and the part that hasn't decohered is still there (and quantum mechanics is still important).
But I think that instead of entanglement, you could have equally well used the term correlation because entanglement is nothing else than correlation that may use all the quantum information.
But even in classical physics, it would be true that the Universe - e.g. all its atoms - are "chaotically" evolving into a state in which the velocities and positions of all the particles are correlated in complicated ways (imagine a description using a distribution function on the phase space; as in reality, you can't quite measure and know the exact point on the phase space). Yes, it is true: evolution makes things complex. But exactly because they are so complex, the correlations become unobservable; your question incorrectly assumes that the complicated character should make the correlations more observable). The same is true for the entanglement: the convoluted character of entanglement makes it unobservable.
At the very end, let me emphasize that a diagonal density matrix is technically entangled, indeed. It's because this matrix is not a tensor product of a pure state vector with its conjugate: whenever this factorization is impossible, entanglement is nonzero. If the density matrix has many nonzero entries on the diagonal, it is a mixed state containing many independent contributions from pure states. That doesn't mean that this "entangled" character of the density matrix is "highly quantum" i.e. that it should exhibit many striking quantum properties: quite on the contrary, by getting a nearly diagonal density matrix, we get a highly classical situation!
The statement that the entanglement with many other objects "cancels out" is a little misleading, giving the impression that the various entanglements somehow undo each other, so they don't affect the final state. In fact, though, all of the various entanglements between a simple system of interest and the objects in its environment will play a role in determining the exact probability of the various possible states, and thus determining the outcome of the measurement.
What relieves us from having to track every single possible entanglement (which would be completely impractical) is that the effects of entanglement with the environment are random and fluctuating. On each repetition of the experiment, the system of interest will interact with a slightly different set of environmental objects, in slightly different ways, so the effects on the wavefunction will be different every time.
Since quantum mechanics only allows us to predict probabilities, the only way we can check theories by experiment is to make many repeated measurements of our system of interest, and use those repeated measurements to determine the probability of the various measurement outcomes. The random and fluctuating nature of the environmental entanglement means that while the details of the interaction with the environment plays a role in determining the exact probability for any given measurement, the effect of those interactions is different from one measurement to the next. Which means that, when you repeat the measurement many times to get a probability distribution, what you see is a kind of average over all the different ways that the environmental entanglement affects the various different runs of the experiment.
To give a highly imperfect analogy, it's a little like statistical mechanics or thermodynamics. While in principle the evolution of a thermodynamic system-- the canonical box full of ideal gas, say-- depends on the motion of every single particle making it up, in practice, the only thing we can measure is the average effect of uncountably huge numbers of moving particles. Thus, we have a well-established mathematical apparatus for figuring out the statistical behavior of all those particles, which gives us the highly successful fields of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.
When people say that the effects of multiple entanglements "average away," the implied process is sort of similar. It assumes that the experiment will need to be run a very large number of times, and so what you calculate in the end is a sort of average over all the possible effects, in the same way that, say, the calculated temperature change of an expanding gas is an average over the change in speed of the umpty-zillion particles making up that gas.
(This is not a precise correspondence, so don't try to push it too far. It's just supposed to get the basic idea of the underlying process.)
Most of the time, we have decoherence, which suppresses interferences between configurations with different values for the pointer basis. On the other hand, showing a pointer basis always exists is an open problem. According to the Everett interpretation, each pointer basis splits into a parallel world of its own. Or at least, it can be treated as if it did.
But if some day in the future, we construct a quantum computer implementing Shor's factorization algorithm for integers with a huge number of digits, we can have a complicated multipartite entanglement between many qubits which eventually interfere constructively and destructively to get a nontrivial result.
In practice, except in very particular circumstances, you can't do experiments to observe highly entangled states. The results of any feasible experiment will be the same as if it was done on an equivalent mixed state. It's the same reason that nobody has observed a cat in the state $\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(|$alive$\rangle+|$dead$\rangle)$. What experiment would distinguish between a superposition of an alive and a dead cat and a mixture of these two states?


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What about users with slow rural internet connections? Or what if you temporarily had an internet service outage?
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And Games Dojo Manager Stephen Doyle warned that a ban on used games would "kill the Xbox."
Retailers say a ban on used games would "kill the Xbox". [Image Source: Flickr]
So while Microsoft works to be less offensive on the PR front, it's done precious little to quell the underlying source of criticism. Will Microsoft indeed lock out offline users and ban used games? It's too early to say, but if it's
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Times are changing and I think people are slowing figuring out how they can influence decissions by just not buying their products. It is as simple as that. Look at W8, WP8, Surface, etc. You can complain until you're blue in the face. In fact, you will have people tell you to just deal with it. Well, my aswer is just don't buy their products. They may not come out and admit they were wrong, but they will regret their mistake! Most of my purchases are impulse buys, things I could otherwise live without. When I don't like a direction a company takes, I refuse to buy their products.
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I mean is there some open sourced projects that were started as closed source and were commercially successful also? I am also interested in any story behind open sourcing them.
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Blender was initially commercial.
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There were also some non-commercial internal projects (used by a company or a group of companies, but not released to the general public) which got open-sourced after their end of life or after a while. For instance, NASA has been known to release a few things.
Qt was originally a commercial project by Trolltech, then when they were bought by Nokia it was released as a dual (commercial/LGPL) project.
The value to Nokia of having it as the default GUI toolkit of programmers all over the world was more valuable than the extra license fees from a few commercial customers ( or it would have been if Nokia could project manage their way out of a paperbag)
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Java, it's a GPL project for the biggest part ( some minor pieces of code can have a different license ) since 2007
Gish, Penumbra, Lugaru and Aquaria were open-sourced following the success of the first Humble Bundle promotion.
IIRC, Sun's Glassfish server was originally the Sun Java System Application Server, which was originally the SunONE Application Server, which started out as the iPlanet Application Server, which had been created by merging the code bases of the Netscape Enterprise Server and the NetDynamics Application Server.
Likewise, the EclipseLink project started out as a Smalltalk product (TopLink) which was ported to Java and eventually donated to Sun to be used as part of the Glassfish project, before finally finding its way to the Eclipse project.


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The 4 star Charleville Park Hotel is an extremely popular destination for leisure breaks in Ireland, thanks to our great location in the Heart of Munster, our superb facilities and our welcoming local staff. Situated in the Ballyhoura region, close to the famous Ballyhoura Forest Mountains, the Doneraile Wildlife Park and the Stone Age centre at Lough Gur, there is plenty of activity and adventure for all ages to be enjoyed in the local area.
As a guest, you will be welcomed by our friendly local staff and you can. A member of our team will welcome you to the hotel and provide insight on what to see and do in the local area, whilst your bags are delivered safely to your room!
The Charleville Park Hotel & Leisure Club has an excellent reputation as a conference & wedding hotel in Munster. We are a renowned venue for big weddings, and can comfortably cater for up to 450 guests. Thanks to the clever design of our venue, smaller weddings are equally popular. Our generous function rooms can cater for conferences of up to 700 delegates.
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Bonds seem to be more than just a liability, these are the things that are important to a character, and given the very correspondence driven nature of the Nobilis cosmology would see to be a strength.
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Our fashion-related obsession with Winonah de Jong continues to grow now that her blog for Life After Football is up and running. Full disclosure: we're not really bothering to run it through Google translate because we really just want to see what she's wearing.
Winonah has proven a master at incorporating orange (the color of The Netherlands' NT, natch) into her Euro 2012 looks. For the Oranje's first match against Denmark, she wore an orange printed Gucci top similar to the one here, Victoria Beckham jeans, Gucci flip flops and the obligatory orange Hermés Birkin and Goyard bags.
It's a perfect WAG look, is it not?
We also love the subtle orange in her Giambattista Valli jacket here. The jacket is… interesting, but we commend her dedication to keeping it patriotic.
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nice deal here i just bought one to gift. i own this and use it a lot in the summer. i am excited to try it on perfecting our turkey this thanksgiving.
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In 2013, the Redwood Area Food Shelf distributed 185,084 pounds of food to Redwood residents. That's over 92 and a half tons of food. Receiving those tons were 9,147 individuals stopping by the food shelf for supplies last year, with another 2,670 households applying. And demand is up this year, according to David Mumme of the food shelf. March is the traditional month when Minnesota food shelves have their main drives for the year. As part of that, Redwood's Boy Scouts will be going door to door this Saturday morning, March 22 to collect bags of food. The bags will be brought to the Redwood Area Food Shelf by late morning to be weighed and recorded. The amount of food and dollars the food shelf raises this month will be used to calculate how much it can receive in matching grants for the rest of the year. If you're considering donating to the Redwood Area Food Shelf, gifts of food or cash are more than welcome any time. But if you only donate once a month, March is the time to do it. Last year the Minnesota FoodShare March Campaign raised more than $8.3 million and almost four million pounds of food, to be distributed by about 300 food shelves statewide. For more information about the food shelf's March fundraiser and food drive, call Dave Mumme at 507-430-1495.
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KILLEEN (December 22, 2012)-Roland Wornham, his son, daughter and grandson are without a home this Christmas after a fire ripped through their home on Saturday afternoon.
"There was so much smoke you could not see yourself, and then I saw the truck was on fire," said neighbor Joann Winn.
Another neighbor noticed smoke at the home off of Leader Drive just before 3 p.m. and warned the homeowner.
"I knocked on their door and said, 'Roland, your house is on fire, you guys guys got to get out," said Ralph Gutierrez.
"I thank God for letting me come out and look over there and notice something was wrong."
The owner was in the garage working with a space heater when he went into the house for a moment.
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I have the difference equation $y_k = \frac{2}{7} y_{k+1} + \frac{2}{7} y_{k-1} + \frac{3}{7} y_{k-2}$. The $y_k$s are probabilities. The equation doesn't hold for $k = 0$. This is because I know that $y_0 = 1$, $y_{-1} = \frac{1}{3}$ and $y_{-2} = \frac{1}{9}$ so this would imply $y_1 > 1$ (while $y_1 \in [0,1])$. Than I'm asked to solve it for $k \geq -1$ using the initial conditions. And I get the solution $y_k = \frac{7}{9} + \frac{2}{9}\big(-\frac{1}{2} \big)^k $. For $k = 0$ this gives me $y_0 = 1$.
What confuses me is that we have solved the difference equation using an initial condition ($y_0 = 1$) that cannot be satisfied by the equation itself and we get out a solution that is valid for every $k > -1$.


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NEW YORK (AP) — A $400 million makeover is giving New York's iconic Macy's store a sleek, new 21st-century style.
And some preservationists aren't happy about it. They see the overhaul of America's biggest department store as scrapping classic Beaux Arts and Art Deco touches in favor of the latest trend in retail design — something like an Apple computer store.
"Macy's has Apple fever," said Theodore Grunewald, a New York preservation activist. "Everyone is jealous of Apple, and thinks the secret to the company's success is this beautiful, elegant minimalist design vocabulary they have. But this is about protection of our heritage."
Macy's reconstruction, to be completed in 2015, will add 100,000 square feet to the 1.1 million square feet of existing retail space. Floor-to-ceiling fabric shrouds areas under renovation. But some sections already have been finished, including the world's largest women's shoe department, which offers 280,000 pairs of shoes — several thousand displayed in white settings.
Macy's spokeswoman Elina Kazan gushes that the store will be a "spectacular place to shop at an iconic New York City destination."
About 20 million shoppers a year visit Ohio-based Macy's flagship store. The building has nine floors of retail space and covers nearly an entire city block, from West 34th Street to West 35th Street, between Seventh Avenue and Broadway.
It is best known as home of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and as the setting that inspired the beloved 1947 Christmas film, "Miracle on 34th Street."
Originally constructed in 1902 in the Beaux Arts style, it was expanded in the 1930s with plenty of Art Deco details. Most noticeable was a jazzy, geometric coating of marble, encasing more than 100 columns that soar to the ceilings.
Grunewald said the columns will now be simplified, losing the marble and the ornamental toppings that give the space "its pizazz."
While Macy's has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1978, it has not been given landmark designation, allowing its owners to make architectural changes.
"I was stunned they were doing this, making it look like everywhere else in America when they have a little treasure here," said preservationist Christabel Gough of the Society for the Architecture of the City.
Macy's officials said it was premature to compare the renovation to Apple since it is still a work in progress. They said, too, that the plan actually revives some of the building's distinctive features.
Originally, the interior street floor "was one great retail hall, and Macy's asked us to bring it back as one grand space," said Jay Valgora, chief architect for the renovation. "Macy's asked us to bring back the grandeur of the original store, and whenever there's true historic fabric, to restore it."
Also, the original, ornate entrance on 34th Street will return, and some huge old windows that were painted over have been opened again, lighting a new chocolate-and-champagne cafe. Forty-two of the store's original wooden escalators will stay.


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Serial console grabbing
Is their any JS library providing way to access serial console.
Ugly solution is to use applet and render it under some component. If any one knows better
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I want some way to grab telnet session in ExtJs.
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I do remember I have seen some post on forum which talks about similar issue. I forgot that link somehow .
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Serial console grabbing
For checking serial codes and creating them. Like if you pay for a game you need to verify yourself with a code.


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Online auction sites have become popular in recent years as a way to connect buyers and sellers from across the country and around the world. These sites can be great places to find unique items – or to help us sell things we find collecting dust in our garages during spring cleaning.
Unfortunately, these sites can also be used by scammers offering items for sale that don't exist. Our office recently stopped a series of fraudulent online auction transactions that would have totaled nearly $1 million. Kansas consumers file complaints with our office about these frauds every day. By following the tips below, you can assist our office in identifying scams and protect yourself from fraudulent transactions.
· Carefully study the item listing. – Make sure the item listing contains a full and complete description of the item, its condition and photos of the actual item, not just generic stock photos. Beware if the descriptions and photos are identical to those used by another seller.
· Read the seller's reviews. – Check the seller reviews from previous buyers. Be cautions of sellers with little or no history. If the seller is from a foreign country, be especially cautious – at a minimum, be sure that they have feedback from U.S. buyers.
· Contact the seller. – Ask additional questions about the item, and find out more about the seller. Ask for their physical location. If you don't get a response or don't like the answers you get, don't bid on the item.
· Figure out the total cost of the item. – While online auctions can often be places to find good deals, beware of deals that just seem too good to be true. Be especially wary of listings that have only been up a short time or offer very low-priced "Buy Now" options. Make sure you take into account the shipping and handling charges – you may end up paying more in shipping than the cost of the item itself.
· Check out the seller's return policy. – Find out if the seller will allow you to return the item if it arrives damaged or you are not satisfied and if there are any charges for doing so.
· Use a secure payment method. – Perhaps the biggest red flag for a fraudulent auction is one that asks you to "pay offsite," especially if they ask for a wire transfer. Also be cautious of transactions asking you to pay in a foreign currency. The safest way to pay for online auction transactions is through a reputable auction company's online payment system. This allows you to dispute the charges through the online auction site if the item does not arrive as described. In addition, your credit card company may offer additional protections against fraudulent charges.
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Sometimes I have problems using my BD At Work. Usually is when i try to recover or update a table in Java with the session closed (the famous LazyInitializatioException ). And at the end, sometimes the problem is that exists a foreign key pointing to a value of a non existing primary key index. When it happens, the lazy entity doesn't load correctly.
So, is there a way to check if a table data has foreign keys indexes set to non existing primary keys ?
For a single column would be easy. But I mean for tables with about 10 or 20 foreign keys.
Im using postgres. If thats an answer especificaly for it it'd be much better. =]
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Scotch tape? Duct tape? What about other types of tape (like the tape they put on supermarket labels?)
I usually try a variety of approaches depending on what the glue is. Most glues seem to be either water or oil based (mostly oil). If the tape is on something that can take some heat, then I might either fill it with hot water from the tap, run hot water against the opposite side, heat it up with a hair dryer or just let it sit in the sun for a few minutes so that the glue will soften. Then I peel off the tape, trying to pick up as much of the glue as I can. I often use the sticky side of the tape to try to pick up any remaining pieces of glue because it seems to come out the cleanest when I don't have to resort to step 2.
Step 2 depends on whether the glue is oil or water based. If it is oil base, either I give it a good rubbing with a light oil like furniture oil, tea tree oil or lavender oil or olive oil. Once the glue is dissolved and removed by this step, I wipe the surface down with a warm soapy cloth. If the glue is water based (usually not gooey or tacky), then just cleaning up with some warm soapy water seems to work best.
Hope this helps.
I've have very good luck with GooGone.
Acetone usually works well to dissolve the adhesive. You can find it with the other solvents in the paint department of your hardware store.
Just a few weeks ago I bought something called "Krud Kutter" from Home Depot. It is amazing! Smells lemony good and cleans anything - especially does well with sticker remnants. Says biodegradable. I have used it on carpet, walls, bamboo wood floors, marble counters... no damage to any of that, but always be sure to test it out on a hidden section before using it.
I also bought something called "Motsenbocker's Lift Off" Stain Removal Kit, which I tried a few times as well and works nice. It has 3 different formulas in a single kit. Good luck!


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A commode chair is a great aid for someone who, because of diminished mobility, must stay in bed or in a wheelchair and cannot easily move to the bathroom. There are many variations in design so that the commode toilet you choose can serve more than one function. There is also a wide price range, often determined by factors ranging from its features to the materials used to make the commode chair to the bodyweight it is able to support. If a bedside commode is needed only temporarily, a less expensive commode toilet design may suffice. If a more supportive bariatric commode is needed or the commode seat will be used over the long term, you'll want one with the strongest construction. If you're getting a commode shower chair, be sure the frame is made from a material that won't rust.
Versatility is important to some users. The Deluxe Composite Chair Commode by Carex, made from molded PVC, can be easily converted from a bedside commode and set atop a toilet bowl to create a toilet frame and raised toilet seat. This is helpful as you progress from recuperating in bed yet still have difficulty sitting down and rising from a low toilet, for instance.
If you have a hard time getting up and down to use a commode or the toilet itself, a commode with a self-powered lifting mechanism like The Uplift Commode Assist by Uplift Tech will give you safe, controlled support and lifts up to eighty percent of your weight. This model can stand alone or be placed over the toilet.
A folding bedside commode is an option when space is limited. The 3-in-1 Folding Aluminum Bedside Commode style by Drive Medical can be folded without tools for convenient storage and travel. The frame can be configured as a bedside commode, toilet safety frame or elevated toilet seat over your existing toilet.
Top-of-the-line multi-function commode chairs have wheels for easy maneuvering by the user or a caregiver. Packed with features, the Portable Upholstered Wheeled Drop Arm Bedside Commode by Drive Medical functions as a regular wheeled chair with an upholstered seat (which can be easily removed as needed), back rest and arms. The drop arm commode design also allows for safe lateral transfers to and from the commode, and the chair has large rust resistant swivel casters that roll easily. Swing-away and detachable footrests can be added.
Among the most versatile commodes is the portable stainless steel shower chair commode with wheels by Drive. For durability during shower use, the comfortable padded seat is sealed to prevent moisture penetration and is easy to clean. As a commode chair, it can be used as a portable self-contained commode or, with the back easily removed, can be positioned over a standard toilet. For users who can maneuver themselves, easy to propel rear wheels with hand rims provide mobility, independence and privacy. An open front design makes personal hygiene easy and convenient.
Another option is commode chairs is a transfer bench commode—a commode built wide enough to be used as a transfer bench for getting in and out of the tub safely and comfortably. The I-Class Blow-Molded Transfer Bench Commode has helpful features like a reversible backrest that snaps in and out so that you can position it to the right or left, depending on the side of the tub or shower that the fixtures are located on. Important for any commode seat that will be used within a tub or shower, it has important extra features: a textured, nonslip seat with drain holes and built-in slots to place a hand-held shower and soap.


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New Series Fills Information Gap in Educational Resources for Cancer Survivors
Office of Education and Special Initiatives
National Cancer Institute
Last Modified: July 26, 2002
Office of Education and Special Initiatives
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
FOR RESPONSE TO INQUIRIES Kay Campbell, NOVA Research Company
6116 Executive Boulevard, Suite 202
Rockville, MD 20892
(301) 986-1891
For years, health professionals have provided literature to their patients at initial diagnosis and during treatment. But patients finishing cancer treatment have had little in the way of educational resources to support them in the next phase of their recovery. To fill this gap in resources, the NCI has created the Facing Forward Survivor Series, a new series of publications designed to help survivors cope with the challenges associated with life after cancer treatment.
"Research tells us that once treatment ends, survivors face a host of new issues for which they feel ill-prepared. Helping them to address these concerns is critical to optimal recovery," said Julia Rowland, Director of NCI's Office of Cancer Survivorship, created in 1996 to enhance survivors' quality of life through research and education. Rowland said that survivors are confronted by various questions about recovery and side effects such as pain and fatigue. Many are left wondering: "How do I get life back to 'normal'? What if my cancer comes back?"
The Facing Forward Survivor Series combines scientific information from health professionals with personal anecdotes from cancer survivors. Life After Cancer Treatment, the first book in the Series, covers areas such as medical care, potential physical changes, mental health, changes in social relationships, and workplace issues.
Life After Cancer Treatment also includes coping tips, such as stress-reducing relaxation exercises, information about support groups, ways to manage side effects, and a comprehensive list of resources. This book is an expanded version of NCI's 1990 publication, Facing Forward. Cancer survivors who have read Life After Cancer Treatment have remarked how reading the book made them feel that others had "been there" and understood their experience. As one survivor said, "The book put many of my fears to rest. I wish that I had this when I finished treatment. ? It's good to know that things are not just in your head."
Siga adelante: la vida después del tratamiento del cáncer is a Spanish version of Life After Cancer Treatment that highlights issues relevant to Latinos, such as effective communication during follow-up care and the use of alternative medicines.
"In addition to a need for information, many survivors-including those who have helped someone through cancer treatment-describe how taking personal action in the face of cancer can bring meaning to their cancer experience," said Rowland. To address the desire of many to "give back" after treatment, NCI has produced Ways You Can Make a Difference in Cancer. This book, the second in the Series, discusses the potential benefits of becoming involved in cancer-related activities such as leading a support group or national advocacy.
The Facing Forward Survivor Series resulted from the recommendations of cancer survivors, health professionals, and cancer service organizations made during focus groups on the needs of survivors leaving treatment. Additional Series components for health professionals and survivors' family members are currently under development.
Free copies of the books in the Facing Forward Survivor Series may be ordered now by calling 1-800-4-CANCER or visiting www.cancer.gov/publications/.


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Jimmie Radford was arrested and charged in 2002 for 113 charges of theft by failure to make required disposition and 61 counts forgery. All the counts involved money he was accused of stealing from the Cumberland County School system. The current superintendent of Cumberland County Schools, John Hurt, says the school system has worked closely with Kentucky State Police in this investigation.
In a statement given to WBKO, he says their job is to educate the children- not investigate teachers. He goes on to say, "It's been tough, having it [Radford's trial] hanging over our heads." He concluded by saying, "I have confidence in the judicial system. I'm sure justice will be served."
But justice will not be served in this trial, at least not yet.
Judge Eddie Loveless, "This court was informed and has heard testimony from Angela Burchett as a witness in this particular case. Angela Burchett testified that she was contacted by Sherry Radford, the sister-in-law to this defendant."
Burchett told the judge Sherry Radford asked her if she had caller I.D. She also asked her if she was contacted by the Commonwealth Attorney she should only with yes or no, and not to elaborate. Sherry Radford also told Burchett she was asked to make the call by the defendant, Jimmie Radford. Two others also testified to Judge Loveless with similar statements.
"There are laws that relate to intimidation of witnesses in contacting any witnesses in any criminal case. I want this matter fully investigated by Kentucky State Police, the sheriff's department or any agency."
Judge Loveless apologized to the witnesses for the mistrial and ended by saying... "There's a cloud, and a very dark and ominous cloud, hanging over these proceedings. It is a dark day in Cumberland COunty or any county in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
The judge scheduled a pretrial conference for the Commonwealth vs. Radford for August 19, 1004.


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Detect beginning of a sentence in a macro for capitalization
Is it possible to write a macro that is able to determine if it is used at the beginning of a sentence? For example, imagine
This \location is nice. \location has its charm.
A simple and silly one, but anyway, you get the idea. I want the second street to be "Street." How would one do this? I am using
lualatex, so if only a lua-specific solution is possible, I'd be happy with it. If it is not possible then I would have to do it manually, but that would be a lot of work in my text :-(


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I'm currently using a nicer microphone (Studio Project C1, a large diaphragm condenser mic) as my main microphone on my PC. It's running through an M-Audio FireWire Solo. I use it for gaming, skype, etc. Will having the phantom power on 24/7 wear the mic out faster, or have any other negative effects? Should I be turning the phatom power off when I'm not using the mic?
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In my opinion, your audio card would wear out first, being the most complicated piece of equipment which also continually produces the 48V voltage. Secondly, the FET inside the microphone would wear out, and the mic capsule for last.
It seems to me that the capsule in this mic is quite sturdy, as it can withstand 131dB!
In other words: the microphone should be considered "in use" whenever the phantom power is turned on. Being electrically active, it will tend to break over time :-)
I would advice you to turn off any unused equipment, at least for the night, every day. It not only will wear out your various electronic components, but it's also anti-economical and unfriendly towards the environment.
I agree with @sklivvz on the environmental angle, but from stories ive heard in studios over the years, they would leave equipment ON all the time. It was a given for them that equipment usually breaks when getting its first burst of power, and thats true to a certain extent, probably more for mixing desks which was what this case was based on, but I wouldnt recommend leaving it on all the time anyway, at least until someone figures out an infinite source of energy that we dont have to kill each other over :)


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The Ohio EPA's Jan. 31 discovery of the illegal dumping of drilling wastes by Hardrock Excavating underscores the real environmental risk of oil and gas exploration and production activities.
Ever since the release of the 2010 documentary film "Gasland," geologists and environmental scientists familiar with the oil and gas industry have spent countless hours explaining to the public that it is the handling of production fluids at the surface, not the process of hydraulic fracturing, that poses real risk to our environment.
The Utica Shale and Point Pleasant Formation throughout the wet-gas zone of eastern Ohio lies at depths between 7,000 and 9,000 feet below the surface. The notion that the hydraulic-fracturing process known as "fracking" can produce fractures that will extend to the surface and provide pathways for the migration of fracking fluids into our ground water and surface-water resources violates many well- established geologic principles and basic laws of physics.
The truth of the matter is fracking fluids and naturally occurring brine, oil and natural-gas liquids all pose significant environmental risk if they are not handled correctly once they have been brought from the depths of the earth to the surface by producing wells.
Brine is a naturally occurring fluid that starts out as marine saltwater trapped within the sediments as they accumulate on the sea floor. Over the millions of years that follow, the sediments are gradually buried to depths of thousands of feet as more sediments pile up.
The sediments lithify into rock, and the saltwater concentrates until it contains more than 100,000 parts per million (one-tenth) dissolved salts along with metals and organic compounds. Oil and gas are slowly produced from algae and bacteria trapped within shale as the burial gradually heats the rock through a process known as thermal maturation. Oil and gas is made of hydrocarbons and a whole slew of other volatile and semi-volatile organic and toxic compounds.
The oil and gas industry works very hard to supply our nation's and the world's demand for energy in an environmentally responsible fashion. Nonetheless, production fluids are hazardous materials, and the risk of spills is ever present. The fundamental ways in which production fluids can be spilled at the surface and threaten our environment boils down to a few basic and preventable situations that includes human error, negligence, equipment failure and insufficient surface storage capacity.
Think about it: Every time any production fluid is transferred from one holding vessel to another — whether it be from the well head to a pipeline or a storage container to a truck, or a truck to an injection well or treatment facility — the opportunity for spillage is present. Proper employee training, equipment maintenance and facility design can effectively eliminate the risk of spills.
Situations more difficult to control and prevent include accidents and the apparent disrespect for the environment, regulations and federal laws demonstrated by Ben Lupo of Hardrock Excavating.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas along with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency are the regulatory and enforcement agencies of our state government. The body of regulations that we have today are the product of many years of experience and the adoption of new regulations as the oil and gas industry evolves and new technologies are created.
As shale-gas exploration and production in eastern Ohio expands in the years to come, the ODNR and the OEPA will be faced with the continuing challenge of enforcing regulations. The easiest and most-effective thing that citizens and elected officials can do to prevent spills and minimize the environmental risks of oil and gas production is to make sure our state agencies are sufficiently funded to hire the additional field inspectors, technicians and other personnel needed to carry out their important mission.
As for the Ben Lupos of the world, prosecution of illegal acts and revocation of operation permits will send the message that flagrant violation of laws and disregard for the environment will not be tolerated.
As I have said before, we do need the energy but these oil and gas companies need to act responsibly, which they often bungle. What price are we willing to pay?
We have property in another county with a non-producing gas well on it, but the oil company that owns it refuses to plug it. That is another story. A few years ago the gas well burped out oil and contaminated acres of land due to someone leaving a valve open and rusted out buried lines burst and spewed oil onto our land. This was a clear case of irresponsible behavior, costing the oil company money to mitigate and loss of agricultural crops by a tenant farmer.
In more recent times the oil company failed to maintain a connection to a Dominion main line near the road and the line burst at the connection, spewing gas into the air for days until it was discovered. They replaced the connection not with a new valve, but with a used rusted valve that looked as bad as the one that failed.
Now the gas company wants to enter our land and do some exploratory digging to find another "T" valve they claim is on our land, but they don't know where. These are not accidents...these are Idiots!
Like I said, I sure would like to see them act responsibly, but at every turn they seem to be bungling, stumbling and acting like they have no idea what they are doing. IDIOTS!
The risk of spills needs to be very carefully thought out. It's not like "oops we have a spill, let's wipe it up". The consequences can be life altering. From radiation, methane gas, chemicals in fracking fluid, changes to the air, water and land need to be considered.
Why is Ohio becoming the dumping ground for fracking disposal from other states?
Utica - there is absolutely no reason to involve the public in personal business handled by my attorney and the State of Ohio. There is much more that I have not mentioned and it will remain that way.
I added my general comments to show people that bad things do happen and we must be ever vigilant in making sure energy companies comply. These issues often happen over long periods of time, which enables energy companies to recover from bad feelings against them, only to loose their status gain as new issues arise when they fail to maintain their equipment or properly train employees.
I shall overlook your slight of posters being basement dwelling trolls spewing Russian and Arab propaganda. Not all of us are energy company employees.
Having wonderful venues such as Vindy sites to share our comments and experiences is fine, but we should not use it to involve the public in all of the details of private matters. Once you open the door with details, you risk the wrath of dozens of posting critics who only want more and/or want to solve a problem that has been taken care of professionally. That is why I continue to post in general terms.
UTICA Says..""there are those fractivist who live in their mother's basement who fantasize about ways to add meaning to their uneventful lives and many times are regurgitating Russian and Arab propaganda to suppress our energy discovery.""
Please Mr Utica please add some facts that these posters live in basements. You sir should stand behind your own words. If someone says something about the gas industry that you do not agree with, you simply try to degrade them. Grow up man. Again give some FACTS about these people living in basements.
Ahhha...we struck a nerve and the real troll spoke from his mother's basement!
Thank you troll for exposing your true identity.
Now we understand why these energy companies operate as irrationally and as recklessly as they do...their employees are trolls!
Thank God...
Apparently Mr. Utica can't stand people who own more than he does, so he tries childish bullying to satisfy himself. But the odds of him really disappearing are not good. He can't stay away and is actually doing more harm to his cause than good.
His obnoxious ranting only shows what our community has to deal with when dealing with energy companies who move into our area and begin flexing their muscles, throwing money around and calling property owners trolls. They force us to call in the State of Ohio and we have to hire attorneys to right what they have wronged. It does not have to be this way.
Once again, I state my case before everyone reading this, let's do this responsibly. We don't need outsiders coming in here and telling us they are safe and responsible operators. We want to SEE safe and responsible operations!
People like Utica, who admits to being an energy company employee, only prove they have a long way to go in convincing us they are honest in their intentions.
Thank you Utica! These people can't realize how little the industry or ODNR cares or listens to them. Everyday more companies are bringing in drilling rigs, while they sit in here protesting no one that matters. You people Ask how I can sleep at night? How about in a bed if money like everyone else in the business. Seriously it's not the issue we should be concerned about. Embrace it and enjoy the economic prosperity that was given to this Dieing city