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Janet Roberts
Recent and archived news articles by Janet Roberts of The New York Times.
Venture Capitalists Put Money on Easing Medical Device Rules
As Congress considers reauthorizing a law that sets the fees for medical device makers, venture capitalists are emerging as an influential ally of companies eager for a quicker regulatory process.
October 26, 2011, Wednesday
Pipeline Spills Put Safeguards Under Scrutiny
An analysis shows that the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is struggling to safeguard a transport network laced with risks.
September 10, 2011, Saturday
Hip Implant Complaints Surge, Even as the Dangers Are Studied
The F.D.A. received more than 5,000 reports since January about several artificial hip devices, more than it received about those devices in the last four years.
August 23, 2011, Tuesday
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Rhode Island's Medicaid Experiment Becomes a Talking Point for Budget Cutters
A Medicaid agreement signed by Rhode Island and the federal government in 2009 is a living example of the kinds of changes that Republicans say they want to make.
May 16, 2011, Monday
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The Fed's Crisis Lending: A Billion Here, a Thousand There
At the height of the crisis, the nation's biggest and smallest banks alike lined up for loans at the Fed's discount window.
April 1, 2011, Friday
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Judge Criticizes Stop-and-Frisk Police Tactics in Housing Projects
A decision by an acting Supreme Court justice barred the admission of 29 plastic bags of cocaine that the police seized last February from a man in a housing project on the Lower East Side.
December 23, 2010, Thursday
New York City Crime Dips but Violent Crime Is Up
Murders, rapes and robberies are among the categories showing increases for the five boroughs over 2009.
November 26, 2010, Friday
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A Few Blocks, 4 Years, 52,000 Police Stops
Questions are swirling over "Stop, Question, Frisk," a tactic police increasingly pursue in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn.
July 12, 2010, Monday
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After a Peek at the Police Dept., a Thanks With a Check
About 40 percent of prominent New Yorkers who spent an evening with police officials under a program operated by a private foundation donated.
April 27, 2010, Tuesday
2 Mines Show How Safety Practices Vary Widely
A comparison between the safety practices of Massey Energy and those of other operators shows sharp differences.
April 23, 2010, Friday
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Don't like NASCAR? Not watching today's race right now? That's OK, you'll probably still enjoy this vintage footage from the 1960 Daytona 500. Watch as 37 vehicles crash in what we believe to be the biggest smash-up in NASCAR history.
1960 was only the second year of the Daytona 500 and it's obvious from post crash footage the safety equipment was minimal. Over 50 years since this crash, and ten since the death of Dale Earnhardt Sr., racers competing in today's Daytona 500 (the "Super Bowl of stock car racing") can race at high speeds with the confidence they are protected by over five decades of safety innovation.
I don't really know why though, because when the dust settled from this violent crash the worst of the damage was a few minor injuries and some mangled vintage iron. Amazingly, every driver made it out alive.
Car of Tomorrow? Blow me. We'll take the Car of Yesterday, back when stock car racing was really a race of stock cars, thank you very much.

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Wow. What a trip. What a challenge. I am still sleep deprived and catching up on blog posts……
I flew into Kansas to compete in the American Royal Invitational and the Open. It was a blast. Absolutely exhausting and completely absorbing.
My illustrious site. One 10×10 tent 1 table and a really cool Q Kitchen equipped with an FE and a mack daddy char-broiler.
I am lucky to have some great friends all over. Truly once again let me repeat BBQ people are awesome. They do anything and everything to help. So with friends like Andy & Kim Groneman and the Early family, I had everything I needed to compete. Bare bones but all of the essentials. A complete kitchen with an FE and a charbroiler, a Tent a cot, some coolers and friends to help. I had stocked up the previous day with Kim at BBQFans, Liberty Fruit and the hen house and I was all set.
However I will say my site had to be one of the worst possible locations ever. Horrible would be an understatement. I was right along the end of the entrance (AKA HALLWAY OF HELL! – see below) for the folks heading into the dark side and when they wanted to drag their drunk obnoxious loud asses home they had to go right by my site again.
Then there was the lovely* cleaning crew located right around the corner that seemed to take great joy every morning at 3am waking all of us up with their noise. They didn't stop till well past 7 or 8 am.
Total sleep for 2 days less than 6 hours. Total times I wanted to throttle someone — ———– I can't count that high.
My super comfy cot with Big Poppas Smokers Sweater pillow.
Just an example of two of the drunks that stumbled by. Freak clowns. I should have just set up a video camera.
Sleep deprivation aside it was a challenge. I have only cooked on an FE 3 times prior to this. Thank fully I had taken Butcher BBQ and Plowboys class and they covered how they run their meats in their FE's In addition Andy was uber helpful. Anytime you do 2 contests back to back it is a challenge
I got to spend some time socializing with friends and thats a big part of getting to go to the Royal
I also had a couple of Texans – Chris Jones and David Henry plus Neil Strawder with me to run boxes and to help where they could. That was a really fun part of the weekend. Loved hanging with the guys.
I also got to spend time with a Legend and dear friend of mine Dave Raymond from Sweet baby Rays. I love this guy. He rocks.
The Royal is an interesting contest. On day one for the Invitational I came in 88th out of 141 and in the Open 81st out of 498 . Not stellar by any means. It was a challenge and I am really glad I did it no matter what the results. It was an excellent personal challenge just to get through it all. I know I made some good BBQ.
Another huge highlight for the weekend had to be participating in a steak throw down as part of the KCBS tour !I got to compete against Heath Hall of Pork Barrel BBQ Fame. We had a blast with this and it was tons of fun!!
I had a huge surge of patriotic Canadian pride seeing 2 of my fellow countrymen Tim Brown and Daryl Maybanks from Can't Stop Grilling take Reserve Grand Championship in the open!! They had a rough Invitational and came out on top HUGE congrats to them both and for also using Kingsford as it doubled their prize money!! WTG guys!!
Congratulations to all who got their name called and to everyone who just survived the Royal again!!
Results for both Days Invitational (Congratulations Tippycanoe BBQ Crew GC!) and Open (Congratulations Motley Que Crew GC!)


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Of a group of people, each person is wearing green, blue, or both. One-fifth of those wearing green are also wearing blue. One-eighth of those wearing blue are also wearing green. Are more than one-third of this group wearing green?
I decided to solve it by picking an arbitrary number of people wearing only green. Let $g$ and $b$ be the number of people wearing green and blue respectively.
Let $G$ and $B$ be the sets of people wearing green, and people wearing blue respectively.
$|G \cap B|$ = $\frac{g}{5} = \frac{b}{8}$
$g = \frac{5b}{8}$
Does this show that the number of people wearing green is less than the number of people wearing blue? And if more than a third of people are wearing green then that implies $g > \frac{b}{2}$ which is true, therefore more than one-third of this group is wearing green?


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Letter Lovers
Learn to use pen and paper for all they're worth. Make beautiful words. We'll start with basics of using a pen, exercises in making marks on the page, and introductions to forms of italic and blackletter. In later classes we'll make our own cola pens, 3D print letters, or laser-cut a letterpress font. Would you like to help design a NoiseBridge font?
What to bring
Recommended, but not required:
- An mp3 player, headphones, and a few of your favorite songs
- A ball point pen and blank printer paper
- Any calligraphy pen, markers, ink you already have
- Clothes that you don't mind getting a little ink on, a smock, or a very steady hand.
I will have some pens and paper too, so don't sweat it if you come last minute.
Thursday Evenings at 6:00pm.
There will be no class on July 18th as I'll be out of town, but people are welcome to come and practice together.
We are just getting started, so if this doesn't work for you, please contact me. Sunday afternoons were another possibility.
Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St., San Francisco, 94114 (at 18th St., near 16th St. BART station). Map: Getting Here
Instruction is free! It's a myth that you need expensive tools to make beautiful letters. We'll learn how to do it even with a ball-point pen and paper. (Many banks provide such pens for free. :) However, use of traditional pens will also be covered, and a few will be available for loan during the class.
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Few people can say that they have been a member of a successful collegiate athletic team. An even smaller number can say they have been a member of a collegiate championship team. The number dwindles to three who can say they were actually a member of the very first NCAA team championship in Penn's history. One such man is Francis Bartone.
A fencing standout in high school, Bartone was captain of the team at
When Bartone arrived at Penn in 1950, the program was re-emerging from a six-year hiatus due to World War II. Under the tutelage of Maestro Lajos Csiszar, the Penn fencing program began to flourish. As a freshman, along with two varsity fencers, Bartone competed at the Philadelphia Open Divisional Three-Weapon Team Championship and defeated the fourth nationally-ranked epee fencer at the time. The team went on to win the
After joining the varsity team as a sophomore in 1951, Bartone earned All-America honors in sabre, finishing third in the individual competition at the National Intercollegiate Championships. At the Eastern Intercollegiate Championships he led the team to the sabre championship and finished third in the individual sabre competition. That year, Penn finished second at the National Intercollegiate three-man team championship and was fourth in the Eastern Intercollegiate nine-man championship.
As a junior in 1952, Bartone returned to fencing foil. His efforts paid off as Penn finished first in the Philadelphia Open Championship for the second time. The Quakers finished fourth at the National Intercollegiate Championship and fifth at the Eastern Intercollegiate Championship that year.
Bartone and the Red and Blue found even more success in 1953 with Bartone serving as captain. He helped the Quakers finish second overall in the all-important Eastern Intercollegiate Championships, as he led his weapon to the foil championship by finishing third individually. The Eastern Intercollegiate foil championship team is awarded the "Little Iron Man" trophy, the oldest trophy in collegiate athletics, and is still awarded today.
However, the highlight of the season came when Penn won the NCAA Fencing Championship, the first of three in the program's history. The team won 94 bouts, which is still a Penn record.
Bartone also earned another All-America honor, this time in foil. He finished second at the 1953 individual foil championship, marking the first time that a fencer had ever been named All-America in two different weapons. Bartone earned three varsity letters and helped the Quakers post an overall record of 24-4 in dual meets from 1951 to 1953.
After his collegiate career, Bartone continued fencing, going on to finish second at the North Atlantic Sabre Championships in 1958 and winning the event outright the following year. In 1966, he won the Oklahoma City Invitational Championship and the Southeastern Championship, both in sabre.


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A good football team doesn't achieve the sorts of offensive statistics that St. Clairsville did without a talented offensive line.
And, obviously, the Red Devils had just that because St. C. scored and racked up yards at a record clip in 2012.
Two of the key cogs to that offensive line - Corey Ernest and Cole Stephen - have decided that they're going to continue to play together.
Both inked their names on a National Letter of Intent to continue their academic and football careers at West Liberty University this past Wednesday.
"This is exciting for us to have two of our guys being able to continue their careers and educations at the same place," said St. C. head coach Brett McLean. "They're great kids, great students and their athletic ability has gotten them to this point."
ERNEST was recruited to the Hilltoppers' program as an offensive guard and hopes to battle his way onto the field as early as possible in some capacity.
"My goal is to start as a freshman, but I know I am not going to walk in there and just take the job," Ernest said. "I know I have to work hard and earn it."
The 6-3, 260 pounder was a standout on both lines for the Red Devils, earning all-district accoloades as well as all-Times Leader.
On the defensive side of the ball, Ernest was a space eater on the defensive line. He had 89 tackles from his tackle position.
Offensively, Ernest was the guy the Red Devils ran behind much of the time as he started all 15 games.
"It feels like just yesterday that we played in the state championship game," Ernest said. "I've had a great four years of high school, played with some great people, had great coaches and it's something I'll remember for the rest of my life. It's really exciting to have the opportunity to continue my football career and get a great education."
Ernest has also been chosen to take part in the prestigious Ohio North-South All-Star Game.
One of the main selling factors for Ernest on West Liberty was its proximity to the Belmont County Seat.
"West Liberty is nice because it's far enough away where it feels like college, but it's also close enough so I can come home if I wish," Ernest said. "I really liked the coaches at West Liberty and how close-knit everyone was."
Corey plans on majoring in criminal justice at WLU.
STEPHEN was another on the long list of Red Devils, who was a valuable contributor on both sides of the ball for an extended period of time.
The next challenge for Stephen is working his way onto the field as early as possible and developing into a contributor for the Hilltoppers.
WLU coaches have told Stephen that he'll have an opportunity to battle for a job on the defensive side of the football at either linebacker or rush end.
"I have to put on some weight and work on my speed because the college level is a different game in terms of the speed," Stephen said.
"I am really excited for this opportunity and plan on working as hard as possible."
Willing to do anything he can to contribute, Stephen believes he could help the Toppers on special teams if needed.
"I'm going to have to work for it, but I'd love to get a starting spot," Stephen said. "I may have to play some special teams. I'll have to put the time in on the weightroom."
The 6-1, 200 pounder was a three-year mainstay at center and developed into one of the Red Devils' top tacklers from his linebacker spot.
On the defensive side, Stephen recorded more than 100 tackles.
He was the Red Devils' leading tackler in the state semifinal victory against Creston Norwayne.
Stephen has taken some time to reflect on the ride the Red Devils went on last fall, advancing to the Division IV state final before falling to Clarksville Clinton-Massie.
"It's just crazy that we played in the state championship game," Stephen said.
"Not many people get that opportunity. We talk about that game all the time and we think if we could go back in time and play it again, we'd have a really good shot."
Stephen was named to the first-team all-district, all-Buckeye 8 and all-Times Leader squad. He was an honorable mention all-OVAC selection.
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Do women "really" find white socks more attractive?
I was looking at buying a few new pairs of socks, which opened a discussion between me and my roommate. He told me that on more than 1 occasion girls have told him that they find white socks on guys more attractive than black or brown or w/e other kinds are available. He even admitted that he prefers to wear black socks, but due to his 1st hand experience will continue to wear white socks to up his chances w/ the lady's. Does his claim hold any merit? I'd like to get some honest peoples opinions, which could have a real life influence on my sock purchases in the future.
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I'm a dude and I like wearing my black,gray and brown socks! The only white socks I have are my no show socks for my running shoes. I don't think the ladies care one way or another, although maybe that's why i've never been good with women (Because of my Socks!) I knew there was something that was holding me back
White socks are only sexy when you're wearing nothing but boxers. Make sure you pull them all the way up- Women really love that.
I wear pretty eccentric socks because nobody ever notices them (I wear Hi-tops) On the rare occurrence when people do they absolutely love them because it took them by surprise.
"yeah the date was great! He was really funny and nice... but he was wearing black socks. Major deal breaker" Things women never say.
I would say I find clean, non stinky socks, sexiest.
Clean is always best. Then comes brown/tan socks with khakis, black socks with black pants, and so on. Jeans are anything goes for socks, but if you're wearing rainbow striped toe socks with them, be prepared for some looks. Unless you're a soccer player, please skip the mile high socks with shorts. Socks with sandals are pretty awful too.
I don't want to think about your feet, really, so the less your socks stand out, the better.
The only time we notice is when you're wearing ANY socks with sandals. Doesn't matter what color, it's not attractive!
Just go with some argyle socks. Get some in different colors.
They look classy with dress clothes and also look really unique with jeans.
They're worth the subtle reaction when you cross your legs and some honey gets a peak at your fancy socks.
most don't care what color as long as they aren't noticable or clash with the rest of the outfit (no green socks with purple pants--oh heck, just no purple pants). we are more interested in how horrible the smell is/isn't when you slip off your shoes to "get more comfy".
i do feel the need to mention something i learned in jr high home ec class. people that wear white socks tend to have less foot problems than those that wear colors. this is because most people tend to wash white socks in HOT water with bleach which kills off the fungus that can grow in a hot, sweaty socks because of shoes; whereas colors are washed in cool water with just detergent. at least that's how i remember it, jr high was a really, really long time ago.
When I met my wife, all I owned was black socks. I now don't have any, even though I prefer them.
I usually dislike white socks on guys. But at the same time it doesn't REALLY matter to me.
This thread just proves that it doesn't matter. Some ladies like one thing, some another. Don't worry about it too much.
No. I can't really say I find any color of socks sexy on guys, but a darker color like black, brown or navy would definitely be more attractive than white. Maybe, for women who find the white socks sexy, it's a mental link to athletes?
@lichme: Exact opposite for my husband. When he moved in, he had nothing but white socks. He doesn't own a single pair now.
Unless you are David Letterman, stay away from white socks with suits or other dress clothes. They go with casual clothes like jeans and always go with sneakers, tennis shoes, running shoes. No socks go with boat shoes or sandals.
With casual clothes I would almost always prefer clean white socks. Unless the guy was wearing black jeans, then dark socks could be okay.
I have a HUGE pet peeve with men who wear long black socks with shorts, I just think it looks ridiculous. I could deal with the black socks if they were only ankle high and worn with black athletic shoes.
Another question for the ages answered right here on deals.woot!
Amazing. I feel as though I've traveled back in time. When I was a girl, oh, so very long ago, there was a period where we did indeed care about the color of socks a young man wore. White socks would have sealed the fate of anyone wearing them, but then, young men did not wear athletic shoes other than on the basketball court or football field. Best choices were slate gray, or black, and brown or navy socks were also not acceptable.
Of course, this was during a time when I decided against pledging Tri Delts (aka Delta Delta Delta) because I was afraid it would interfere with my social life (they had an early curfew for Freshman). The whole thing (color of socks, "acceptable" majors, and other shallow measurements of human beings) became rapidly boring after a few weeks, and I moved on to Albert Camus, and Existentialism. I've never looked back.
{Except you can put me in the camp of "Why put on sandals if it's cold enough to wear socks?"}
It could be that, despite what body shape implies, white "athletic" socks indicate that a man is more active, which makes him more desirable.
Or it could be that I have no idea what I'm talking about. If I were a betting man, I'd put money on the latter.
If I'm looking at your feet, you've already lost my attention.
@inkycatz: :-D +5
Clean. That's what counts. Color is up to you and can say something about your personality.
Not sure about women but I know that with non-straight guys, some guys think only white or only black socks are sexy when worn with shorts. I know most people don´t care, some people hate socks with shorts and some people love socks with shorts. I personally think that guy with white or black socks looks more sexy in summer BUT I didn´t really ask women. Maybe it´s a bit of a fetish thing lol.
White seems more pure and clean, this will leave a good impression on girls.


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A misspelling of the word "bosom". Common in the Midwest USA, this modern misspelling is generally only used by illiterate oafs or the occasional inbred moron.
(She) turns to me with heaving bussom aglow.
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An 8th place team finish at the state crosscountry meet isn't a bad way to close out a season. That's exactly what the Skyline Thunderbirds girls crosscountry team did Saturday at Wamego.
The T-Birds had 184 points. Berean Academy took the 2A team title with 82.
"The girls ran well," observed head coach Lynette Freeman. "For our first cold-weather meet, and our first hilly meet, they had good times. For as many things they had to face that were new to them, they did fantastic."
Brooke Fisher was the Thunderbirds highest finisher (24th 16:48.) Allison Sanders was next (38th 17:33.) Megan Pyles turned in a 53rd place (18:01.)
Katelyn Kumberg (56th 18:08) and Madison Moore (77th 19:11) rounded out the T-Bird scoring.
Pushers were Patty Ibarra (79th 19:13) and Abby Giles (88th 20:08.)
Freshman Roman Ibarra also competed for Skyline as an individual in the boys 2A contest. He finished 29th at 18:08. Coach Freeman mentioned that Ibarra was the second freshman to cross the finish line, only one second behind the first freshman.
That bodes well for the future. "I think Roman will get a medal at state next year if he continues to improve as much as he has this year," Freeman predicted. "He had his best race of the season at Wamego, taking into account all the hills."
All in all, it was a good way for the Skyline crosscountry team to wrap up the 2012 season: the girls team taking 8th and Roman Ibarra finishing strong.
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Physically Strenuous or Hazardous Work During Pregnancy
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To judge your safety on the job, you need to know what chemicals you are exposed to each day. In fact, by law you have the right to this information, and your employer is obliged to tell you. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) lists a number of substances the pregnant women should avoid, including the following:
|Dimethyl sulfoxide
|Alkylating agents
|Ethylene oxide
|Carbon monoxide
|Organic mercury compounds
|Chlorinated hydrocarbons
|Polychlorinated biphenyls
Your boss or union representative might be able to help you determine if you are at risk in your present position. You can also get useful information from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. Their online article "The Effects of Workplace Hazards on Female Reproductive Health" found at www.cdc.gov/niosh/99-104.html is very informative. If you find that your job might endanger the health of your baby, you can either transfer to another position or take an early leave, if you can swing it financially.
Health Care
Working in the health-care industry as a doctor, nurse, dentist, veterinarian, or lab or diagnostic technician puts you in constant contact with germs and diseases. Of course this is an inevitable part of the job, which you knew from the outset, but now that you're pregnant, you need to look at your work from the point of view of your baby. Exposure to certain toxic chemicals used for sterilization of equipment, anesthesia gases that leak from tubes in the operating room (or even the exhaled breaths of recovering patients), radiation used for diagnostic and treatment purposes, as well as infections from patients with hepatitis B and AIDS can be harmful to the fetus. Take a close look at what you are exposed to each day and talk to your doctor about any safety concerns. If you're worried about the health of your baby, ask to be reassigned to a safer position or consider taking an early leave of absence.
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I've tried both black and white truffles on separate occasions, but never side by side. Is there a meaningful difference between the two as far as flavor is concerned?
Yes, yes there is.
Black truffles are dark, earthy, sexy in flavour. Renaissance writings compare them to 'unwashed slatterns' and 'bedchambers, rooms of sexual congress, unaired and reeking of the recent activities contained therein.'
White truffles are lighter in aroma and flavour, with distinct garlicky notes. Each has their place--black works better on its own, white works better as an adjunt or finishing note to a dish. I am personally partial to white truffle oil drizzled on cured duck breast, or a black truffle risotto with charred endive.


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Does anyone have the Android aPen A3 .apk file?
Unless I root my Kindle Fire I don't have access to GooglePlay, which is the only place I've been able to find the .apk file I need to get this thing working with my enTourage eDGe.
Will somebody out there take pity on me and send me a copy via email? Ping me via the Woot! messaging system, I'll get right back to you with my email addy.
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I am not sure what you are looking for but is it here:
http://www.apenusa.com/downloads.php select A3
else link the google play page like this for Pandora
Per my original topic, I need the .apk file for the aPen A3 (sold on tech.woot last weekend) because, per my original post, I don't have access to GooglePlay to download it myself, unless I root my KF. If somebody will but email it to me I can sideload it to my PocketEdge.
I know where the tech support page is for the product. They kindly link to their download on ... GooglePlay. To which I have no access unless I root my KF.
See my problem?
Link, per your request:
I just tried to grab the apk for you but it is not compatible with any of my rooted Android devices.
I have been planning to root my G2 (with which the app is compatible), but cannot do so before tomorrow night.
So... if you haven't found any other source for the apk by tomorrow evening (say 8PM eastern time), post a reply here (so I get an email), and send me a PM with your address. I'll root the G2 and onceI do, grab the apk and send it to you in an email.
Yeah, my one rooted Android device isn't compatible either. I've never been able to get my PocketEdge to load GP. I have a sinking feeling that if I can get the .apk it'll refuse to load on a non-phone device...
Update: I found the Quill app, which seems to be the opensource app on which all other digitizer interface apps are built. I have downloaded a variety of build versions, none of which will load on any of my Android-based gadgets. I think I'm not surprised, as I think I'm still running my VelocityMicro on 2.3, and my enTOURedge on something about as ancient.
I guess I can always jack this A3 pen thing into my netbook, provided any of the OEM PC software works on Win7 (won't hold my breath on that).
@baqui63: My rooted KF is also reported as "not compatible" when I try to grab the .apk from GP. Grrrr.
Shame on me for assuming anything that will interface with an Android phone will also interface with an Android tablet.
Meh... just because it says its not compatible doesn't mean it's not. (The Hulu Plus app is a perfect example... it has worked perfectly well on all but one of my Android devices, even though it is only officially compatible with two of them.)
From the above, I take it that you got your hands on the A3 apk and no longer need it.
@baqui63: No, I haven't gotten the actual aPen A3 .apk, so if you are able to and will send it to me I'd appreciate it. PMing you my email addy now.
@baqui63: Ok, either I'm a dolt (possible) or Woot has disabled the messaging system.
50/50 - Figured out how to send a PM in general terms.
I could not download the file either. (Android too new) But http://www.filesnack.com/ should be an easy way to share it.
Ok, email with attachment on its way to you. Good luck with it.


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How to create AI in games like suduko/snake and ladder/tic-tac-toe in general board games where computer is a another opponent.
The question is a bit vague, so I'll give a primer on the subject.
To make an AI opponent, you'll need to create a sub-routine that considers the current state of the board and chooses a move, just like the player would. For example, in Tic-Tac-Toe, the subroutine would look at the state of the nine positions of the board, and choose where to place its own mark.
Now, how does this subroutine choose what move to make? In a simple game like Tic-Tac-Toe, each optimal move is obvious from the rules of the game (try to make three in a row and don't leave open lines to the player). For more complex games like chess, that depend on strategies beyond one move, you start looking into AI.
AI is basically "guessing for computers" - algorithms that calculate not the best move, but a move that -could be- good. AI algorithms involve, among others:
From here it's a matter of studying AI algorithms, discovering which ones work best for your specific game, and implementing the math in code.
A more indepth look at all the steps of AI programming for games can be found at Programming Game AI by Example, by Mat Buckland (http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Game-Example-Mat-Buckland/dp/1556220782)
This is a really general question, so you're probably only going to get overly-general answers until you post a new, more specific question.
It's also going to differ pretty significantly depending on the style of game. For example, the algorithms used to implement Sudoku solvers differ from those used to solve tic-tac-toe, chess, or Go (game trees / alpha-beta pruning). And I'm not sure what kind of AI is necessary for Snake -- generally it tends to be mostly random.
Alpha-beta pruning is probably the most common search technique for most of the class of board games you're thinking of (at least as far as I know, but I'm admittedly not terribly familiar with AI). There's also Negascout and whatever this is (these last two links aren't that great, if you spend more time sifting through the Google search results you can probably find better since you presumably have a more detailed idea of what you're really looking for).
I would suggest trying to write down how you yourself would think step-by-step when considering what move to make in a game. Once you define small-enough steps, all you need to do is put them into algorithm.
Most likely it will not be a small program. I would suggest to start from preparing a very general idea and a very basic principle how moves will be determined. Most likely it will appear not good enough at first and you will need to add more and more code to compensate bad decisions. At some point you will reach what you want. At least this is how I did it in my TicTacToe website. Try yourself - http://www.xo-play.com.
What you could do is do like the old computers did when solving board game: Have the computer play through the game many times (> a couple thousand, not so hard to do if you remove player input). Each time it gets to a decision, choose randomly, but have it mark that it made that decision. Then have it analyze based on the other games where that same exact decision was made, and compare the results of those to the ones where the opposite choice was made.


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What kind of significant impacts have originated from $E=mc^2$.
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I understand that it is used at the end of a sentence to indicate suggestion, but I want to know what kinds of everyday situations warrant its use. I'd appreciate two or three examples. Also, does it have any other meanings?
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I got this from an online dictionary:
It get some meaning like, let it be, or there is nothing I can do about it.
So if you are someone without too many opinion, you can use it almost at every end of sentences, of cause you can stop when feeling people get bored of hearing it. But properly use of it will make others feel you are kind of a obedient person, easily get along with.
When in some phonetically translated words, it means bar. Not so hard to distinguish them.
From experience: if you are the host of a restaurant meal and it has wound down and you have to move on then you might use 吧 for a suggestion that would be a question in English "Shall we go?" But if you are the guest you would not make such a suggestion. Fortunately people in China are very kind about foreigners getting points of etiquette wrong.
我们也闹一闹吧. 砸他几条商业街,雾霾就没有了。


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Is this a comma splice? What makes a sentence a comma splice?
Being left at the altar on her wedding day, Pamela became furious.
Is this a comma splice? What makes a sentence a comma splice?
There was just a post today on Language Log about constructions like this, known as absolutives. In it, Mark Liberman quotes from the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language:
pages 1265-6 of CGEL, where the followed two examples are given:
A comma splice, on the other hand, is when two sentences are connected with a comma instead of a period.
I would say no, because "Being left at the altar on her wedding day" isn't an independent clause.
It would be considered a comma splice if you phrased it this way:
The sentence above starts with a participial phrase; in that case, it's correct to use the comma (which is the only way to separate phrases, in cases such as these).
A comma splice would occur in a sentence like the following.
The correct punctuation has a semicolon.


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Hi and congratulations for our (NN users) new forum , I posted this trick in other forums but obviously this is the right place for it.
The trick is how to take stereo panoramas with Nodal Ninja 3 panoramic head. (NN3)
This photo shows a regular use of NN3 for, say, 2D panoramas
if one use the T-adapter of NN3, (designed for mounted some off center tripod mount cameras) to have a 3 cm lateral shift of No Parallax Vertical Axis (NPVA) like in this photo where I marqued with red that 3 cm lateral shift
this become so the "right eye camera" and is used for taking the photos for right eye pano
Now the trick, if one rotate the NN3 with 180 degrees about its upper rotator and with another 180 degrees about its lower rotator the result is shown in this photo
this become so the "left eye camera", the camera is upsided/down but this doesn't matter.
Now the lateral shift of NPVA is 3cm in opposite direction
if one take a pano with right eye camera and then, after that double rotation, a pano with left eye camera, without moving the tripod, the setup acts like two camera setup but using only one at the time and the lower rotator of NN3 acts like "neck" of a panoramic viewer.
The total amount of the lateral shift of NPVA beetween left eye and right eye become so 3+3=6 cm close to human stereo sight.
Even if one uses fisheye lens which can assure a pano from only 3-4 photos, the number of photos must be around 10-12 for each pano to have a distributed parallax and the process of panos is more difficult than the regular panos because of that parallax, but can be done.
To see one of my cross-eye spherical pano made in this way one must use the free DevalVR plugin
www.devalvr.com/install only under Windows for now.
please use the arrow keys for rotating in a particular direction, left SHIFT and left CTRL for zoom in/zoom out.
also some panos in anaglyph format (need 3D cyan-red glasses)
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A West Bridgewater woman is facing motor vehicle homicide and other charges after a fatal crash that killed Christopher Wengler of Easton.
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A respected Boston psychotherapist, Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats. But the actions of a patient throw Zee into emotional chaos and take her back to places she though she'd left behind.
What starts as a brief visit home to Salem begins a larger journey. Suddenly having to care for her ailing father after his longtime companion moves out, Zee must come to terms with a strained and awkward relationship that has always been marked by half-truths and haunted by the untimely death of her mother. Overwhelmed by her new role, Zee must destroy the existing map of her life and chart a new course--one that will guide her not only into her future but into her past as well.
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When the Vatican lifted the excommunication of four traditionalist Catholic bishops Jan. 21, its entirely possible Rome was unaware that one of those bishops, an Englishman named Richard Williamson, had just given an interview to Swedish television in which he denied that the Nazis had used gas chambers and asserted that no more than 200,000 to 300,000 Jews had died during the Second World War.In retrospect, however, it would be disingenuous for anyone to feign surprise.A troubled history with Judaism has long been part of the Catholic traditionalist movement associated with the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre beginning with Lefebvre himself, who spoke approvingly of both the World War II-era Vichy Regime in France and the far-right National Front, and who identified the contemporary enemies of the faith as Jews, Communists and Freemasons in an Aug. 31, 1985, letter to Pope John Paul II.Reacting to the furor over Williamson, the Vatican has stressed that lifting the excommunication is not an endorsement of his views on the Holocaust, and has repeated its firm commitment to Catholic-Jewish dialogue and to combating anti-Semitism. The popes outreach to traditionalists should instead be seen, spokespersons said, as an act of peace intended to end the only formal schism in the wake of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65).Canonical experts also point out that, technically speaking, Holocaust denial is not heresy. Its a denial of historical truth, not a truth of the faith, and hence repudiating it is not inconsistent at least from a strictly logical point of view with the Jan. 21 decree from the Congregation for Bishops ending the excommunication of the four Lefebvrite prelates.Thats a fine distinction, however, likely to be lost on much of the world, especially given that Williamsons comments hardly came out of the blue.
Read the rest right here.Update: John Allen reports today that the Vatican has released a statement from SSPX head Bishop Bernard Fellay, who apologizes for Williamson's offenses. It reads, in part:
Its clear that a Catholic bishop cannot speak with ecclesiastical authority except on questions that regard faith and morals. Our Fraternity does not claim any authority on other matters. Its mission is the propagation and restoration of authentic Catholic doctrine, expressed in the dogmas of the faith. Its for this reason that we are known, accepted and respected in the entire world.The affirmations of Bishop Williamson do not reflect in any sense the position of our Fraternity. For this reason I have prohibited him, pending any new orders, from taking any public positions on political or historical questions.We ask the forgiveness of the Supreme Pontiff, and of all people of good will, for the dramatic consequences of this act. Because we recognize how ill-advised these declarations were, we can only look with sadness at the way in which they have directly struck our Fraternity, discrediting its mission.This is something we cannot accept, and we declare that we will continue to preach Catholic doctrine and to administer the sacraments of grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Shrewd move, as far as it goes. I would have preferred something stronger ("ill-advised" doesn't begin to describe what Williamson spews), sooner (why did it take so long for Fellay to publicly condemn Williamson's unhinged views about the Shoah when he has been repeating them for years?), and less, well, huffy (yes, yes, you're respected the world over, but why not name the Jewish people in your apology to the pope and to "all people of good will"?). And P.S.: the Fraternity isn't the only one that suffers as a result of this train wreck. But at least Fellay seems to have an inkling of the gravity of Williamson's transgressions.Interesting, too, that the statement was releasd by the Vatican.
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Holocaust denial is not ground for excommunication, but in my view, it undermines the person's authority. Williamson cannot be accepted back and given a status that would give him any kind of authority. Perhaps the members of the Lefebvrist movement could be accepted back but forbidden to speak out or do any teaching in the name of the Church, until they have, let's say, purified their views?
For more background, check out the "Against the Sound-Bites" page of SSPX.org (the website of the American society). Designed to help believers "refute various modern errors and 'sound-bites' that are bandied about," it includes a helpful section on Jews and Anti-Semitism, with articles like "What Really Is Anti-Semitism?" ("Even more so then when it was written in 1950, such a clear distinction is needed today") and "Are the Jews Guilty of Deicide?"
Here is the conclusion of an editorial in tomorrow's L'Osservatore Romano:Dall'accettazione del concilio discende necessariamente anche una limpida posizione sul negazionismo. La dichiarazione Nostra aetate, che segna la pi autorevole svolta cattolica nei confronti dell'ebraismo, deplora "gli odi, le persecuzioni e tutte le manifestazioni dell'antisemitismo, dirette contro gli ebrei in ogni tempo e da chiunque". Si tratta di un insegnamento non opinabile per un cattolico. Gli ultimi Papi, compreso Benedetto XVI, hanno esplicitato questo insegnamento. In decine di documenti, gesti e discorsi. Le recenti dichiarazioni negazioniste contraddicono questo insegnamento e sono pertanto gravissime e incresciose. Rilasciate prima del documento di revoca della scomunica, restano - come abbiamo gi scritto - inaccettabili.To summarize: it states that from the acceptance of the Council, including Nostra aetate's deploring of all manifestations of antisemitism, there follows a clear position regarding Holocaust-denial. Thus the recent statements [clearly referring to Williamson], contradict the Council's teaching, and thus are very serious, embarrassing, and unacceptable. As Cardinal Ricard states (in the quote I gave in my prior post) we are at the very beginning of a process.
I think that the denial thing is less some sort of sheer ignorance and more Williamson's desire to put a better spin on a counter-modernist political movement i.e. national socialism. So while we are getting a Holocaust denier with him, we are also getting a radically anti-modernist branch of the Church as well.There may be a plus side to this. We tend nowadays to take modernism for granted. And yet it seems to me that the Church has never really come to terms with capitalism or liberalism (in its 19th century sense). Instead we have seen a sort of cafeteria style accomodation to it that expresses itself in our modern political conservatism and liberalism. While I am not in any way condoning this group of people or their position, sometimes it is good to have a hard line viewpiont like this around. It can help clarify things a bit.
"In retrospect, however, it would be disingenuous for anyone to feign surprise."Perhaps we should admit that Benedict plays to his own trumpet more times than we care to admit. He panned one of the greatest ecumenical events in modern time; The prayer of John Paul II at Assissi with other church leaders. .By the way, we should not get into what canon law says about excommunication. Contempt for other people, in this case the Jews, is measurably worse than ordaining bishops without permission. Process is certainly a valid concept. At the same time process has to be intellible and not denote ignorance of obvious contempt for the horrendous treatment of a people. I mean we have videos of this. Benedict continues to give us more and more reasons why we should be wary of his position on matters of importance. As the Imitation of Christ warns it is what is said that is important, not who says it.
John Allen may say that lifting the excomunication is not an endorsement of his views on the holocaust. This may very well be true, and probably is, but to the Jewish commubity, it may very well be one of those instances when we use those expressions like, "I can't hear your words, because your actions are making to much noise."
counter-modernist political movement i.e. national socialismI think it's called Naziism.
"I think its called Naziism."Not exactly. People seem to talk about SSPX as though they are going to come in and remake the Church in some sort of pre-Vatican 2 fashion. But Williamson's various remarks are disturbing for their political content. So what sort of politics would these people want?These kind of people used to want the restoration of royalty. It would be interesting to know what kind of government (as opposed to religion) Williamson thinks would be needed to oppose the modernism that he hates. The kings are dead. Since the 1930's, some sort of radical nationalism has become the approved alternative. We can perhaps see this even here in the United States, where our own home grown brands of radical nationalism seem to the place where our right wingers and these people would intersect.No levity intended, but the Holocaust gave national socialism a bad name. I don't think that most Holocaust deniers are trying to say that Jews weren't massacred as such. They generally seem to be trying to say that they were not massacred as an inevitable result of national socialism as a philosophy of government. Holocaust deniers have a number of different "explanations" for the Holocaust aside from the idea that it didn't happen at all. They also say that it may have happened but the central government didn't know about it; or that Jews died in massive numbers (but so was everyone else) from diseases and such that accompany the war, etc. If Williamson dislikes modernism, then he is almost bound to also dislike modern democracy, which is based upon the pluralism that he believes is "the sum of all heresies". So what kind of politics would he like to see?As I mentioned before, the inclusion of this splinter group into the wider Church may prove interesting because it may change our own discussions about modernism. We don't often directly address the question. The "conservatives" seem to say that there are certain things that they like about modernism (such as libertarianism and free market capitalism) and certain things the don't like (cultural individualism). But they seem to take as given the "naturalness" of the free market and the "obviousness" of modern liberty without any longer addressing the question of whether one is really able to only embrace part of modernism without embracing all of it."Liberals" seem more inclined to embrace cultural individualism and less inclined to embrace free market capitalism and in some ways seem to be the flip side of conservatism (and garner the same sort of problem). But "liberals" also run into the problem of relativism that someone like Williamson would probably say is at the heart of the problem of modernism itself.While Williamson seems to me to be a product of some sort of philosophical inbreeding that one might expect in an organization like SSPX, questioning the affects of modernism on the Church and identifying it as a key problem for us in this age is very useful (even if Williamson is a rotten spokesman). So while it probably won't come to anything as various people use SSPX as proof for their the fulfillment of their own fears, I for one welcome these people back.
What Allen shows, it seems to me, is that anti-antisemitism isn't a problem of one rogue bishop in this movement. He suggests that it is is pervasive.The repudiation of modernity seems to be key, so it's not surprising that groups whose options have most expanded as a result of modernity (Jews, women--I wonder what he's said about races) come in for the most vitriol.The rejection of modernity is pervasive. An important point of Vatican II was recognizing the good aspects of modernity. It seems to me these people see no such thing. So I think politically, they are quite dangerous. ON a related topic, I think someone ought to shed light on the Church's connection to fascist movements--Franco. I still want to read about that.
Someone named Father Z (with the sideways miter) seems to say "save the liturgy, save the world." I assume he's working off some idea of lex orandi-lex credendi --lex agendi.But here's a question--hasn't the old liturgy, at least in the hands of the pius x people, spawned some astonishingly ugly factual, moral, and political views?Not as simple as it seems.
I dont think that most Holocaust deniers are trying to say that Jews werent massacred as such. They generally seem to be trying to say that they were not massacred as an inevitable result of national socialism as a philosophy of government. Williamson is a little of both, I guess. But whatever alternative theory a negationist puts forth, it includes an accusation (even if it's left unspoken) that the "quote-unquote official account" is a lie perpetrated by some nefarious cabal bent on discrediting socialism/Christian theocracy/whatever. They may be trying to rehabilitate socialism, but in the process they're endorsing a tangle of ugly conspiracy theories about how the modern world works and who "runs" it.hasnt the old liturgy, at least in the hands of the pius x people, spawned some astonishingly ugly factual, moral, and political views?My favorite explanation for Benedict's decision to "liberate" the Tridentine Mass was that he wanted to liberate it from groups like this one who had claimed it and then paired it with all these other objectionable views. But now I don't know if I still believe that.
Cathy, The important question is how to save the liturgy. I believe the efforts after V2 were attempts to save the liturgy as a way to save the world. What little I have seen of Fr Z's efforts seem more like "Save the form, hide from the world", which is no where near as catchy. Of course, HEROES has not produced so catchy a slogan in a while either.
Cathleen said: "ON a related topic, I think someone ought to shed light on the Churchs connection to fascist movementsFranco. I still want to read about that."The Spanish Civil War might not be a good thing to discuss in this context because contrary to how it looks to most people now it was an extremely complicated event. Political argumentation tends to take the form of "the best from my side versus the worst from the other side" and the Spanish Civil War has something for everyone, from ultra-Royalist restorationists to ultra libertarian anarchists. Since everyone committed attrocities everyone can claim that their favorite side was fighting for the right cause.Of course, people like Williamson are going to probaby prefer some kind of right wing government. We know that far right governments have serious problems from a Christian point of view just as Williamson knows that liberal democracies do.The issue is really the eternal issue of the theory of the relationship of human liberty to a transcendent moral order and the question of what kind of government is best for our theory is secondary to this. SSPX offers a theory of the relationship of liberty to moral order that the mainstream thinks is extinct, made so by Vatican 2 if not World War 2.But the issue (and therefore the competing theories) are still there. There have been definite failures in liberal society (perhaps identified differently by the left and the right) that the Church has yet to come to terms with. The question is not only still open, but it may be open to even the radical degree that SSPX suggests.Mollie said "They may be trying to rehabilitate socialism, but in the process theyre endorsing a tangle of ugly conspiracy theories about how the modern world works and who runs it."As I mentioned, SSPX shows signs of being inbred and this is one of them. Something "outside" is causing the problems and if people on the inside think that the situation should be self evident to anything who is reasonable like themselves, then the outside force must be manipulating information and fooling the reasonable. So bringing them back in may help here too.
Cathleen says; 'ON a related topic, I think someone ought to shed light on the Churchs connection to fascist movementsFranco. I still want to read about that.'It's a 90 year history; Franco is way back 70 years . De Gaulle was sick about the Hierarchal co=operation with the Vichey government. Roncalli was sent as nuncio to 'clean up' the collaberating bishops. Argentina is closer with a big Jew hating component. When the fascists loaded up the middle and upper class youth, unconscious so they could dropped in the So. Atlantic and disappear, they had no trouble finding clergy to 'bless' the live bodies before the dump. The youth's babies were doled out to military families 'because babies are innocent'.Another contingent blew up Jewish buildings. Now that the last of the 'Reds' fell into a rabbit hole, the churchy fascists will concentrate on Jews. Fascists need a hated enemy.
Those who are interested in the relationships among modernism, liberalism, libertarianism, relativism and Nazism should read Alaisdair MacIntyre's After Virtue and his A Short HIstory of Ethics if you haven't already done so.
People seem to talk about SSPX as though they are going to come in and remake the Church in some sort of pre-Vatican 2 fashion. But Williamsons various remarks are disturbing for their political content. So what sort of politics would these people want?Should I care? To me, the issues are how far the Magisterium is willing to go to accomodate SSPX and whether or not the Church ought to provide a mantle of legitimacy for their views. If they want a pulpit to preach from, I'm sure there are any number of media outlets that would provide them with one ala Fr. Coughlin.
Ecclesiastical weasel-wording at its best (worst?):http://ncronline3.org/drupal/?q=node/3182Statement of His Excellency Bernard Fellay, Superior of the Fraternity of St. Pius XBecause we recognize how ill-advised these declarations were Oh, ill-advised indeed! How about wrong-headed, unhistorical and biased?And why is Fellay called Bishop? Wasnt his ordination illicit?
Jimmy Mac, the ordination was illegal but valid according to Rome.
Antonio said: "Should I care? To me, the issues are how far the Magisterium is willing to go to accomodate SSPX and whether or not the Church ought to provide a mantle of legitimacy for their views. If they want a pulpit to preach from, Im sure there are any number of media outlets that would provide them with one ala Fr. Coughlin."No, you shouldn't care. But that's my point.
Note of the District Superior for Germany of the SSPX(Rorate Caeli Translation)"As District Superior of the Society [of Saint Pius X] in Germany, I am very troubled by the words pronounced by Bishop Williamson here in this country. "The banalization of the genocide of the Jews by the Nazi regime and of its horror are unacceptable for us."The persecution and murder of an incalculable number of Jews under the Third Reich touches us painfully and they also violate the Christian commandment of love for neighbor which does not distinguish ethnicities."I must apologize for this behavior and dissociate myself from such a view."Such dissociation is also necessary for us because the father of Archbishop Lefebvre died in a KZ [concentration camp] and because numerous Catholic priests lost their lives in Hitler's concentration camps."Stuttgart, January 27, 2009Father Franz Schmidberger(Father Schmidberger was the Superior-General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X at the time of the consecrations of 1988.)


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I was running a simple merge and expecting no conflicts, and I ran
git merge my_dev_branch
However I got a merge conflict which looked messy to resolve, and made me think that I wasn't clear on my branch history. Rather than resolve the conflict I would like to abandon the merge and go back to where I was before.
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git checkout HEAD <filename>on each file per this question and that this would amount to abandoning the merge?
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I have a 88.9 GB MySQL 5.0 database sitting on a 90GB drive. The database contains a number of MyISAM tables for our (custom) system usage reporting. The data is date-based aggregations of what are essentially web server logs.
I thought about converting the big tables to the MERGE storage engine. The idea being that I could move the older data to a different drive. However, I've never done this before, and am a bit nervous about testing on my production database.
And, of course, I'm under a time crunch. I have to process all of last month's reporting data real soon. So installing a larger drive is not an option at the moment.
Does anyone have some advice or experience to share on reducing the size of this database?


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Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key features and functions of SQL Server 2008.
Make the most of your available hardware resources through intelligent parallel processing against partitioned tables. SQL Server automatically assigns queries to all available threads. All cores share the workload equally to scan qualifying partitions, process and deliver results.
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Simple and very interesting.
excellent demonstration.. we're upgrading 2x2k5 clusters holding about 14TB of data to 2k8 in January.. I'm looking forward to the increase performance.
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