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This is a page for hosting consensus items currently under debate, with their formal wording.
The Consensus Items History is the public record of consensus items that have been decided on in the past. Please move the records from the "Current" page to the "History" page once they've been approved/blocked.
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|Al Sweigart
|Noisebridge should maintain lockers that people can pay a monthly fee to put a lock on for storing equipment and long-term projects. The full details will be on the Locker_Protocol wiki page.
|Al Sweigart
|Al Sweigart
|The "optional member dues" change to the 2013-10-15 "Associates Member" consensus item is a large enough change that discussion of the consensus item should have been extended so that members not in attendance could debate it. This consensus item invalidates the 2013-10-15 consensus item so that this discussion can take place and the membership can come to a consensus/block it.
|Al Sweigart
|Jake proposes a change to the previous consensus agreement regarding access to Noisebridge.
Noisebridge's space shall be open only to members and associate members at any time. A member or associate member may at any time invite a person into Noisebridge and host that person at Noisebridge as long as that member or associate member remains at Noisebridge. No other person shall be permitted at Noisebridge at any other time.
Noisebridge is open to Members, Associate Members, and guests sponsored by same, at all times. Any person who is not one of the above may be asked to leave if no Member or Associate Member present wishes to sponsor them at that time, with no other justification being necessary.
People coming to Noisebridge who don't know anyone should be introduced to members who are present so that sponsorship can occur if members present choose to do so at that time. Noisebridge should present itself as "open to public visitors and guests as often as possible".


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25 Jan 2013 8:03 AM #1
Disable group collapsing
Hello !
Quick question : How to prevent the user to collapse a grouped grid ?
I have found how to stop it, but I don't know how to remove the little [+].
Thank you.
25 Jan 2013 12:52 PM #2
There isn't a setting to change how that is drawn - instead, it is managed by the GroupingViewAppearance. The default implementation, GroupingViewDefaultAppearance, contains css that adds that image.
Presently, the html for that image is build in the GroupingView itself, contrary to how we usually apply appearances to factor that out. But since the icon is a background plus some padding, replacing (or removing) that icon via the appearance should be fairly easy.

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I am wondering if long term storage on blu-ray discs is a good idea or not for photos. Do professional shops that want long term storage use magnetic drives or blu-ray discs? Is there a reason not to use blu-ray discs for photography? Would accessing photos off of a blu-ray disc be faster or the same(i.e. slow) as a DVD? Is this question and its answers identical if I was asking about DVDs?
The simple fact of the matter is that we don't know how good writable Blu-Ray discs are yet -- there isn't sufficient data to say whether or not they'll stand the test of time. Accelerated aging tests can only get you so far. They certainly make a degree of practical sense in terms of cost, shipping, and so forth, but as a long-term solution, right now, you would have to be willing to engage in a rigorous program of periodic disc duplication in order to stave off any potential "bit rot". At least until the medium is proven, or its archival qualities are properly understood. (And I's stick to single-layer, since clouding -- obstructing the deeper layer -- is one of the more probable failure modes.)
Of course, the same can be said for any digital storage medium. Magnetic domains aren't forever either, so periodic rewriting is essential. Then there's always the question of long-term readability -- there was a time when ZIP disks and magneto-optical storage sounded like a good idea, but now we have the problem of sourcing readers for those disks. How long will it be before it becomes the next best thing to impossible to find an interface for an EIDE/PATA hard drive? SCSI? When will SATA be superceded? Or USB? Even file formats change over time, so there's no real guarantee than twenty years down the road your files will still be readable (this will be less of a problem for well-entrenched formats like JPEG or TIFF than with any proprietary format, but you never know).
The advantage to magnetic storage is that the storage capacity of individual drives is much larger than optical disks, so when you need to re-archive (and you will need to) there's a lot less donkey work involved in the process. I'd much rather swap 1TB hard drives than 25GB optical discs any day.
I would recommend you to be very careful when backing up to optical disk based media.
Ultimately you need to consider each copy you have as fragile and unreliable. Whether you are storing on an hard disk, optical media or in the cloud, you can not rely on that any individual copy will exist in 10 years time. Prepare accordingly.
I would say yes to Blu Ray for a few reason:
The most obvious problem is usability - its much nicer to just have one disk attached and use it all the time. If this is something you're willing to trade on, BluRay may be for you.
If we're talking about long term archival, the problem is bound to be reading the data off the medium - but the same problem applies for just about any storage. 10 years ago, IDE harddrive was commercially king, but 10 years from now and you'll have trouble finding an easy way to read it either.
There is optical media specifically designed for archival purposes. It's available for CD and DVD, but I'm not sure about Blu-ray. This article has some good information.
Personally I go with SATA HDDs. Hard disks have known longevity characteristics, they're quite cheap for reasonable sizes (certainly cheaper per GB than any archival optical media). I think any concerns over obsolecence of the drive interface can be remedied by buying an appropriate adapter at the time when the interface becomes obsolete. Buy a drive a year, and back them up to somewhere online if possible (like Amazon, Mozy, CrashPlan, etc.) A good way to keep the drives in tip-top condition is to plug them in every year or so and run SpinRite in maintenance mode.
Hope that helps.
This doesn't speak to your exact question, but if you are backing up a lot of files, I would highly recommend creating PArchive parity files for the data you back up.
Basically PArchive files (generally
When I archive things for the long term, I create parity files so I can verify the files are intact, and possibly reconstruct them in the future.
The ratio of parity file to original file is variable, depending on how much damage you want to be able to withstand. I typically choose 10%, which for a 10GB file collection means that your parity file is ~1GB. However, it also means you can loose ~1GB of the original file collection to bit-rot, or corruption, and successfully recover it.
Of course, this is only useful in addition to the normal safe-storage practices. Make sure that there is NO place where the failure of a single device/disk/CD will cause you to lose data.
I would not trust any media that starts with a flat plastic disk and burns bits into it. CD, DVD, Blue-Ray, whatever is next. The track record for CDs and DVDs is bad, they go bad in as few as five years. I don't want to start using a media and finding out that it is as obsolete as a 8 inch floppy.
Plastic disks are also dog slow. Hundreds or thousands of times slower than magnetic disks. And its not clear that they are actually cheaper, with 2TB disks selling for under $100, you don't have to use that many plastic disks before you have spent more than the mag storage.
Two fundamentals:
1) No disk/media is good "long term" if you mean decades or more. You will have to replace it. But with working disks, you can trivially copy your data from the old slow 60GB disks to a new 2TB disk, and then in a few years, copy from the old 2TB disks to whatever 100TB or 2PB disks that are cool then.
2) you need your data/photos in three places. Less than three is not sufficient. And one of the three has to be outside your house/office. Houses burn down. You can use the cloud if you want, but are you sure that Apple or Google will still be in the storage business in 20 years? Are you willing to bet on that?
A blu-ray disk stored properly is preferable to long term storage on hard disks. There are no moving parts on a disc while a hard drive has motors and electronic parts that can fail. Also a hard drive that sits and is rarely used is a disaster waiting to happen. Hard drives a made to spin all the time.
I feel that storing important information such as photos on a blu-ray discs is better than using hard drives. I recommend making two copies and storing them in different places and coping them every 5 - 7 years.
I recently came to the conclusion that almost none of this is ideal. I would rater put my items in the cloud with someone else doing the backup maintenance.
Here was my dilemma. Just the other day I went to turn on my two external HDD and the newest of the bunch (WD 3TB) refused to be recognized by my computer. I thought it just needed a reboot so unplugged and tried to recognize it again. No luck. Several steps later and frustrations/concern running high I went to Best Buy Geek Squad to try another power cord (hoping that was the problem) and still no luck. According to the Geek Squad employee they try 3 different methods to power on my device and none of them worked; my HDD had an obvious electrical problem.
To retrieve my data from 2 different companies will cost me around $500 minimum; could cost up to $1000 or more. This is just so ridiculous and makes me ticked off more than I can say. Luckily I have some files (maybe all of them) already backed up on different drives or in the cloud.
I know that iCloud has some or most of my videos/music/etc but I have yet to verify which of my items are missing or backed up through the cloud. In addition I have a WD 1TB that has my photos/videos/music/etc that is working fine (for now). Lastly, I have at least 3 other smaller HDD drives that I owned from earlier that I was using as backup and never got rid of the data on them and they still work.
I purchased a Blu-ray burner today with eSata/USB 3.0 connectors and a pack of 15 discs to start out with. I will now put everything on disc, put those in a safe or safe deposit box and in addition I will put everything into the cloud with someone like IronMountain or Mozy.
I hope this helps anyone else with this dilemma as it costs too much money and time to not do it any other way. Thank God for cloud services since they routinely backup to multiple locations and keep your files, etc up to date.
Uhm, I think this question is a bit off-topic, but I doubt anyone will vote to close it for a user with reputation like yours, so I'll try to give an answer.
Blu-ray discs are similar to DVDs when it comes to their life warranty, so the question of the "long term storage" could be answered with "it doesn't matter."
However, blu-ray discs have a lot faster read rate, therefore accessing your photos on them is a lot faster than on the old DVDs.
From the storage point of view, you are still saving just plain bits of data to either of them (DVD or blu-ray), therefore from the technological point of view, blu-ray doesn't offer any higher standard in any way, apart of the aforementioned read speed rate.
If I could recommend, store your photos on magnetic drives, as you called them, but let me call them HDDs. Just buy a new 500 GB or 1 TB sata2 HDD, plug it in to your PC, copy your photos to it and then disconnect it and store it in a safe place. This is the safest way of storing your data. If you want to be extremely cautious, buy 2 HDDs and store the same data on 2 HDDs, both disconnected and stored in a safe place. Plug it/them in to your PC only when you need to read your data back for some reason. This is a lot cheapier way than buying a lot of blu-ray discs, burning data to them and messing with them. HDDs are very cheap today, especially because of the new SSD technology, which you do not really need for storing photos on a disconnected drive as a backup.


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Getting Ready for Vegas: My Favourite Travel Gadgets
By user13366078 on Oct 05, 2007
Tomorrow I'll fly to the CEC 2007 event in Las Vegas, like so many of my colleagues. CEC is Sun's annual Customer Engineering Conference where Service People and SEs from Sun gather to learn about the latest and greatest of technology.
Contrary to many of my colleagues, I love Las Vegas! And I'm not a gambler... Over the past 10 years or so, I happened to be in Las Vegas for a couple of times before and I can assure you, it can be great fun if you just accept it for what it is: A place to have fun. My wife's and my favourite TV show CSI takes place in Las Vegas and every time I see those camera shots from the "Strip"
But work comes before fun and so I've spent the last weeks preparing a lot of stuff for the conference. Together with Dave, Franz, Matthias, and some others' we'll be backstage and act as message aggregators. For this project, I've been digging deeply into JavaFX Script and NetBeans. A most interesting experience, but more on that in a future blog entry.
The last piece of work before Vegas is the flight over the Atlantic. It'll be a 14 hour flight with a stop-over in Denver. Being a good Sun employee, I packed a couple of useful gadgets:
- My iPod. Well, no surprise there. It'll have some of my favourite podcasts and all of my music. Don't worry, it only has music that I ripped myself from CDs I own. That's still more than 30GB, so why bother with more music than you can hear before the next generation of iPods becomes mandatory?
- A pair of Shure in-ear headphones. Trust me, this is the best way to enjoy your iPod in an airplane and I've tried many. Sound-canceling headphones can be good, but they are bulky and I don't like killing the problem after the fact. I find it much more efficient, elegant and easy to not let the problem in in the first place. That's where in-ear headphones come in: They sit inside your ear canal and won't let the outside noise in. Plus, they are made from a company that usually deals with musicians, so the audio quality is really good, too. Really good. I can listen to soft music at a low, comfortable volume and hear a lot of details even though I'm on an airplane with all that noise around me.
- A Nintendo DS Lite game console. I'm an old-school gamer, but I don't have much time for it. So why not play computer games on a long plane flight? Coach seat trays are just too small for laptops and Laptop batteries don't last longer than a couple of hours anyway, so game on! Some of my favourite games include:
- Anno 1701 DS: A real-time strategy game. It places a lot of emphasis in the build-up aspect and less in the war&destroyment which is typical for the german computer game market. In other words: It feels much more like Sim City and less than Command&Conquer.
- Pokemon Diamond: No, I'm not a 6-year-old kid, but this game is still fun as an adult. It has some RPG elements in addition to the typical round-based combat of the series and there's an incredible amount detail and complexity built into the game.
- Elite Beat Agents: This is the funniest game I've seen in a long time. I think it may be better than Guitar Hero in many aspects, and it is portable. Check out one of the many videos on YouTube to catch a glimpse of how funny it is.
- Nanostray: A classic space shoot-em-up. What can I say? I'm an old-school gamer...
- A Zoom H2 portable audio recorder. I'll use it to interview people and produce a podcast from CEC. Watch this blog for details...
- A Nokia E61i mobile phone. I finally submitted to peer pressure from my colleagues. And I must say, this is a great business phone! And the best thing is: It comes with SIP VoIP support over WLAN. This means I can call home from one of the CEC 2007 hotspots for free. Using my provider Sipgate, I can call to the US very cheaply. Imagine: Calling from the US to Germany back to the US for a couple of cent per minute thanks to the magic of VoIP...
This is it for now. It's 11:28 PM and the alarm clock is set to 5:00 AM. Gotta catch some sleep before I go...


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WACO (November 14, 2012)—A two-car collision Wednesday morning at the intersection of 5th Street and Austin Avenue sent one car careering into the side of the 5th Street Icehouse.
No one was inside the building at the time and no one was hurt.
The driver of one of the cars, who was headed south on 5th Street, was blinded by the sun and ran the red light at the Austin Avenue intersection.
A westbound car struck the first car, which then slammed into the building.
No information was immediately available about damage to the building.


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I'm wondering, is music notation language Turing-Complete?
My first thought is that there are loops in musical notation, but there is no way to write conditional branches, right?
I'm not a musician, so perhaps someone can help fill in the gaps?
I'm wondering, is music notation language Turing-Complete?
My first thought is that there are loops in musical notation, but there is no way to write conditional branches, right?
I'm not a musician, so perhaps someone can help fill in the gaps?
Yes, if you admit a few instructions for transposition—uncommon but not unknown.
You can then interpret a piece as Choon, which is Turing-complete. The performer is the memory: they must remember the number of notes by which the piece is currently transposed, and all of the notes they have played thus far. Obviously it's feasible only for a computer, or perhaps a savant.
From the Choon manual:
A John Cage is just a rest, a Tuning Fork is (roughly) dal segno, and a marker is a segno. I suppose the tuning fork could be played by an additional performer to whom the primary performer responds, but the principle is the same.
Turing completeness requires, at a minimum, three things: an infinite loop, a conditional jump (if-then), and a way to store the results of calculations to somewhere in memory. Even if musical notation had conditional jumps, it doesn't have state, so no, it's not Turing-complete.
The standard proof for a language to be Turing complete is to write a Turing machine in that language. This proves that there's an equivalence between the language (usually a subset of the language) and the Turing machine.
The notion of "Musical Notation" is a bit slippery. There is a lot of standardized engraving that is used. However. There are envelope-pushing composers who write all kinds of crazy stuff down on paper.
Let's pretend you want to focus on the subset of musical notation that is considered standard enough to be part of Finale or Sibelius or some main-stream engraving toolset.
For Python (or C or whatever) you define the symbols, the tape, the transition rules, and the various actions which update the tape to reflect state change and tape motion, reading and writing symbols on the tape.
Using "Musical Notation", we have to define symbols and the stateful tape, the transition rules and the various actions which update the tape.
What we lack is a stateful tape and rules that tell the musicians how how to responds to symbols on the tape and how to update that tape.
In a sense, the noises flowing around in the air might be the stateful tape. But. There's no easy way to rewind the tape. This lack of rewind means that the performer would have to keep a private "tape" of some kind.
This gets outside musical notation and into some other extra-musical instructions to the performer.
Much of the notation is open to interpretation, and natural language instructions are an accepted aspect of musical notation -- and have been throughout most if not all of the history of Western notated music.
Fermatas by definition depend on the performer's discretion, which means that it would depend on their own state, which is almost always altered by the music in conjunction to external factors -- so this raises some questions on the stateless nature of musical notation.
Canon a 2 per Tonus from Bach's Musical Offering is an infinitely looped piece whose tonality rises by a whole step each time through for as long as the piece is performed.
More recently, it's common to see instructions such as "repeat for each soloist" in, for instance, notated versions of Jazz pieces such as Dave Brubeck's Take Five.
That said, aside from inherently arbitrary aspects like the fermata, as the other answers state, musical notation with nothing but the general symbols is probably not Turing complete.
It is not related to Turing complete languages as it is a descriptive language. There are no commands in terms of calculation or modifying data, no states, no input, no output except for the result of the description itself.
Also there are no conditional jumps depending on the input. When you resolve all the jumps you get a linear structure, not a tree. So all "programs" which can be modelled by this language are linear without any loops or jumps at all.


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27 Mar 2012 5:53 AM #1
Render EXT JS 4 web application in ipad2
We are developing an extjs 4 web application for desktop which mainly contains charts and a simple form. Our client had asked us to analyse if this renders properly without a separate IPAD2 application.
we are exploring the feasibility of by applying responsive design principles using HTML5 media queries in EXTJS4.
a) Any thoughts on this feasibility using EXTJS 4
b) is it possible to apply any framework for any touch events by using EXTJS4 like above.
c) Do we need to use Sencha touch only for both desktop and IPAD2 applications.
thanks in advance
27 Mar 2012 7:44 AM #2
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Ext JS 4 is not supported for mobile devices.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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27 Mar 2012 10:44 AM #3
a) ExtJS 4 will almost certainly render and "work" on the iPad. However, many of the touch events you expect on a mobile device will not wire correctly into your application.
b) Not that I've seen... but I suppose anything is possible. Again, it's not going to be something supported directly by Sencha
c) Our approach to building apps is that you should design separate desktop (ExtJS) and mobile (Sencha Touch) apps.
I don't want to get into a flame thread about "why this" or "why not that", but I hope my answers explain a bit more about our recommended approach.
29 Mar 2012 12:20 AM #4
Honestly, I develop apps with both ExtJS and Sencha Touch and I just don't understand sencha's policy. Maybe you need to do a blog post outlining it again, because I just don't understand the logic.
1. ExtJS earns Sencha money, ST doesn't. Tablets are going to displace desktop browsers to a large degree. If sencha doesn't make extjs tablet-friendly, it's going to see revenues drop. Or is sencha going to suddenly start charging for ST? Is it going to gradually deprecate ExtJS? There seems to be no cohesive strategy across ExtJS and ST. It's like the products are developed by different companies.
2. ST struggles to make effective use of the horizontal space of a tablet. It doesn't even have a built-in grid control. Tablet UI is much closer to desktop browser UI than to phone UI. Even though the profiles help the basic controls in ST are not meant for tablet-sized screens. ExtJS is a closer fit, but its controls are too small in the default themes, and there are a few cases where it needs to adapt the UI (e.g. column menu should be activated by long-press instead of dropdown button).
3. ST doesn't run in most desktop browsers, so any app that you need to do on the desktop and on the tablet you have to build twice. Most developers can't afford to do that. Hence most developers build an ExtJS app and mess around with it until it runs "ok" on an ipad. No matter what Sencha says, we simply don't have the choice to build two apps. Either ST must be uplifted so it can be used on the desktop, or ExtJS needs to have a "mobile mode".
2 Apr 2012 8:42 PM #5
Nice post - I have posted something similar here (Look for a response)
3 Apr 2012 5:47 AM #6
Thanks to everyone for the useful information. Sencha forums are the best forums I have ever seen to find information and appreciate all the folks who spend their time to help others.
we were in limbo to take a decision on this. we tested our EXTJS application in ipad2 through wi-fi but didnt work properly without touch events also.
We are now clear that we need to find options and educate the customer about 'single' or 'two applications' if they want mobile presence. There are two more customers who are discussing this kind of requirement.
With the buzz on 'cross browser cross device using HTML5' going on everywhere, customers are going to ask for single application to render in different devices (including desktop) thus not only saving cost but also make their presence everywhere quickly.
Not sure if sencha can help to solve this problem in future. Sencha's - EXTJS and ST are very powerful and innovative products. Adding this kind of feature will surely help all.
29 Jun 2012 1:34 PM #7
Its not just 2 applications to be developed.
Our customers want the desktop app experience on their tablet but they expect a different experience on the mobile due screen real estate.
Simply we are looking down the barrel of coding 3 apps which is cost prohibitive.
We are considering writing our own extension to EXTJS to make it usable on tablet so we only have to deal with 2 apps.
Touch framework is missing so many features required for desktop on a tablet.
Doesn't even have basic resize or expand/collapse for containers or fieldsets.
Given the level of extensions required for us to make the Touch framework able to deliver our desktop app on the tablet we are facing the ExtJS challenge on tablet.
1 Sep 2013 7:23 AM #8
Same problem here...
Instead of making sencha touch why didn't you guys just improved ExtJs to work on mobile devices? I'm seeing new approaches to web development using bootstrap+backbone+jquery and they work very well on every kind of devices from desktop to mobile and even on small screens. Of course these libraries do not have all the "bells and whistles" extjs has but anyway, most scenarios in a common business application are very well covered.
Check out this example: http://themes.flatfull.com/todo/profile.html
Try it on every device you can think of.
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1 Sep 2013 9:21 AM #10
Will ExtJs5 be responsive?


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Consider one feed like this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror
It has the entire content inside the description tag of the feed, so you don't need to access the website to read the post.
Now I have the problem of creating an interface for a feed like this on a desktop client. What's the best way to render the text in a pleasant way to the user? My first thought was to parse the entire HTML as if I was a web browser, but that looks really hard to do in a satisfying way. Are there any better (faster) alternatives?
Rephrasing: how a desktop rss client such as feeddamon parses the input to display it nicely? Does it have a web browser inside it?


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STEUBENVILLE - The Columbus attorney who successfully represented Jewett Sportsmen club in its battle to keep Chesapeake Energy from drilling a horizontal well on its property says the ruling is, potentially, a precedent-setter for Ohio.
Harrison County Common Pleas Judge Michael K. Nunner in January ruled that while the energy giant had every right to drill on the Jewett Sportsmen club property, those activities had to be confined to recovering only the oil and gas that lies directly beneath the club's property - in essence, banning Chesapeake from drilling horizontal wells on the club's property to capture gas from neighboring properties.
So far, Chesapeake hasn't said if it will appeal the decision. To date the energy giant has filed only a motion asking Nunner to reconsider but no timetable has been set for that proceeding, however.
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ON THE HUNT – Landsmen research property titles in the recorder's office at the Jefferson County Courthouse. Old deeds often severed the mineral rights from the rest of a property, leaving surface rights owners to deal with the drilling headaches without enjoying the financial rewards that typically come with leasing. In some cases, landowners signed leases long before the full potential of Ohio and West Virginia's shale deposits was realized, in many cases leaving them with what they now consider less-than-advantageous terms. Landowners should "talk to a professional before they sign anything," a Columbus attorney specializing in oil and gas litigation said. - Linda Harris
Meanwhile, the club's attorney, Gregory D. Brunton of Columbus-based Reminger, said in Ohio it's not uncommon for mineral rights to a particular property to be held separately from surface rights.
"Just because a company may own the oil and gas under the surface doesn't necessarily mean they have the right to use the surface however they want," said Brunton, who earlier in the week had addressed residents at a public meeting at Old Fort Steuben. "There may be limitations as to how they can use the surface, particularly when it comes to horizontal well production and the types of uses that might encumber the surface."
In other words, while owning the mineral rights might allow a company to use the surface to extract underlying oil and gas deposits, there's "no presumption that (the mineral rights owner) can use the surface to extract oil and gas from a neighbor's property," Brunton said.
Brunton earned his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Akron and his law degree from Ohio State University in 1993. He's been with Reminger for 14 years and currently chairs the firm's oil and gas department, "spending quite a bit of time litigating issues related to pipelines, easements and eminent domain."
He said horizontal wells obviously are capable of extracting oil and gas beneath the surface a mile or more away, "but you cannot do that unless their deed gives them the right to do that," he said.
"It can be a (game changer)," he said. "It just depends how many deeds there are out there with similar language or a similar limitation of language - a company may go in and purchase the rights for oil and gas, and then it's something they can negotiate up front with the landowner. But if you were purchasing rights to an old deed ... it could pop up quite bit. I believe there are similar cases in Pennsylvania and West Virginia right now, with almost identical issues."
While Judge Nunner's decision has the potential to be a game-changer for the drilling industry, Brunton said also of note locally is the potential for cancellation or forfeiture of old gas leases, "depending whether (landowners) can show breech of the lease."
Brunton said Ohio law recognizes implied covenants in leases, so if landowners "have old oil and gas leases where they have not really been producing at all and they've not gotten royalty checks or the royalty checks have been sporadic or insignificant, they should at least look at it to see if the lease could be canceled."
"Whoever holds the lease is likely going to want to argue that they complied with the terms of the lease," he said. "Or even if they haven't, that the lease should be forfeit and they should just pay damages."
Brunton said there's an Ohio statute that allows landowners to send a certified letter claiming breech of lease. "You file it in the county recorder's office, but the owner of the oil and gas leases has the opportunity to file their own affidavit. Almost always it's going to end up in court," he said.
Still, Brunton said he gets "at least one or two calls a week from someone trying to find out if they can cancel an old gas lease." He said every lease has to be considered on its own merits.
But, he noted, there's a lot at stake.
"If you have someone who's maybe getting $100 or $200 a year in royalty payments, but they have 100 acres and now they could be getting $4,000 or $5,000 ... obviously that's a huge issue," he said.
His advice to landowners: Talk to a professional before you sign anything, no matter how seemingly innocuous the document might appear.


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Nebraska's environmental concerns are represented in a new route for TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline that is currently before President Barack Obama for approval, a state water expert told the Rotary Club on Wednesday.
John Bender, program specialist with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality, called the process of locating the pipeline through the state gratifying.
Working 35 years in the water quality division, Bender said the task of addressing Nebraskan's initial concerns about the threats to the Ogallala Aquifer and Sand Hills proposed a departure from his typical work monitoring rivers and waste water.
He described the task as a fact finding mission. His team, led by project manager Pat Rice, offered a "scientifically defendable" boundary of the Sand Hills, identified potential environmental risks and organized public hearings where Nebraskans could voice their concerns.
After receiving the department's final report, Gov. Dave Heineman sent a letter Jan. 22 to President Obama approving the 195-mile route through the state. He noted that it avoids the Sand Hills and many areas of fragile soils in Northern Nebraska.
The pipeline, which needs the President's approval to cross the U.S. border, will carry crude oil steamed out of tar sands in Canada 1,700 miles to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
As part of the final report, Nebraska officials asked TransCanada to conduct a rupture test. He said authorities pointed on a map at an existing pipeline and asked TransCanada to tell local responders what was in the pipeline. In 17 minutes, the company was able to inform simulated emergency responders the exact composition of material that would have been involved in a spill.
Bender said identifying the material is not necessarily an easy undertaking.
The crude oil that is extracted from the tar sands has flow qualities compared to molasses. Bender said it has to be diluted so it move through the pipe, there may be synthetic additives and the product sometimes goes through a preliminary refinement.
Bender said in the case of a spill, Nebraska responders will have timely information about how to deal with it.
The new pipeline route could involve localized ground water, but does not pose a contamination threat to the Ogallala Aquifer, an underground holding basin of fresh water that provides irrigation for farms in eight states.
TransCanada is responsible for spills and is required to hold $200 million in liability insurance.
Bender said state officials toured TransCanada pipeline construction sites in Texas and found no scarring of the land in the 110-foot corridor within a year after a pipeline is complete.
"I know I might sound like a supporter of this pipeline, but these are just the facts. This is what we found out," he said.
Construction of the pipeline will not harm the environment, he said.
Page 2 of 2 - In addition to moving the initial route eastward around the Sand Hills, Bender said TransCanada agreed to amend routes to avoid wellhead protection areas near the towns of Western and Clarks.
The state's DEQ became involved in the fall of 2011 when opposition rose to the pipeline and Gov. Heineman called a special session of the state Legislature. Nebraska did not have specific laws governing pipeline construction.
Bender said his team was told to evaluate the project under the lens of the National Environmental Policy Act and said TransCanada agreed by December of 2011 to avoid the Sand Hills, if the state could define the Sand Hill's border.
He said the Great Plains region is divided into eco-regions and one region is called the Sand Hills, but it took input from Sand Hills maps, the United States Geological Survey, the U.S. Forest Service, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Kansas and agricultural resources to establish a border.
TransCanada agreed to move further east than the identified border, Bender said, because soils in the region appeared similar to those of the Sand Hills.
He said President Obama earlier denied a permit to TransCanada because environmental reports were not complete, but invited the company to re-apply.
It took nine months between the new application and Bender's final report. The process included public hearings in O'Neill, Neligh, Albion and Central City. There were 160 people registered to make comments at the Albion hearing and 108 actually spoke. One hearing did not end until 2 a.m.
Bender said public input had an impact on where the pipeline would be built.
"The concerns of Nebraskans, those that really mattered at these public hearings, Keystone responded to. We got 'er done," he said.
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On this week's show, @anyware and @ritzy talk about a cornucopia of MIX activities, including mobile content at MIX10 where you'll learn about developing applications *and* games for the next generation of Windows Phone. Yes, there will be Phone sessions. No, we can't say more than that at this time. Stay tuned and check back often. http://live.visitmix.com/
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Can't wait for that big Windows phone announcement!
Oh, and for the record, the old timer's ringer was much more distinctive
Ok, I know it's a really big stretch, but am I the only one hoping there are some of those laptops left over from PDC?
I think if they end up giving anything away tech wise, it's more likely to be a WM development phone to go and practice all that new WM programming on.
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Agreed, wanna see your ballot tracker gadget.
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Local resident Bob Clapper had been wanting to install Motorcycle Awareness signs around Louisville. He recently contacted Louisville City Manager Tom Ault about his idea. Tom agreed that if Bob could find a local business to donate, the City would match that donation. The owners of Classic American Thunder were happy to help out. Bob stated that over the last few years there have been many motorcycle accidents in the Louisville area, and that some were fatal. In most cases, the motorcycle operator was not responsible. Ten signs will be installed at Louisville City Limits locations. It is hoped drivers will notice them, be more aware and remember to Watch for Motorcycles and maybe remind others.
Let's make Louisville safer for all. Classic American Thunder is located at 818 West Main St., Louisville (330) 875-1777.


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Hal Bodley, dean of American baseball writers who joined MLB.com as senior correspondent in 2008, has covered baseball since 1958.
|The Toronto Blue Jays, at least on paper, arguably have the best team in the American League East. The Boston Red Sox, with an improved pitching staff, are coming on fast. That leaves the surprising Baltimore Orioles, who desperately need pitching help, atop the division by two games as they invade Yankee Stadium on Monday night.
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|All-Star Games in San Diego have always been special to Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda. The former Dodgers skipper managed the National League All-Stars four times, but his first of three victories was in 1978 at San Diego.
|On the morning of June 1, the Red Sox were flying high in the American League East. They were 32-20, and they were in first place, ahead of the Orioles by three games. As they begin a weekend set at Fenway Park against the Angels, Boston is mired in second place, 5 1/2 games behind Baltimore.
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|First inning: Jake Peavy was struggling with his command, the Rays had taken a 1-0 lead against the Giants and had runners on first and third with one out. Bruce Bochy rubbed his huge hand over his face and almost yawned. Peavy quickly got two outs and the Rays threat was over.
|The Tampa Bay Rays have been written off more times this season than the double-martini lunch.
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|If there's a trace of a silver lining to the Astros' disappointing start, it's that this young team with the highest of expectations is learning the hard way it's not so easy.
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|With a little more than a quarter of the season behind them, the Marlins have essentially been treading water in the National League East's four-team logjam.
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|As the Oakland Athletics struggled their way through 10 excruciating May losses, the painful setbacks weren't something Moneyball could fix.
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|To say the Dodgers are sputtering and not hitting on all cylinders is an understatement at best.
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|Seldom has there been such widespread competitive balance in Major League Baseball.
|Major League teams today have sabermetrics, analytics, projections of this and projections of that -- not to mention devices in the dugout. The Washington Nationals undoubtedly use those state-of-the-art tools, but they also have Dusty Baker in the dugout. Enough said.
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|Evan Longoria and the Rays believe they have the potential to make a serious run at the postseason in 2016, and manager Kevin Cash said the club's frustration at their early struggles is a positive as they try to turn it around.
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|The second time around in the rugged American League East is not so lovelier, as the melody goes. Since 2000, only the Yankees have won back-to-back titles and the last time they did, it was 2011-12.
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|Not only do the Houston Astros have to fulfill the mountainous predictions placed on them for 2016, they also have to overcome the dreaded jinx of being pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
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|Anyone who thinks the Blue Jays were one-season wonders in 2015 hasn't seen them play this spring. There's no indication whatsoever this offensively explosive team will falter even though they've lost the likes of David Price, Ben Revere, et al.
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|Sometimes it's difficult to shake an aching hangover that throbs inside and causes so much discomfort. To say the Pittsburgh Pirates are doing their best to put theirs behind them is an understatement. Try two of 'em, back-to-back.
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|The thing about Orioles skipper Buck Showalter, one of baseball's premier managers, is that he crams as much as possible into every minute of every day.
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|Putting it bluntly, MLB has a huge void when Dusty Baker isn't in the dugout. He's earned three Manager of the Year Awards, and he's the most successful African-American skipper in Major League Baseball history. And now he's at the helm of the Nationals.
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|Mike Schmidt has lived through the good times and the bad with the Phillies. He was in uniform when a young team won three consecutive division titles in the 1970s, and in 1980 when they celebrated a World Series title for the first time. He played in the '83 Series loss to the Orioles.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP/WIBW) _ Gov. Sam Brownback says he's pleased with the initial meeting of a school spending task force and what it may produce for Kansas education.
The governor says Tuesday that he remains committed to protecting K-12 funding, public safety and Medicaid spending in the upcoming budget. But he says he wants to see more money make it to classrooms.
Brownback defended the task force and his record on school funding in a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
Brownback said the tax cuts he introduced will actually help increase school spending in the long run. He also believes a strong economy can help.
"Growth is the key to education funding," Brownback said. "Most of k-12 funding is built on local spending, local funding. Those have taken big hits as property valuations go down."
A task force appointed by Brownback in September held its first meeting Monday. The goal is to find ways to make education funding more efficient while improving student performance, including reading and college readiness.
Democrats have suggested that the conservative Republican governor is going to push for big cuts in aid to public schools next year after signing massive income tax cuts into law this year.
Brownback denies that's his intention. He says, since 2010, education spending has increased by about $1 billion, $40 million of that in the current fiscal year.


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Holly Madison welcomes a baby girl
A former "Girls Next Door" star is now mom to a baby girl.
Holly Madison, who starred in the Playboy Mansion-set reality show from 2005 to 2009, welcomed her first child with boyfriend Pasquale Rotella on Tuesday.
"We haven't yet decided on a name for her," Madison, 33, told In Touch magazine in an article she shared on her Twitter account. "But we couldn't be any more overjoyed than at this moment."
The new mom is confident she'll be "incredibly loving, supportive and involved," and hopes to help her "kids find their passions and give them --- within reason --- what they will need to follow their dreams."
One passion that Madison herself is leaving behind is modeling for Playboy. She told the magazine that she's no longer intent on being featured in her former boyfriend Hugh Hefner's publication.
"Having a child changes your perspective," she said. "You want to do things that will make them proud of you."


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Unanswered: Not able to get data from Google place API
Hi Guys!
I am trying to receive data from google place api. I can not use JSONP proxy because response is not in form of it. I have to use normal ajax, but its giving me cross browser ajax related errors. I tried using
withCredentials: true, useDefaultXhrHeader: false,
Can any one help me on this??
My store looks like
Ext.define('BW.store.addplace.SearchPlaceStore',{ extend:'Ext.data.Store', requires:['BW.model.addplace.SearchPlaceModel'], config:{ model:'BW.model.addplace.SearchPlaceModel' }, setQuery:function(query, apiKey){ this.setProxy({ type: "ajax", url : "https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/autocomplete/json?input="+ query +"&types=geocode&sensor=false&key=" + apiKey, reader: { type: "json", rootProperty: "predictions" }, withCredentials: true, useDefaultXhrHeader: false, }); } })
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XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place-----. Origin http://localhost is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
I dont think they allow CORS. this service worked when I packaged my application in native wrapper. but when runnning on mobile browser, it throwing this error.
So for now, I have used google api javascript functions to load data.
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Same error
Any suggestion about this ? Google not support JSONP is correct ?


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GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo's Human Resources and Payroll Services Department has earned the New York State Comptroller's Payroll Achievement Award for 2013.
The award is based on performance measures and statewide performance standards developed by the New York State Payroll Users Group and Bureau of State Payroll Services to evaluate the performance of State agency payroll offices.
All awards are based on a composite score of transactions submitted for on-time appointments, and on-time separations adjusted by post-deadline submissions.
The state has honored Geneseo's Human Resources and Payroll Services team: Front row (l to r): Brian L. Burley, calculations clerk 2; Susan Moore, secretary I; Kimberly Truax, payroll coordinator; Stacy A. Colt, principal personnel clerk; and Shirley LaGeorgia, calculations clerk. Back row (l to r): Victoria Phipps, associate director for human resources operations; Rebecca Farrington , human resources specialist; Rebecca Thompson, calculations clerk 2; Julie A. Briggs, assistant vice president for human resources; and Elaine Anderson, secretary 1.
"Credit for this award goes to our entire human resources and payroll staff," said Julie Briggs, assistant vice president for human resources. "It's a well-coordinated team effort to produce timely materials used to measure performance for these awards and we are all pleased with the recognition."
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Building A Better Bow Tie, Part IV: Mounted And Ready For Action - The Stovebolt SagaWritten by Chris Shelton on August 1, 2012
Unless legislation swings completely out of our favor, old cars should endure as one of the strongholds of mechanical creativity. We can shuffle the deck with at least four generations of cars and engines. Simply hybridize your favorite car with your favorite engine and you'll tap into a decades-old spirit. All it takes is a little bit of imagination.
Of course it takes a little know-how too. For a generation reared on a farm that wasn't a problem: yard out that steaming old heap, prop the new one in the hole, and connect the dots. Then something seemingly blessed happened: The aftermarket responded with generic kits that made all sorts of non-ordained marriages popular.
But with that blessing came a curse: We came to depend on those kits. And as the popularity of the engines that they supported declined, so did those kits' presence. It's a hasty generalization, but it seems that people won't consent to an engine swap anymore unless someone makes a kit to do it. As a culture we've grown quite fond of convenience.
Well, we're here to tell you that convenience is boring—new cars, dishwashers, and installment plans are convenient. So when it came time to install the late Stovebolt in the '39 Chevy at Thun Field Rod & Custom, Marshall Woolery and I came to the conclusion that a good old-fashioned engine swap was in order.
He employed another part in the engine swapper's bag of tricks: early Ford engine mounts. We owe Ford for what's probably the simplest, most elegant engine mount: two flat rubber biscuits that basically sandwich the chassis bracket and give the engine bracket a platform on which to rest. A bolt skewers the assembly, making the mount both simple and rugged.
What follows are a few reliable rules for engine swapping. The first one: set the car at its final rake. Things like carburetors require level installation to work properly and to try to account for any other angle is only an invitation for disaster.
Speaking of float level we did things sort of backward; technically we should've installed the drivetrain before we installed the rear axle (we showed that two issues ago). It's for two reasons: manifold design and U-joint angle.
Years ago drivetrain designers began pitching engines rearward to minimize U-joint offset and minimize how far the transmission protruded into the passenger compartment. Well, carburetors work best when mounted completely level with the ground. So manufacturers leveled the carburetors by machining their mounting pads at an angle.
In this case when we installed the rear suspension we actually employed a little bit of foresight. This particular manifold pitched the carburetors forward about 3 degrees. We knew that we'd pitch the engine back 3 degrees to level the carburetors so we translated the inverse of that angle to the pinion shaft when we installed the rear axle. It doesn't seem like very much of an issue but it bears some attention when installing a complete drivetrain and suspension package.
Understand a few things before we start. While we're replacing like for like, Stovebolts aren't exactly alike. Chevrolet moved the engine mounts to the sides of the block in 1958. This car has one of those later blocks. Second, that combination is actually one of those supported engine/vehicle examples. Our pal Buffalo at Buffalo Enterprises—the guy who modified this car's pedal assembly last month—makes it. More than that, he also makes a crossmember kit to mount the increasingly popular T-5 five-speed transmission crossmember. In fact we're going to reveal ourselves as hypocrites by advising anyone interested in this swap to consider his kit. Our way takes lots of time and preparation; he, on the other hand, has done the homework for us. It's a really good deal.
But we knew that not everyone wants to commit to the same kind of swap we showed. So the information presented here applies to nearly any engine swap: simply prop the new drivetrain into the hole and connect the dots, just like Granddad did so many years ago.
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It doesn't seem like part of an engine-mounting story but things like cooling fans seldom rank very high when planning an engine swap.
If forced to choose between mounting the engine close to the radiator or recessing the firewall, consider the firewall route. Room gained at the front of the engine will permit a belt-driven fan. And while some people don't think they're as sexy as their electric counterparts, even electric-fan manufacturers like Flex-a-lite admit that a proper belt-driven fan with a shroud will move a greater volume of cooling air than its electric counterpart will.
When disengaged or de-energized, neither a thermal-clutch-driven fan will rob any power. Naturally, both consume power when engaged (the electric fan through the alternator). And while a thermal-clutch fan will draw just a touch more power than an electric fan when engaged, that's a natural consequence of greater cooling power. But who really cares about an extra horsepower or two when cruising around at speeds insufficient to force air across the radiator anyway? So if you value cooling and performance, consider building your car around a belt-driven, thermal-clutch fan.
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4 Ford's biscuit mounts are elegant in their simplicity. They do, however, require a 1 1/4-inch hole in the base bracket. An ordinary hole saw in a drill press solved that.5 Blind mounting bosses intimidate most would-be fabricators but here's a trick. Woolery began by cutting plate stock large enough to serve as the engine-side flange. He drilled it to match one of the boss locations.6 The secret is this transfer punch. This started as an ordinary hex bolt that Woolery whittled down on the lathe. I've made transfer studs by spinning a bolt in a drill chuck and carefully shaping its head on a bench grinder.8 … and bolt the bracket to the boss that corresponds with the hole. To improve the punch's precision, use washers to shim the plate from the block just shy of the transfer-punch's head thickness. Lightly tap the plate directly over the punch to transfer the location.9 A deeply formed point isn't necessary; in fact it will dull the punch's soft head. The critical part is the point's location; a hardened punch works better to deepen the point.10 The engine side of the bracket started as 1 1/2x2 1/2x1/8 tube. Woolery clamped the chassis bracket to the frame and bolted the engine plate to the block and measured how long the engine bracket needed to be to overlap the chassis bracket. He set the long cut line with a straightedge but freehand-drew the ends.11 He then tacked the engine-side bracket to the plate. We got a little ahead of ourselves and forgot to show how he determined the mounting hole's location. But the following step should explain it.
13 The brackets fit the chassis perfectly when assembled. Woolery double-checked the engine's position and angle then tacked this side's chassis bracket to the framerail. He repeated the same procedure on the driver side.14 Measurements indicated that a box tube spaced about 1/4 inch from the mount would miss the running board mounts with a little more than 1/2 inch to spare.15 Woolery used the room to spare by drilling 1/2x1/8 flat stock to align with the chassis ears and welding those tabs to the sides of the tube.16 Once again using GM's method of capturing both frame layers, Woolery used the holes as punch guides and drilled the flanges for fasteners.17 Mounting the crossmember as close to the pad as possible keeps the tab short and as strong as possible. Note the "wings" drawn at the sides of this design.18 Woolery bent those "wings" up to increase the bracket's cross section. Increasing a part's cross section increases its strength.19 With the bracket bolted to the transmission pad Woolery once again checked that the transmission centered in the chassis. He did the same for engine angle and corrected a slight change.20 With everything in order he tacked the bracket in place, re-verified all measurements, then finish-welded every bracket.


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The 5 Most Embarrassing Things Angry Mobs Have Rioted Over
#2. A Ballet
In the eyes of the average person, ballet is little more than a surefire cure for insomnia, despite consisting largely of flexible girls in revealing clothing. Composer Igor Stravinsky knew this, and wanted to set some space between himself and his boring-ass brethren. So, when he composed his 1913 Rite of Spring ballet, he figured he'd give the audience something different. Supervillain different.
We assume he put on an extravagant costume and wildly exaggerated all his movements.
First, he made it all about pagan rituals and sacrifice. And instead of the laid-back simplicity that was the trend at the time, he decked out the stage in eerie, primitive-looking set pieces. As for the dance itself, he and his choreographer opted for jerking, violent movements instead of the smooth, distilled boredom you normally associate the art form with.
"My inspiration? The feeling of constant queasiness that comes from an inner ear imbalance."
Then he just unleashed the whole thing unto the unsuspecting ballet crowd, possibly cackling maniacally behind a metal mask throughout.
The Riot:
The Paris premiere for Stravinsky's ballet didn't go as smoothly as planned.
After just a couple of minutes of discordant music and spastic dancing, the crowd began to boo and make catcalls. The orchestra got pissed at this, so they started screaming back at the boo birds (which, in our opinion, would have made the price of the ticket more than worth it). Soon, people were throwing stuff in the orchestra pit and at the dancers.
All that jerking around was perfect for dodging missiles.
As pocket watches and fancy waistcoats were launched at their targets, the people in the audience who were actually enjoying the ballet got annoyed. So they started punching the people who were throwing stuff at other people. You can probably see where this is heading.
Choreographed fight sequence!
Insults, spitting and fisticuffs ensued among these sophisticated patrons of the ballet. Men grabbed their opera canes and started walloping everyone over the head. Police arrived, but were unable to do anything much to stop the fighting. Gentlemen with waxed mustaches nobly exchanged duel cards so they could nobly shoot each other in the face later.
And through all of this, the show went on. The orchestra kept playing (sadly, they did not switch to Yakety Sax). The dancers kept on dancing, while their choreographer shouted directions in the sidelines, completely ignoring the fact that fists were flying and blood was spewing.
By intermission, the whole thing had turned into a full-scale riot. Rite of Spring, by the way, lasts about half an hour. This means it took a whole 15 minutes for the Paris audience to start mauling each another into hamburger over a ballet.
Nowadays, you can turn the whole thing into a sex parable without anyone batting an eyelid.
Subsequent performances of the piece went mostly without incident, and earned Stravinsky quite a bit of acclaim. Eventually, Walt Disney included The Rite of Spring in his film Fantasia, thus cementing the piece's place in history and making it totally violence-free and family-friendly once and for all.
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#1. A Shakespeare Play
In the 1840s, the United States managed to punch its main antagonist at the time, Britain, where it hurt the most: in their Shakespeare. Namely, America produced its first Shakespearean actor actually worth a damn: Edwin Forrest. He soon developed a rivalry with the biggest British thespian of the day, William Charles Macready. The two engaged in a bitter contest about which one could produce a more confused Hamlet, or a more star-crossed Romeo.
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Or a more extravagant ascot.
Forrest proved to be the more dickish of the two, following Macready around and dissing him after his performances. It is worth noting that said performances took place in Britain, speaking ocean-sized volumes of Forrest's determination to undermine his foe.
The American's transatlantic stalking-and-trash-talk game got so heated that Macready was actually kind of afraid to visit New York, where he was due to perform in 1849. He decided to go anyway, because hey, it's just theater. What's the worst that could happen?
Falling chandeliers and a whole bunch of murders, if we know our theater.
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The actors' feud was far from a two-man rivalry. Each had a rabid fanbase, and when you take into account the post-war enmity between the citizens of the two nations, the situation was a freaking powder keg.
Macready gave his all in NY, despite being pelted with rotten eggs and potatoes by Forrest's fans whenever he performed. The Brit persevered, and calmly headed for his Grand Finale: He would perform Macbeth in his venue, Astor Place, the very same night Forrest was doing the same elsewhere.
Talk about unlucky, hey? Hey? Macbeth?
Forrest's supporters bought hundreds of tickets to Macready's performance. Most were denied entrance -- presumably because the theater's attendants smelled their cache of potatoes and rotten eggs -- but stayed anyway, loitering outside the theater. The crowd of Macready bashers outside swelled to over 10,000. Soon enough, they started throwing rocks at the theater and getting into fights with policemen, who were trying to tell them to keep calm because it's only freaking Shakespeare.
At which point the few Forrest supporters that managed to get inside the theater tried to set the place on fire.
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and OH CHRIST I'M ON FIRE."
Despite pyromaniacs inside and a rabid mob screaming for his blood outside, Macready and his company finished the play. They acted until the noises of fighting and bricks through windows got too loud. After that, they mimed the rest before taking a bow, dropping the curtain and sneaking away in disguise.
No word if they dressed as trees.
The riot didn't stop with the play, though. Long after Macready snuck away, New Yorkers were still trying to destroy the theater and going at it with the cops and each other, at that point just because. For the second time in this article, the state militia had to be called in to stop the madness. For the first time, though, they were actually given a run for their money.
When the dust of what history would know as the Astor Place Riot cleared, more than 20 people had found themselves taking a one-way trip to the morgue, and over 200 policemen and soldiers were injured.
All because two guys tried to out-Shakespeare one another.
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I'm currently using PhpStorm by
Idea JetBrains, but its buggy and I'm really looking for something that will allow me to get work done without too much hassle.
Please limit one IDE/Editor an answer.
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Netbeans is a great IDE with lots of PHP support. I can't even start to name all the features I use but there are a fair amount. Check it out here:
I've used both Eclipse for Java and Netbeans for PHP and I feel Netbeans is a bit stronger for PHP as well as XHTML and CSS. That's my personal preference anyways.
Looking at PHPStorm I assume you're looking for something similar to it, so a full IDE. Netbeans and Eclipse are the closest to that as far as I'm familiar with.
Netbeans has most, if not all, the features that PhpStorm has on that page plus a whole lot more.
This is an advanced editor/lightweight IDE with lots of features. Like Gedit, it has syntax highlighting for PHP and is extendible through plugins. It has some more advanced features than Gedit such as code folding. It can be installed from the repositories by installing the package
vim. Well you have to work a lil at start to make it an IDE but its great once you do it. It has GUI called GVim as well.Install it with
here are some tips on making it work with PHP and here are the list of plugins you can use to enhance vim to better work with php.
Gedit: this comes pre-installed with Ubuntu and is simple and lightweight. It has syntax highlighting for a very large number of languages including PHP. It is extensible using plugins.
This is another good editor that supports PHP and is more web-focused than Gedit or Geany so may be more suitable for PHP. You can install it from the package
I suggest to use the Eclipse PHP development tools: http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/
You can use the same IDE on all systems and in addition to the simple features of a text editor you get all the additional stuff that you need for larger projects: context aware code completion, refactoring, integration of versioning systems, issue tracking, deployment to remote servers and much other stuff.
Im using both Komodo Edit and Geany.
Komodo is (imho) better but is a bit too weight, expecially with big files that reference many other files (in your file include another one, Komodo scan it to get the function/classes it contains and offer them in the auto-completition function).
For big files i use geany, is really fast and complete.
Try a slightly pimped version of gEdit. This the way to do it:
With the plugins you can enhance even more.
Quanta Plus is part of the kde web development package and is a good solution for KDE users.
I use Eclipse with Aptana http://www.aptana.com/products/studio2/download
After having installed Aptana you can add some additional plugin, as php development tools, subclipse etc.


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The Lupus Support Group will meet from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center located at 905 Market St., Steubenville.
The meeting location is changed because of remodeling at the Hampton Inn.
"Bringing Services into the Home" will be the topic.
Walter and Pat Howard are project coordinators. Iris Callahan is an outreach worker.
The group is funded by the Ohio Commission on Minority Health and Sponsored by Urban Mission Ministries, Neighborhood Community Development Center.
Weirton Hospital
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The Weirton Hospital retirees will hold a Valentine's Day business meeting luncheon at noon Feb. 12 at Gio's.
All hospital and Weirton Medical Center retirees are invited to attend. Wendy Bonovich Moslander is the organization's newest member.
Reservations and meeting information can be obtained by calling Joyce Barnhart at (304) 748-4657 or Cathy Colbert at (304) 748-2255.
At the last meeting, the president's gavel was passed from Donna Latkiewicz to Joyce Barnhart.
Carrie Oliver Shultz provided entertainment, performing a variety of vocal arrangements.
Members passed a "good will" basket, and the Community Bread Basket received a $250 donation, and the Weirton Medical Center Auxiliary received a $25 donation in honor of the organization's deceased members. Judy Tate received materials for Project Sleeping Bag, which provides handmade sleeping bags to the Wheeling Carpenter House. Tate asked members to continue to donate materials.
Membership dues of $10 should be remitted at the February meeting.
Tate won the 50/50 drawing, and Wendy Kemp, Barbara Andrews, Marie Brown, Mary Orrechio, Aggie Hoffman and Latkiewicz won centerpieces.
Meetings are set for Feb. 12, April 9, June 11, Aug. 13, Oct. 8 and Dec. 10. Any member who wants to serve on the luncheon menu committee for meetings can contact Corliss Brown at (304) 748-1690.
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The Steubenville Saddle Club's February meeting will be held at the East Springfield Community Center, not the Glenn Mills Senior/Community Center in Richmond.
The meeting will be held Tuesday beginning at 7 p.m.
The meeting change is because the former Grange hall in Richmond is a polling place in Tuesday's special Edison levy vote.
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Upcoming programs through the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County include the following:
Convention topic for Mingo Lions
The opening meeting of 2013 for the Mingo Lions Club was held at the Mingo Medical Group Office Building with Jo Ann Johns, second vice president, presiding.
Dr. William Johns gave the opening prayer.
Members discussed the district convention to be held on April 5 and 6 in New Philadelphia.
Christine Barrett reported a donation was made to Mingo Social Services for its Christmas baskets.
Clara Sue and Leroy Milewsky will pick up used glasses to be taken to the Lions Collection Center before the next meeting.
The next meeting will be held Feb. 18 at Mingo Medical Group Office Building. Johns will be the caller.
Dinner to benefit Colliers man
A spaghetti benefit dinner will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at Colliers First Church of God located on Old Police Lodge Road.
The dinner benefits Danny Smearman, who is battling cancer and has already lost both his kidneys to the disease and undergoes dialysis four days a week.
The cost is $7 per person.
For information, call (304) 794-6926, (304) 797-0087 or (304) 919-3175.


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Ilex Forest is an area of dense forest located in Johto, found on the west of Azalea Town and south of Goldenrod City. Upon the player's first visit, there is one man standing there, looking for his Farfetch'd. He asks the player to find his Farfetch'd around the forest, and so the player must do this quest as they cannot access the other exit due to a tree which requires HM01 Cut to pass through. Upon finding the Farfetch'd, it runs away, and the task becomes making Farfetch'd run back to its owner by approaching it. The position in which the player is interacting with it will change the direction the Farfetch'd will run. After chasing it, another man beside the Farfetch'd will join with the same man at the beginning. The man then rewards the player with HM01 Cut for their troubles.
In the Generation II games, one can find a man who gives you the TM Headbutt. In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, the man will teach the player's Pokémon the move because Headbutt isn't a TM in Generation IV.
- One can battle Celebi in the Ilex Forest, in the Japanese version of Pokémon Gold, Pokémon Silver and Pokémon Crystal.
- If you have a Celebi and go to Ilex Forest, you can access an event involving fighting Giovanni, the boss of Team Rocket. (HG/SS)
- In the Pokémon Adventures manga, Masked Man captured Celebi at Ilex Shrine using the GS Ball, which he made from Ho-Oh and Lugia's feather.
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I have a 12 year old son who if completely left up to his own devices, will spend almost all of his free time doing one of two things, playing casual computer games, and watching TV. I would like to encourage him to do stuff that involves more thinking, at the very least playing games that make you think more, like Starcraft, or even get into more educational activities. Any ideas? Thanks!
Ask him to write you a list of:
Then see what you can do to help get him the information, tools, and time to do these things. He is your best source of what will interest him you just need to figure out how to drag the information from him. Maybe take him out to dinner, just the two of you, and see where the conversation leads.
LEGO! There never was any cooler toy :-)
It comes in so many varieties that there's something for him regardless if he fancies technics, cartoon robots, pirates, movie heroes, whatever.
Plus, if your son insists on computer interaction, then go with LEGO Mindstorm (which lets him build a machine that must be programmed on the computer before it will run).
You could limit his TV/computer use to only a set time every day. Does he have his own tv in his room? Remove it but let him watch tv in the living room. He should not sit in his room all day to goof off, but if you know he's doing creative work (like LEGO) that would be fine.
(Incidentally, my 2yo son received some Lego Duplo (jumbo blocks) and we often play together - I may be 35 years older, but it's still fun!)
Does he have any sports interests?
Could you suggest soccer, or baseball, or sailing, or chess, or scouting?
I already mentioned reading together, but really doing anything together as a family should be helpful. Families today are so busy that this rarely happens. The family activity doesn't need to be structured or even necessarily constructive--they can be, but unstructured "fun" activities can be just as enriching. Shooting hoops together or doing a service project together or (since you mentioned he just got into scouting) going camping together as a family are some things that come to mind. Anything you do together will help you learn more about your son, help your son learn more about you, and help you discover what interests he has. You will then be in a better position to suggest activities that will replace his TV/computer time.
Books can be one of the best forms of entertainment and learning. Based on your comments, though, it's obvious your son does not have an innate interest in books. Forcing him to read something he thinks is boring will definitely not help anything, but if you can find something that is in line his interests, it's more likely to be a positive experience. If he still has a hard time, maybe set some time aside and read out loud together. One of my fondest memories as a child was sitting on the couch with my dad one summer and each night reading a chapter from our book.
I have a 12yo boy (and a 10yo) who would sit in front of the TV or play computer video games all day if...
But we don't have a TV or computer video games!
Problem solved. 8-)
Not trying to be flip, but as parents sometimes we have to remove from the environment things that compete for attention...especially if they're non-productive.
Most homes are filled with non-productive distractions. Fill the home with productive distractions and, again, problem solved.
Funny thing is that the whole family does not waste hours watching TV or playing video games. We tie flies for fly-fishing, exercise, read, make stuff, blow-up things (dry-ice is awesome), cook really complicated foods, make video, play music, tease each other mercilessly, and spend a lot of time jumping on the trampoline.
Asking a 12yo to not watch TV or play video games when present in the home is exactly the same as asking an alcoholic to stop drinking when their home is filled with alcohol and everyone around them is drinking.
Impose Limitations
Limit time playing with stuff. Facebook, angry birds, etc. You are allowed 2 hours a day for "those" activities. Doc some allowance if he goes over his time. My brother wasn't allowed to play "shooter" or "mmo's" until he was 16. He wasn't allowed on the computer after a certain time (and not until after homework is done.)
While I say "Only play for 2 hours", those are similar to the rules where I come from. Depending on you and the kids (each parent is different... each kid is different), that could be 1 hour or 4. Or 'You choose any combination that takes up 3 hours: XBox, computer, TV". For me, the important part is laying down the boundaries. It's a hard lesson to learn that you can overdo a good thing.
Encourage "Good"/breadth of activity/socialization
Do good things yourself and get him involved. Go outside. Play soccer. Read books together. Give a bigger allowance for things that you want to encourage. My brother, again, was encouraged to go outside. Read books (Dad got us into Wheel of time, Lord of the Rings, etc). Play games like Heroes of Might and Magic where you have to build cities, gather an army and fight on a battle board. Starcraft tournaments with other kids at church.
Discourage/Punish "Bad" There will be times when rules are pushed - playing for 2 hours and 30 minutes or just playing all day when you aren't home. There needs to be stated responses - loss of XBox for a week, no Internet, no phone, etc. The punishments need to be fair, consistent and followed through.
There are lots of educational games. For example chess helps with logical and strategy thinking.
But to help kids develop better they need lots of sport activities too. Especially boys. Also non computer activities will educate him way more better then computer ones. The more variety he has in his activities - the more educational experience he will get.
I think the best things to help get a boy up and being productive is having someone like his mom, dad, sister, brother, etc. do something with him. Going outside and playing catch, playing a board game, go on a walk, or bike ride, teach him some new basketball games or moves.
Just spend time with him doing exciting things that he likes, because if he doesn't like them then he'll never spend such time with you guys again. He'll think hes not going to get to do what he wants.
if your are trying top find things to do for your 12 year kid they often like to get brought things like sports equipment, cloths, movies, games even though you are trying to get them out of video games you will still be able to get the day out with your kid to go have lunch or to watch a movie.
another thing they like is gokarting, lazertag, bowling, timezone etc or any sport exhibitions like AFL, olympics etc or just any like lego and art etc


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On a rainy Tuesday afternoon in early autumn, about half a block south of the now-famous Zuccotti Park, Professor C. Scott Hemphill strides into a 26th-floor conference room located in Manhattan's Financial District. The antitrust and intellectual property expert seems as comfortable in this utilitarian government office as he does in the classrooms of Jerome Greene Hall, where he returned every Wednesday evening this past fall to teach a course on antitrust law.
Hemphill began serving as chief of the New York State attorney general's antitrust bureau in early 2012, and he makes the transition from government lawyer to energetic instructor appear as easy as a quick subway ride uptown.
"I teach students that talking about antitrust is storytelling in a way," he explains. "How you talk about and shape the facts has a powerful effect on the outcome of the case." Hemphill's students put that lesson to work by grappling with a host of hypothetical situations drawn from the kinds of conduct he investigates in New York's antitrust bureau.
While his day-to-day work in the antitrust office adds depth to his teaching, it also fulfills Hemphill's long-held desire to engage in public service. So when Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman offered him the job, the decision to take on the new role came naturally. The East Tennessee native now oversees the work of 14 government antitrust lawyers, as well as a chief economist.
"The most exciting part of [my work in the antitrust bureau] is the chance to uncover anti-competitive activity and to do something about it," says Hemphill. "It's great when an investigation is firing on all cylinders, and we're figuring out what actually happened based on documents and interviews and coming to a conclusion about it all."
Hemphill brings to the position a deep understanding of both law and economics. He clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia from 2003 to 2004, before earning a doctorate in economics from Stanford University. Since joining Columbia Law School, his work has focused on the interplay between innovation and competition in the marketplace, and he has written articles about the generic pharmaceutical industry, as well as how copyright infringement affects the fashion industry.
Now, in the attorney general's office, Hemphill uses his expertise to solve real-world problems. He takes on cases that often begin with initial complaints of antitrust activity, which then trigger the investigation process, and, at times, end with high-drama courtroom litigation.
"Antitrust is intellectually quite fulfilling and frequently offers the opportunity to jump into an unfamiliar industry and find out what makes it tick," says Hemphill. "From the standpoint of learning about new industries, this job is like drinking from a fire hose."
His time in the attorney general's office also dovetails with his scholarly work. Hemphill is currently collaborating with Columbia Law School Professor Tim Wu on an article analyzing parallel exclusion, the term used when several players in one industry—for instance, credit card companies or pipe makers—act collectively to prevent entrance by competing outside parties.
In discussing antitrust concepts, Hemphill draws from a deep well of scholarly and practical knowledge. He segues easily between explaining how a group of fashion designers in the 1930s set up a guild to prevent piracy of their designs to detailing how regulations affect generic drug companies. Then Hemphill quickly brings the conversation back to the recent economic downturn, noting the Occupy Wall Street protestors camped out in the park nearby.
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