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Gefen has unveiled a new switcher that scales and amplifies AV signals received through HDMI, DVI/DVI-D/DVI-I, analog RGB/component (mini D-sub 15-pin), composite video, or stereo RCA jack inputs.
The new switcher, dubbed the A/V Conference Room Processor, sends video with resolutions scaled up to a maximum of 1080p through a single HDMI output. Audio signals sent to the switcher are mixed down from Dolby Digital or Dolby Pro Logic, amplified with a built in 2 channel, 25 watt per channel amplifier, and conveyed through stereo RCA jack outputs.
Buttons on the front of the unit control input selection, while an LCD menu system enables manual scaling of the output resolution.
The switcher ships with EDID management, RS-232 control, auto 3:2 pull-down, 2:2 pull-down recovery and detection, and field upgradable firmware.
Additional features include a 165 MHz pixel clock, an analog video bandwidth of 350 MHz, and a rack-mountable, Energy Star compliant design.
The A/V Conference Room Processor ships with a 2-year warranty and can be pre-ordered from Gefen for $1,799. A 3-year extended warranty and 4-year extended warranty are available for $300 and $400 respectively.
Further information can be found at gefen.com.
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Yet another reason why I hate IE for being different. I've got this code:
var friends = document.getElementById('friendsEmail').value;
var emailArray=new Array();
emailArray=String(friends).split(','); //error here
This works in every other browser. In fact I only added the
Array declaration and the explicit
String conversion to get this to work in IE. However, I'm still getting this error
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET4.0C; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Timestamp: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 22:24:15 UTC
Message: Object doesn't support this property or method Line: 59 Char: 4 Code: 0
What does IE not like about this? Am I doing something obviously stupid that I'm not seeing?
This is what I did originally that resulted in IE errors:
var emailArray=friends.split(',');
This also gives me errors in IE
I'm sorry guys. Turns out that the server was caching an older copy of the .js file and the error line I was looking at was incorrect... I apologize for wasting your time with this. The error turned out to be on a completely different line. For those who are curious it was actually failing because of this line
I've already resolved that issue though.

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January 15, 2009
Skyline Steel, a subsidiary of ArcelorMittal, recognized in 2001 that for it to win contracts for high-end projects requiring high-pressure and high-strength steel spiral pipe, it would need to become more competitive in price. That's why the company turned to Servo-Robot Corp. and its AUTO-TRAC laser vision seam tracking for pipe welding.
July 10, 2007
The move from manual welding to some form of machine or automated welding has been going on in all industries--including water heater manufacturing--for years. It's part of a desire to improve productivity and quality. A.O. Smith's American Water Heater Div. in Johnson City, Tenn., learned that first-hand.
August 10, 2004
Nowhere in manufacturing is the axiom "Do the job right the first time" more true than in a shipyard's welding operation. The welding process must be optimized for high productivity, yet maintain quality levels required by stringent welding standards. Even using the most fine-tuned process, a...
April 24, 2003
The automotive industry is under extreme pressure to improve the productivity and quality of its operations. Tier 1 suppliers especially are being squeezed by a combination of very competitive upfront bidding for contracts and yearly price reductions. One area ripe for savings in most automotive companies is the total cost associated with welding quality.


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I need help. I am a software engineer but i didn't opt for this career by will. I did it because of family pressure. I wanted to be a cricketer.
I have got good results in all my exams and also been appraised a number of time for my intelligence in studies and computers(not praising my self but want to tell you my situation in detail). Also i have given some good solutions to my company.
I want to improve my productivity. I often tend to get distracted from my work thinking to be a cricketer agar. Please help.


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The CWC girls basketball team hosted BDC rival Hamilton Co. Monday night and played well in the first half, taking a one-point, 25-24 lead into the locker room.
But the Lady Foxes took over in the second half, and out played the out of sync Lady Bulldogs, winning the game 56-48.
The Lady Bulldogs were ice cold in the second half, only hitting 16 percent from the field.
Emma Bachman was the team leader in scoring with 16 points. Bachman also had two rebounds and three steals.
Others contributing to the team were Briley Attebury with nine points, 10 rebounds and two steals, Alexa Combs with eight points, two assists, three rebounds and two steals, Sydney Clark with eight points and six rebounds, Kelsey Rogers with three points, two rebounds and two steals, Jerrica Money with two points and Peighton Parks with two points and a rebound.
The girls wrap up their regular season this week, on the road Thursday at Johnston City and Saturday for senior night at home against Vienna.
The team will play Eldorado Monday night at Hamilton Co. in Regional action.
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My app allows the user to choose a color from a color picker or from an image, and has a wooden background (the one seen in these mockups) throughout. I have these 6 icon mockups, and i'd like your opinion on which one to use?
closed as too localized by Jack, DA01, Farray, Scott, Yisela Sep 12 '12 at 22:05
This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet. For help making this question more broadly applicable, visit the help center.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
The last in your set stands out as being well balanced and neither completely static nor bland. The landscape colors in the pixelated image fragment on the left, combined with the target in the lower right, immediately make me think of a first-person shooter, though, and I can't shake the impression. A flower, or something else that doesn't say "scenery," would be less ambiguous.


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April 17, 2009
Jamie Oliver gets a taste of Cape Town at Mzoli's Place
Jamie Oliver, photo courtesy Downing Street
While going through the newspaper the other day, I saw that Mzoli's Place in Gugulethu played host to celebrity chef Jamie Oliver last weekend. Apparently, Jamie loved it and found the experience "very sexy". He also mentioned that "in this part of the world, fresh is where it's at".
Jamie is now featuring Mzoli's Place on the cover of his April magazine, describing its food as "heaven". I have to agree that in general Cape Town is the capital of good food – from a braai at Mzoli's to the city's chic restaurants, a Camp's Bay sundowner seafood feast and the utterly luxurious winelands lunch.
Get to Mzoli's as soon as you can, but if you can't do it this weekend, I have included a quick and easy chakalaka recipe for you to experience a bit of Mzoli's in your own home. Serve it with the braai or add some "eish" to your Sunday dish!
45 ml oil
1 onion, grated
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 green pepper, chopped
3 green chillies, deseeded and chopped
10 ml curry powder
3 medium carrots, grated
1 medium cauliflower or broccoli, divided into florets
1 x 410 g can baked beans in tomato sauce
salt and pepper to taste
Heat oil and sauté onions, garlic, ginger and green pepper with the chillies and curry powder for five minutes.
Add carrots and cauliflower. Cook gently for about 15 minutes, or until all vegetables are cooked.
Add beans and seasoning, heat through and allow to cool. Serve cold.
Mzolis' Place is located at NY 115, Shop 3, Gugulethu, Cape Town
Tel: +27 21 638 1355


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- Admissions
- Academics
- Campus Life
- Athletics
- Cost & Aid
- News & Events
- About Plattsburgh
Library and Information Technology Services (LITS) provides leadership and support in areas of information technology, library services, and online learning resources on campus.
We inform, educate, and support all aspects of the educational mission of SUNY Plattsburgh.
Our programs, services, and policies strive to be responsive to the needs of students, faculty, staff, and the community.
A major component of Academic Affairs, LITS administers the library, provides for campus technology needs inside and outside of the classroom, handles administrative computing, and manages network infrastructure. The LITS Dean's Office is located in Feinberg Library.
If you are an enrolled student, Feinberg Library is your resource center. Find what you need to complete course assignments, conduct quality research, and improve your information-gathering skills. Do you want to be an exceptional college student? Start here.
For faculty, Feinberg librarians act as individually assigned departmental liaisons. We invite you to contact us to begin one-to-one conversations about your teaching and scholarship needs.
Extensive technology services - from mainframe to desktop and everything in between — help to ensure that nobody pulls the plug on your projects. Whether it's virus protection, hardware help, software support, or the easing of everyday technology troubles - we do it all.
Interested in new ways of enhancing your learning experience? Looking for a non-traditional alternative to the college classroom? Online learning may be the answer. Online learners enjoy the convenience of completing courses at home, and at times that are convenient for them.
Professional Performance Program Template — a voluntary format that has been developed by taking many of the elements in current programs and combining them with recommendations from HRS and from UUP.
For more information about Library and Information Technology Services, please contact:
Holly Heller-Ross, Dean and CIO
Library and Information Technology Services
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2 Draper Avenue, Plattsburgh, NY 12901
Phone: (518) 564-5180
Fax: (518) 564-5100
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When someone yawns or streches, you poke them in the ribs. The person who is getting poked makes a noise that sounds like theyre having an orgasm.
Elliot: *yawn*
Tyrone: Poke!! (pokes in ribs)
Elliot: *moan* That damn sex poke gets me everytime!!
Tyrone: Poke!! (pokes in ribs)
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Ni xiang chi fan ma ?
Is it redundant to use ma and a question mark? Doesn't ma make it a question in of itself? I am unclear on the correct approach here.
Is it redundant to use ma and a question mark? Doesn't ma make it a question in of itself? I am unclear on the correct approach here.
Questions are always ended with a question mark (?).
General questions may or may not have interrogative particles appearing at the end.
Special questions don't need interrogative particles at the end, as they have questions words like 什么,哪,几,多少,如何,怎么样, etc.
Question marks are always needed even when questions written pin yin.
For correctness, question marks are always required.
Are they redundant? Perhaps. If so, they are probably also redundant in English. (eg. "how are you." is clearly intended as a question even without the question mark)
"Ma" turns statements into questions. Think about "ma?" as being similar to "correct?" in English. (eg. "you like coffee, correct?")
In total, the "吗" is one of usual question marks , you can see more words like
么 \ 什么 what do you want ? (你想要什么) 嘛 shall we ? ( 一起嘛? ) ...
and some words in the beginning of sentence, like,
怎么 what happened ! (or use WTF in some context ) 怎么会这样??!! (with surprise) 难道 He's a student, isn't he? 难道他不是学生吗?? (a little guess, but more sure for his statement)


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Lower-Literacy Users: Writing for a Broad Consumer Audience
Summary: Lower-literacy users exhibit very different reading behaviors than higher-literacy users: they plow text rather than scan it, and they miss page elements due to a narrower field of view.
We've known since 1997 how most users read on the Web: they scan text and pick out the pieces that interest them. Content usability guidelines have remained mostly the same since 1997, but now there's news.
We recently expanded our research to cover a big part of the population left out of earlier studies: lower-literacy users. As it turns out, their online behavior is radically different than that of higher-literacy users.
This new research on lower-literacy usability is sponsored by Pfizer, which has a major effort underway to make its consumer communications understandable and actionable by a broad consumer audience. Understanding health information can be challenging for anyone, regardless of literacy level, so the effort's benefits will be far reaching in helping consumers understand and treat their conditions.
Lower-Literacy Users: Characteristics
Lower literacy is different than illiteracy: people with lower literacy can read, but they have difficulties doing so.
The most notable difference between lower- and higher-literacy users is that lower-literacy users can't understand a text by glancing at it. They must read word for word and often spend considerable time trying to understand multi-syllabic words.
Lower-literacy users focus exclusively on each word and slowly move their eyes across each line of text. In other words, they "plow" the text, line by line. This gives them a narrow field of view and they therefore miss objects outside the main flow of the text they're reading.
Unlike higher-literacy users, lower-literacy users don't scan text. As a result, for example, they can't quickly glance at a list of navigation options to select the one they want. They must read each word in each option carefully. Their only other choice is to completely skip over large amounts of information, which they often do when things become too complicated.
Lower-literacy users tend to satisfice — accept something as "good enough" — based on very little information because digging deeper requires too much reading, which is both challenging and time consuming. As soon as text becomes too dense, lower-literacy users start skipping, usually looking for the next link. In doing so, they often overlook important information.
In addition, having to scroll breaks lower-literacy users' visual concentration because they can't use scanning to find the place they left off.
Finally, search creates problems for lower-literacy users for two reasons. First, they often have difficulty spelling the query terms. Second, they have difficulty processing search results, which typically show weird, out-of-context snippets of text. As a result, lower-literacy users often simply pick the first hit on the list, even if it's not the most appropriate for their needs.
Improving Usability for Lower-Literacy Users
The main and most obvious advice is to simplify the text: use text aimed at a 6th grade reading level on the homepage, important category pages, and landing pages. On other pages, use text geared to an 8th grade reading level.
You can also improve your site's usability for lower-literacy users in several other ways.
Prioritize information. Place the main point at the very top of the page, where even readers who typically give up after a few lines will see it. Place any other important information above the fold, to minimize the risk of users losing their place after scrolling. This is always good practice; even the most skilled readers will leave a page if the first few paragraphs don't seem valuable. It's even better to avoid scrolling all together (which also helps teenagers) unless eliminating it requires you to chop content into unnaturally short sections, which can be even more confusing.
Avoid text that moves or changes, such as animations and fly-out menus. Static text is easier to read. This guideline also helps international users (who might need to look up words in a dictionary) and users with motor skills impairments (who have difficulty catching things that move).
Streamline the page design. Place important content in a single main column, so users don't have to scan the page and pick out design elements in a two-dimensional layout. This guideline also helps low-vision users and users of handheld devices (such as smartphones), which narrow the field of view.
Simplify navigation by placing the main choices in a linear menu. This helps users clearly understand the next place to go, without requiring them to scan the page for options.
Optimize search. Make your search tolerant of misspellings (which also helps seniors, who are particularly prone to making typos). Ideally, a user's first search hit should answer the query, and all hits should provide short, easy-to-read summaries.
How Big Is the Lower-Literacy Population?
According to the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment of Adult Literacy, 43% of the U.S. population has low literacy. (Literacy levels are roughly the same in other advanced countries, though slightly higher in Scandinavia.)
For obvious reasons, Web design is concerned only with Web users, and not the population at large. Generally, people with lower-literacy tend to use the Internet less than people with higher-literacy.
Based on the available information about Internet participation at different education levels, I estimate that 30% of Web users have low literacy. Because most of the higher-literacy population is already online, however, future growth in Internet usage will mainly come from adding lower-literacy users. Thus, in five years or so, lower-literacy users will probably be 40% of Web users.
Who Should Care about Lower-Literacy Users?
Long experience shows that improving usability for users with disabilities typically increases usability for non-disabled users as well. Similarly, improving websites for lower-literacy users can also help higher-literacy users. That said, some sites are targeted mainly at higher-literacy users:
- B2B sites that target business professionals, managers, and decision-makers
- E-commerce sites that sell expensive or intellectual products
- The public relations and investor relations areas of corporate sites
- Content sites that cover scientific or other advanced topics
- Intranets for knowledge workers
My own Alertbox column contains B2B content aimed at business professionals and executives who recognize usability's importance. I usually write it at a 13th grade reading level, which is not only far too difficult for lower-literacy users, but too complicated for the mainstream B2C audience. Given my readership, this readability level is acceptable.
However, sites that target a broader audience must make lower-literacy users a priority. Such sites include:
- Government sites, especially those for senior citizens or the unemployed
- Health sites
- Companies that sell mass-market products
- HR info and benefits applications on intranets for companies with many blue-collar workers
Case Study: What's at Stake?
To estimate the impact of writing for lower-literacy users, we collected usability metrics before and after the website content for a major pharmaceutical product was rewritten and simplified according to the new guidelines.
We tested the two website versions with fifty users, including both lower- and higher-literacy users. We conducted between-subjects testing using a double-blind protocol where neither the users nor the experimenters knew whether they were testing the original or the revised site.
As the following tables show, we collected three usability metrics: success rate (whether people could perform the tasks), the total time needed to complete seven representative tasks, and the users' subjective satisfaction as rated on a questionnaire following the test session.
|Success Rate
|Original Site
|Rewritten Site
|Lower-literacy users
|Higher-literacy users
|Total Task Time
|Original Site
|Rewritten Site
|Lower-literacy users
|22.3 min.
|9.5 min.
|Higher-literacy users
|14.3 min.
|5.1 min.
(1-5 scale, 5 best)
|Original Site
|Rewritten Site
|Lower-literacy users
|Higher-literacy users
The revised site clearly had dramatically better usability on all three metrics: users got more correct information, did so faster, and liked the site better. All of the differences between the two sites are statistically significant at the p<.05 level.
Lower-literacy users increased their performance by 135% in terms of how quickly they could complete the tasks, which is a major predictor of users' willingness to stay on a site. On all three usability metrics, the lower-literacy users scored better with the revised site than the higher-literacy users did with the original site.
At the same time, the improvements for lower-literacy users did not come at the expense of higher-literacy users. In fact, the higher-literacy users also scored higher on all three usability metrics when using the revised site. People capable of understanding complex information nonetheless preferred more straightforward health information.
The original site was designed by a respected agency and was certainly not bad: it scored a 68% success rate for higher-literacy users, which compares favorably with the 66% average in our latest broad-ranging usability study. (That study didn't include lower-literacy users, so we can only compare the numbers for people with higher-literacy.) Similarly, the original site's subjective satisfaction rating of 3.7 is higher than the average satisfaction score across the 184 websites we have tested recently.
In summary, revising the text for a broad consumer audience made a good site excellent and benefited all users. The magnitude of improvement was huge: usability isn't a small tweak at the margins — it doubles a website's ability to meet its goals
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Supporters club for Glasgow Rangers fans.
The KPL massive invite all Rangers fans to the anual meeting on 'date'.
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short for the lovely ladies of Kappa Phi Lambd. Sisters of an Asian Interest sorority that was founded at Binghamton University in 1995 and is the fastest growing Asian Interest sorority on the east coast.
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text: Next week Thanksgiving in the US is going to be upon us, Thursday the 24th to be exact. I know I have done a few turkeys in the past for this special holiday, but I never did a tutorial on making an actual cooked turkey drawing. So here is my second food lesson and it's on "how to draw a Thanksgiving turkey", step by step. This oven baked bird is one of my second favorite things to eat on gobble day. My first best thing to annihilate is stuffing. I actually make sure I get a good helping of stuffing. My mother makes the best stuffing there is. The weird thing that gets me is how something tastes so good with only a few things mixed together. Anyways, I will be back later with some more drawing fun. In the meantime enjoy tackling this task of drawing a thanksgiving turkey. Remember, you can dress up your turkey dish drawing with all kinds of veggies, side dishes, and tasty cranberry sauce. Peace people and enjoy your holiday.


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For more information, please call 304-340-8000
Selection of the preferred landing site is one of the most important components of safe helicopter operations. A site that is too small, filled with debris or obstructed by trees or wires is a recipe for disaster. Careful checks of a site can help speed patient transport by reducing the likelihood of a change in the Landing Zone (LZ) location.
HealthNet Aeromedical Services requires a minimum of 100' x 100' relatively flat area for safe operation. The area must be clear of power lines and overhanging trees. The pilot should be informed of obstacles higher than knee level, such as fence posts, before the aircraft is seen by the ground crew. It is essential that you report any high tension power lines within a one-mile radius of the desired landing area.
For nighttime operations, you must also secure an area at least 100' x 100'. As in daytime operations, the area must be clear of obstructions and debris. It is important to leave all emergency lights on to better mark the area. When the helicopter is near touchdown, these lights, as well as all headlights, should be turned off to preserve the pilot's night vision.
The landing area should be marked with battery-powered lights arranged in a triangle or square. Alternately, low-beam headlights can be crossed to designate the desired landing area. Please remember to never shine spotlights or flashlights directly at the aircraft. It is also important that the landing zone team prevent flash photography or television cameras from being directed at the aircraft or crew.
The LZ Safety Team holds ultimate responsibility for ground operations before the aircraft arrives. It should consist of two experienced people. Their job is to identify and secure the site, provide information on the landing zone to MedCom or the aircraft and to ensure that all remains safe in the area.
Prior to the arrival of the aircraft, the LZ should be checked for debris, and nonessential personnel should be kept 100 feet back from the outer areas of the landing zone. It is preferred that one person be assigned to secure the front of the site while another secures the back.
The LZ Safety Team should observe the area and prevent running, smoking or the loss of hats or loose objects. At the same time the ground team should be protected. Secure clothing and eye and hearing protection are recommended. One of the team members should stand with the wind at his or her back to inform the pilot of the wind direction. In most instances the aircraft will land into the wind.
Before making final approach into an LZ, the pilot will often circle the area to observe the site. In fact, this is often done several times. It may appear as if the aircraft is leaving the area. This is not the case; the pilot is merely flying to assess the site and prepare for approach.
During landing, the LZ Safety Team must ensure that all remains safe on the ground. It is important that you constantly look at the surrounding area and not fixate on the aircraft. Things change at LZ sites. It is the responsibility of the LZ Safety Team to recognize and react to these changes. During final approach, remember to protect the patient, secure all loose equipment and protect your eyes.
When the aircraft has landed, the flight team will exit the aircraft and assess the area. They will then go to the patient's side. No one should approach the aircraft. During this time, the LZ Safety Team must assure that everyone is kept 100' back from the site. During some scene responses, the rotor blades and engines will continue to run. It is essential that no items be thrown or left unsecure in the area of the LZ.
When the patient is ready for transport, the flight team will need assistance loading. Usually, two additional people are required. Anyone assisting must always follow the directions of the flight team. Remember to always approach the aircraft from the front, within full view of the pilot. You should never look at the helicopter from the rear. While loading, no one should go behind the rear skid of the aircraft.
At times the helicopter will land on an uneven surface. If this is the case, you should always approach the aircraft from downhill as the blades are closer to the uphill side. When walking toward the aircraft carry nothing higher than your head. The rotor blades can flex downward during wind gusts and could cause injuries to the ground team. You must respect the helicopter.
Once the patient is loaded, the flight team will operate the aircraft doors. The doors are susceptible to damage, and the aircraft cannot lift off if damage has occurred. During departure the LZ Safety Team should remain alert and radio the aircraft of any problems noted. The LZ should be kept clear until the aircraft is out of sight. The LZ radio frequency should be left open for 3-5 minutes in the unlikely event that the helicopter would need to return to the site.


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I have a function under Base class and at the definition tine of this base class function I need to call another function which is define under the Derived class. how to do this??
My class declaration is below
Define the function below :
and the main function :
I'm getting an error :
I know this is a correct error but I need to call a derived class function into the base class function.Is it possible any how?? or I have to go different way like template etc
So how to solve this problem.
With Warm Regards
My class declaration is below
class Base{ public: void showdata(double); }; class Derived : public Base{ public: inline double F(double x) { return exp(-x) + x*x; }
void Base::showdata(double a) { std::cout<<"The value of the Function : " << F(a); }
int main() { //Base obj; Derived obj; obj.F(1.0); return 0; }
error C3861: 'F': identifier not found
So how to solve this problem.
With Warm Regards
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BALDWIN CITY, Kansas (AP) -- An exhibit featuring Bible illustrations and woodcuts dating to Medieval times is on display at Baker University.
The Quayle Bible Collection exhibit is titled ``Illuminating the Bible: Woodcuts and Engravings.''
The exhibit is open from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday through August 2014 in the Helen Foresman Spencer wing of the Collins Library on the Baker campus. A reception is planned for Sept. 19.
Before the printing press, artists made book texts more vivid and engaging with miniature paintings, pen-and-ink drawings, gold leaf and even doodles. Some of the finest artists of every era were engaged in book production.
The Quayle collection's Nuremberg Chronicle from 1493 will be turned to a page showing the creation of the world.


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Oakland International Airport
1 Airport Drive, Oakland, California 94621, USA
Telefon: (510) 563 3300
Website: www.oaklandairport.com
The airport is located 19km (12 miles) southeast of Oakland.
How to get there
From I-880 North or South, follow the exit signs on 98th Avenue or Hegenberger Road to the airport entrance. The main entrance is on 98th Avenue.
Information about parking possibilities at the Oakland International Airport
Access by public transport
AirBART and AC Transit (tel: 817 1717; www.actransit.org) buses run frequently between the airport and the BART Oakland Coliseum rail station, for connections to BART services (tel: (510) 465 2278; www.bart.gov). AC Transits line 50 bus connects the Amtrak Station at Jack London Square to Oakland International Airport. Line 805 runs an hourly service at night between the airport and downtown Oakland and downtown San Francisco.
Taxis are readily available from Friendly Cab (tel: (510) 536 3000 or 800 244 0400; regional shuttle services are also available to most destinations, including scheduled and door-to-door services. Further ground transportation information is available (tel: 1 888 435 9625).Ferry: For travel by ferry, AC Transit's line 50 bus connects Jack London Square and the Alameda/Oakland Ferry to Oakland International Airport. The ferry (www.eastbayferry.com) provides services to Alameda, San Francisco's Ferry Terminal and Pier 39/Fisherman's Wharf.
Information desk
Information desks are centrally located in both terminals (tel: (510) 563 2721).
Further travel information
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Is it recommended to rinse the teapot with boiling water, or does that make no difference?
Preheating the tea pot with hot water will also prevent the tea pot from cracking when you do add boiling hot water for the tea to steep in.
I will say that I have a fairly thick-walled tea pot, I rarely preheat it, and I've never seen any danger of cracking. However, if I had a nice china pot, I would preheat it. Better safe than sorry!
The main reason you put boiling water in the teapot before making tea is to heat up the teapot. You dump out the now cooler water and then add your teabags and more boiling water, and the teapot will now be warm and not leech out the temperature from within it. This results in tastier tea, but is totally not necessary if you didn't make enough hot water, or don't want to spend the time doing so.
Assuming it's clean beforehand, the only reason I can think to do this would be to keep the water hotter longer by heating the pot a bit (or, if it's a ceramic pot, to prevent the glaze from cracking...I certainly wouldn't use boiling water for that though).
Tea should steep well before the water is too cool. I don't see any reason to rinse the pot.
I don't remember whether I've ever seen a teapot or cup break apart the first time it was filled with boiling water. But I have seen cups develop cracks. Being wide open at the top, it's easy to see a new crack in a cup. Pots are a different story. The small openings limit both light and sight, so cracking may not become apparent until it works its way to the outside. Once it works its way through, it will just keep getting bigger and the pot weaker.
I imagine none of us remember seeing a pot break apart because of modern improvements in the chemistry, molding, firing, and handling of china. With fewer faults in the finished clay, the effects of rapid heating aren't so severe. But an old-fashioned pot or cup deserves gradual pre-heating for two reasons. The liklihood of faults due to manufacturing of older goods is one. The liklihood of hidden damage due to long use is the other. When you bring a teapot home from an estate sale or an antique shop, you may not be able to tell if there are already cracks inside the pot. There may even be hairline cracks on the outside, so fine that you can't see them easily. Whether inside or out, the cracks will surely suffer from boiling water unless gradually preheated.
I've come up with a quick and energy-efficient way to gradually preheat a china pot or cup. While the kettle is on the fire, I put a small amount of cool tap water into the pot or cup, then pop it into the microwave for 20 to 60 seconds, depending on size. When the kettle is ready, the pot or cup is ready.
Nuking a pot or a cup might seem like drastic pre-heating, but it is slow-w-w-w by comparison with the instantaneous heating that comes with boiling water.
My mother and father were raised and lived in Wales and England from 1903-1923. The homes were quite cold in the fall, winter and spring. If you put boiling water into an extremely cold teapot it would crack and weaken the pot. I have been trained to do this even when it is in the warmth of summer. I have noticed that if someone pours boiling water into my bone china tea cups or mugs, that they will crack. The china cups and tea pots should at least be at room temperature otherwise a warm rise is required.
This is tea-tasters' lore, on the basis that the best flavour is extracted from the leaves at a temperature as close to boiling as possible. Heavy ceramic pots will absorb a lot of the heat from the water unless pre-heated, and a cooler extraction will be less efficient. This is less important with thinner metal pots where heat absorbtion is less.


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#3. The Roach That Can Jump on Your Face
Nobody likes cockroaches. They may not have giant fangs or venom glands, but they look every bit as if the concept of filth grew legs, and their only living goal is to identify objects that you put in your mouth, and then run and poop all over them. The one small favor God allowed us is that roaches are relegated to the ground realm. Though they have wings, they're about as adept with them as chickens are. All you have to do to avoid a cockroach is stand on a chair and shriek.
Shriek like a little girl. Go on, it's fine.
Until now, that is. Scientists have discovered a roach in South Africa that has the ability to jump, something that no other species of cockroach is known to do. And the little bastards aren't just kind of good at it, they're twice as good at jumping as grasshoppers are. They can leap almost 50 times their own body length, which means that even if you scramble onto a chair, that cockroach can be on your face in 0.1 seconds. Don't scream -- opening your mouth is exactly what it wants you to do.
Although it can easily be mistaken for a grasshopper, with its freakishly modified hind legs, the critter researchers have dubbed the "leaproach" is not related to them, but rather is an example of "convergent evolution," which in biological terms is kind of like what The Thing does to Arctic researchers.
The leaproach, or cockjump to its friends (it has no friends).
Sure, they're in Africa and not in our homes yet, but all they have to do to get here is learn how to swim, and that probably won't be long.
#2. Rat-Eating Pitcher Plant
The pitcher plant is already something that raises a huge middle finger to the natural order, or it would if it had fingers. Plants just aren't supposed to eat animals; their job is merely to sit at the bottom of the evolutionary ladder and taste good. We've had to accept the fact that there are plants out there that eat bugs, but you know what they say -- give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
We've got our time-lapsing eyes on you, plant.
In 2007, three botanists scaled Mount Victoria in the Philippines in search of new species, and they stumbled into Nepenthes attenboroughii, named after David Attenborough. Most pitcher plants are content to snack on flies, but this bastard is big enough to eat rats.
Nepenthes attenboroughii uses the same killing method as other pitchers: Its prey is lured to the cuplike growths filled with sweet nectar, but when they get too close, they slip and fall in, tiny paws thrashing for purchase on the slippery sides as they are slowly, very slowly digested by a plant that vaguely resembles genitalia.
"I never got along with my mother. This feels like poetic justice."
The question is, are we just going to stand back and watch while vegetables acquire a taste for higher order mammals? All we know is that the next time we go swimming in a lake, we're making sure it really is a lake.
#1. The Murderous Flying Fungus
When you think "fungus," you probably think of mushrooms, or maybe athlete's foot. It's something that grows in damp, warm places, and on the danger scale it's somewhere between "mild annoyance" and "delicious when deep fried."
But then you have the bad characters in the group, like the newly discovered Cryptococcus gattii, an invisible airborne fungus that, who knows, you might be breathing right now.
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We feel pretty safe stating that the words "invisible" and "airborne" will never precede anything good.
We don't want to cause a panic here; all we're going to say is that National Geographic described it using the words "hypervirulent," "deadly," "fast-spreading" and "superfungi," at least one of which we're pretty sure they made up just to describe this species.
We knew that deadly fungi existed. You'd find it in warm, wet places like the tropics, where it would sometimes infect weakened or already-sick victims. So imagine everyone's surprise when this new strain showed up in Oregon and killed half a dozen perfectly healthy people.
We're no doctors, but this thing has sure done something weird to this man's testicle.
It spreads when its microscopic spores float through the air and you breathe them in. Washing your hands won't prevent it, and neither will avoiding sick people (it's not contagious -- it does just fine breeding and spreading on its own). There is no prevention -- the only defense is to wait for symptoms to appear and go get treatment (it can take weeks or months after exposure for symptoms to kick in). Fortunately, the symptoms are unique and easy to spot -- things like headache, red eyes, lethargy and "apathy."
Holy shit! We think we have it right now!
It was probably in one of the 26 whiskey shots we had last night.
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Are LEGO elements safe to use in an aquarium with fish? I've never seen LEGO elements in a working fishtank.
The main restaurant in the LEGOLAND park in Windsor has quite a lot of LEGO creations in fishtanks. In the same park, the Sealife attraction 'Atlantis Submarine Voyage' has 50 species of sharks, rays and tropical fish that happily coexist with the LEGO models.
Keep in mind that LEGO is safe from children saliva, which I'm willing to bet is more aggressive than fishtank water.
LEGO bricks should be safe for fish. Avoid using small parts that they could mistake for food. You also might be cautious on the paint, but I'm sure it's still safer than the paint used on the cheap stuff you'll find at fish stores.


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/var folders' owners are root, so is there anyway to change back owner/group of files/folders to default state? Or at least those files/folders that are created by packages?
I accidentally changed
Similar to one of the answers above, if you have a copy of the directory with the correct permissions named "var" in your local directory, you can use the following two commands to restore permissions to the /var directory.
The simplest (and probably most correct) answer is "You can't", but if you want to try, here's a bash script that will fix the permissions of files under /var belonging to .deb packages.
The script works by generating a list of installed packages that have files in var, downloading those packages, and then using
The hardest part was writing the function to convert the permissions string (as displayed by
Finally, the script is written to be in "debug-mode" or "dry-run" mode. To make it actually change the owner/group/perms, comment-out or delete the two lines with the
The script could, of course, be quite easily adapted to fix packaged-file perms in any other directory, or in all directories.
This script would have been a lot simpler if the $packagename.list files in
You could.
Install the same distribution onto another machine or a VM, and use the
The simple answer is "you can't".
But.... if you have a filesystem like JFS that has a log you can restore it with it's tools. Some package managers allows you to reintall it's packages and maybe with this way you can recover your files owner.
Another way but more cumbersome is that you can mount the /var at another device and than the programs will recreate the missing directory..


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Going to try using dry oak chips in my secondary fermenter. How do you recommend sanitizing the chips before adding them?
We soak ours in bourbon. Kicks the oak up a notch or two.
Boiling the oak chips can bring out undesirable tannins. Soak them in alcohol, or trust that there is enough alcohol in your beer to kill an infection. Many people do not sanitize flavorings added to the secondary.
Likely late in the game now, but you can also put oak chips on a sanitized cooking sheet at 200F or so and leave in the oven for 15 minutes or so. This will sanitize the chips, and subtly brings out some of the flavour, but not too much tannic or other astringent flavours. Essentially you are pasteurizing the oak chips by heating them to 138F (min), before adding them to your wort or must. I usually use the method for my homemade wine, but see no reason why it would not also work for homemade beer.
I've soaked them in scotch, and I've boiled them for up to 20 minutes. No harsh flavors. I pour all of the extracted woody liquid in too. I recommend using french oak unless you intend to age for a long time.
I like a heavier toast than the french oak chips my local brew store sells, so I soak them in Chardonnay (for IPAs) for a couple of weeks and then toast them dry in the oven (10-15 minutes at 350º or so). The Chardonnay might not have enough alcohol to fully sanitize them, but it adds a great subtle flavor to oak-aged IPAs. 350º is hotter than a wort boil, and it seems to do the trick. I've not had any probs, but my beers are all pretty high-octane so the alcohol that's present in secondary helps keep things clean.
Make sure to watch them closely in the oven though-- you don't want them to get too toasted and it's probably also some kind of fire hazard :) -- Makes your house smell really good though.
If you want to avoid adding the alcohol flavorings from bourbon or whiskey, I would jsut steam them for 10 minutes. Get a good rolling boil going with a steamer in the pot, toss in the chips and once the steam refills the pot I'd take them off the heat.
The hot steam with still sanitize, while the slow reduction in heat will help minimize the tannin issues that can come with outright boiling the chips for too long.
EDIT 1/19/10 Rethinking it now, soaking in vodka, then adding the chips only would be a pretty neutral way to add oak without too much contribution from the sanitizing liquor (like bourbon etc).
When I used oak chips in my scotch ale, I boiled them for a minute or so and then dropped them in.
You can also soak them in scotch, which would sanitize them and add some pretty awesome flavoring. I think I'll do that next time, actually.
I've got 4 oz of oak chips soaking in 4 floz of Jack Daniels right now for a porter I'm brewing on Christmas day. If that doesn't kill all the bugs in the wood, I can't imagine anything will.
I immerse it in two cups of boiling water for 15 minutes, then toss it in the secondary. I always add the water as well with good results. I also keep a 1.75 LT bottle of Jim Beam half full with bourbon and the rest with Med toast French oak chips so they are always soaking up that great flavor to add to Bourbon stouts. The chips pick up a lot of the great bourbon flavor and stay sanatized due to the high alcohol. Both ways have worked well for me depending on what kind of flavor you are looking for.


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I have been simply asked to integrate the following: $dc/dt = 1-c-a c$.
I have used the integrating factor as $e^{(1+a) t}$.
Then finish with $c=1/(1+a)$, however my lecturer gets $c=\frac{1}{1+a}(1-e^{(a+1)t})$.
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I would like to make relative links to pictures in an Inkscape file. So when I move the project files (images and the Inkscape master), I wouldn't have to relink the images.
What is the proper way to do this?
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After saving, closing, and moving your svg file along with your image file, Inkscape should still display the image in your file. Also note that after re-opening, Inkscape will keep the xlink:href attribute, but also maintain a separate attribute called sodipodi:absref that will store the absolute location of the image. I've found that this doesn't matter -- you can still move your files around and Inkscape will refer to the xlink:href attribute to find your image.
Tested on Inkscape 0.48
../stuff/file.ext indeed should work.
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So, I have played D&D (and other RPG rules) off and on for a long time, and now have boys of an age that I could DM for them and have some good father/son/nerdy time. I have never DMed myself. I have played a couple of times where the DM used Masterplan, and I have to say they have run far more smoothly than when not using it. (Not to say that it's a requirement but it certainly seems to smooth out the mechanics of encounters and the use of a map in battle has made it a lot easier.)
In light of seeing this program in practice, I have decided that I will try DMing with this program. I have a DDI account, and now I'm wondering what my next steps in using Masterplan are. Is it possible to import player sheets as well? What about existing encounter libraries, do those exist somewhere?
Update: I found a loader on codeplex: http://compendiumimport.codeplex.com/


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Multicultural Winter Party
Because so many resources are available for December decoratingweb, books, and magazinesI won't attempt pointers in this brief section. However, I will offer a few culturally specific icons upon which you might want to focus:
- ChristmasSanta Claus, nativity scenes, Christmas trees, stockings, stars, bells, candles, snowflakes, reindeer, mistletoe, Yule log, snowmen, and gifts; the colors red and green.
- HanukahThe menorah (candle holder with eight regular tapers and one long one), gold coins (or chocolate-filled gold coins), dreidels, and gifts; the colors blue, white, and gold.
- KwanzaMkeka (straw placemat), Mazao (fruits and vegetables), Vibunzi/Muhindi (ears of corn), Kikombe cha umoja (communal unity cup), Kinara and Mishumaa saba (candle holder with seven candles, one black, three red, and three green), and Zawadi (gifts that are enriching); the colors red, black, and green.
- Winter SolsticeYule log; boughs of laurel, evergreen, and holly; good-luck gifts of fruit, cakes, candles, dolls, jewelry, and incense; mistletoe; and colored lights; the colors green, brown, and white.
The best holiday parties are those at which the hostess has a gift for every guest, even the unexpected. For your close friends, purchase gifts as you normally would. For more casual friends, significant others, co-workers, or neighbors, pick up inexpensive ($5 to $15) gifts you wouldn't mind receiving yourself, such as bath products, coffee, coffee cups, fruit, nuts, candy, CDs, DVDs, books, candles, incense, photo frames or small albums, kitchen gadgets, socks, slippers, note paper, cards, journals, or food items. Select gender-neutral gifts and eschew holiday-themed gifts, as you don't want to guess at your guests' religious beliefs. Also, remember to pick up and wrap about five extra gifts for unexpected guests.
To save a great deal of time and money, shop for your holiday gifts all year around. As you browse in discount stores, keep your eyes out for inexpensive, gender-neutral, quality gifts, such as those listed previously. In addition to keeping a well-stocked gift closet, you'll have quite a few gifts amassed by December.
Music and Entertainment
Choose multicultural holiday music. Although Christmas CDs are everywhere, you might have a more difficult time finding party music to represent Hanukah, Kwanza, and Winter Solstice. Here are a few ideas:
- A Winter's Night, Ensemble Galilei
- Happy Hanukah, Judy Rubenstein
- Africa, Putumayo
- A Jazz Celebration of Christmas, Chanukah & Kwanza, Lynette Washington, Long, Long Ago
If you are gathering together people who know one another well enough to give each other gifts (possibly several different groups of people), let your guests know you'll be hosting a gift exchange. People might wonder if they're supposed to bring gifts for everyone or if you are planning a "Secret Santa" exchange, so explain on your invitations that although you'll be giving out gifts to everyone, your guests only need bring gifts for those people to whom they'd normally give holiday gifts, if they choose. A few hours into the party, turn down the music and gather for your exchange.
If you don't want to make an activity of the gift giving, simply give guests their gifts throughout the party, spending a few minutes with each guest or group of people.
More on: December Holidays
Reproduced from Plan a Fabulous Party In No Time, by Tamar Love, by permission of Pearson Education. Copyright © 2005 by Que Publishing.


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I'm a bit miffed really. I've been researching Pano heads for a while and decided on the Nodal Ninja. Just out of curiosity, I tossed "nodal" into ebay and found a new NN3 not far away in Australia.
It sold for nearly new price!
And I got up at 5 in the morning to bid on it. There were three people throwing bids in in the last two seconds or less.
Oh well. Guess I'll get a brand new one at some point. The competition is a good way of tossing fate into the bargain.


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Behavioral Health System Performance Framework and Dashboard
The Behavioral Health Performance Framework is a collection of key metrics that illustrate the operations and outcomes of behavioral health activities throughout the State of Arizona. It was developed by ADHS/DBHS staff, peers, and behavioral health professionals to serve several purposes:
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By covering a broad spectrum of performance measures including system outcomes, network size, client satisfaction, service planning, care coordination and service utilization, the Framework assists ADHS/DBHS in strategic planning for the development of interventions to improve performance.
The performance measures are organized into four categories: Outcomes (Impact on Quality of Life), Access to Services, Service Delivery, and Coordination/Collaboration. Associated with each category are a Data Dictionary, with details about the collection and generation of the information used to derive the measure, and a Source Data file with the raw numbers used for calculations. Those files are available through links from each category page.
Delivery of Behavioral Health Services
For contracting purposes, ADHS/DBHS divides the state geographically into six Geographic Service Areas (GSAs). ADHS/DBHS has issued contracts to Regional Behavioral Health Authorities (RBHAs) to provide services in each GSA. To learn more about GSAs and RBHAs, visit the DBHS About Us page.
RBHA Dashboards for each GSA
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My family loved this, especially my teenage daughter that will not eat meat. I used a low fat mexican cheese blend and green enchilada sauce. It was delicious!
Chilaquiles Casserole
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Our version of this enchilada-style chilaquiles casserole is packed with nutritious beans and vegetables. Canned prepared enchilada sauce has great flavor and keeps the prep time quick. It can vary in heat level so find one that suits your taste. If you want to eliminate the heat altogether, try a green enchilada sauce (which is often milder than red) or substitute two 8-ounce cans of plain tomato sauce.
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A easy and quick meal on the table in 30 mins.
I was a little skeptical of how this would turn out when I was filling my casserole dish, but I was pleasantly suprised. I did modify by omitting the corn and used a can of fire-roasted tomatoes rather than plain, but otherwise stuck to the recipe. It was great!! I love this because it's easy to keep all the ingredients on hand so this may become a staple for us.
Very delicious and good for you!! I added shredded chicken, and layered it on top of the veggie mix. I also did 2 cans of tomatoes. My husband, brother, mom, and friends LOVED it! It made a full 9x13 pan. It was almost overflowing. I have none left after tonight! I will definitely make this again in the near future.
My honey LOVED this. He said he's looking forward to leftovers tomorrow. He was quite surprised when I told him it had zucchini, and he didn't even notice the corn. I reduced the corn by half (because he doesn't like corn), and used more zucchine. I didn't have black beans, so I used a can of black bean soup (Progresso). I didn't have canned diced tomatoes, so I used a jar of mild chunky salsa (Pace), draining off most of the liquid. I added a tsp of dried cilantro, and chopped up pepper jack cheese slices. I will save this in my favorites recipe folder, I will make this again. I calculated svg to be under 250 calories.


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If I have an uncharged floating capacitor and I instantaneously connect one plate to some potential, then that plate will acquire some charge. In practice, the other floating plate will instantaneously rise to the same potential as the first one. But wouldn't this require the second plate having the same charge as the first?
How does instant charging of one plate affect the potential of the other plate of a floating capacitor?
Everything you've probably learned about capacitors, especially including the statement that opposite plates of the capacitor carry opposite charges, applies only to a capacitor in a circuit. If your capacitor is floating, so that the plates are not connected to anything, the charge on the plates is not going to change. If you hook up only one plate to a battery or something that pumps charge into it, the other plate is not magically going to acquire any charge. All that does happen is that the electric field from the first plate will push the electrons of the second plate toward one side or the other. You'll get a separation of the charge along the thickness of the second plate, but the total amount of charge on the plate doesn't change.
The charge will redistribute as follows: $$\frac{+Q}{2}\begin{vmatrix} \frac{+Q}{2} & \frac{-Q}{2} \\ \text{charged plate} & \text{free plate} \end{vmatrix}\frac{+Q}{2} $$ Note that the charges on the inner and outer sides of each plate are distinct. In a capacitor (even one not in a circuit), it is mandatory that the opposing faces have opposite charge, but the charge on the outer surfaces can have any value. This comes from the fact that field inside a metal must be zero (as it cannot have a current through it when considering electrostatic situations). The remaining charge distribution can be found through charge conservation.
Whenever you have a set of n parallel plates, and you give some charges to each of the plates, the easiest way to calculate the distribution is to take the net charge, divide by two, and assign this charge to both of the outer faces of the outermost plates individually. Now use charge conservation per plate and the "opposing faces opposite charge" rule to calculate charges on remaining plates. For example, if I have three plates, and I give a charge Q,2Q,3Q to the plates, the distribution is first written as ($\frac{Q+2Q+3Q}{2}=3Q$): $$3Q | \qquad|\qquad | 3Q$$ Applying charge conservation on outermost plates (their net charge should be Q and 3Q respectively, $$3Q |-2Q \qquad|\qquad 0| 3Q$$ Using the opposite charges rule: $$3Q |-2Q \qquad 2Q|0\qquad 0| 3Q$$
Now, back to your original question. As you can see, the the second plate acquired a charge distribution but not a net charge. Now, the potential of the second plate will be $V_0-\frac{Qd}{2\epsilon_0 A}$ with the usual meanings for symbols ($V_0$ is potential of first plate). This is easily obtained from the fact that net field due to the first plate is$\frac{Q}{2\epsilon_0 A}$. Yes, the second plate has acquired a potential, but there's no harm in that. You do not need a wire to transmit potential; it is transmitted by the field (which in turn is transmitted by EM waves). For example, in an empty region of space, bring a charge q to a distance r from some point. That point just acquired a potential $\frac{q}{4\pi\epsilon_0 r}$, without any physical contact.
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You have three conducting systems, and therefore three relevant potential levels. (A) The potential of the disconnected capacitor plate. (B) The potential of the connected capacitor plate and its wire lead. (C) "Ground" ... When you say that you change the potential of (B), you must be talking about "relative to ground", let's say earth ground.
If you model this as an electronic circuit, you have a large capacitance between (A) and (B) and a negligible (stray) capacitance between (A) and ground. Therefore, it's a voltage divider, and the voltage of (A) is a weighted average between the voltages of (B) and ground. But actually ~100% of the weight is in (B), and ~0% in ground. So (A) will follow the voltage of (B) whatever it is. (A) will not particularly care about the voltage of ground. Why would it? Ground is nothing special, it's just the wiring in the walls.
To sum up, the capacitor is uncharged (no charge on either side of either plate), and (A) follows the voltage of (B). Or if you want to be pedantic, the capacitor is almost uncharged, and just a tiny bit of charge moves off the inside of the plate in (A) and into the (stray) capacitor connecting (A) and ground (i.e. the displaced charge would be coating the outside surface of the plate and all the surfaces of the disconnected lead wire, and meanwhile an equal and opposite charge would be coating pipes and other metal objects in the room).
One aspect of this answer is, changing the voltage of something does not have to be particularly difficult. Unless that something has a large capacitance to ground, it takes only the slightest "nudge" to make its voltage jump up or down by any amount.
Capacitor plates always have nearly same potential, because the plates are at nearly same position in space. Very simple :)
If capacitor plates have large potential difference, then there must be HUGE opposite charges on the plates.


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Both come up with the same reading and definition in Jisho.org (round/circular), and both are listed as common words. Is there any preference between the two or should I simply learn both as interchangeable?
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丸い generally refers to spherical objects like a globe.
円い generally refers to circular objects like a circle drawn on a page. Perhaps also a physical object which is flat and round in shape (a 円 (yen) coin for example)
円 is usually read えん, and reading it まる sounds like ateji, and is less common. 丸い should be used.


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I am searching a file system and utilising grep. I see that everything is working until this error appears:
Grep: /proc/sysrq-trigger: Input/output error
I have found information in various places on the net where others have come accross the same problem, but nowhere really was there anything that worked. I tried 2>/dev/null which supressed the error but didn't 'skip the file' which is really what I hoped it would do. Instead it just stops the process (which is a find/sed process utilising grep). I think there is a way to specify files for exclusion using grep, but I am hoping that there may be a more robust and elegant solution.


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Let $E_1$ and $E_2$ be two Elliptic curve defined over $\mathbb Q$ . Let $p$ be an fixed given odd prime of $\mathbb Q$ at which both the curves have good ordinary reduction. Moreover p-adic $L$-function of $E_1$ and $E_2$ are same . Does it mean that the complex $L$-function of $E_1$ and $E_2$ are also same ? Is there some sufficient criteria on p-adic $L$-functions such that such that the $L$ function is determined?
Hmmm. I am not so sure that the answer is "No". In fact I would rather bet on "Yes".
Of course, I totally agree that the characteristic ideal, i.e. the ideal generated by the $p$-adic $L$-function in $\Lambda$, is not enough to determine the elliptic curve. In particular there are plenty of curves for which the $p$-adic $L$-function is a unit in $\Lambda^{\times}$.
The $p$-adic $L$-function can be viewed as a measure $\mu$ on the Galois group of $F_\infty/\mathbb{Q}$. It is build up from modular symbols of the form $\bigl[\frac{a}{p^k}\bigr]$ as $a$ and $k$ varies over all positive integers. Knowing the measure $\mu$ it is easy to extract the unit root $\alpha$ of the Frobenius at $p$ and hence the value of $a_p$. Then it is not difficult to see from the definition of $\mu$ that one can compute all the modular symbols $\bigl[\frac{a}{p^k}\bigr]$. It is true that these values do not seem to carry the value of $a_{\ell}$ for primes $\ell\neq p$ with them needed to reconstruct the complex $L$-function; we would need modular symbols with $\ell$ in the denominator and I can not see immediately how to get them from $\mu$.
Nevertheless, there are plenty of values of $a$ and $k$. And it would be a big surprise to me if there very by chance two elliptic curves such that all the values of the modular symbols $\bigl[\frac{a}{p^k}\bigr]$ would be equal. But I have no clue of how to prove this intuition.
So I ran through some examples. Let $F_{\infty}$ be the cyclotomic $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extension of $\mathbb{Q}$. I picked a few elliptic curves of small conductor such that
Then I computed the $p$-adic $L$-functions $L_p(T)$ for these with $T$ corresponding to $1+p$ under the cyclotomic character Gal$(F_{\infty}/\mathbb{Q})$. By what I have imposed the leading term will be equal. For each $p^n$-th root of unity $\zeta$, the value of $L_p(\zeta-1)$ is, up to a power of $\alpha$ which is the same for all my curves because I fixed $a_p$, equal to the order of the Tate-Shafarevich group at the $n$-th level; at least if one believes the ($p$-adic version of the) Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. From what I imposed, it is clear that the $p$-primary part will be trivial, but there may be different primes appearing in Sha for various curves. So there is no reason to believe that it would be easy to find two curves that have the same $p$-adic $L$-function in these family that I have chosen.
Here are some examples with $p=5$ and $a_5=-1$.
139a1 $4 + 4 \cdot 5 + 4 \cdot 5^2 + O(5^5) + (1 + 4 \cdot 5 + O(5^2)) \cdot T + (3 + 5 + O(5^2)) \cdot T^2 + (3 + 2 \cdot 5 + O(5^2)) \cdot T^3 + (1 + 5 + O(5^2)) \cdot T^4 + O(T^5)$ 141e1 $4 + 4 \cdot 5 + 4 \cdot 5^2 + O(5^5) + (4 + 3 \cdot 5 + O(5^2)) \cdot T + (3 \cdot 5 + O(5^2)) \cdot T^2 + (5 + O(5^2)) \cdot T^3 + (2 + 4 \cdot 5 + O(5^2)) \cdot T^4 + O(T^5) $ 346a1 $ 4 + 4 \cdot 5 + 4 \cdot 5^2 + O(5^5) + (2 + 5 + O(5^2)) \cdot T + (4 \cdot 5 + O(5^2)) \cdot T^2 + O(5^2) \cdot T^3 + (1 + 2 \cdot 5 + O(5^2)) \cdot T^4 + O(T^5)$ 906i1 $4 + 4 \cdot 5 + 4 \cdot 5^2 + O(5^5) + (3 + O(5^2)) \cdot T + (2 + 5 + O(5^2)) \cdot T^2 + (3 + 5 + O(5^2)) \cdot T^3 + (3 + 2 \cdot 5 + O(5^2)) \cdot T^4 + O(T^5)$
Finally a word why I believe the answer should be Yes. A big dream in the direction of BSD is to hope that there is a link between the $p$-adic and the complex $L$-function. Of course, we should believe that the order of vanishing at $s=1$ should be equal for instance (and this is only known when it is at most a simple zero). I would hope that such a link will be bijective. But that is a mere intuition and hence possibly wrong. But it also explains that the answer to this question might well be very difficult.
Yes. See the Invent. Math. paper by Luo and Ramakrishnan titled "Determination of modular forms by twists of critical L-values". They mention this result on the third page.
This is not a definitive answer to the question. It's goal is simply to establish enough background and perspective on the question to explain why I think that the answer is likely to be ``No''.
The $p$-adic $L$-function does not interpolate infinitely many special values of the $L$-function of $E$. Rather, the $p$-adic $L$-function (and this is a feature of $p$-adic $L$-functions generally) interpolates critical values (in the sense of Deligne) of twisted $L$-functions of $E$. For an elliptic curve, the only critical value is $s = 1$; it is because one allows twisting that one ends up with a function, and not just a number.
A little more precisely: the $p$-adic $L$-function of an elliptic curve $E$ over $\mathbb Q$ interpolates the twisted central values, i.e. the values $L(f\_{\chi},1),$ where $f$ is the weight two modular form attached to $E$ by the modularity theorem for elliptic curves, $\chi$ denotes a character of $p$-power conductor, and $f\_{\chi}$ denotes the twist of $f$ by $\chi$. (There are some extra factors to do with interpolation and so on, which I will ignore here.)
More precisely again, supposing that $E$ has good ordinary reduction at $p$ (and perhaps some other technical conditions which I'll suppress) the $p$-adic $L$-function is an element of the completed group ring ${\mathbb Z}\_p[[{\mathbb Z}\_p^{\times}]]$, whose specialization under a finite order character $\chi:{\mathbb Z}\_p^{\times} \rightarrow \overline{\mathbb Q}^{\times}$ is (essentially) the algebraic part of the classical $L$-value $L(f\_{\chi},1)$.
Now the complex $L$-function of $E$ determines (and is determined by) the isogeny class of $E$. The reason for this is that a consideration of the Euler product allows one to determine the traces of all Frobenius elements on the Tate modules of $E$, and hence by Faltings' theorem (the Tate conjecture) determine $E$ up to isogeny. On the other hand, the $p$-adic $L$-function does not have a corresponding Euler product, and so it is not clear (to me, at least) that it determines the $p$-adic Tate module of $E$ (and hence $E$, up to isogeny, or equivalently, the complex $L$-function of $E$).
One complication (at least at a psychological level) in thinking about this question is that in Iwasawa theory one often just thinks about the ideal in ${\mathbb Z}\_p[[{\mathbb Z}\_p^{\times}]]$ that is generated by the $p$-adic $L$-function, since it is this ideal which is (according to the main conjecture) supposed to relate to the Selmer group of $E$ over the $p$-adic cyclotomic tower. And this ideal surely won't determine $E$ up to isogeny; it is much too coarse a piece of information (e.g. it could just be the unit ideal in many cases, say if $E$ has no points over ${\mathbb Q}(\zeta\_p)$ and the $p$-torsion part of Sha$(E)$ over this field is trivial (and maybe some condition on Tamagawa numbers).)
The $p$-adic $L$-function carries more information than this ideal, of course; it really does know about all those special values. But it's not clear to me exactly what to do with this information. So while I'm pretty sure that the answer to your question is ``No'', I'm not sure how to actually prove it either way.
Yes, it is true that the $p$-adic $L$-function of an elliptic curve $E$ over $\mathbf{Q}$ determines the isogeny class of $E$. As mentioned in the Luo-Ramakrishnan article pointed out by Idoneal, this follows from analytical results of Rohrlich. I thought I would sketch the argument of Rohrlich because it's interesting.
So, let us assume $L_p(E_1,\cdot)=L_p(E_2,\cdot)$ for two elliptic curves $E_1,E_2$ with good ordinary reduction at $p$. By the interpolation property of the $p$-adic $L$-function, this means that
\begin{equation} \frac{L(E_1,\chi,1)}{\Omega_{E_1}^\pm} = \frac{L(E_2,\chi,1)}{\Omega_{E_2}^\pm} \end{equation} for all Dirichlet characters $\chi$ of $p$-power conductor. Here $\pm = \chi(-1)$ and $\Omega^+$ (resp. $\Omega^{-}$) is the real (resp. imaginary) period of a Néron differential.
Now there is this nice analytical result by Rohrlich (On $L$-functions of elliptic curves and cyclotomic towers, Invent. Mat. 75, 1984) : if $\chi$ is a Dirichlet character of conductor $p^m$, then the average value of $L(E,\chi^{\sigma},1)$, where $\chi^\sigma$ runs through the conjugate characters of $\chi$, tends to $1$ as $m \to +\infty$. This is proved by writing $L(E,\chi,1)$ as a quickly converging series and using clever analytical arguments.
From this we deduce that $\Omega_{E_1}^{\pm}=\Omega_{E_2}^{\pm}$. This implies that there is an isogeny $\varphi : E_1 \to E_2$ (which is a priori defined over $\mathbf{C}$) such that $\varphi^* \omega_{E_2}$ is a non-zero rational multiple of $\omega_{E_1}$. By taking the sums of the conjugates of $\varphi$, we deduce that $E_1$ and $E_2$ are isogenous over $\mathbf{Q}$ (and thus their complex $L$-functions coincide).
Remark : we cannot always deduce that $E_1$ and $E_2$ are isomorphic over $\mathbf{Q}$. For example $E_1=15a1$ and $E_2=15a4$ are $2$-isogenous and have the same Néron periods $\Omega_E^{\pm}$, so they have the same $p$-adic $L$-function, but they are not isomorphic. To me this rather indicates that the definition of $p$-adic $L$-function is not the right one (as pointed out by Olivier in his comment). If we want a theory of $p$-adic $L$-functions which looks like as much as possible as the theory of complex $L$-functions, then the $p$-adic $L$-function should be invariant under isogeny.