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For App Makers, China Is Untapped and Untamed
China is emerging as the next battleground for global app makers—but cracking the world's largest smartphone market is proving to be vexing.
App makers must navigate dozens of app stores with looser rules than in the U.S., fend off a proliferation of cloned apps, and steer around a thicket of regulations and intense competition from local developers.
What's more, companies that charge for their apps are finding they need to get more creative about business models in China since users there are accustomed to getting most digital content free.
ZeptoLab UK Ltd. found this out firsthand when it launched puzzle game "Pudding Monsters" in China last year. Weeks before the launch, the firm scrambled to integrate with payments systems for multiple app stores, with each offering different ways for users to pay for unlocking new levels and virtual items.
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Then, to combat rampant app piracy, ZeptoLab decided to distribute authorized versions of the app to forums and other free download sites where they knew Chinese consumers would be hunting for the game.
"It is the same work you have to do everywhere else—times 10," said Misha Lyalin, chief executive of ZeptoLab, known for its popular "Cut the Rope" game. That app has more daily active users in China than any other country.
ZeptoLab's experience is typical for the growing number of app makers targeting China. These companies know they must tap the world's most populous country before U.S. growth slows, but the path to making money isn't so obvious.
"There's a U.S.-sized population of high-income, educated users who could become customers in China," said Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote Corp., maker of a digital note-taking app.
But while he projects China will leapfrog Japan this year to become Evernote's second-biggest market behind the U.S., he said, "It could all fall apart tomorrow. There is so much uncertainty everywhere," including regulation and changing tastes.
Evernote, based in Redwood City, Calif., established an office in Beijing in May and expects to double its staff there to 24 people this year. Last year, the company launched a version of its service hosted in China and took an investment from Chinese private-equity firm CBC Capital. Mr. Libin said growth requires building ties with local developers and app stores—and patience. Mr. Libin said users aren't upgrading from free to paid versions at the same rate as the U.S.
The bulk of the apps business has historically been in the U.S., where companies like Apple Inc. AAPL -0.12 % and Google Inc.kicked off the craze years ago. North America represented 34% of the $14 billion in app-related revenues in 2012, down from 41% in 2011, according to ABI Research.
Now app makers are increasingly chasing the surge of smartphone users elsewhere, and particularly in China, which has surpassed the U.S. in smartphone shipments.
In China, app makers face competition from local apps built by companies like Tencent Holdings Ltd. TCEHY 0.00 % and Sina Corp. SINA -2.05 % , which add new features quickly. They are also more attuned to Chinese users' tastes, offering more interactive features and expressive, animated icons.
And revenue from apps sold in China still lag many other markets. Apps that include virtual currency tend to work better than paid models, said Christine Lee, who runs partner relations for app-marketing firm Tapjoy Inc.
The San Francisco firm said it has dozens of clients experimenting with new ways to make money from Chinese users, including offering free digital content in exchange for engaging with an ad or downloading an app. Apple has cracked down against the latter—and doesn't allow apps to give users virtual currency in exchanging for downloading an app. But other app stores don't have such rules, Ms. Lee said.
App distribution in China isn't the two-horse race it is in the U.S. Apple launched a localized Chinese app store that abides by government rules in 2010; CEO Tim Cook has been bullish on the market for Apple overall, saying on a recent earnings call "it's clear there is a lot of potential there." Google hasn't launched its Play app store in China, though consumers in China can access a version based in Hong Kong.
Rather, most of the activity happens through app stores operated by wireless carriers, Internet companies and startups jockeying to stand out by offering unique promotions. Many target Android apps or iPhones that have been modified to download apps without going through the app store.
Beijing-based AppChina allows users to download some 120,000 apps from its website and points to other sites with about 400,000 others that can be downloaded. The two-year-old service also offers reviews and editorial content. Unlike Google Play and Apple's app store, developers can pay to have their app promoted via an ad within the app store. Developers on average pay one to five renminbi (16 cents to 80 cents) per download depending on the app.
Still, many app makers said the growth opportunities make navigating the unfamiliarities of the Chinese app market worthwhile. At Fotopedia, which makes photo travel magazine apps, the company said China became its largest market last year, representing 20% of visits, compared with 14% from the U.S. At the beginning of 2011, China was Fotopedia's 10th-biggest market.
Christophe Daligault, senior vice president of global business for Fotopedia parent Fotonauts Inc., said Apple helped drive the growth by promoting Fotopedia's ad-supported iPhone and iPad apps in its Chinese app store. Now Fotopedia is planning to integrate with Chinese social networks like Renren Inc. RENN -4.68 % and Sina Corp.'s Weibo, and to hire its first employees to focus on the country this year.
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Fotopedia's Chinese apps are free with ads like most of its other apps, although Mr. Daligault said the ad prices are lower than in Japan and Europe and the U.S. He expects those prices to improve as the company develops relationships with ad networks that sell globally.
"China is a really big deal for us," Mr. Daligault said, adding he believes that its apps do well in the country because they are visual.
Despite the hassles, entrepreneurs and investors are more optimistic about U.S. companies' chances in the Chinese app business than Web businesses that have tried to enter the market in the past.
Angel investor and Flipboard adviser Robin Chan said mobile app businesses have a good shot at being successful in China because Apple and Google can help bring products to China faster. "When you launch in the [Apple] App Store you are instantly global," he said. Flipboard, the popular media-reading app, has struck partnerships with stores including Wandoujia and App China in the country, which is now its third largest market by downloads.
For Chinese consumers, the more choices, the merrier. Roger Zhou, a 28-year-old product manager for a soon-to-be launched travel startup in Beijing, said he enjoys using the growing number of non-Chinese apps like Path Inc. and Facebook Inc. FB -0.85 % 's Instagram.
"These apps are beautiful," Mr. Zhou said. But he noted that Chinese apps, like messaging service Tencent's Weixinand an app from video site Sohu.com Inc. SOHU -1.53 % are more popular among its friends because people have more friends on them and they are faster to use.
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We lived on the second floor of an old house full of people. The family below us was led by a powerful matriarch. We all called her Miss Lucy. She had a heavy body and uncooperative legs, which made her movements labored but meaningful. When she was motivated enough to stand up, you knew that she meant something. There was a constant bustle of her children, the children of her children, and the children of others left in her care. Silence was impossible. Even when most of us were settling into sleep, the floorboards creaked mysterious sighs. The house seemed to always be readjusting itself, perhaps preparing for the next activity. I was around seven years old. I listened to the sounds of the house and imagined them into the voice of God, dutifully responding to my prayers.
My mother told me that in the Bible, Joseph heard the voice of God as a child. I found it remarkable how vocal God seemed to be in the scriptures. I was certain that my mother would be proud of me if I was one of the rare humans of the 20th century to whom God spoke directly. I knelt before my bedroom closet, dutifully reciting prayers and waiting for a sign. I hoped that the murmurs of that house would somehow gather and blend into a sacred voice.
Back then, I had no doubts about prayer. Prayer was the channel, as legitimate as a radio or television station, for projecting our little human hopes and dreams to the divine. My grandmother prayed habitually, before bed every night and at noon, in between the Price is Right and the CBS soap operas. She told me that that, because I was a child, my prayers were particularly potent. I had an express line to God's hear. I could skip the hold music. This made me feel powerful. I used that power to get things that I wanted. Most memorably, I stopped my grandmother's smoking habit by insisting that she repeat my prayer to God pledging never to smoke again. She claimed that cigarettes subsequently made her feel sick. I basked in triumph.
Only years later, during puberty, did I come to question prayer. Most of this change stemmed from the messages about sex and gender that I was receiving, which didn't jibe with my own growing curiosity and desire for freedom. It was around that time that my mother, grief-stricken from the sudden death of her brother, joined a very strict and incredibly small storefront Pentecostal Holiness church in Jamaica, Queens, which forbade everything from premarital sex to makeup and nail polish. This church presented a far more extreme and fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible than the more joyful Southern Baptist tradition from my grandmother that I had known and was baptized into. Often I was one of the only young people at my mother's church. In fact, many in the congregation was a good 50 to 60 years older than me.
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I watched unmarried congregation members pray away their urges for sex. Visitors would come and tell us about the effectiveness of camps where they were sent to entreaty God to make them stop being gay. Many things I seemed interested in, like music and art, were condemned as "worldly." I felt cloistered away from life among people grimly focused on the passageway to death. Meanwhile, I was reading books about womens rights and beginning to think of myself as an activist. I was not only unimpressed with my mother's new faith, I was turned off from Christianity and, consequently the act of public prayer. Later, in college, I developed a personal meditation practice but I no longer felt any compulsion to join others in prayer or call myself a Christian. I wavered between feeling agnostic and ambiguously spiritual.
As I grow older and face more life-changing experiences, I find myself again in the presence of prayer. And with the unflinching determination to channel energy into anything hopeful, I have become far less cynical. When faced with inexplicable and dire adversity, who can reject any positive force that might put a wedge in the misery. What is prayer in its purest form after all but love projected? Why should I not find my own way, however secular, to contribute to a collective appeal for cosmic mercy?
Last year was a time of brutal reminders of mortality. Within a few months, there was a friend around my age who developed an inexplicable brain infection and fell into a coma; a tearful memorial service for a very beautiful but tragically ill baby girl born to one of my closest friends; a contemplative funeral for my mother's 98-year-old mentor from that same storefront Pentecostal Holiness church; and a sudden health crisis that threatened the life of my 34-year-old first cousin.

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I have been using a persistent mode USB when the hard disk of my laptop crashed. I like to mount the USB files on another computer running Ubuntu 12.10. From what I found after internet search, the file system is saved as squashfs file. The only squashfs file was /casper/filesystem.squashfs . I mounted this file using disks application (it used /dev/loop0 device ). However, I could not find the files that I had saved while running from the USB.
The files were saved in /home/ubuntu/Downloads. The mounted filesystem has no folder under the home directory. What should I do to retrieve the file on this computer. I do not have the permission to reboot this computer from the persistent USB. I just need the files saved inside the persistent file.


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Vegan Hacker is a really fun vegan (no meat, milk, dairy, eggs, etc) food hacking event that happens on the last Tuesday of every month. The goal is to get together and "veganize" a traditionally non-vegan food. Previous Vegan Hacker events have made twinkies, corn dogs, fondue, burgers, and more! Everyone is welcome to participate. Contact us if you have questions, comments, or an idea for a hack!
The September 25th 2012 Vegan Hack is Corndogs and Donuts! OMG! RSVPs are appreciated, but not mandatory-- see our website for instructions!
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STEUBENVILLE - Trent Mays, a former Steubenville High School student-athlete convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl, must register as a sex offender every six months for the next 20 years, Judge Thomas Lipps ruled Friday.
In March, Lipps found Mays and fellow former student-athlete Ma'Lik Richmond delinquent, the juvenile system's equivalent of a guilty verdict. Richmond was sentenced to at least a year in a juvenile facility. Mays received a minimum two-year sentence because he also was convicted of sending a nude cell phone photo of the girl.
During the hearing inside Jefferson County Juvenile Court on Friday, Lipps classified Mays, 17, of Bloomingdale as a tier II sex offender. A tier III classification would require Mays to register every 90 days for life, while tier I would require him to register once annually for 10 years.
Mays will not appear in an online sex offender registry, however, as is the case for adults, and he may seek to have the court reduce the classification to tier I or remove it altogether after serving a portion of his sentence.
Lipps again said he intends to authorize transferring Mays from the facility in which he is currently housed to Lifehouse Youth Center at Paint Creek in Bainbridge, Ohio. The judge lauded the Paint Creek facility's sex offender rehabilitation program. The Ohio Department of Youth Services must approve the transfer.
Ohio Assistant Attorney General Marianne Hemmeter argued to have Mays classified under the strictest classification, tier III.
Trial evidence revealed Mays joked about the alleged victim following the crime, which Hemmeter said showed his callous disregard for the Weirton girl.
His unapologetic attitude during a recent interview with DYS personnel bordered on sociopathic, Hemmeter contended.
"Here's a smart boy, a good student, the quarterback of his football team, and when he's given an opportunity to say, 'I wish I could take back what I did,' he doesn't. He's still blaming the victim. That shows an absolute lack of remorse," Hemmeter added.
Hemmeter also brought up the nude pictures of the victim that Mays sent to others. There is no way to know how many people have seen that and other photos of the then-unresponsive girl, she asserted.
"For the rest of her life, she will have to go to places in public wondering if somebody there has seen her naked, passed out and in a very vulnerable position," Hemmeter said. "That will haunt her for the rest of her life."
The victim's mother, who was in the courtroom with several other members of the girl's family, also implored the judge to impose the tier III classification. She said the publicly shared pictures of her daughter have amounted to a life sentence for the girl.
"This will never leave my daughter. Therefore, it should never leave him," the girl's mother told Lipps.
Mays' attorney, Adam Nemann, lobbied for the most lenient tier I classification. He pointed to Mays' good behavior and multiple commendations he received from supervisors while incarcerated. Mays also stood and told the judge he is remorseful for the crime, although he may not show it.
Richmond, 16, of Steubenville also was scheduled to be classified in court Friday, but Lipps continued that hearing, according to the Ohio Attorney General's Office. The office did not disclose a reason for the continuance. Richmond's attorney, Walter Madison, did not return a call seeking comment Friday.
A special grand jury empaneled to investigate whether other crimes were committed in the case will not resume hearing testimony on Monday as was scheduled, the Attorney General's Office announced Friday.


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Let $m$ and $n$ be natural numbers such that $n\geqslant m$ and $m\equiv n \pmod 2$. Then, there exists an irreducible polynomial $f\in\mathbb{Q}\left[X\right]$ of degree $n$ such that $f$ has exactly $m$ real roots.
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Three-Legged Race
- Scarves or fabric strips long enough for tying legs together (one for each pair of children)
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- Divide children into pairs, matching children of similar height and build.
- Have each player stand next to his partner and put his arm around his partner's waist.
- The partners' inside legs (the right leg of the partner on the left and the left leg of the partner on the right) should be touching. Tie the partners' inside legs together so each pair of children has three legs rather than four.
- Use two ropes to mark a starting line and a finish line.
- Have the players line up at the starting line. At your signal, have players walk or run as fast as they can to the finish line.
- It sounds easy, but it takes practice to make two legs work as one! The winners are the pair of children who cross the finish line first.
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Cooper, Hickman Homer, Trojans Stumble against Tusculum, 9-5March 21, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Despite a late rally led by sophomore Steven Cooper's fourth home run of the season, Anderson University baseball was unable to finish the comeback, as Tusculum crossed four runs in the top of the ninth to earn the 9-5 victory over the Trojans Friday evening at Anderson Memorial Stadium.
With the setback, AU stumbles to 10-19 for the season and 7-9 in conference play, while the Pioneers, who were projected to finish second in this year's SAC Preseason Coaches' Poll, improves to 18-10 and over .500 in the conference at 8-7.
Cooper polished off the night with three hits, including an eighth inning home run over the left-center field wall for his fourth home run in Anderson's last six games. Also adding a double in the fourth inning, the sophomore now has multi-hits in four of his last six contests, increasing his average to .357 for the year.
Also posting multi-hits for the evening was junior middle infielder Brett Cash, finishing 2-for-4 with an RBI in the sixth inning. Senior outfielders Josh Hickman and Paul Como belted out AU's other extra-base hits for the game, as Hickman hammered his first home run of the season over the left-center field wall in the sixth inning. Como tallied his team-high 12th double of the year in the fourth inning, scoring Hickman and Cooper for the Trojans' first runs of the contest.
Sophomore right-hander Mitchell Cooksey came on in relief for starter Spencer Earle in the fifth inning. Cooksey tossed 4.1 innings and allowed just one hit. Despite the solid effort in relief, Cooksey's one hit eventually turned into the game-winning run, as Tusculum's Chris Waylock scored on a Jeremiah Tullidge double off reliever JT Trujillo. Following the run, the Pioneers tacked on three more to seal the victory.
Tusculum also received solid pitching relief as right-hander Clark Ayers completed 2.2 innings and struck out seven Trojan hitters. Fellow right-hander Billy Sivyer came in for Ayers in the eighth inning and faced five AU hitters and did not allow a hit.
The visitors outhit the Trojans 10-9 as four Pioneers recorded multi-hit games, led by Heath Comerford's 2-for-4 performance with three RBI and a run scored and leadoff batter Tullidge's 2-for-4 evening with two doubles.
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After two years of discussions, public forums, more than 600 signatures and a unanimous vote of the Green Hills Area Education Association Board of Directors last Monday, the Nishna Valley and Malvern School Districts will put the matter of their proposed reorganization into one district to a public vote on Dec. 7.
Nearly 20 years in the making, the ground-breaking ceremony for the Highway 34 - Missouri River bridge will finally take place Thursday afternoon.
The top ranked Glenwood boys cross country team traveled to Pella on Saturday for the Pella Invitational.
The Rams raced through the competition, which included No. 4 ranked Knoxville and the host No. 6 Little Dutch, for their second straight meet title to open the season.
Johnny Fuller led the Rams to the team championship by running the course in near record time of 16:02. Glenwood finished with 53 team points to easily out-distance runner up Pella's 66 points and Knoxville's 68.
St. Albert scored early and often Friday night as the Falcons rolled to a lopsided 42-7 win over Glenwood in the Rams' 2010 home opener.
TABOR - First and goal at the three yard line. A dive up the middle is thwarted by the Fremont-Mills defense as the first half clock runs out, leaving the Knights trailing 14-8.
The Knights' stop that ended the half wasn't exactly a "play of the game" type but as far as momentum goes, there was no bigger play in the game for Knight head coach Jeremy Christiansen whose team battled back from from a two-touchdown deficit in a 20-8 victory over Adair-Casey on Friday.
Rural Silver City resident Jack May said Monday that Mills County's reluctance to repeal its building permit ordinances is behind his decision to run as Independent candidate by petition in the Nov. 2 election for a seat on the county board of supervisors.
Longtime Mills County resident, Craig Florian of Glenwood recently announced his decision to run for the Office of Mills County Treasurer in the Nov. 2 general election. Florian, an Independent, will be on the ballot as a candidate by petition. He's be opposing Republican Becky Dix Killpack.
Some health issues have forced Mills County Attorney Marci McClellan to terminate her re-election campaign.
McClellan formally withdrew from the Nov. 2 general election in a letter submitted to Mills County Auditor and Election Commissioner Carol Robertson on Aug. 20.
The Nov. 2 general election ballot for residents of the city of Glenwood will include a $2.2 million bond issue referendum that would provide partial funding for the construction of an outdoor swimming pool and aquatic center adjacent to the Mills County YMCA.
SERGEANT BLUFF - Michael Lawler's field goal with :50 left in the game and a stifling defensive effort carried Glenwood to a 9-7 come-from-behind season-opening victory at Sergeant Bluff-Luton on Friday.
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Can I buy a horse for my follower? I have my own horse, but I feel sorry for Lydia, and she lags behind me quite a bit.
Current mods that can allow you to buy horses for your followers to use:
Mounted Followers
Horses For Followers
The HorseRidingFollowers mod description also states that you can make your follower ride non-horse mounts (like Mammoths and Wolfs) with this mod (and also, probably other similar mods): Like a Boss
Sadly no. I don't see this being an official Bethesda/Obsidian-released DLC either. The PC version has a fairly large modding community, so there might be something in that avenue, but I don't know if it'll be high on the list of requests.
As for console commands in the PC version, there's no way to get a follower to ride a horse.
No, not yet, but it is high on a list of mod requests.
For the PC at least, (if there will be modding for the console that will be a long wait) the Creation Kit will be released in January, the console one has not yet been verified for a release date yet. Already, people are getting ready to make a mod for this reason, but they lack the resources. If you have a PC, check the Nexus in mid January.


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WHEELING - The game doesn't know when the game is important.
That was among the messages Pittsburgh Pirates Manager Clint Hurdle shared Monday with those in attendance at the Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner at Wheeling Park's White Palace, where he served as the event's guest speaker.
Introduced by Robert Nutting, chairman of the Pirates and Pirates Charities, Hurdle, the club's third-year manager, has helped it to a significant turnaround in his first two-plus seasons. On Monday, Hurdle said taking things as they come - playing only against the game and giving each moment equal focus - is what's important.
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Representatives of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Pirates Charities receive a donation from the Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce prior to its annual dinner Monday. Taking part, from left, are Lisa Mullin, chamber vice president of operations; Pirates Manager Clint Hurdle; Erikka Storch, chairwoman of the chamber board; Terry Sterling, chamber president; Robert Nutting, chairman of the Pirates and Pirates Charities; and Perry Nardo, general manager of The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register.
"Why does a player have more pressure in the eighth inning with the runner on second and two outs than he does in the first inning with a runner on second with two outs?" Hurdle asked, making the point that both situations should be treated as equally important. "Shouldn't we have the same mindset throughout the game, where we don't add that pressure like we've done here a little bit too much in the past?
"I think last year our guys got (caught) up in those game-changing moments and the people they were engaged with," he added. "Once we've been able to pull back and just play the game, we're getting better at it. The game doesn't know that the game is important."
It was a small, but significant point in a 23-minute speech that focused heavily on leadership, but also showed a side of Hurdle most fans didn't know. Few areas of his life went untouched during his talk - the good or the bad - because he believes in transparency.
Hurdle has a leadership tool he calls "Three Up, Three Down." He said he uses it in every relationship he has, including those with his children and his fellow coaches. Following that method, he shares three things he thinks a person is doing well, and three areas they might want to improve upon.
"If you're in a leadership position, think about this," Hurdle said. "If it doesn't electrocute you, you're probably in a good place. ... Because if you're truly transparent, your actions will speak louder than your words, and this will bond you with your people better than you've ever been bonded because you have to listen to them, listen to their perspective, and not argue with them about their perspective."
Hurdle recalled words of praise that had been offered for Robert "Scat" Scatterday, who was honored with the Kathy Fortunato Community Service Award during the evening. Scatterday, race director of the Ogden Newspapers Half Marathon Classic Run and Walk and Wheeling-Ohio County Rails to Trails project engineer, was universally referred to as an inspiration for the work he does and the person he is.
"It's one of my goals with what I do," Hurdle said, "to try and make a difference somehow, some way in somebody's life today. You never know who that's going to be, so you've got to use your ears and you've got to use your eyes.
"What I've found out at the age of 55 is I don't know it all," he continued. "I don't have all the answers. I need to start using my eyes better, my ears better. I need to start paying attention to the people around me. Listen to other people's perspective. And do one thing at a time. I found out when I multi-task, I'm multi-mediocre.
"Every time I do more than one thing, I'm half good at it. When I take my time to do one thing, I'm at my best."
In other words, he tries to stay in the moment, to keep the game from knowing when the game is important.
The Kathy Fortunato Community Service Award was established by the chamber in Fortunato's honor following her death in 2006.


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Whenever I run into an expressions of the form $x_1y_2 - x_2y_1$, I usually have no problem finding some pertinent way to interpret it as the area of the parallelogram subtended by some two vectors.
But here's a case in which I can't figure out how to apply such an interpretation.
The line passing through points $[x_1, y_1]$ and $[x_2, y_2]$ consists of all those points $[x, y]$ that satisfy the equation
$$(y_1 - y_2)\,x + (x_2 - x_1)\,y + (x_1y_2 - x_2y_1) = 0$$
Now, in expressions of the form $A\,x + B\,y + C = 0$, I always interpret the $C$ term as a "location parameter", i.e. something "one-dimensional" somehow. And yet, if $C = (x_1y_2 - x_2y_1)$, as the above expression says, it seems to corresponds more to an area.
How can these two seemingly contradictory intuitions be reconciled?


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David Allen has described the weekly review as key to GTD, but it's been the hardest part for me to adopt. When things get really busy, I am usually able to keep up with a minimum amount of collecting, processing, tickling, and doing -- but the weekly review often falls by the wayside. As a result, I'm practicing good hygiene, but not gaining traction on some long-term goals.
What I've tried:
- Schedule a specific, dedicated time for it. (Often blown away by unexpected incoming priorities).
- Move the scheduled time to one that's easier to stick to. (It's hard to find a timeslot that is consistently both free, and that I will arrive at with enough energy to actually do the reviewing.)
- Just commit to "doing it some time on Sunday." (I'm too likely to never have done it by the time the day is over.)
- Try to remember how great I felt when I did the last one. (This actually helps for a while, but when something else pre-empts a review, it's very hard to get back into the groove the next week.)
- Tie it to another habit. (like leaving a note in my lunch bag, etc.)
But I keep falling off of the wagon.
What else can I do to increase the chances that I'll do it regularly?


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LOS ANGELES � In the unlikely event that Seth MacFarlane comes looking to you for a job, it might be simpler to sort through his qualifications by asking what he can�t do, rather than what he can.
TV�s animation king with �Family Guy,� �American Dad!� and �The Cleveland Show,� MacFarlane adds to his renaissance man r�sum� as writer, director, producer and voice star of �Ted,� a raunchy but warmhearted tale of a grown man (Mark Wahlberg) and his best buddy, a talking teddy bear.
Leading up to his big-screen debut, the 38-year-old MacFarlane has been a TV hit-maker and animation voice star since his mid-20s, a career whose roots go back to when he started drawing at age 2. He�s done sold-out live musical comedy shows, which led to last year�s Grammy-nominated album �Music Is Better Than Words,� with MacFarlane crooning Sinatra-style orchestra standards.
He�s even a bit of a science nerd, growing up on Carl Sagan�s books and now overseeing �Cosmos: A Time-Space Odyssey,� a follow-up to the late astronomer�s documentary series about the nature of the universe.
So what can�t MacFarlane do?
�I�m a terrible tennis player � terrible, horrific,� MacFarlane said.
�I tend to like to try things that I haven�t done before, for better or worse. I go into new things not afraid to fail. I went into this project (�Ted�) with that in mind, I went into the album project with that attitude. I like things that scare me a little bit.�
Loaded with MacFarlane�s weird, irreverent humor, the potty-mouthed �Ted� has the ingredients of a sleeper hit amid the summer�s superhero flicks, action tales and animated family franchises.
The premise is clever and different, and Wahlberg and MacFarlane�s title character make for one of the freshest pairs ever in a party-boy buddy comedy. Ted�s a horny little hell-raiser, messing around with hookers, smoking pot, snorting coke and dropping F-bombs like confetti.
He�s basically the slacker roommate who won�t move out, mucking up the relationship between childhood pal John (Wahlberg) and his girlfriend (Mila Kunis, one of MacFarlane�s voice stars on �Family Guy�).
Rated R for its language, �Ted� allows MacFarlane to push beyond the limits of what he can do on network television while maintaining a twisted sweetness to the story. He likes to think of it as a family comedy for families whose parents don�t mind swearing around their kids.
�My parents were OK with me watching a lot of things when I was a kid because they were around to explain,� MacFarlane said. �They swore, and they were very clear about what was right and wrong, but they didn�t view bad language as the worst offense in the world. My mother would stub her toe and let loose a string of obscenities that you wouldn�t believe.�
MacFarlane�s parents hung on to his earliest artistic endeavors, copying recognizable imitations of Bugs Bunny and Fred Flintstone when he was 2. He jokes that he knew in the womb that he wanted to go into animation and entertainment, and he was drawing and performing in musical theater throughout childhood.
He studied animation at the Rhode Island School of Design before creating the �Family Guy� pilot for Fox in the late 1990s.
To pump up his performances for musical numbers on �Family Guy,� MacFarlane later trained with professional voice coaches. Kunis was floored at how well he sang the first time they were doing a number for �Family Guy.�
�I don�t think there is anything that he can�t do. I truly don�t. Of all the people that I know, he is one of the most-talented human beings, and not like, talented in the way that he�ll try anything. But he�ll try and succeed, he�s so good,� Kunis said.
Along with voicing Ted, MacFarlane provided the basis for the bear�s movements through motion-capture, his gestures and body language recorded digitally as a foundation that was layered over by computer animation to present a lifelike talking creature.
MacFarlane acted out Ted�s dialogue off-camera for his stars while he was directing the film.
�I�d actually love to see him in front of the camera, as well,� Wahlberg said. �He�s a really funny guy and an amazing actor. I was kind of surprised and jealous on a daily basis at what he is capable of doing and how good he does it.�
A fan of �talking creatures that have no business talking,� such as the cows in Gary Larson�s �Far Side� comics, MacFarlane originally conceived of �Ted� as an animated TV series.
As digital cameras and animation expanded the possibilities for film, MacFarlane decided to try it on the big-screen in a live-action movie instead.
�I had seen a lot of use of that technology in action movies and adventure movies but never in a comedy,� MacFarlane said, �and I wanted hopefully to break some new ground.�
And add a few more things to the list of things he knows how to do.


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One key to the continued health of Magic is diversity. It is vitally important to ensure that there are multiple competitive decks for the tournament player to choose from. Why? If there were only a single viable deck to play, tournaments would quickly stagnate as players were forced to either play that deck or a deck built specifically to beat it. In addition, different players enjoy playing different types of decks. If there are plenty of viable options to play, there will be more players at more tournaments.
To help maintain the diversity and health of the Magic tournament environment, a system of banned and restricted lists has been developed. These lists are made up of cards that are either not allowed at all, or allowed only in a very limited manner.
It's important to note a couple of things: First, these lists apply only to Constructed formats and not Limited formats. Second, the banned and restricted lists are format-specific, so a card that is banned in Modern may still be legal to play in Standard.
Banning a card is uncommon. Announcements for changes to the Banned & Restricted lists are done all together on the Monday after a new set's Prerelease, to go into effect with that set's release. This way, the formats you play change as infrequently as possible.
Banned Cards
If a card appears on the banned list for your chosen format, then you may not include that card in your deck or sideboard. Doing so makes your deck illegal to play in any sanctioned tournaments for that format.
Cards are usually banned from play if they enable a deck or play style that heavily skews the play environment. What does that mean? If the card were legal, a competitive player either must be playing it, or must be specifically targeting it with his or her own strategies.
Some cards are banned because they have proven to simply be too powerful in their respective format. While hundreds of hours are spent rigorously playtesting sets before their release, the complexity of Magic makes it nearly impossible to accurately predict all the ways the new cards interact with older ones.
Restricted Cards
If you wish to use a card that's on the restricted list for your chosen format, you may include only a single copy of that card, counting both your main deck and your sideboard. Currently, only the Vintage format uses a restricted list.
There are no cards banned in Standard tournaments.
Magic sets are released in three-set blocks, so playing in this format means you choose a block and only use cards from that block's sets.
The following cards are banned in block-constructed tournaments:
- Intangible Virtue (Innistrad-Avacyn Restored block)
- Lingering Souls (Innistrad-Avacyn Restored block)
- AEther Vial (Mirrodin block)
- Ancient Den (Mirrodin block)
- Arcbound Ravager (Mirrodin block)
- Darksteel Citadel (Mirrodin block)
- Disciple of the Vault (Mirrodin block)
- Great Furnace (Mirrodin block)
- Seat of the Synod (Mirrodin block)
- Tree of Tales (Mirrodin block)
- Vault of Whispers (Mirrodin block)
- Skullclamp (Mirrodin block)
- Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero (Masques block)
- Rishadan Port (Masques block)
- Gaea's Cradle (Urza block)
- Memory Jar (Urza block)
- Serra's Sanctum (Urza block)
- Time Spiral (Urza block)
- Tolarian Academy (Urza block)
- Voltaic Key (Urza block)
- Windfall (Urza block)
- Cursed Scroll (Tempest block)
- Squandered Resources (Mirage block)
- Amulet of Quoz (Ice Age Block)
- Thawing Glaciers (Ice Age block)
- Zuran Orb (Ice Age block)
Revised: April 4, 2016
This format lets you dive deeper into Magic's history, allowing cards from Eighth edition to today.
The following cards are banned:
- Ancient Den
- Birthing Pod
- Blazing Shoal
- Bloodbraid Elf
- Chrome Mox
- Cloudpost
- Dark Depths
- Deathrite Shaman
- Dig Through Time
- Dread Return
- Eye of Ugin
- Glimpse of Nature
- Great Furnace
- Green Sun's Zenith
- Hypergenesis
- Jace, the Mind Sculptor
- Mental Misstep
- Ponder
- Preordain
- Punishing Fire
- Rite of Flame
- Seat of the Synod
- Second Sunrise
- Seething Song
- Sensei's Divining Top
- Skullclamp
- Splinter Twin
- Stoneforge Mystic
- Summer Bloom
- Treasure Cruise
- Tree of Tales
- Umezawa's Jitte
- Vault of Whispers
Revised: April 4, 2016
While Modern lets you play cards from as far back as 2003, Vintage lets you play cards from any set in the 20+ year history of Magic!
The following cards are banned from vintage play:
- Advantageous Proclamation
- Amulet of Quoz
- Backup Plan
- Brago's Favor
- Bronze Tablet
- Chaos Orb
- Contract from Below
- Darkpact
- Demonic Attorney
- Double Stroke
- Falling Star
- Immediate Action
- Iterative Analysis
- Jeweled Bird
- Muzzio's Preparations
- Power Play
- Rebirth
- Secret Summoning
- Secrets of Paradise
- Sentinel Dispatch
- Shahrazad
- Tempest Efreet
- Timmerian Fiends
- Unexpected Potential
- Worldknit
The following cards are restricted, which means you can only have one of them in your main deck and sideboard combined:
- Ancestral Recall
- Balance
- Black Lotus
- Brainstorm
- Chalice of the Void
- Channel
- Demonic Consultation
- Demonic Tutor
- Dig Through Time
- Fastbond
- Flash
- Imperial Seal
- Library of Alexandria
- Lion's Eye Diamond
- Lodestone Golem
- Lotus Petal
- Mana Crypt
- Mana Vault
- Memory Jar
- Merchant Scroll
- Mind's Desire
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Sapphire
- Mystical Tutor
- Necropotence
- Ponder
- Sol Ring
- Strip Mine
- Time Vault
- Time Walk
- Timetwister
- Tinker
- Tolarian Academy
- Treasure Cruise
- Trinisphere
- Vampiric Tutor
- Wheel of Fortune
- Windfall
- Yawgmoth's Bargain
- Yawgmoth's Will
Revised: October 12, 2015
Like Vintage, you can play cards from any set. The twist? A longer banned list makes this format more accessible to new players.
The following cards are banned in legacy tournaments:
- Advantageous Proclamation
- Amulet of Quoz
- Ancestral Recall
- Backup Plan
- Balance
- Bazaar of Baghdad
- Black Lotus
- Brago's Favor
- Bronze Tablet
- Channel
- Chaos Orb
- Contract from Below
- Darkpact
- Demonic Attorney
- Demonic Consultation
- Demonic Tutor
- Dig Through Time
- Double Stroke
- Earthcraft
- Falling Star
- Fastbond
- Flash
- Frantic Search
- Goblin Recruiter
- Gush
- Hermit Druid
- Immediate Action
- Imperial Seal
- Iterative Analysis
- Jeweled Bird
- Library of Alexandria
- Mana Crypt
- Mana Drain
- Mana Vault
- Memory Jar
- Mental Misstep
- Mind Twist
- Mind's Desire
- Mishra's Workshop
- Mox Emerald
- Mox Jet
- Mox Pearl
- Mox Ruby
- Mox Sapphire
- Muzzio's Preparations
- Mystical Tutor
- Necropotence
- Oath of Druids
- Power Play
- Rebirth
- Secret Summoning
- Secrets of Paradise
- Sentinel Dispatch
- Shahrazad
- Skullclamp
- Sol Ring
- Strip Mine
- Survival of the Fittest
- Tempest Efreet
- Time Vault
- Time Walk
- Timetwister
- Timmerian Fiends
- Tinker
- Tolarian Academy
- Treasure Cruise
- Unexpected Potential
- Vampiric Tutor
- Wheel of Fortune
- Windfall
- Worldknit
- Yawgmoth's Bargain
- Yawgmoth's Will
Magic Online-Specific Banned and Restricted Cards
Magic Online formats have their own Banned and Restricted lists. Those lists are maintained on the format pages themselves. Use the links below to view any of those pages.
All sets and cards are allowed in this 40-card minimum format.
Decks must have exactly 60 basic lands and one "Momir Vig" Vanguard card.
Restricts decks to only cards with the common rarity.
Limited to gold-bordered cards, available in Magic Online Planeswalker deck packs.


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Given n iid variables X1 to Xn with an unknown probability distribution, the sample average is an unbiased estimator for the mean of the distribution. Is there some non-trivial probability distribution for which min(X1,...,Xn) is an unbiased estimator? (Non-trivial meaning the variables can have more than one potential value).
No. The minimum as always smaller than or equal to the arithmetic mean, and is strictly smaller with positive probability (i.e., when not all the $X_i$ have the same value). Hence its expected value is strictly smaller than that of the mean.
Not unless n=1 (sorry couldn't resist). Not sure why you're asking this but there do exist f(n,min(X_i)) that work for given distributions. (That is funtions of n and min(X_i) that work). So given only the mean (edit meant min here) and a parametric form of a distribution you can get an unbiassed estimate of the mean. (I think [(n+1)/2]*min(X_i) works for a Uniform(0,theta) for example.
Of course these are going to be much worse (higher variance) estimators than the arithmetic mean because you've thrown away information (the other data).


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Mariinsky Ballet in London August 2009Link to Programme and Booking details
Posted 05 August 2009 - 02:22 PM
Posted 05 August 2009 - 10:33 PM
It's criminal that she, with either Matvienko or Shklyarov, didn't open the season Monday night.
Maybe the choice of the opening cast was done by somebody willing to finally get rid of the anti-ballerina.
The awful critics were more than predictable and Somova was sent naked in front of the firing squad. One could say poor girl, being piteous Im not: at the end of the day she is a strong reason to prevent me to travel to watch the Mariinsky (a friend had her instead of Lopatkina in Swan Lake and is still there crying and screaming ).
The real criminal thing is to waste Shklyarov talent and artistry in such a partnership (my secret dream is to have him leaving from St. Petersburg to be engaged by the Royal Ballet: that would help to resolve another big problem)
Posted 06 August 2009 - 01:15 AM
at the end of the day she is a strong reason to prevent me to travel to watch the Mariinsky (a friend had her instead of Lopatkina in Swan Lake and is still there crying and screaming ).
I'd like to co-sign that. Let's face it the Kirov is notorious for changing casts at the last minute and last year I backed off from Baden Baden for that reason. To replace Lopatkina with Somova is a real slap in the face, a gratuitous insult to the paying audience.
The real criminal thing is to waste Shklyarov talent and artistry in such a partnership
I agree, but to be fair he dances with the others too and is particularly wonderful with Obratzova and Osmolkina; however any male dancer of quality is wasted opposite Somova. I am a huge fan of Igor Kolb and and consequently went to a Somova performance to see him. Needless to say the best things about the partnership were his solos!
Posted 06 August 2009 - 08:00 AM
That's a plausible conspiracy theory. Do we have the Hochhausers to "thank" for underscoring Fateev's protogee to open and close the season - and lead most of the programs in between? Do we have the producers to thank for this ? If so, their plan is working. In a perverse way we owe the Hochhausers a debt of gratitude for speeding up the inevitable.
Maybe the choice of the opening cast was done by somebody willing to finally get rid of the "anti-ballerina."
Posted 06 August 2009 - 08:25 AM
Posted 06 August 2009 - 09:17 AM
"Last autumn, Fateyev promoted Alina Somova to a principal. It was a controversial decision, as there has been a lot of criticism of Somova distorting the classical line in her dancing. Fateyev explained, "I thought that by that time Somova had really grown and deserved the status of a principal."
That's a remarkable statement. Now weigh that statement against the full context of the article.
Maestro Gergiev has gone on record that he's not a balletomane, but he does have general knowledge of the subject as a Russian and as a layperson. He has the highest respect for the Maryinsky Ballet, but admits he's no "expert." Gergiev's main focus is the music, the orchestra and the Opera - and these in no particular order. Gergiev delegates the administration of the ballet to the Deputy Director, and trusts the judgement of that person until he learns otherwise. There's something else that's in play here: Gergiev pays very close attention to bad reviews, and if necessary he (eventually) intervenes. He takes the reputation of the Maryinsky personally. London is important to him: He's also Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Posted 06 August 2009 - 10:23 AM
Maestro Gergiev has gone on record that he's not a balletomane, but he does have general knowledge of the subject as a Russian and as a layperson. He has the highest respect for the Maryinsky Ballet, but admits he's no "expert." Gergiev's main focus is the music, the orchestra and the Opera - and these in no particular order. Gergiev delegates the administration of the ballet to the Deputy Director, and trusts the judgement of that person until he learns otherwise. There's something else that's in play here: Gergiev pays very close attention to bad reviews, and if necessary he (eventually) intervenes. He takes the reputation of the Maryinsky personally. London is important to him: He's also Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Still off topic. If he pays that much attention to reviews and his status in London Cygnet, I wonder how he responded to the criticism of his conducting of the Ring last week and the criticism of his singers one of whom got booed? He is the Artistic and General Director of the theatre and curiously Yury Fateev has been given the curious and seemingly lower status compared to the past, of Deputy Director of the Ballet Company of the Mariinsky Theatre not Artistic Director.
Posted 06 August 2009 - 10:56 AM
and it has evolved into what its become, since he first mounted it a few years ago. London saw the latest installment. He takes great pride in his Ring Cycle and his singers. When he has a program and he believes in it, he won't be deterred. For example, do you remember the Shostakovich opera and ballet season at the Coliseum a few summers ago? That didn't go well, especially when the Maryinsky companies appeared at the same time as the Bolshoi at Covent Garden. Yet, his questionable choice of programs didn't stop him from pushing it. Call it tenacity or being stubborn, but there it is. As far as the Ballet was concerned, the unanimous critical failure of Gelber's "Golden Age" in London, and the "Swan Lake" marathon at last year's Maryinsky Festival, (no new ballets presented), had alot to do with the Ballet Director change. Gergiev made that change. Additionally, there were other internal issues spanning Vaziev's 15 year tenure, culminating in his ouster. For example, the subsequent departures not only of Zakharova, but Sologub, Dmitri Semionov, Matvienko (who has since returned with his wife) and others.
Back to topic: Fateev was interim Director until the Maestro appointed him Vaziev's successor. Vaziev's title was
Director of the Ballet, not AD. IMO more thought could have gone into the appointment, and a more exhaustive internal search could have been mounted. Fateev was (and is) a company teacher, who also coaches Andrian Fadeyev. The deputy director title appeared shortly after the beginning of the 08/09 season. As an administrator, Fateev's comparable to Vaziev - okay but not outstanding. Compared to them, Oleg Vinogradov was excellent. He was also a noted and credited choreographer. In 1977 Vinogradov was officially appointed to lead the Ballet. At that time, Gergiev was still a staff conductor in the theatre. Vinogradov had already been an AD, first for the Novosibirsk Ballet, then the Maly Ballet, (now the Mikhailovsky); ergo he held the Artistic Director title until his departure. Vaziev (former Principal), and Fateev (ballet master) aren't choreographers, and up until their appointments didn't have AD experience. Fateev's appointment represented continuity for the company after the NY City Center engagement and Vaziev's eventual transition to La Scala last year. Monday night's disgrace doesn't absolve him. The awesome responsibility of leading this company has never changed. Given all that's happened over the past several years, leading up to and including Monday night, were Fateev or Vaziev good judges of potential and talent? In Somova's case, absolutely not.
Posted 07 August 2009 - 06:05 AM
Dances at a Gathering
I think she could be lethal in that ballet. (and as Myrtha too)
Sorry, I should have been more clear with my meaning: Somova, if she was properly coached and if her issues in presentation and technique were addressed could be good in these roles!
Returning to Tamara Rojos Juliet, I think that she is great in dramatic roles, giving always a clever, personal and natural portrayal of her characters. She is considered by many people, me included of course, and critics one of the best actresses in ballet nowadays. Her casting in the filmed Romeo and Juliet, that made me happy, could maybe not satisfy everybody, anyway for sure is not as odd as some other more recent decisions of Royal Ballet management
I wonder which decision in particular you might be referring to!
Actually, I would rather have seen the DVD with Cojocaru and Kobborg - Kobborg is quite on a different level than Acosta as an actor and I do like Cojocaru's Juliet very much (although I prefer her in other ballets). But now that I'm thinking about it, Kobborg was injured at that time (hence McRae's debut and the Bayadere fiasco..)
Did anyone see Tereshkina's Juliet? I had a ticket but unfortunately had to miss it. In general, I didn't hear positive reports of it, which I found quite surprising..
Posted 08 August 2009 - 02:14 AM
Kobborg is great as Romeo, but having only one possibility Id have chosen his Des Grieux, which is just fantastic: his first solo is one of the best thing Ive ever seen. Having two possibilities Id love to have also his Rudolf filmed: a very subtle and clever portrayal of the Habsburg Crown Prince (Im not happy with the cast chosen for the programmed film: Galeazzi is good, but Watsons Rudolf looks just like a disgusting depraved ill-mannered mad, not giving at all the idea of the complexity of the relationships in the court and of the actual historical character but, I saw him only at his debut, when also the partnering was quite bad, so maybe he has improved since then )
Kobborg injury happened just few days before Bayadere and R&J, and for sure the cast for the DVD was chosen much in advance.
I dont know what you mean with fiasco. Its an Italian world and Id not use it to define the two Bayaderes with Cojocaru: in the first one she wasnt bad at all and Morera too yes, they were partnered by Bolle: its well known that Solor is beyond his acting and technical skills so you cannot expect that much from him, in addition he was returning from an injury and so he was even below his standard and really fat: the incident with his tights, cutting his bottom in the first act and giving him three HUGE cheeks, all of them trembling like jelly , didnt help the performance, but, again, the company was in a bad moment with male dancers and they had to use him, already there to lift Yanowsky: what could you expect? In the second Cojocaru was absolutely great (a friend watching her for the first time was totally charmed, even beyond his quite high expectations) and even if Zachary Faruques partnering was dreadful in some moments (a part of a couple of risky lifts , he was keeping the veil so low that Alina had her tiara blocked by it I mean: it happened with the petit Cojocaru, another dancer would have been strangled!!! ), he wasnt bad at all in his solos (the manege of double tours assemble was the best I saw in that run, Acosta included) and also his portrayal of the warrior was good: partnering is extremely important, of course, but the overall feeling about his debut was positive for many people. That said, I think that Cojocaru was much better when dancing Nikiya in Barcelona this July, but thats quite normal with her: no matter how good she was before, she is always better than herself when returning to a role. (a months has passed, but maybe Ill try to write something about that show )
Returning to the topic, I too hope that somebody will write something about Tereshkina: she is one of my favorite (probably at the moment my favorite at the Mariinky), but unfortunately Ive never seen her as Juliet
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Maybe the choice of the opening cast was done by somebody willing to finally get rid of the anti-ballerina.
The "anti-ballerina" - what a perfect name for Somova. I think that nickname is going to stick, like "Big Red" for Kondaurova. I happen to agree with the poster who said that she's a talented dancer who was pushed too far too soon without the proper coaching. It's up to the coaches to guide her and curb her excesses, and that obviously hasn't happened. Despite the fact that the Mariinsky keeps casting her in everything, I still wish I could be in London for this tour, just to see Obraztzova in R&J and Sleeping Beauty, and I'm also dying to see Kondaurova's Swan Lake. Can't wait to read the reports!!!!
Posted 08 August 2009 - 06:33 AM
(On the subject of the RB's R&J video - there was no chance it would star Kobborg, injured or not - it was made as part of Acosta's contract with Decca.)
Posted 08 August 2009 - 08:08 AM
At this point in the article, I found myself feeling, quite involuntarily, a frisson of real suspense: how WILL this all play out in the end? (Not just Somova, but the larger matter of the tension and incongruities between classical standards of beauty, on the one hand, and the "sheen of modernity itself"?)
But I think it is a little more complicated than that: it is the sheen of modernity itself.
The Mariinsky/Kirov tradition was forged in idiosyncratic conditions: its famous choreographer Marius Petipa arrived in St Petersburg in 1847, a full 14 years before the emancipation of Russia's serfs. The company's commitment to excellence survived every twist and turn of Russian and Soviet history. But now it must take its place on the global cultural stage: a place that is promiscuous, fast-moving, wilfully superficial, and that offers stellar rewards for little more than a transfixing smile.
Those impeccable company standards will be harder than ever to maintain in such a climate. Modern styles – of dance, of personality – will challenge the steely status quo even more. Experts will become more and more demanding of purity of technique, while increasing numbers of casual punters will be attracted by an art intelligently adapting to contemporary ways. Something will be lost, and something gained.
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I am an older unmarried frum Jewish woman. I work among non-Jews. I am sure other Jewish people work with non-Jews also. How do you make them respect that you do not follow their social behavior and conditioning as far as personal space and dating/relationshiop habits go? And public comportment.
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I'm not Jewish, so I'm going to answer the question from a Christian prospective, which I hope is okay and not offensive. If I touched someone and it is against their belief system, personally, I would want to know. I would want you to say that "I am a frum Jewish woman and I do not want to be touched because it goes against my religious beliefs."
This might cause the other person to ask a lot of nosy questions (as I would), but if you're okay with discussing your beliefs, that might help broaden the acceptance and understanding of our religious differences on a whole.
I was going to answer here but it was closed as an exact duplicate, though I think that the way the concern was expressed was a little easier to respond to.
Rav Moshe's well known ruling in Igros Moshe EH 2:14 says "unavoidable, unintentional physical contact is not a lustful, affectionate act." [Translation from R. Getsel Ellinson, Woman and the Mitzvot vol.2] While he is speaking of contact while riding public transit, unwelcome physical contact from coworkers isn't an affectionate act, or ever really an act. One certainly should take steps to avoid such situations because while it may be unwelcome and unwanted, it is a sign (even if a small and relatively neutral sign) of affection which could easily become less unwelcome as the interactions continue.
Nevertheless, if one doesn't have reason to suspect that such contact will become a habit and the contact was incidental and quick then it may not be necessary, helpful, and/or appropriate to "rebuke" the offender.
If it is necessary to mention that the contact is unwelcome try to be careful to seem (which is easier by far if you ARE) understanding that the contact was rather benign and that most people wouldn't be concerned, but that we are very careful about such things.
Of course if lines are being crossed which are unacceptable to the general non-Jewish public, you should probably take a more firm stance and report it to the offenders superior according to the "minhag haolam".


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We Have a web site that employees must check into at a specific time each day. How can I make the site automatically open on each users computer at a certain time each day.
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You could set Windows Scedule task that opens a the link to the website.
And push the task trough your windows server with a GPO for each of your computer on the network.
What specifically do you need the users to do?
If the first, a simple scheduled task should suffice, as suggested by the accepted answer.
But if the second or third? Then you're a bit longer off.
Unfortunately there is no way to force someone to read the page, since for all you know, the person you expect to read it might not even be near the computer at that time.
And if you don't require anyone to read it, or can't guarantee that anyone will read it, why exactly do you need everyone to open that page then?
Sounds like a process with a flaw to me, to be honest.
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You could keep it simple with Windows Task Scheduler. Just create a shortcut to IE and add the URL to the shortcut.
Threaten the employees with termination if they don't.
Simply opening a website at a certain time every day will accomplish nothing. I'd treat it just like I treat a popup ad that gets past Firefox's adblock plugin - closing it before it ever gets a chance to load.
If it's truly vital to your business that people check this page every so often, it should be noticeable if no one checks it, and there should be a consequence for not doing it.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (January 18, 2013) – The San Antonio Rampage (17-20-0-4) relied on spectacular goaltending from Jacob Markstom on the way to their first road victory over a division rival as they defeated the Oklahoma City Barons (18-16-2-3), 4-2, Friday night at Cox Convention Center.
Markstrom made 46 saves off 48 shots en route to First Star of the Game honors. Quinton Howden, Alex Petrovic and Jon Rheault each tallied a goal and an assist in the victory. The Rampage are now 7-3-0-1 in their last 11 games.
Petrovic, who returned to the Rampage lineup on Friday afternoon after attending the Florida Panthers training camp, earned Second Star honors with a two-point night and an impressive plus-4 rating. Petrovic now leads the team with a plus-10 rating on the season.
San Antonio was outshot 48-25 on the night – and 19-2 in the first period – but skated away with the victory thanks to three unanswered goals in the third period.
The win was San Antonio's first against a divisional opponent on the road this season and their first regular season win in Oklahoma City since February of last year.
Ryan Martindale struck first for Oklahoma City at 7:45 of the first period. The Rampage had just finished killing off a boarding penalty when the Barons broke into the zone with numbers. Toni Rajala moved the puck to Tyler Pitlick who slid it across the crease to an open Ryan Martindale.
San Antonio was outshot, 19-2, in the opening frame, but Markstrom stood tall and turned away all but one of the Barons' shots to help the Rampage escape the period only trailing, 1-0.
Rheault tied the game for San Antonio while shorthanded at 5:00 of the second period. Howden carried the puck into the Barons' zone and sent the puck to Rheault, who made a move to get around a defender and fired it on net to tie the game at 1-1. The goal was San Antonio's fifth shorthanded goal, with Rheault responsible for three of the shorthanded tallies.
The Barons regained the lead at 3:35 of the third period when Rajala fired a wrist shot from the slot after receiving a behind-the-net pass to make it 2-1. But the Rampage came roaring back in the third period and scored three unanswered goals.
Howden tied the game at 9:33 of the final frame when he sped past a defender and took a lead pass from Petrovic into the Barons' zone. With a clear lane he made a move and slipped it past Oklahoma City goaltender Oliver Roy to tie the game at 2-2.
Petrovic scored the game winner at 14:42 of the third period when a fortunate puck bounce found his waiting stick on the left-wing side. Roy had made the initial save off of Rheault's shot, but could not get back into position to stop Petrovic's quick release.
Rampage forward Greg Rallo added an empty-net goal at 19:40 of the third period to give San Antonio a 4-2 lead and ice the game for the visitors.
The 48 shots surrendered by the Rampage was the second most they had given up all season. San Antonio held the league's best power play to 0-for-4 on the man advantage, while the Silver and Black ended the night 0-for-1 on the power play.
The Rampage and Barons will square off again tomorrow (Saturday) night in a rematch at 7:00 p.m. San Antonio will return home to the AT&T Center on Jan. 25th to face the Texas Stars. The Rampage will play their third annual Pink in the Rink game on Friday, Feb. 1 against Rockford at 7:30 p.m.
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Is there any practice of using biometric mechanisms online - for example, for visual identification via webcam to identify audio-visually the person speaking, or, performing biometric analysis on keyboard input? Particularly flash web control would be useful.
Yes - both are current.
Real time biometric analysis on keyboard input has been looked into by a few teams now. The guys at Pace University seem to have a strong presence in this area. Have a read of :
The first one is probably more what you are after:
As far as video goes, all the facial recognition programs used in identifying users in public places work off video streams, either using single frames, or collating multiple frames to improve quality - this is used all over the world.


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Marshfield resident and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and guitarist and Duxbury resident Joe Perry have recorded a new arrangement of "Dream On" to honor victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.
The hometown rockers are accompanied by the Southern California Children's Chorus in the video of their signature hit. "Dream On," was the band's breakthrough hit from their 1973 self-titled debut album. Aerosmith performed "Dream On" during the Boston Strong Concert benefit last May.
The song is part of the ESPN special "Dream On: Stories from Boston's Strongest" that will first air Saturday on ABC. Part of the "E:60" news magazine series, the hour-long show will be broadcast again on ESPN on Tuesday, the anniversary of the attacks.
Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured when two bombs exploded near the finish line of the 2013 marathon.
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The UK is promoting the development of its shale gas reserves in the hope that it can replicate the success achieved in the US, where prices of gas have tumbled thanks to a boom in its shale industry.
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LONDON -- A report released by the British Geological survey
on Thursday shows the UK's shale gas potential is 1,300
trillion cubic feet, double previous estimates, the UK
government said.
The UK is promoting the development of its shale gas
reserves in the hope that it can replicate the success achieved
in the US, where prices of gas have tumbled thanks to a boom in
its shale gas industry.
The government is also set to announce strike prices for
renewable power generation, which will see the government
guarantee a certain price for investors, Danny Alexander, chief
secretary to the Treasury told parliament in a speech, adding
that prices have been set for key renewable technologies
including on-shore and off-shore wind, tidal, wave, bio-mass
and solar.
Although Mr. Alexander didn't set out the strike price for
all forms of power in his speech, he said off-shore wind
generators would be guaranteed GBP155 per megawatt hour from
next year, though this would decline to GBP125 per megawatt
hour by 2018.
"We expect our reforms to bring forward 8 to 16 giga-watts
of offshore wind capacity," Mr. Alexander said.
"Industry asked for certainty. We've given it. So now they
need to get on with it," he added.
To promote investment, the government is also providing its
Green Investment Bank with an additional GBP800 million and
will give it the power to borrow GBP500 million from the
government in 2015 and 2016, he said.
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guarantee capacity is available at short notice during spikes
in demand, Mr. Alexander said, announcing that the first
auction for a new capacity market will run in 2014.
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financial incentives to utilities to retain power plants as
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It is a hype. Shale gas is biggest hype. How a gas can be a stable energy source. Cost, volume, safety, gas to liquid cost, other costs.....???????. Is it a viable source of energy. That why it is a big hype to divert the attention from crude oil producing countries by non crude oil producing countries. This is my personal view. It is nothing to discourage the shale gas opportunity.
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In an unsurprising announcement, NBC has cancelled midseason drama Do No Harm following two dismally-rated episodes.
Do No Harm debuted in the 10:00 PM timeslot on Thursday, January 31 and registered the lowest rating for an in-season scripted series premiere in the history of the big four broadcast networks, drawing only 3.13 million viewers and posting an anemic 0.9 in the key 18–49 demographic. When the ratings for its second week revealed a 22% drop to a 0.7, the modern Jekyll-and-Hyde medical drama was cancelled and pulled off the schedule by Friday afternoon.
Reruns of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will run in the 10 PM slot on Thursday for the next two weeks, but the network hasn't announced its plans beyond that. Although it previously did poorly in the timeslot, newsmagazine show Rock Center with Brian Williams could return to the schedule, or NBC could finally call upon another midseason drama waiting in the wings, the Silence of the Lambs prequel series Hannibal.
Starring Steven Pasquale of FX's Rescue Me in his first lead role, Do No Harm followed Dr. Jason Cole, a brilliant neurosurgeon struggling with a dangerous alter ego named Ian. The marketing campaign for the new series was severely lacking, and broadcast audiences have rejected dual-personality characters time and time again, so this unfortunate result came as no surprise.
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LAMPASAS (December 14, 2012)--The Lampasas County Commissioners Court voted Dorothy Person as the Human Resources Director.
She has been selected to serve as the head of the human resources department, a new position created to oversee personnel and provide solutions to any issues, should they arise.
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My teacher told me that we are mistaken coming out of school that tangent tocuhes a point at one point. According to him, a tangent is just a special type of secant where two points share the same position but actually are just two different points.
My friend said it could happen if we think of tangent as a secant where the two points tend to each other.
I am dissatisfied with it. According to my teacher, the points share the location but are different. Since a point has only its position as its property, how are they differentiated among themselves? E.g. if we take the set of points on which tangent touches the curve (in a sufficiently small neighbourhood around the points), we get a single point since a set doesn't allow redundant entries.
(Moreover, my teacher's tried to explanation his position using quadratic formula taking a quadratic equation as example; but I fail to recognise its relevance except that a quadratic equation has at most two roots, and maybe that tangent has a solution with the curve. But isn't it the problem to begin with, how many solutions do the two of them have?)
And I could agree with my friend too, but if we take a curve to be $y = x^2$ and tangent to be $y = 0$ than there is no point except $(0,0)$ that is common to them. No point in any small neighbourhood around $(0,0)$ is common to both. That seems to only reinforce myself.
How many points do a tangent and its curve actually share? And if they are more than one, how can they be differentiated? That is, what is the application of treating two positions with same position differently?