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6 Horrific Things Discovered in the Last Place You'd Expect
Sometimes you hear about people finding valuable paintings hidden inside old frames at a garage sale or pirate gold beneath a dusty old restaurant on the northern California coast. Other times you click on the news and see people who find human skeletons under their hotel mattresses and taxidermy cat heads in their Happy Meals. The following stories are more like that second type.
#6. Librarian Finds Smallpox Scabs Inside an Old Book
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Librarians have it rough, what with precocious rain-soaked children constantly bursting in to escape bullies, only to stumble upon enchanted books and khaki-shirted adventurers always using their tireless book-stamping work to mask the sound of hammering a stanchion through the library floor to uncover hidden treasure dungeons. But Susanne Caro drew the short stick in the "librarians finding gross shit in books" contest when she found an envelope containing smallpox scabs folded within the pages of some dusty old tome. We are almost positive this is not the type of magical discovery the Reading Rainbow theme song was referring to.
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"Take a look ... it's in a book ... Reading Rainb- HOLY FUCK!"
Susanne was boning up on 19th century field medicine at the College of Santa Fe's Fogelson Library, when she found a yellowed envelope tucked inside bearing the nightmarishly descriptive label "scabs from vaccination of W.B. Yarrington's children," signed and dated by the book's author more than a century ago. Despite the fact that this is exactly how 30 percent of all Tales From The Crypt episodes begin, she decided to open the envelope, which, as promised, contained a handful of dried-up old mummy scabs. Clearly, this was a book that no one but the author himself had ever read.
You see, back in the 1800s the vaccination process was a little more visceral, because it isn't Civil War medicine unless it's gross and disgusting. The pox on an infected person would eventually scab over and fall off. Doctors would then take those scabs and implant them in the skin of healthy people, inducing a mild case of smallpox that would run its course and then leave the patient immune. Vaccinations today still follow this same basic idea, except instead of shoving infected flesh into your body, doctors now take a tiny needle coated with the virus and stab you with it 15 times.
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As opposed to the old cow-in-the-office method.
The library called the CDC, who sent the FBI to pick up the scabs for some reason (presumably in case the envelope was part of a trap set by al-Qaeda time lords).
#5. A German Man Gets a Mummified Bat in His Box of Cereal
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A man in Stuttgart, Germany was sitting down for his breakfast, pouring himself a bowl of Mini-Zimties cereal when a papery dead bat tumbled out of the box and onto the pile of sugary flakes. This is confusing for a number of reasons, chief among them being that the mascot for Mini-Zimties is a turtle.
Officials theorize that the bat flew into the Mini-Zimtie factory, flittered down onto the production floor, and made his way into a bag of cereal at some point during the packaging process without a single person noticing, which is certainly a much more likely explanation than some deranged maniac on the assembly line stuffing in a dead bat he brought from home to satisfy the burning edicts of the ghost princes that rule his nightmares.
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"I don't care if you do sound like my mom. I'm not a slave to your demonic demands!"
Either way, the creature was sealed inside and delivered to the home of the unfortunate breakfaster in the most unlucky series of events to befall a German person since the girl from Run Lola Run got killed in the first five minutes of The Bourne Supremacy.
The official assessment of the food safety representative called on to investigate the situation was that it was "an unusual case," and we should sincerely fucking hope so. We're not sure what bleak crag-scarred landscape the Mini-Zimtie production facility rests on, but apparently it's deep enough in the Black Forest for the desiccated corpses of Halloween animals not to raise any alarms in Quality Control.
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"Well, there's your problem. Those aren't blueberries."
#4. Golf Course Employees Find a Meth Lab Inside a Porta-potty
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One uneventful day, employees at a golf course in Purcell, Okla., stumbled upon a makeshift meth lab inside a portable toilet on the greens, which is a sentence that tells you all you need to know about the state of golfing in Oklahoma. Though to be fair, pretty much every meth lab in history has been a makeshift one.
They noticed some plastic bottles hidden inside the poop hatch of one of the porta-potties, full of some unidentified liquid that was sufficiently free of corn and peanuts to arouse suspicion. The workers called the cops, but by the time the police arrived, two of the three bottles had exploded, which is a turn of events made even more unfortunate by the fact that they were laying in a cauldron of doodoo. Inside the remaining bottle, detectives discovered what they described as a "shake and bake" meth-preparing technique, which consists of pouring chemicals together in a bottle, shaking them up and setting the bottle aside to let them cook. In a toilet. This is a method that has yet to be explored on Breaking Bad.
We're pretty sure meth and jenkem were never meant to be mixed.
Well, that's just great. Having to use a porta-potty is already the low point of any day. It's like stepping into a urine-soaked humidor with nothing to wipe with but spiders. Now, every time you hop into one of those plastic deuce chambers you'll be running the risk of having your asshole detonated by a scatological chemical explosion. So bear that in mind next time you go to the county fair, where porta-potties are the only available restrooms and "cooking meth" is an option on the employee skill set questionnaire.
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That's not sugar they're amped up on, Mom.


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Among other things, the '01 and '03 packages reduced federal income taxes for all Americans and taxes on investment income, and provided certain benefits for married couples with children. Once all the cuts were in place, the United States experienced a record 52 consecutive months of job growth. The cuts were slated to expire Dec. 31, 2010, but President Obama and Congress extended them for two years.
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When people speak of Tai Chi, usually they speak of it as a single style, even (in my experience) among those who are knowledgeable about martial arts. At first look, they do look very similar in that they each catalog and teach its techniques through the use of extensive forms practice at slow paces. They seem to have very similar techniques. So what makes one style of Tai Chi distinct from another?
The above is a summary of information found in a compact yet readable manner on this website, which I really recommend as a read on TaiChi, as it has a lot of very good information on Bagua, Xing-Yi, and some fairly fundamental concepts including how to stand / good posture and a page on the philosophy of martial arts.


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The verse is saying that to those who are called,both Jews or Greeks, the Messiah for them is God's power and wisdom. 1 Corinthians 1:24 So in what way Jesus is God's Wisdom here? As divine? Or as plan?
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In the Hebrew Bible the wisdom of God and the power of God occur often in tandem (Job 12:12-14; Prov 8:14; Is 10:13; Jer 10:12; Jer 51:15; and Dan 2:20-23). That is, the wisdom of God is evident through his power, and of course God's power demonstrates his great wisdom.
In the Christian New Testament, the power and wisdom of God are described as on full display through the death and resurrection of Jesus the Nazarene (also called Christ), which message is viewed as "foolishness" to the world (compare 1 Cor 1:18 with Acts 17:32). That is, the Christian New Testament indicates that God in his wisdom had removed the curse of sin upon mankind through Jesus (1 Cor 1:18 and 2 Cor 5:19), and then was able to create life out of death through the very resurrection of Jesus (Rom 4:17), which demonstrated God's power. That is, the wisdom of God here reversed the law of death-conquering-life to the new law of life-conquering-death through the eternal power of God. That twist of law came about through both the death and resurrection of Jesus the Christ, which message is "foolishness" to the world.
In other words, the Christian New Testament is about the New Covenant ("new law"), which was introduced by Jesus Christ to replace the Old Covenant ("old law"). The "old law" was death-conquering-life because of condemnation (Rom 5:16), whereas the "new law" was life-conquering-death because of justification (Rom 5:18).
Thus in the Christian New Testament, the believer in Jesus Christ can have not only the palpable experience of forgiveness of sins (1 Jn 3:19-21 and 2 Cor 7:10), but also access to the power over sin in his life today. Therefore the "good news" is not only that one can be forgiven of sins, but that one can also live ones life in obedience through the same power of God that had raised Jesus from the dead (Rom 8:11), since the power of sin was conquered by the power of the resurrection. That is, God's "indestructible" eternal life in Jesus Christ (Heb 7:16) in the resurrection had "abolished" death (2 Tim 1:10). Obedience to God therefore cherishes life both for ones neighbor as well as oneself.
In summary, the great Biblical conundrum is disobedience to God (which are sins and transgressions) and the separation of man from God (which eventuates in death). This conundrum was solved by the wisdom of God when the sins of the world were judged (and eliminated) on the cross, and then the death problem eliminated by the power of God in resurrection. (The future resurrection of the body of the believer is therefore a "living" hope in 1 Pet 1:3.) This "living" hope is not an abstract concept about some time the future, but is concrete today, since the life of the obedient believer is the actual testimony or "witness" to the power of God in the present time (Acts 1:8 and Acts 4:33).
This passage is to be taken literally. Jesus is both the wisdom and power of God in both the atonement and in creation..
Is as others say the wisdom of God manifested in Christ,yes. Though one has to have a thorough understanding of what the OT has to say of this matter. Since Christ is the wisdom of God, not a created thing, but the creator of all things then we can better understand what the writer of Proverbs is actually speaking of.
1 Corinthians 1:24-25 says that God is wise and powerful because Christ is his very Wisdom and Power per se.
The Son as God's Power per se means God does'nt need his ability to do all things because he has his own Son to do all things ( John 1:3,Col. 1:16, Heb. 1:2,10, Prov. 8:22-30,Rev. 3:14
The Son as God's Wisdom per se means God does'nt need experiential knowledge to make sensible decisions and judgments in a situation because he could make all sensible decisions and judgments in all his activities via his Son ( Luke 11:49-Matt. 23:24, 1 Cor. 1:24-Col. 1:16-17, Heb. 1:3-Wisdom 7:25,26).
These facts shows that God is totally unlike and uncomparable to humans( Isaiah 46:5).


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What is the evolution of hairs? Did they evolve from scales?
From a little research I have been able to find some of the hypotheses and speculations but no papers expressly confirming or denying the matter.
One theory displayed in "The evolution of mammalian keratinized structures" (abstract only) is that mammalian hair developed along the following pathway:
So this paper would suggest that hair production evolved separately from but parallel to the movement away from reptilian scales.
"Some Speculations on the Evolution of the Vertebrate Integument" (Paul F. A. Maderson) suggests an entirely different origin of hairs. He proposes that hairs ultimately evolved from sensory appendages that were involved in the detection of temperature in early synapsids. The extension of these micro-limbs into hairs was selected towards as a result of their thermally insulating effect by-product rather than for their sensory role, however.
As to the early evolution of mammalian hair, Rowe et al. (2011) hypothesized that the primitive function for hair was not thermoregulatory, but rather for tactile sensation (contra the hypotheses of Spearman and Maderson). Rowe et al. say:
So the developmental argument is in favor of tactile sensation.


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TYLER (October 8, 2012)—Lon Morris College, a 158-year-old United Methodist School in Jacksonville, is seeking permission to sell a "substantial amount" of its property in East Texas after filing for bankruptcy earlier this year.
The college suspended its fall semester because of its deep financial troubles.
The school filed an application Sept. 28 in federal bankruptcy court seeking permission to sell much of its property that says Lon Morris has an estimated 112 acres of real estate with various buildings, including dorms, a library, a chapel, and admission buildings.
The school is seeking to sell those to pay creditors as well as former employees.
At a hearing scheduled for Oct. 31, a judge may decide on the college's request.
The school would have begun classes this fall with only a handful of faculty and students after a failed effort to boost enrollment and revenue by resurrecting the school's football program.
Lon Morris officials decided in 2009 to resurrect the school's football program after nearly 70 years in a bid to boost enrollment.
The move more than tripled enrollment to about 1,000 by 2010, but the college found itself burdened not only with the expense of the football program, but also of waves of students who couldn't pay the bills.
The school filed for bankruptcy, dropped all of its sports programs and furloughed all but about a half dozen faculty members.
Officials estimated only about 100 students remained enrolled.
Despite the circumstances, the college issued a press release on Aug. 11 that expressed optimism for the fall semester and promised "a revitalized academic program" that will put the school on a path to the future.
The college had reduced tuition by 33 per cent in lieu of discounts and unfunded scholarships, and had planned to continue to offer financial aid and funded scholarships for some programs.


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Resources Minister Joe Oliver and Transport Minister Denis Lebel were in Vancouver, British Columbia this week to unveil the latest proposals, which include establishing a panel tasked with recommending further changes to create a so-called "world-class" tanker safety system.
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OTTAWA -- The Canadian government said Tuesday it will
toughen safety rules governing oil tankers as it seeks to
address environmental concerns in British
Columbia about shipping Alberta's heavy crude to Asian
Resources Minister Joe Oliver and Transport Minister Denis
Lebel were in Vancouver, British Columbia to unveil the
proposals, which include establishing a panel tasked with
recommending further changes to create a so-called
"world-class" tanker safety system.
Opposition in British Columbia over Enbridge's proposed
Northern Gateway pipeline has focused largely on the environmental threat to the Pacific
Coast province. Among the worries is that British Columbia
would be at risk of an Exxon Valdez-like oil spill.
A provincial election in British Columbia is scheduled for
May, and the left-leaning provincial New Democratic Party --
which opposes the Gateway project -- appears poised to take
"There will be no pipeline development without rigorous environmental protection measures
and the tanker safety initiatives are an important aspect of
our plan for responsible resource development," Mr. Oliver
As envisaged by Enbridge, the Gateway pipeline is a 730-mile
corridor that would carry crude from the Alberta oil sands to
the Pacific port of Kitimat, British Columbia. Once in Kitimat,
the crude would go onto tankers bound for Asia.
Among the new measures the federal government is looking to
implement immediately are: increasing the number of inspectors
to oversee foreign tankers; expanding surveillance efforts;
increasing the number of ports subjected to federal
regulations, including Kitimat; and allocating money for
research into non-conventional petroleum products, such as
diluted bitumen, to better understand what would happen in the
event of a spill.
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Seventy-five percent of Americans suffer from some kind of sleep disorder. But "rest-assured" there is hope.
Ken McKenney works for the Sleep Disorders center at the Medical Center at Scottsville.
McKenney says: "First, you need a comfortable place to go to sleep. You need to need it dark. You need to use your bed for sleep and for sex only. No reading, no watching TV, no doing the bills."
The Medical Center at Scottsville works with people who suffer from sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and narcolepsy.
For people with sleep apnea McKenney says: "Weight maintenance is probably the most important thing."
They also help people who have problems getting to sleep. McKenney recommends picking out a temperature that is comfortable to begin with.
McKenney says: "You do not want to exercise vigorously before bedtime. You do not want to have a large meal. And you definitely don't want to have any type of caffeine after 4 p.m. 4 p.m. is the absolute latest."
He says alcohol is out too. Although a drink may make you sleepy initially, it can cause early awakenings once the alcohol wears off.
There are also new prescription medicines that can help the sleep-deprived.
McKenney says: "Ambien and Sonata are good sleep aids, as far as being used in the short-term period. For no more than four weeks."
McKenney says the medicines do not cause grogginess during the day.
But they are not recommended for long-term use.
There's also a surgery available for some people who suffer from sleep apnea. Doctors say many insurance companies cover the surgery and other forms of treatment for sleep disorders.
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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful, thanks to Allah Almighty, prayers and peace be upon Prophets and Messengers, my brother citizens, my sister female citizens, peace and blessings be upon you all.
With the grace of Allah Almighty, we would like to announce the budget of the new fiscal year 1430/1431 H, which amounts to SR 475 billion [$126.7 billion], with an increase of SR 65 billion [$17.3 billion] compared to the budget of the current fiscal year.
The new budget, despite the sharp decline in the petroleum prices during its preparation, will, God willing, enhance the development programs that lead to the growth of the national economy and the cementing of confidence in it, as well as making job opportunities available for all citizens.
We have issued our directives to carry out new programs and projects at a cost of more than SR 225 billion [$60 billion], an increase of 36 percent from the allocations in this current budget, and three times of what was approved at the beginning of the Eighth Development Plan, which began four years ago.
In the sector of general education and higher education, workforce training, sciences and technology, scientific research, and foreign scholarship programs, about SR 122 billion [$32.5 billion] have been allocated. This figure constitutes more than a quarter of the allocations of the new budget.
Complementary infrastructure projects have been approved, so as to create a suitable environment for education, and to increase the capacity of schools, universities and specialized colleges, notably the implementation of the project of Princess Noora bint Abdulrahman University, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and their affiliated branches.
In the sector of health services and social development, about SR 52 billion [$13.9 billion] have been allocated to increase the capacity of the hospitals, and improve the primary health care.
The budget also includes continuing support for programs tackling poverty, in addition to giving attention to youth and sports affairs.
Allocations for expenditures in the sectors of water, municipal services, agriculture, industry and basic installations amount to about SR 49 billion [$13.1 billion]. The budget includes new projects for the municipalities and additions to existing municipal projects, enhancing water resources, sewage services, environmental protection and safety of food and medicine.
In the transport and telecommunications sector, the allocations this year amounted to SR 19 billion [$5.1 billion]. Sums have been approved for the construction of new roads, and the completion and repair of several existing roads. These amounts constitute the highest allocations so far for roads. This sector also includes new projects for ports and airports.
We want all officials to remain keen on the follow-up of the projects included in the budget, so as to implement them in line with the fixed times, make the services required by the citizens available and accelerate the wheel of comprehensive development.
We thank Allah Almighty for enabling us to mobilize our potentialities for the promotion of the services extended to the dear sons of our homeland, and to attain prosperity and development.
We pray to Allah Almighty to perpetuate his bounties on all, and to benefit the country and the citizens from this budget.
Peace be upon you all.


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Unity works perfectly fine on my Dell E6400 (Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) == Intel GMA 4500MHD?) when run from Live-CD.
However it doesn't work on my 11.04 which was upgraded from 9.10->10.04->10.10.
What might be broken/misconfigured? Is there any "trick" I can enable 3D acceleration without reinstalling complete system?
Unity support test gives following output:
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OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset GEM 20100330 DEVELOPMENT x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2
Not software rendered: yes
Not blacklisted: yes
GLX fbconfig: yes
GLX texture from pixmap: yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program: yes
GL fragment program: yes
GL vertex buffer object: yes
GL framebuffer object: yes
GL version is 1.4+: yes
Unity supported: yes


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Asiavision: The New Football Hotbed
Asia. The largest continent in the world, consisting of the two most populated countries in the world. However, this has not translated into fantastic football players. Facilities and coaching still needs to be developed. The professional football leagues need to be improved. From corruption to the extinction of clubs, it has left a black mark in Asia. Something had to be done.
In comes Ricky Nakano. A smart lad. A Canadian businessman with Chinese roots, the founder of Canadian Soccer Establishment (CSE), wanted to give back to Asia. Looking at the AFC region, he saw a lot of potential, but the Asian nations were still a long way off from competing on the world stage with the likes of Brazil, Argentina, England, France, and Germany. So he had an idea: create the world's best footballers, all from Asia. However, he knew that to compete on the world stage, the AFC nations needed them in Europe, so each of these players will declare residency in an EU nation and help them develop.
The players are created. It is an interesting group. Only 1 of the 26 are based in West Asia. 5 from Australia. Even 3 from Hong Kong. There are players from minnow countries like Guam, Macau, and The Philippines. Even one from North Korea. Without further ado, the new faces of Asian football:
Haggis McMuncher
Tom Hamilton
James Kinnear
Liam Ferguson
Tyler Burrows
Halo Von Stronburg
Andrei Yáng
Joe Tompkins
Sean Murphy
Hong Kong
Bei Ruiyi
Richard Tam
Yu Stin Ki Pu
Brad Harper
Be Jayatsena
Zaydan Scarface
Wan Kur
Ben Spicer
Rocky Chung
Macau (China PR)
Dash Suhbaatar
North Korea
Pablo Gonzalez
Whoopy Dee'e
Riyan Al-Andrews
Ben Chia
Tan Ah Kow
South Korea
Now, let the games begin!


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Welcome to Hyperion Records, an independent British classical label devoted to presenting high-quality recordings of music of all styles and from all periods from the twelfth century to the twenty-first.
Hyperion offers both CDs, and downloads in a number of formats. The site is also available in several languages.
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Deutsch: Paul Hoegger
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Kdenlive is able to create simple titles as described here. We can also work with external image editors (like GIMP) to create more sophisticated titles and then add them to the project list as video clips.
To create a title clip, select "Add clip" icon () and, in the context menu, select "Create Text Clip". A new window like this will be presented:
In this window, you can give a name to your clip, define the duration, the letter type, size and colour. You'll also have the following icons:
You can now select the "Enter text" icon, write the title and click "OK". The text will appear in the window and you can drag and drop it wherever you want on the screen. To improve your title, click the "Draw box" icon and, with the left mouse button pressed, draw a box on the screen. Before doing so, you need to change the box colour in the same way as you did for the text. If the box and the text have the same colour, they may interfere!
Don't worry if you can't see your text now! Select the box and try with the "Bring to front/send back" icons. Better now, huh?
By dragging and dropping the box and the text and by playing with the movement icons, you can obtain quite nice titles!


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I need some help with this set-up.
I have a Nodal Ninja 5 and I use Really Right Stuff L-brackets on my camera bodies. December 2010 I purchased an Arca Style Quick Release Clamp and everything worked fine until the brass screw assembly that is part of the clamp tightening lever snapped.
I contacted Nodal Ninja and learned out that this clamp is discontinued and that there are no replacement parts available for the clamp either. I am directed to purchase a QRC-55 along with a CP-2 plate which I have done. No documentation arrives with these components (CP-2 I have found some docs on line, nothing for QRC-55).
1. I have found that I cannot screw in the CP-2 plate to the Nodal Ninja NN5 as the male threads on the threaded knobs that come with the NN5 do not match up with the female threads on the CP-2. I can turn perhaps 1/2 revolution then it jams, and I do not wish to force this further, because that is usually a "bad" thing to do.
So obviously at this point I am still out of luck with my set-up. What needs to be done to get over this hurdle?
2. Assuming that #1 can be addressed, is their any recommended way to set up the CP-2 with the QRC-55?
I have figured that I insert one of the two small silver "screws" into the hole on the underside of the QRC-55 opposite to the large thumb screw (tightens the clamp to the L-bracket), and attach the unit to the CP-2, with the CP-2 flange also opposite the thumb screw. LEaves about a 5 mm gap between the flange and the QRC-55, but I suppose that is just the way it is supposed to be.
Any advice would be appreciated, particularly with item #1 which is the show-stopper.


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I want to post an image or photo to wall of facebook user profile or fan page.I am using graph api and C#.net.I am doing with web request.Here is my web request.
But getting an error. "message":
"(#324) Requires upload file"
I searched on the net for php fileupload=>true.I am doing in C#.I created a byte array and made a request in multiple part.But did not worked out.Does I need to write any thing in making web request.Let me know.


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I am stuck trying to learn how to use video processing as explained in the linked papers in the area of human behavior detection or traffic surveillance (any kind of monitoring activity). In particular, I do not know how to formulate the problem using any available models.
I have found two papers (Haag & Nagel (2000; Paper 1) and Arens, Gerber, & Nagel (2008; Paper 2)) which illustrate, with an example, using natural language for traffic monitoring by using image sequences of videos. My question are
- Under what assumptions are the actions generated?What is the advantage of nlp here or in any application apart from the fact that it gives a hierarchical representation of information/knowledge?
- How are the actions and graphs (labelled as Situation Graph Trees by the author) generated (under what assumptions) in Fig2 of Paper 1 and Fig1 of Paper 2?
- Has the Table5 in paper1: Incremental recognition of traffic situations from video image sequences and subsequent tables been generated using some programming tools?
Haag, M., & Nagel, H.-H. (2000) "Incremental recognition of traffic situations from video image sequences". Image and Vision Computing 18(2): 137-153.
Arens, M., Gerber, R., & Nagel H.-H. (2008) "Conceptual representations between video signals and natural language descriptions". Image and Vision Computing 26: 53–66.


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Possible To implement content difference functionality in GXT
Hi All,
I need to implement functionality like showing the difference between the content,
something like Diff between new data and old data (example :http://i48.tinypic.com/2yvs3s3.png)
Please suggest me what could be the best way of implementing this kind of widget,
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GXT provides the widgets to draw many user interfaces, but we don't do the work of implementing features like this. If you can find a Java library that can be used in GWT, you may be able to run that, then find and restyle the added/removed rows as in your picture. But there is no built-in support to do this for you.
Think of it like this - GXT provides the tools with which one can build something like GitHub or FishEye (webapps that allow diffing code), but doesn't actually build the functionality for you.


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It's always been a big philosophical question whether our choices really are "free." If science tells us that all events have a necessary cause given a set of initial conditions, then how could anything be free? If you can predict my behavior by looking at my brain a few minutes beforehand, how is that free? If an all-knowing God knows what I'm going to do next, how is that free? If we are the "slaves of our passions" (Hume), rather than guided by Reason, how are we free?
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The whole point of the book, however, is not to depress us, but simply to say that knowing what influences our choice is half the battle. Which, like most things, reminds me of the Matrix trilogy. The Matrix argues (in the words of the Oracle) that free will doesn't consist in the fact that we could have chose differently (sorry Neo, it's all set in stone); but rather free will consists in our ability to understand why we chose this or that. Know thyself; live a reflective life. This is sorta what Greenfield is saying. What's also not depressing is that influence is not coercion--in other words, you can influence me all you want, but in the end I get the last laugh, I stand alone with my stoic decisions.
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Hey there, I was reading 'An introduction to homological algebra' by Rotman, and on page 279 in the section about sheaves, example 5.64, Rotman gives an example of a constant presheaf $\mathcal{P}$ that's not sheaf, the presheaf of constant real-valued functions on $\mathbb{R}^{2}$. Let the topological space $X = \mathbb{R}^{2}$ and for each $U\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{2}$ define
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If $U\subseteq V$, $\rho_{U}^{V}:\mathcal{P}(V)\rightarrow\mathcal{P}(U)$ is the restriction map $\sigma\mapsto\sigma\mid U$. Now for example let $U=U_{1}\bigcup U_{2}$, where $U_{1}$ and $U_{2}$ are disjoint nonempty sets, define $\sigma_{1}\in P(U_{1})$ by $\sigma_{1}(u_{1})=0$ for all $u_{1}\in U_{1}$, and $\sigma_{2}\in P(U_{2})$ by $\sigma_{2}(u_{2})=5$ for all $u_{2}\in U_{2}$. The overlap condition is vacuous since $U_{1}\bigcap U_{2}=\textrm{Ø}$, but there is no constant function $\sigma\in P(U)$ such that $\sigma\mid U_{i}=\sigma_{i}$, for $i=1,2$ (aka the gluing condition is not satisfied), therefore $\mathcal{P}$ is not a sheaf.
My confusion was with the overlap. How can he apply the gluing condition ff the sets $U_{1}$ and $U_{2}$ don't even overlap? In such a case wouldn't $\mathcal{P}$ satisfy the gluing condition and be a sheaf?


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what is the relationship of sound volume to atmospheric pressure? if I was in a plane with a cabin pressure equal to 8000 feet would the volume drop be noticable?
There is not going to be any generic answer to your question.
Suppose I drop a book on the floor, and the book hits the floor with 1 joule of kinetic energy. Let's assume that there is very little internal friction in the book or the floor, so that none of the energy can be dissipated into heat, and that the floor is very stiff, so that no energy can be transmitted as vibrations in the floor. Then by conservation of energy, the amount of sound energy is going to be exactly 1 joule. This argument is independent of whether this is the floor of my house, near sea level, or the deck of an airplane. It only depends on the assumption that the mechanisms for dissipating energy into heat and vibration are much less efficient than the mechanism for dissipating it into sound waves in the air.
On the other hand, let's say for the sake of argument that in a hand clap at sea level, 1/3 of the energy goes into sound, 1/3 into vibrations transmitted down through the arms, and 1/3 into heating in the palms. In an airplane, these 1:1:1 proportions will be altered, because the conversion of energy into sound waves in air will be less efficient. Because the competition among the three dissipative processes is fairly equal, there will be a big reduction in loudness when the pressure is low.
So the answer is that it depends completely on the details of the process of production of the sound waves.
In the extreme case, suppose you do these experiments in outer space. Outer space is not a perfect vacuum, so it can support sound waves. However, the efficiency of the coupling to sound waves is extremely low, so almost any other mechanism for dissipating the energy will be many orders of magnitude more efficient.


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Are there any known approximation algorithms or exact solution schemes for the k-medians problem in a convex polygon? That is, placing a collection of points $p_1,\dots,p_k \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ in a convex polygon $C$ so as to minimize $$\iint_C \min_i \|x-p_i\| dx$$
The problem you're asking about (for $k=1$) is called the continuous Fermat-Weber problem. The primary work on this that I'm aware of is the 2003 paper by Fekete, Mitchell and Beurer. While they examine this problem, they focus on the $\ell_1$ plane (the analytics are easier) and also pay more attention to the $k=1$ case, while also discussing some hardness results.
My $.02$ is that there should be some way of getting an approximation by discretizing the region - it's not clear to me that convexity helps a lot though.
A while ago I wrote, but never published, an approximation algorithm for this problem. Using some new results and updating the citations, it looks like I can get the approximation constant down to 9.026 (assuming I didn't make any mistakes). It's not clear to me if that's publication-worthy, but I uploaded a draft to
if anyone is interested.
Following Suresh's lead, this problem is known as the multisource Weber problem, and searching that key phrase turns up several papers in the operations research literature. For example:
"Improvement and Comparison of Heuristics for Solving the Uncapacitated Multisource Weber Problem," Operations Research, Vol. 48, No. 3, May-June 2000, pp. 444-460.
"The Multi-Source Weber Problem with Constant Opening Cost," Journal of Operations Research Society, 2004, 55, 640-6.
There's no particular range of $k$ that I'm interested in; actually, I'm just curious if there's already a well-known PTAS or an approximation algorithm, and whether that's considered an "interesting" problem in the geometry community. It seems that the problem becomes easier as $k$ becomes really big, since you just want to scatter the points in as uniform a fashion as possible (like the centers of a hexagonal tiling or something like that).
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Kids would rather play than pray
by Perry Bulwer
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An Australian professor of child and family health nursing, Cathrine Fowler, caused a minor controversy this past August when she suggested that sitting babies faced forward in pushchairs or carrying them in slings in that position is selfish, may stunt their development and causes unnecessary stress which can turn them into anxious adults. She said: "In not considering our baby's perspective, we are inadvertently quite cruel to children."
That insight goes far beyond the practical question of how best to push or carry a baby, and into the legal territory of the 'best interests of the child' standard, which is the guiding principle of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (the Convention). It is important to keep in mind that the best interest of a child is also the best interest of the adult that child will become, so that standard protects not just children, but adults as well. If an inadvertent failure to consider a child's point of view can cause harm in such a pedestrian matter as the correct position to carry them, then far greater harm, even death, can be caused by parents who deliberately act to subsume their child's rights and perspective. And that is exactly what religious parents do when they indoctrinate their children so that they conform to their beliefs. Indoctrinating children into one religion before they are capable of making their own free and informed decision whether to believe or not is a direct denial of their human rights. Protecting the right to religious freedom for children, which includes freedom from religion, is one of the best ways to protect that right for adults.
All children are born atheists. If allowed to develop without having a belief system imposed on them through constantly reinforced direct and/or cultural indoctrination, most children eventually reach the stage where they abandon belief in fantastical figures. Given the time of year I'm writing this, Santa Claus is a perfect example of that, and belief in God would follow that pattern too if children were free to grapple with belief in the supernatural on their own without interference from dogmatic adults. Unfortunately, most children in the world are not allowed to exercise their inherent human right to develop free from religious impositions. However, I am certain that if given a free choice unhindered by dogma or superstition, all children would prefer playing to praying.
Kids just want to have fun and be happy, which is their right recognized in Article 31 of the Convention:
Article 31
1. States Parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.
2. States Parties shall respect and promote the right of the child to participate fully in cultural and artistic life and shall encourage the provision of appropriate and equal opportunities for cultural, artistic, recreational and leisure activity.
Many children never get the chance to play and have fun, however, let alone enjoy their own right to religious freedom. The unlucky ones are burdened with supernatural religious beliefs, either imposed on them or targeted against them. In extreme cases, children who have religion forced on them are denied even the most simple childhood pleasures. Some are forced to become adults before their time. Parents indoctrinate them with their own beliefs that forbid playing with toys or riding bikes, or deny educational opportunities, or worst of all reject medical care; religious groups target them for unethical proselytising or exorcisms; and child-traffickers abduct, maim and murder them for body parts used in witchcraft rituals.
I recently wrote an article arguing that corporal punishment by parents is an abuse of authority and an infringement of children's rights. In the course of that argument, I touched on the issue of a child's right to religious freedom. It is an important point that is worth repeating over and over, because although all countries except for the United States and Somalia have ratified the Convention, the denial of religious freedom for children is still rampant around the world. Here is what I recently wrote about Article 14 of the Convention, which sets out a child's right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion:
Article 14 is crucial for establishing the proper balance between parental and children's rights. Clearly, children have the right to freely form their own thoughts and conscience, and choose their own religious beliefs, or none. After all, freedom of religion for children, and for adults, would be no freedom at all if it did not include the right to be free from religion. Since parents also have the right to the same freedoms, it is inevitable that conflicts between those rights will arise. As it must and does throughout, the Convention sides with children. Sub-section 2 clearly states that the rights and duties of parents in this regard must not be directed towards protecting their own freedoms, but towards ensuring their children are able to exercise their personal religious rights in accordance with their evolving capacities. Anticipating objections from parents who only read the first few words in sub-section 2 and insist that their own religious freedom gives them a right to indoctrinate their children, sub-section 3 clarifies that the right to religious freedom is not absolute. A parent's right to religious freedom does not give them the right to deny that same freedom to their child, regardless of the child's age. Or, as the U.S. Supreme Court famously said: "Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves. But it does not follow they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full and legal discretion when they can make that choice for themselves."
That quotation also touches on the principle of the "evolving capacities of the child" as well as the concept of a child's right to an open future. That is a right that is not specifically set out in the Convention, but is implied in this Article and elsewhere. After all, if a parent makes an irreversible religious decision on behalf of their child, such as to rely on faith alone and refuse necessary medical treatment and the child dies, then that child has no future at all. Circumcision of both boys and girls is another common example of a religious decision made by parents that causes irreversible harm to children. But even where death or injury does not occur, a child's right to an open future can still be easily denied them through indoctrination that cuts off their capacity for critical thinking and ability to freely form their own thoughts, conscience and beliefs.
If a child is indoctrinated into a particular religious dogma by authoritarian parents from the earliest age, their right to freedom of expression and information denied through restrictive, narrow-minded 'education', and they are unaware of the full extent of their human rights, it becomes impossible for them to exercise those rights, either as a child or later as an adult. I have encountered countless believers who are so unaware of their own rights that they insist that religious freedom does not include the right to be free from religion. But if the right to freedom of religion has any meaning at all, it must mean that everyone, including children, is free to choose their own religious beliefs or none. When that freedom is denied to a child, it is also denied to the adult that child will become. Protecting a person's rights while they are a child is the only to way to protect that person's rights once they are an adult. That's what a child's right to an open future means, reaching adulthood with their capacity to exercise all their rights still intact. Protecting the full range of children's rights protects human rights for everyone.
Imagine, John Lennon exhorted, a world where there is no religion to kill or die for. That would be a world where all children were truly free to be children -- to play, laugh and have fun without fear or threat.
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How Safe Are Your Investments, Really?
History Suggests Many Delude Themselves About Real Returns
What returns are you expecting from your investments? Fifteen percent a year? Ten? Do you have no idea at all?
The stock market swung sharply at the start of last week after the Russian invasion of Ukraine—the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping more than 200 points before recouping all its losses and hitting highs as the week progressed.
But while eyes are on the short term, for most investors the more important question is the long term.
Your long-term expectations are key to your financial plan. They determine how much you need to save to reach your financial goals, what goals you are likely to attain, when you'll be able to retire—and, for some, whether you'll be able to retire at all.
If you follow popular rules of thumb, or the standard presentations from Wall Street banks, mutual-fund companies or professional financial advisers, you may be expecting somewhere between 5% and 10% a year.
Money managers point to historical data going back to the 1920s to show that in the past stocks have produced total returns of about 10% a year over the long term and bonds, about 5%—meaning a standard "balanced" portfolio of 60% stocks and 40% bonds would earn just over 8% a year. (Naturally, their legal departments quickly add that the past is no guide to the future.)
Are these forecasts realistic? Are they sensible? Are they even based on actual logic or a correct reading of the past data?
A close look at the data reveals a number of disturbing errors and logical flaws. There is a serious danger that investors are deluding themselves and that returns from here on may prove far more disappointing than many hope or believe.
This has happened before. Money invested in a balanced fund of stocks and bonds at certain points in the past—such as in the late 1930s, or during the 1960s and 1970s—ended up losing money for many years, after accounting for inflation.
Far from making an annual profit, investors went backward in real, purchasing-power terms. And those losses were even before deducting costs or taxes.
Wall Street strategists Rob Arnott and the late Peter Bernstein, in research published just after the 2000 dot-com crash, explained the dangers of trying to extrapolate from the past. From the 1920s through the late 1990s, they said, investors benefited from some huge one-off gains that couldn't be—or were unlikely to be—repeated.
Wall Street won't tell you that.
For example, from the 1920s through the early 1990s stock investors collected an average annual return of 4% just from their dividends. Today the figure is less than 2%. Logically we should expect future total returns to be at least two percentage points lower.
Back in the 1950s, U.S. stocks traded at an average of about 11 times the previous year's earnings, according to analysts. In the 1940s and the early 1980s, valuations fell as low as eight times earnings.
But after 1982 they became sharply revalued upward. Today the S&P 500 trades at about 18 times earnings. To expect the same again is to engage in Bubble Logic—the belief that things will keep going up simply because they have.
Dow 10000?
If stocks were simply to fall back to valuations considered normal in the 1950s, the Dow Jones Industrial Average would be about 10000, not 16400.
And then there is the small matter of inflation—which was effectively zero in the 1920s, under the gold standard, but hit 14% a year in the 1940s and again in 1980. Inflation makes returns look better than they really are. Your stocks double, but so does your rent and the cost of milk.
Of the compound returns of the stock market since the mid-1920s, more than 90% are simply the product of inflation. The returns aren't real.
Strip out these one-off gains and inflation, Rob Arnott recently suggested, and investors ought more realistically to expect about 1.5% a year plus dividends—meaning, in the current environment, an annual return of about 3.5% in real terms. That's a far cry from 10%.
Invest $10,000 for 20 years at 10% and you'll have $70,000. At 3.5%, you'll have just $20,000.
If stock returns risk disappointing many optimists, prospects for bonds seem, if anything, even gloomier. It's highly unlikely that anyone will earn returns of 5% a year from the bond market when the Barclays Aggregate U.S. Bond Index offers a yield to maturity of about 2.2%.
While financial advisers may cross their fingers and hope for a repeat of the past, they should be careful about what they wish for.
That's because several of the stock-market indicators which have most reliably predicted a slump over the past century are doing so again. The so-called Cyclically Adjusted Price/Earnings ratio, also known as the Shiller P/E ratio after Yale economist and Nobel laureate Robert Shiller, compares share prices to average per-share earnings from the past 10 years.
The latest boom in the stock market has taken this measure above 25—an alarming level. The market topped 25 on the Shiller P/E just before the great Crash of 1929, for example, and before the 2000-2002 and 2007-2009 slumps. A Shiller P/E above 20 has usually been associated with poor stock-market returns over the following decade.
Stock Prices vs. Revenues
Similar readings can be found by looking at another measure, Tobin's Q, named after late Nobel-prize winning economist James Tobin. This compares stock prices to the cost of replacing company assets. U.S. stocks today also look expensive, by historical standards, when compared with annual domestic output or corporate revenues.
As a general rule, if you had invested in stocks when these indicators said stocks were cheap, you did very well indeed over the next 10 or 20 years. But if you had invested in stocks when these indicators said stocks were expensive, you did poorly. Right now all of these measures are signaling that stocks are expensive (as they have been for some time).
It's possible that these indicators are wrong this time. Corporate profits are buoyant, after all. The economy is recovering, house prices are up, and the labor market continues to heal. It isn't hard to see why investors are optimistic.
It's a feature of bull markets that the voices of caution gradually get drowned out completely by the growing chatter of the ticker tape and the ringing of cash registers.
The bears look and sound more foolish, until they finally give up and fall silent completely. It's an old saw on Wall Street that the boom won't end until the last bear turns bullish.
The issue is whether investors are adequately prepared for the very real possibility of disappointment. As ever, the wisest philosophy is to hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
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I am not sure what happened, but I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and it is unusable right now because of the white text on white background problem as seen in the screenshot.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
The only way I've found to change colors is to edit the following three files in whatever theme I'm using.
In the beginning of these files you'll find 4 pairs of core foreground and background colors used in applications based on the gtk 2 and gtk 3 libraries. Pair
Selected pair is for selected text and the tooltip pair is used for the tips that pop up when you hover over a button or link. These colors may be applied by applications with varying opacity or shadings. The colors you'll want to check are the base_color and text_color pair.
Here's an example of what I changed in the
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is the code for black text and white boxes, for this specific issue fro mthe screenshot you may need to change the other 6 elements and test out which affect that specific text element.
I am using Equinox Evolution Midnight on Sabayon linux with openbox and lxappearance does not change the colour of the white text on black text boxes or white text on white background in firefox (also libreoffice had reversed colours, yuck) I hope someone spends less time figuring this out because of this post
You can use dconf-editor (in package dconf-tools on ubuntu) and change the value at


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Last Modified: November 1, 2001
|Authors: Nancy Oster, Lucy Thomas, Darol Joseff, Susan Love
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
Within the policy context of the drive towards evidence-based practice, it is important to understand what the medical decision making process is. The information revolution triggered by the rapid growth of the Internet has allowed patients to access a rapidly expanding volume of information. However, how to use the information in print, on the Internet, and through contact with medical experts to make a sound medical decision is a major challenge that many patients have to face.
Although Making Informed Medical Decisions: Where to Look and How to Use What You Find was written for a general patient population, some cancer patients may find it informative in their decision making as well. The book is written by Lucy Thomas, a medical librarian, Nancy Oster, an expert on Internet medical research, and nephrologist Darol Joseff, MD. It is ironic that within two days of completing writing this book, one of the co-authors Lucy Thomas was diagnosed with oral cancer. She had used her own book's advice to research information and to work with her doctors on her treatment plan.
Recent changes in the health care environment make it imperative that patients and their families take more responsibility in their decision making. Patients are oft- times overwhelmed by information obtained from various sources, as well as by the associated medical terminology, and sometimes conflicting recommendations from different physicians. Making Informed Medical Decisions: Where to Look and How to Use What You Find can certainly serve as a "hands on" tool, enabling the reader to:
The entire book is extremely well organized and easily readable. Oncolink highly recommends this book.


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The full-color, 28-page publication has all the information any visitor or traveler could need when he or she wants to learn about the area's wide variety of events, attractions and resources.
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How to Archer: The Ultimate Guide (Kindle edition) for $1.99 + free shipping
Guide to Espionage, Style, Women...
If you like the Archer TV series and like to read, this is a great deal. Don't know if this is their regular or a sale price.
The paperback edition was presented to me as a quick pick for over $10 but when I saw the $2 price tag for the Kindle edition, I had to share. I don't know if the Kindle edition is well formatted because I haven't bought it yet (but I'm about to).
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I spy a grammatic error in the title.
Bought it b/c Archer is so awesome. Thanks for the post.
Also available on iBooks for $1.99
Wow, 8 down votes?
The title of a book doesn't matter?
"How to Archer: The Ultimate Ever Written", does not make sense, so when you insert the operative phrase "Guide to Espionage, Style, Women, and Cocktails" in the middle of it, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
"How to Archer: The Ultimate Guide to Espionage, Style, Women, and Cocktails"
The words "Ever Written" are superfluous.
Love the show, but probably never would have bought. But for $2? Looks great on Kindle Fire.
I purchased the Kindle edition when it first came out a few months (year?) ago. Now, I LOVE Archer. I can quote it with the best of them. I NEVER miss an episode.
The book is decently funny, the problem is most of the comedy is found in the footnotes. Footnotes that are PAINFUL to read on a kindle. Each time Archer makes a comment where he also makes a side comment, you have to cursor up to the footnote marker, press enter,and wait for the kindle to find the footnote and display it. Then you mash the 'back' button, wait for the kindle to find the page you were on, and re-display it.
Some pages have multiple footnotes, so you end up doing this MULTIPLE times.
I love my Kindle - it's the only thing I read books on. But the way this one is formatted is a KILLER. If the side-comments were made without the need for navigation (possibly parenthetically), this would have been a hoot to read. Otherwise, I think I would actually recommend the hard copy over the Kindle ed.
Definitely formatted to be read on a touch device. The million footnotes are a pain on a Kindle Keyboard. I loaded it onto my rooted Nook tablet and am enjoying it quite a bit though. I wouldn't recommend the Kindle version unless you've got a touch device, but if you do, definitely snag a copy.
@danieleg: Guess you touched a nerve :o
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10 Feb 2012 10:57 AM #1
Can I create Sencha Designer Project using some kind of API?
We would like to use Sencha Designer tool to allow users to modify screens. Is this possible to create a new Sencha Designer Project on the fly using some kind of API?
10 Feb 2012 11:52 AM #2
Not at the moment, but this is on our radar for future (as in 2.x) updates.
What other features would you like to be exposed as API calls?--
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10 Feb 2012 2:09 PM #3
Thanks for answering. I posted related question why we could not updated a button label for the form created via Sencha Designer outside of Sencha Designer. If this is how it works by design, we would need APIs that allow to update metadata. But I really hope that this is just a bug.
We also would hugely benefit from allowing Designer to edit Templates. This is not an API, just another important function.
14 Feb 2012 7:41 AM #4
API requests? I've read in some other threads that there are big plans/hopes/dreams for the export/deploy functionality of Designer. Once that is done it would be great to have any of that work be exposed through a command line api (tied in to sdk tools?) so that it can be part of an automated process, e.g. ant build scripts.


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For what value of k, $x^{2} + 2(k-1)x + k+5$ has at least one positive root?
Approach: Case I : Only $1$ positive root, this implies $0$ lies between the roots, so $$f(0)<0$$ and $$D > 0$$
Case II: Both roots positive. It implies $0$ lies behind both the roots. So, $$f(0)>0$$ $$D≥0$$ Also, abscissa of vertex $> 0 $
I did the calculation and found the intersection but its not correct. Please help. Thanks.


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We have a structure that is sloped at 20 Degrees to the horizontal and weights 160N. We then have a force (wind) which is acting along the horizontal plane which has been calculated to be of about 8000N.
The problem we are having is that we are unable to find what amount of ballast that needs to be added at the bottom of the structure to stop the structure from being blown away. The structure will not be bolted to the ground. At the moment we do not have an exact amount for the coefficient of friction, but the structure will be placed on a flat concrete surface.
We have tried to find a solution by breaking the forces along the vertical and horizontal components, but we where unsure if we where heading in the right direction. Below is an image which describes the setting:
Could someone please advise us as to which mathematical model we should use?
Thanks in advance