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Is it correct that a subjective question is not a psychological question? I.e. for a question to be psychological, must it be an objective question? E.g. a question about an objective probability instead of just what you like or don't.
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There are many granulations of the objective-subjective distinction. The most objective would be the behaviorism which says it is meaningless to reason about anything except how environmental stimulus leads directly to observed behavior. This camp was popular in psychology during the time of B.F. Skinner, but now is seldom followed by people outside of biology.
In modern treatments of cognitive psychology, the scientists attributes internal private states to the people they study. These states are subjective, but are assumed to be (to some extent) analogous across individuals. The scientist then collects statistics about these internal states from many different individuals, this is one of the reasons why some view psychology as a 'statistical science'. Conducting a survey of people's subjective states is perfectly admissible methodology in this view.
The subjective experience is taken most seriously in clinical psychology. When working in this field, it is very important for the scientist (or doctor) to be very familiar with the fact that the patient's subjective experience of the world around them could not be very dissociation from what we typically view as objective reality.
Your question potentially raises philosophical questions, but for it to have meaning, there are several definitional issues.
What is a psychological question?
Presumably a psychological question is any question that concerns the domain of psychology.
There are many criteria that could be used to evaluate whether it is a scientifically interesting question in psychology. Failure to be interesting, does not stop it from being psychological. A few criteria might include:
You used the example of asking someone about their favourite colour. Thus, asking about how people choose their favourite colour or how stable is favourite colour over time or whether favourite colour is related to other psychologically relevant variables would be moderately interesting psychological questions (they are at least general, but perhaps not that important). Asking an individual person what is their favourite colour, is a question that concerns the psychology of one individual, but it lacks generality and is of almost know importance to the general public.
What is a subjective question?
This could mean that the topic of the question concerns evaluations. For example, plenty of researchers study aesthetics, attitudes, values, which are in some sense subjective evaluations. Much research in psychology use measures that involve an element of subjectivity (e.g., personality measures, many self-report measures, qualitative ratings of performance, and so on).
This could mean that the topic of the question is concerned with theoretical states that are not readily observable. As @Artem has mentioned, the distinction between cognitive psychology and behaviourism readily captures this distinction, whereby cognitive psychology acknowledges both the existence and the value of theorising about internal cognitive states such as goals, cognitions, mental representations, information processing systems, etc. Much of psychology is concerned with such phenomena. Often several steps are required to move from the empirical phenomena to the theoretical concepts. Theories develop over time based on whether the theory is supported by the empirical evidence.
In both the above cases, asking such subjective questions seems both productive, interesting and legitimate.
Another way that questions can be subjective is that the meaning of the question is not clear and thus requires subjective interpretation. In psychological science attempts are made to link into existing literatures and use accepted terms. Clarity of the meaning of the question is important.
What is a subjective answer?
I think this may reflect what you are referring to. A subjective answer is presumably one that depends on the person answering the question. Much of the scientific method in psychology is designed to increase objectivity in the results obtained. E.g., using established measures of constructs, linking into existing terminology and theories, following good practice in study design, performing appropriate analytic techniques, drawing reasoned inferences in light of the data and the established literature.
There is a lot to the art of psychological science. There are better methods and worse methods. There is certainly a degree of subjectivity in the scientific method, perhaps more so in psychology than in the hard sciences.
However, there are many critiques that can be made of answers to psychological questions. In general the scientific method attempts to provide answers that are more rigorous and part of that rigour is achieved through the removal of subjectivity.


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While searching online for the difference between "sometime" and "some time", I stumbled upon this page. At the middle of the page you can see these two sentences that demonstrate the difference:
I'll visit London again sometime. Sometimes I let some time pass before returning.
These seemingly simple sentences strike me as magical because I can simply recite them like a spell whenever I have problems choosing between using "sometime" and "some time" in my writing.
So, my question is, can anyone help to provide similar "magical" sentences that show the differences among the following similar-looking words:
- maybe vs may be
- anymore vs any more
- anyway vs any way
- anyone vs any one
- altogether vs all together
- enquire vs inquire
- complimentary vs complementary
- defence vs defense
- assure vs ensure
Please add any additional word pairs together with their examples.
- I'm not looking for definitions of the words. I'm looking for usage examples that succinctly show how the words are used in context, something akin to mnemonics.
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Votes for Lynching:
1. Panzadolphin - Dexter
2. Usedtabe - Dexter
3. ZP - Dexter
4. Muckfoot - Dexter
5. Dexter - Panza
6. CB - Dexter
7. MarcoSnow
8. DJNeal - Dexter
9. Flamoctapus - Dexter
Dexter - 7
Panza - 1
Votes for Sheriff:
1. Panzadolphin
2. Usedtabe - Usedtabe
4. Muckfoot
5. Dexter - ZP
6. CB - Muckfoot
7. MarcoSnow
8. DJNeal - ZP
9. Flamoctapus - Abstain
Used - 1
Muckfoot - 1
Abstain - 1
I don't remember how this goes down - should I wait until all the Sheriff votes come in before calling the day phase, or should I do it as the rules state and call the phase now since all the votes to lynch are in?
Call it now.
Full of anger and icecream over the death of one of their favourite bunkmates, the village riled quickly against one of the Liveies in particular. Fuelled by tales of premonitions and werewolves, they suddenly seized the fellow and forcibly lifted him into the kitchen's oversized oven. The door shut. The fire blazed.
And the kitchen filled with the smell of hotdog.
Dexter has been lynched. He was a Werewolf.
Night 2. The Village sleeps.
Night roles, do your thing.
Player list
1. Panzadolphin
2. Usedtabe
4. Muckfoot
5. Dexter
7. MarcoSnow
8. DJNeal
9. Flamoctapus
Seriously, I'd like to live past day two some time.
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When the townsfolk awoke on the following morning, they were filled with apprehension over the previous day's events. Was it all just a dream? Or maybe a vision? No, it was all real.
They soon gathered outside to confirm what they already knew - one of them was missing. The investigation into his disappearance ended quickly at the sight of a blood trail leading into the attic, where the corpse lay shredded and twisted. There was no doubt about it, something mysterious was afoot.
Flamoctapus has been killed. He was on the Villager team.
Day 2
Player list
1. Panzadolphin
2. Usedtabe
4. Muckfoot
5. Dexter
7. MarcoSnow
8. DJNeal
9. Flamoctapus
Please leave both your nominations for lynching and for shieriffhood in the boxes provided.
Murder Muck.
Sheriff Me.
I, too, am strongly considering Muck for the noose, but would rather hear from the Seer before making my decision. Panza, who did you look at last night?
Oh, and I'll also vote ZP for Sheriff.
Clownbaby, he's human.
I'm gonna say this early as I can see where this is going; if I'm lynched tonight make note that ZP voted first, once you lot leave me hanging and realise I'm human he'd be worth looking into.
Usually wolves would shy away from the attention the sheriff role brings but in games where everyone must be wiped out getting this role can significantly help them win it. ZP's gone for the role and voted for me to die off the back of Dex voting me into office - in the past if Dex is found as a wolf he's always attempted to cast doubt on others before he's killed off, it's those that he doesn't mention/root for you need to be wary of.
abstain from lynch vote, vote
Myself as sheriff
Dex is a jerkface like that. He has a history of trying to get his bad dude teammates killed, just ask Table. Meanwhile, I'm head to toe legitimate.
Y'heard it here first.
All of this is because I farted in the big bed last night, isn't it?
I didn't realise your leg was pretty much under my ass, I said sorry an' everything!
You're still not helping your case, bro.
If I was a wolf why would I choose this game to be the first time to stick my neck out and go for the sheriff role?
From the wolf team 's perspective if they wanted a wolf in the sheriff's office it'd be safer to either back a wolf that has a history of voting themselves in (ie like ZP) or back a new person as we've next to no past games to compare their behaviour to.
I'd need big balls to go for sheriff in a game like this.
It would be pretty ballsy, given how few of us there are, doesn't necessarily rule it out though.


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How to simulate slide transition on Android phone?
What's the trick to do a "slide" transition on an Android device? What's happening is that when I click on an item from a list it is supposed to bring up the details, but what happens is that it does the transition but the contents from the first screen stay there on top of the details card. On iPhone and Chrome it works fine.
Here's what I'm trying to do to hide (similar to geocongress):
mobioasis.defaultAnim = Ext.platform.isAndroidOS ? false : 'slide'; mobioasis.App = Ext.extend(Ext.Panel, { cls: 'app', fullscreen: true, layout: 'card', activeItem: 0, initComponent: function() { this.startScreen = new mobioasis.StartScreen({ flex: 1 }); this.splash = new Ext.Container({ cls: 'splash', layout: { type: 'vbox', align: 'stretch', pack: 'end' }, listeners: { deactivate: this.onSplashDeactivate, scope: this }, items: [this.startScreen] }); this.detail = new mobioasis.DieInfo(); this.items = [this.splash, this.detail]; mobioasis.App.superclass.initComponent.call(this); this.startScreen.on('dieselect', this.onDieSelect, this); }, afterRender: function() { mobioasis.App.superclass.afterRender.apply(this, arguments); Ext.getBody().on(Ext.isChrome ? 'click' : 'tap', this.onLinkTap, this, {delegate: 'a.goOutside'}); }, onLinkTap: function(e, t) { e.stopEvent(); mobioasis.Util.openUrl(t.href); }, onSplashDeactivate: function() { this.startScreen.list.clearSelections(); }, onDieSelect: function(dieId) { this.setCard(this.detail, mobioasis.defaultAnim); this.detail.update(dieId); } });
Ext.getBody().on(Ext.isChrome ? 'click' : 'tap', this.onLinkTap, this, {delegate: 'a.goOutside'});
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A delegate on a click handler is to tell the event listener which child component you want to be the target of the event. In this case a.goOutside would refer to a link with a class of goOutside, i.e.

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16 Aug 2010 6:29 PM #3
Hmmm...well that probably rules that line out. Is there something I need to do to get the details card to show on top of the original card on Android?
26 Jul 2011 7:03 AM #4
Thanks for this code. I am having the same issue on an app that is scheduled to launch in 48 hours.
What misled us to believe it was okay was that on Android tablets and on Android SDK Emulator, there was no sign at all of layout issue.
Has this happened to a lot of developpers or we are an isolated case?
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How would I find out all the devices on my LAN by pinging them all in terminal? What would the code be?
Probably the easiest way to do this is to use a command line utility called nmap. You can download the binaries from the main site. Alternatively, if you have Homebrew installed, you can use that to install nmap from a terminal by typing
Once you have downloaded and installed nmap, you need one other piece of information about your LAN - what block of IP address are used for machines on it. The easiest way to find that out is to run
On my network, my machine has the address 192.168.0.6 on interface en1.
NOTE: depending on how many machines you have on your network, pinging them all could take a very very long time. In the following examples, I'll assume you have less than 256 devices on your network and that they are all in the same subnet - likely to be the case if this is a home network.
If your inet looks like 192.168.N.N (where each N is a number between 0-255) then the following command will try to ping addresses 192.168.N.0 to 192.168.N.255 on your network, and report any machines which respond (you need to use sudo so that nmap can use ICMP pings). Fill in the N sections with the matching number in your inet address:
For example, if your inet address was reported as 192.168.1.100, you should type:
If your inet address looks like 10.N.N.N, use this, again filling in the N sections with your own reported numbers:
And finally, if it looks like 172.N.N.N, use this:
Searching Larger Networks
If you want to expand your search to include more machines, you have to adjust the number after the slash in the address section for the command. In the three commands above, I've specified
Every time you decrease the number by 1, twice as many addresses are searched - this is why decreasing it too much can make the search take a very very long time. For example, to search all 192.168.N.N addresses, you would specify
I don't actually know how many pings per second nmap can send, but if you try a full scan, you may have to leave it overnight, or at least have a long coffee.
Those nmap Options
Just so you know, here's what the other nmap options I specified mean:
As the "no port scan" option may hint at, you can do all sorts of very funky things with nmap, such as checking to see what ports are open on a machine (to tell what services they are probably running) and it can even guess which OS the target machine is running with a pretty decent degree of accuracy. If you need more advanced things like that, check the nmap docs. I'd link to them, but I'm not renowned enough to post more than 2 links yet.
Or ping the broadcast address
If everything is turned on, responsive and in one subnet then something like 'ping 192.168.1' for a few seconds followed by 'arp -a' should give you a list of all the devices with ip address and MAC address.


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Last time I discussed Persoonskaarten as a primary source, this time I will be talking about the Burgerlijke Stand (BS), which is the Dutch civil registration. Civil registration in the Netherlands was generally started in 1811, but in the South it was sometimes started as early as 1796. By 1812, every city and town in the Netherlands had started with the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths. These certificates were kept in bound books, one book for every kind of certificate. So there is a book of births, a book of marriages and a book of deaths for every place. Registration occurred in the place where the event took place.
Civil registration of births
The civil registration of births is public after 100 years. So currently, all births before 1910 are public. A birth certificate will give the following data:
Name of the child
Names and residence of the parents
Profession of the father
Date and time of birth
Place of birth
Special notices, like whether the child was born out of wedlock.
Civil registration of marriages
The civil registration of marriages is public after 75 years. So currently, all births before 1935 are public. A marriage certificate will give the following data:
Place and date of the marriage
Names and ages of the bride and groom
Birthplaces of the bride and groom
Profession of the groom, and sometimes also of the bride (be aware, if the certificate notes no profession for the bride, this does not mean she didn't work at all, she could very well have helped out her family in the family business, for instance)
Names, professions and places of residence for the parents of the bride and groom (often it is also noted if they are deceased at the time of the marriage)
Sometimes mention is made of permission for the marriage, recognition of a child born out of wedlock, and other special events surrounding the marriage
The names, professions and places of residence of the witnesses, sometimes the familial relationship is also noted.
Civil registration of deaths
The civil registration of deaths is public after 50 years. So currently, all deaths before 1960 are public. A death certificate will give the following data:
Name of the deceased
Place, date and time of death
Birthplace and date of the deceased
Profession and place of residence of the deceased
Name of partner, and sometimes of previous partners
Name, profession and places of residence for the parents of the deceased, sometimes it is also noted if the parents are alive or deceased
Finding the certificates
The first thing you need to do is figure out which archive contains the certificates of the town you're interested in. If you search in Google on 'archief and name of the town' it's easy enough to find. Most archives have a digital search engine that will search all if the civil registry certificates they have. Do always check to see which part of their collection isn't available digital yet! The Genlias database is also a good idea to check, it contains civil registry certificates from a lot of town in the Netherlands.
When you have found the correct certificate through a digital database, you can usually click on it to get some more information. Sometimes, a digital scan is available. You can see a scan of the original and with that you can easily transcribe all the available data. However, if there is no digital scan, you will either have to order a copy (prizes vary from archive to archive) or go and see the certificate at the archive. If you do not do this, you will miss a lot of information, because only the bare basics of the certificate (name of person(s), name of his/her/their parents and date of event) are in the database. Don't forget to see the original!
If the town you're interested in does not have a digital database, you will have to go to the archive to look for the certificate. In this case, you will have to look in the index. The indexes are for every 10 years and give in alphabetical surname order all names of the people who were born, married, died or got divorced in that time period, together with the date the certificate was made. Then you can look for the certificate. Please, do not make the mistake of thinking the date the certificate was made (the date mentioned in the index) is the date of the event!
Some other, important notes
Although I've given the time periods after which certificates are considered public, this doesn't always mean they can be found. There are often delays in handing over certificates to the archives, and especially in smaller towns certificates of multiple years are in the same book, which means the books are transferred every 5 or 10 years, instead of every year. This means that even though I should be able to find a birth certificate made in 1909, there is a good chance it is not at the archive yet. Generally, birth certificates of 1900 and before can be found, marriage certificates of 1925 and before and death certificates of 1950 and before.
There are two other registers that are a part of the Burgerlijke Stand, namely the Huwelijksbijlagen (Marriage Supplements) and the Registers van Naamsaanneming (Registers of Name Adoption). I will talk about them in part 2.
To cite a civil register certificate, use the following: BS [place] Certificate Year [enter year] Number [enter number]
Examples of birth, marriage and death certificates will appear in the series Looking For Lamboo. I will post a notice here when these posts are made.
For other posts in this series, see the How-to Guide to Genealogy in the Netherlands.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Genealogy in the Netherlands: Primary sources after 1811 part III- Burgerlijke Stand (BS) part 1: civil registration
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Net Neutrality
Under the guise of encouraging competition, protecting consumers and preserving First Amendment freedoms on the Internet, a coalition of corporations and organizations, representing all parts of the political spectrum, have been urging the Federal Communications Commission, Congress and even state legislatures to adopt laws that codify "network neutrality" on the Internet. The latest legislative strategy may be an attempt to impose network neutrality conditions on any service provider that accepts funds from the $7.2 billion broadband stimulus.
Network neutrality would regulate the transmission of Internet data. It would impose obligations and prohibitions on major service providers that own the networks that connect homes and businesses to the Internet. It would dictate the technology and software that phone companies, cable companies and other Internet service providers (ISPs) could develop, purchase and use in their network. It would limit the quality choices they could offer their consumer and business customers. It would lead to a host of unintended consequences, the most immediate and likely being a slow, congested Internet with little or none of the utility for the multimedia applications for which it has become associated. The principles of network neutrality that would be instituted as law are:
- Carriers should be prohibited from blocking access to any legal Web site or application;
- Carriers should be prohibited from preventing any application using the Internet Protocol (IP), the basic programming language used on the Internet, to run on its network;
- Carriers must allow any IP-addressable device to attach to the network;
- Carriers must provide users with information about their network service plan;
- Carriers should treat all data the same and be prohibited from altering, prioritizing or partitioning data with the intent of improving quality for their own services or for select groups of customers or partners.
The first four principles are all but pointless. First, an ISP exists to connect individuals and businesses to the Internet at large. A service provider who "violates" them would be running counter to its own business model. That's why, in the near 15-year history of U.S. ISP service, there has only been once violation of these guidelines—tiny Madison River Communications, which attempted blocked Vonage's Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP service). The FCC forced Madison River to halt the blocking and make a $15,000 payment to the U.S. Treasury as part of an agreement to drop the investigation.1 Beyond that, it was short-sighted. VoIP services are popular and ISPs, to keep their business, find they must support them.
The second and third principles are beyond ISP control. By definition, any IP-compatible device can communicate over an IP network. This is simply the way the equipment works. An ISP can't do anything about it. Now an ISP may require a password if a customer wants to use the portion of the network it owns to connect to other devices, but a password requirement does not interfere with the IP connection itself. Just getting a password prompt is proof an IP device is operating on the network. And ISPs are not the only businesses who use passwords protect their networked assets. Most businesses and consumers, if they are wise, password-protect any laptops, PCs and larger computers that connect to the Internet. That's precisely because any IP device can talk to another.
The fourth principle is redundant. Information about service is covered in the basic buyer-seller agreement. And if an ISP were to violate it to the point where a consumer or business owner thinks he's been defrauded, there are existing legal mechanisms to address those cases.
So while any Internet regulation is undesirable, the initial four neutrality provisions don't really "safeguard" anything. They have the same effect as would a decree that required every motor vehicle built in the U.S. to drive forward and reverse. Law or no law, cars are going to be built that way.
The fifth principle, however, would hold serious consequences if given the force of law. The fifth principle of network neutrality would impose limits on how service providers can use their networks to improve the quality, reliability, prioritization and management of data and applications as they move across their facilities. Specifically, phone and cable companies, along with ISPs such as EarthLink and Covad Communications that predominately serve businesses, would be prohibited from offering Web site owners (sometimes called Web hosts), ranging from companies the size of Google to small entrepreneurial Web storefronts, any improvement in applications speed or performance for an added price.
Network neutrality proponents say regulations are needed because the phone and cable companies control most consumer connections to the Internet. As an example, they point to Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, which in October 2008 confirmed reports that it was intentionally slowing down the rate that voluminous video files were being transferred to BitTorrent.com, one of many so-called peer-to-peer (P2P) sites that allow users to search for and exchange movies and TV shows between and among their own PCs. Although an Associated Press (AP) headline reported that Comcast was blocking P2P applications, the text of the very article reported otherwise.2 BitTorrent software is designed to set up as many simultaneous connections as possible between the user's PC and BitTorrent's file sharing site (the more connections, the faster the transmission). To keep BitTorrent users from flooding the network, especially at peak times, Comcast introduced software that limited the number of simultaneous connections the BitTorrent software could set up. BitTorrent users could still reach the site, but the rate of transfer was slowed. Comcast argues this network management decision was made to ensure service quality for the vast majority of Comcast Internet customers whose high-speed connections would be slowed by the amount of bandwidth P2P applications were gobbling up. Even cable industry critics such as George Ou, writing on ZDNet, conceded Comcast was within its rights to do so:
We can think of it as a freeway onramp that has lights on it to rate limit the number of cars that may enter a freeway… If you didn't have the lights and everyone tries to pile on to the freeway at the same time, everyone ends up with worse traffic.
The Comcast action, triggered with the reality that P2P protocols such as the BitTorrent protocol are designed to consume as much bandwidth as is available, has sharpened the debate about what the unintended consequences of network neutrality might be. If network neutrality were enacted as bills are currently written, service providers would not be able to take technical countermeasures that would balance bandwidth consumption. Conversely, they would not be allowed to offer rabid P2P users priority connections a higher price. And whether they charged for it or not, service providers would not be able prioritize transmission of certain types of data, for example, streaming video or online gaming, even if it would make the application perform better. They would not be allowed to enter agreements with third party providers to give their services special handling. They would not be permitted to improve the quality of their own services, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone calling, without providing the same level of quality to competitors who use their network.
As such, network neutrality enforcement would add an unprecedented level of government interference in the way Internet applications work, and to what extent the sophisticated transmission mechanisms within the Internet could be used to facilitate future Web applications such as telemedicine and distance learning, as well as entertainment and e-commerce. And even then, it is doubtful whether network neutrality can ensure the "equal access" proponents say they want. It is also questionable whether a policy of network neutrality is either workable or desirable on today's Internet.
Network neutrality proponents state that without neutrality, service providers will be able to create high-speed "toll" lanes on the Internet, and relegate those without deep pockets to some sort of "slow" lane. These suppositions are presented with no evidence. Today, the Internet reaches the customer at speeds as high as 15 megabits per second (Mb/s), hardly pokey by any measure, and there's every reason to believe speeds will get faster. The norm was 4 Mb/s in 2005, and 8 Mb/s in 2008, while prices have remained stable. All this has come about without mandated network neutrality.
As justification for a ban on service providers creating differentiated pricing for faster data speeds or guarantees of higher quality, supporters cite the historical classification of network owners as "common carriers," a status which they say obligates them to treat all data the same.
The "common carrier" rationale no longer holds. True, only a few years ago, telecom networks were neutral common carriers by default. Two things changed. First, the Internet and broadband together enabled an unlimited number of parties to use the network to deliver diverse content, applications and services. Second, network technology evolved to the point where service providers could manage, manipulate and prioritize data in their networks in ways that can add greater value.
Although neutrality proponents routinely compare telecom networks to utilities like electricity and water, the concept of the "value-add" is a critical distinction in telecom. The common carrier argument sees only a raw data stream crossing the network. It's a clever twist, because it's easy to comprehend data—all those one and zeros—flowing to homes much like electricity and water. But the analogy ends there. Consumers don't use their Internet connections to receive a stream of digits; they use them to find, purchase and exchange data in the form of processed information, be it a simple e-mail or a high-definition movie.
Network neutrality mistakenly assumes that service providers deliver commoditized data when, in fact, they deliver packaged information products that have been created and crafted by numerous parties.
Processed information, as opposed to raw data, can take many forms, and can be valued using any number of measures. To the user, therefore, the Internet, as a delivery mechanism, is inherently commercial and non-neutral. As a party to an information-based transaction, the consumer implicitly accepts that the enterprises that have invested in the creation, processing, transmission, presentation and sale of that information are entitled to compensation.
Network neutrality would lock service providers out of the process. It would prohibit the companies that build, own and operate the nation's broadband networks from taking any strategic role in the management and optimization of information products that use their facilities, to the detriment of everyone who depends on a high-performance Internet. Network neutrality would preempt the development of an entire class of optional, but valuable, products, features and services that would make for a better network. For example, any application that has life or death implications and calls for real-time communication—say a remote home-based health monitoring system linked to emergency alarms at a hospital, would benefit from, and perhaps require, transmission prioritization.
In fact, the capability to do so already exists. Hospital networks, which use the very same IP protocol as the Internet, can and do prioritize traffic. So do many other businesses and organizations that do business over the Internet.
The Internet is not, and never has been, neutral. Nor will a network neutrality policy make it so. All it will do is place legal limits on the quality and performance of Web-based services. Neither federal and state legislators, nor FCC commissioners, will serve the users or Internet economy if they go out of their way to remove an entire group of companies from the information value chain.


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In product markets, the new refinery will add to the supply of clean diesel in Saudi Arabia and Europe -- markets typically supplied by India. Since Indian refiners export diesel to so many markets, the appearance of this competing supply source may have bearish consequences for global diesel prices.
The 2014 startup of the Jubail refinery will take the shine out of
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In product markets, the new refinery will add to the supply of
clean diesel in Saudi Arabia and Europe -- markets
typically supplied by India. Since Indian refiners export diesel to so
many markets, the appearance of this competing supply source
will have bearish consequences for global diesel prices, the
consultants predict.
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of products in 2012, 485,000 bpd of which was diesel
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The Jubail refinery, a joint venture of Saudi
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With Indias domestic market experiencing weak demand and
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There are direct consequences for all key diesel
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Jubail will add to the availability of clean diesel to Europe, where demand continues to
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"Unless Indias private refiners cut
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A lot of the time I edit a file with nano, try to save and get a permission error because I forgot to run it as sudo. Is there some quick way I can become sudo without having to re-open and re-edit the file?
No, you can't give a running program permissions that it doesn't have when it starts, that would be the security hole known as 'privilege escalation'.
Two things you can do:
Edit: See this related question for other solutions in advanced editors that allow writing the file buffer to a process pipe.
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It checks if you can edit the file, and if you can't, it runs "nano" as root instead.
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I am wondering if setData has changed at all, as calling setData on a tpl-powered panel no longer renders out the data passed in.
However, I notice that calling getData() afterwards displays the same passed-in data no problem, in the same format. The parent object contains nothing within items when I called a console.log().
Below is a chunk of the code that's dealing with these elements.
var myTpl = new Ext.XTemplate( '
' + '<tpl for=".">' + '
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{name} {handicap}
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plus {legs.length-1} more selection
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Output {output}
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// Within the references of the Controller's config: historyListContent: { selector: '#historylistcontent', }, [...] listContent = this.getHistoryListContent(), [...] console.log(data); // This outputs the data as an array of objects. listContent.setData(data); // Call setData and push data into panel. console.log(listContent.getData()); // The same array objects as above console.log(listContent); // Nothing within 'items', listContent is still empty? [...]
6 Feb 2012 8:21 AM #2
Just to clarify as well, the 'data' within the setData(data) call is simply an array of Objects, parsed from the the original getStore call to clean up some of the values' strings. As mentioned, the TPl seems to be reading (and storing, according to getData) these values, but not rendering the output.
Any help appreciated as it's annoying spending more time trying to squash updated-related bugs than adding new features I'm supposed to be done
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Just a question:
Why are you using a tpl and you set data array to your panel when you could simply use a List component?Sencha Inc
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6 Feb 2012 9:22 AM #4
The layout is custom & varies according to the data coming in. Some items have extra flags & notes within the list (if you see the Tpl, there's a few If statements in there). My understanding is that you can't customise list layouts in that fashion? Hence the user of Tpls, and cursing setData
6 Feb 2012 9:29 AM #5
You are wrong
You can use that tpl even inside a List component.Sencha Inc
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6 Feb 2012 11:27 AM #6
Would that be related though, as it seems my problem still comes back to the Tpl not rendering the data to the viewport after getting info from setData() rather than what kind of component I'm using it in. I had the same trouble elsewhere with setData to a tpl driven Panel component, so I dunno, it doesn't seem like that's the problem?
It's fairly basic code that was working fine in PR4, so not sure why suddenly the same code should draw a blank in Beta?
Any ideas?
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Well rolled back to PR4 and everything's ship-shape again. Has tpl support for panels been removed from Beta or something?


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We've been getting users to connect their Facebook accounts to our site for a couple of weeks now, and I've been given the task of finding a way to post messages (i.e. advertisements) to their wall.
Essentially, there would be a cron job that would run at a specified time every day, which would post to a user's wall using our app secret and their oauth2_token (which we store).
I've done some searching, and I came across this post: http://ckdake.com/content/2010/posting-to-facebook-from-a-ruby-on-rails-app.html
That seems to require me to re-authorize the users, though. I'm currently using just the OAuth2 gem to do all my Facebook connecting, and I store the user's token with their user profile. I'd rather not set up a brand new model, just for the purposes of storing duplicate information.
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Let X be a Riemann surface, denote by H(1,0) the space of all (1,0)-holomorphic forms on X and consider the quotient vector space (over C) of H(1,0) by {f in H(1,0) | f = d(phi) for some phi in C(X)}. The dimension of this vector space is called the genus of the surface.
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So where's your bithcing and whining about RIM, mick and retrotroll?
suddenly turned into small softy possies the moment RIM seems to be coming back eh? haha two stupid trolls, not trolling much about RIM these days huh? ;))) come here pussy pussy pussy :))) I know mick is coward and won't reply once caught lying but where's the dumb boy retro? come out of hiding eh!
btw I just tried my brand new 64GB Surface with type cover, sweet stuff! although I wish it had less angular shape, more organic. I feel like Playbook is the king in industrial design design (even slightly better than iPad, judging by my fiddling with iPad in the local Apple store) and touch-feel wise. Surface is nice but... it's nice only if you have not experienced Playbook before. on the scale of things I'd put Playbook one and iPad with Surface sharing second spot, design-feel wise. Surface has an edge over iPad with better color and material of the case but I don't like angularity and sharp edges. and iPad sucks compared to Playbook because of size/heft and poor choice of material and color of the case.
I mean, most of trolls here who never tried Playbook (Tony, mototroll, retro, mick, cheesy clown etc etc) won't know what I'm talking about so it's more like for the experts who tried ALL touch platforms currently on the market
hey if Nexus seven has the same design as Playbook it's a big plus but I never saw it in my local stores so can't judge ;)
otherwise the win rt os is fast and smooth, gestures/multitasking/split panes ROCK!!! office of course works 100% and keyboard is the best. I mean definitely MS has put a ton of design effort into the whole thing, I think Surface is the best notebook I ever used, seriously. besides being a nice tablet. err... apart from the lack of compatibility with x86 legacy apps of course
man, it installed _one gigabyte_ of updates after I unpacked it, wowza!!!
after trying it out for one day I'm starting to wonder who are the idiots who buy iPads (I mean Tony and the others like religious zealots but these are very few, there must be some issue with normal non-zelot people who still buy iPads... maybe they like fart apps or somethin). but I'll post later on the topic, maybe iPad has its place but... now I'm not so sure
installed about 50 apps on Surface already, still have like 30 gigs left free. overall I invested about 100 bucks in windows store games, hehe. now I kinda start to understand why people like Apple so much :P Ballmer does the right thing when he copies Apple so often. app store is a great idea! cudos to Jobs for implementing it
ok ok, if you buy iPad because you invested a lot of money into iPad apps you are not an idiot. here, I said it.
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If a Christian "converts" to Judaism or Islam (or any of the Abrahamic religions), is he still considered saved as a Christian? What if he/she converted from Trinitarian to Uniterian? This is a general Christian question.
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There is no consensus among Christians on this question. Assuming that the conversion is genuine and permanent, rather than momentary weakness, the three main schools of thought that apply to this issue are:
Conditional Security
According to this view, Christians can lose their salvation. Thus, a Christian who converted to another religion would be seen to have lost his salvation, if he had it in the first place. Christians who hold this view, such as Arminians, would answer "No".
Perseverance of the Saints
Another school of thought is that Christians cannot lose their salvation, and that true believers will persevere till the end. According to this view, although true believers may fall and stumble temporarily, they will never fall away permanently. A supposed Christian who permanently converted would be seen as having never been a genuine Christian in the first place. Like the first view, Christians who hold this view would answer "No".
Free Grace Theology
Free Grace Theology is a view in which Christians cannot lose their salvation, and may fall away permanently. This view teaches that the saved may or may not become disciples, and may or may not undergo the process of sanctification. Christians may believe in Christ at one point, and subsequently forsake any identity with Christianity. Christians who hold this view would answer "Yes".
The Apostle John addresses this issue in his first epistle:
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. 1 John 2:19 ESV
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Baked-in-Buns Sloppy Joes
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The classic Sloppy Joe isn't very healthy. This baked version loses the fat, but not the flavor!
Serves: Serves: 8
- 2 pounds lean ground beef
- 3/4 cup chopped green bell pepper
- 1 1/2 tablespoons onion powder
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 2 (16-ounce) cans Manwich Sloppy Joe sauce
- 8 low-calorie hamburger buns, cut in half
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- Spray large nonstick skillet with cooking spray; add ground beef, bell pepper, onion powder and garlic powder and cook, stirring, over medium heat until beef is cooked through.
- Add sauce; cook, stirring frequently, until meat mixture is heated through.
- Scoop out centers of tops and bottoms of hamburger buns. Divide sloppy Joe mixture among bun bottoms; replace tops.
- Wrap individual sandwiches in heavy-duty foil.
- Preheat oven to 350F. Bake sandwiches 15 to 20 minutes.
- Sandwiches can be wrapped and stored in freezer bags before baking; bake directly from freezer at 350F for 30 to 40 minutes.
- Complete your Baked-in-Buns Sloppy Joe meal with frozen corn on the cob (microwaved in minutes) and chunky-style applesauce.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal prosecutors on Friday filed a plea agreement reached with former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. in which he admitted to the misuse of about $750,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses and gifts.
The document indicates the Illinois Democrat purchased a variety of luxury items, including furs and Michael Jackson memorabilia.
Campaign credit cards were used to purchase $582,772 for personal expenses, according to the document. Prosecutors contend Jackson and his wife, Sandra Stevens Jackson, tried to conceal conversion of the money for personal benefit.
Among the more expensive items listed are a gold-plated Rolex watch valued at more than $43,000 that Jackson purchased for himself. He also purchased nearly $9,600 worth of children's furniture with campaign funds, the court document says. More than $5,000 in fur capes and parkas were bought from Beverly Hills, the prosecutors said.
If convicted, according to the document, Jesse Jackson Jr. will forfeit $750,000 and a list of specific property that had been purchased. That includes a Michael Jackson hat valued at $3,900; a Michael Jackson fedora, valued at $4,600; a football signed by U.S. presidents, worth $5,000; the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. memorabilia, totaling more than $10,000; and many other items from Michael Jackson and Bruce Lee collections.
Jackson will not have to appear in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia until his case is assigned to a judge, who will set a date to take Jackson's plea.
Officials say it will be up to that judge to determine whether Jackson will serve any prison time. Under applicable federal laws, he could receive only probation or up to a theoretical maximum of five years.
Sandra Jackson was referred to as a conspirator in the charges against her husband. She was identified not by name but by title as manager for the campaign to re-elect Jesse Jackson Jr., beginning in 2011.
Federal investigators charged Jackson's wife with filing false federal income tax returns for the couple from 2006 through 2011.
In a statement released by his lawyer, Jackson said, "Over the course of my life I have come to realize that none of us are immune from our share of shortcomings and human frailties. Still I offer no excuses for my conduct and I fully accept my responsibility for the improper decisions and mistakes I have made. To that end I want to offer my sincerest apologies to my family, my friends and all of my supporters for my errors in judgment and while my journey is not yet complete, it my hope that I am remembered for things that I did right."


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Beat Down on B Dup
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- "I'm tired of smoking, I'm tired of crack and I'm tired of doing your fucking housework! I'm free!"
- ― Big Bear
Carl drops by the Johnson House and sees his brother, Sweet, about to smoke crack that one of B Dup's crack whores gave him, believing that drugs have destroyed the Families, so he may as well let them destroy him too. Carl convinces Sweet not to do it and the crack whore tells him that he will have to deal with B Dup. Infuriated, Carl throws the girl out, saying he'll deal with him right now. Carl and Sweet head over to B Dup's house in Ganton.
A basehead sitting besides the door informs them that B Dup no longer lives there and that he has moved to Glen Park (the heart of Kilo Tray Ballas territory). Carl and Sweet head to Glen Park, start a gang war and successfully take it over. They then kill B Dup's guards and head inside.
Upon entering B Dup's house, B Dup claims that he was threatened and had no choice and claims that the order came from Big Smoke, now paranoid about competition and hidden away. B Dup says that only Big Smokes trusted lieutenants know where he's hiding. After Sweet threatens to kill him anyway, Dup calls his "crack slave" Big Bear and orders him to kill both Sweet and Carl. Big Bear angrily tells B Dup that he's tired of smoking crack and doing his housework and punches B Dup. He asks Carl if he can rejoin the Grove Street Families. They agree, and Sweet takes Big Bear to rehab in an Infernus.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Get to B Dup's house
- Go to Glen Park
- Attack the Ballas and take over their territory
- Kill B Dup's Guards
- Go and confront B Dup
- If you have already taken over Glen Park, a glitch may occur in which no Ballas spawn to attack in the area. It may be necessary to go beyond Glen Park and make Ballas members chase you back, or Ballas members can sometimes be located driving around the area, and if they're removed from their vehicles by carjacking, killing enough of them can trigger the gang war.
- The more the Grove Street members you take with you on this mission, the better. Obtain a Coach before launching the mission and you can take a full load of gang members with you.
- Watch out for traffic; the mission will fail if Sweet is killed, and it's possible for him to be run over.
- One way to protect Sweet is to leave him behind after he and Carl interrogate the junky in Ganton. The game will instruct you to return and get him, but the mission will continue if you don't. After taking the hood, however, you will need to return and get Sweet and take him back to Glen Park in order to trigger the confrontation at B Dup's house.
- If you've become accustomed to the difficulty level of gang warfare thus far, be warned the battle in this mission and the one that follows is considerably more difficult, with gang members armed with more powerful weapons that are capable of wiping out Carl's armor and health in a very few shots - and armor and health pick-ups are not as plentiful as they are during "normal" gang warfare.
Upon completing this mission the player is rewarded with respect and the mission Grove 4 Life is unlocked.


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I recently had a question closed due to a bad fit for Q&A
How does one request book recommendations for formal treatments of subject matter?
I recently had a question closed due to a bad fit for Q&A
How does one request book recommendations for formal treatments of subject matter?
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What's to say a good book today is a good book tomorrow? Or the next day, or the next day? In 2007, The "ASP.NET tips and Tricks book" (that Jeff Atwood and others published) was a great ASP.NET book, but today, there could be better choices.
So that's one problem.
Secondly, it's somewhat subjective. There's no real 'fact' here. I may think Fooing widgets, 3rd edition is the BESTEST EVAR. You may think the 2nd edition of 'Baring Foos' is awesome-sauce. Either way, what happens when the OP picks one or the other? It's all opinion.
That's problem #2.
Finally, the answers could go on forever. There are 2,948 titles on Amazon for books about C# (according to an Amazon search on books for... wait for it... C#), so you could conceivably have 2,948 answers on the 'best book for C#'. Who's to say that one book is better than the others?
If you want a book recommendation, look at blogs or Amazon reviews. Stack Exchange is not the place for it.
You can ask for recommendations in chat!
Your best bet is to first see if anyone has created a chat room for what you're looking for and then if not, create a new chat room first, something like Recommend me some books. Then stay in your room, and possibly draw some people in from active rooms (like the tavern, the lounge, casual chat) with a polite, discrete post, something like:
Remember that while chat is realtime it's also archived, has RSS feeds, and can act like a forum as well. So You can create a chat room and as long as you keep it active, you can return to it days later and see what was said when you were gone. So you don't have to worry about missing any recommendations.
FYI, This is what what Jeff Atwood himself did when he wanted recommendations for a new router.
Do not ask about shopping recommendations on the main site. They will be closed. It is offtopic.
I don't know that you can.
I started out believing that SE could support a recommend X, or Suggestions for a Building Architecture Book covering the User Experience Perspective style request, but after reading this and several of the linked questions, I have to conclude that the SE framework fails in this regard.
The reason I find the idea of such questions compelling, is my perception that there is a set of relevant canon for many fields. If you are in medicine then you've likely at least heard of Gray's Anatomy, the original, not the other one. In Architecture, then The Timeless Way of Building is something you've likely bumped into. This plays out across the majority of subjects I come across. The more I read about a field, the more material I see that references some subset of what came before. We even have the seminal work of Cyberpunk.
But canon is ultimately an illusion. Only this moment I learned of Bruce Bethke. No matter what I, nor even my group of wildly diverse and widely read friends have encountered and consider to be canon, and no matter how long ago a work was published or even how many times it has been referenced, someone could reasonably argue that the canon of X was merely founded on some W that came before. History has deep roots.
Additionally new books get written, this is not a problem only of having to add it to the list or even superseding the strengths of the existing works though. This means that canon changes. I'd easily add, as suggested in the ux.se question, How Buildings Learn to the list in the Architecture category. But why choose that one and not The Not So Big House? So now in answering these questions I have to consider when and where I should stop. Do I only include the first work I read on a subject? Should I include the possibly relevant books from the appendix of works I trust? What if a book in a completely unrelated field jogged some fundamental understanding in me but maybe not the next guy?* How do I answer if the book I consider definitive on subject X does not even acknowledge the existence of some concept Y that the OP mentioned?
To add to @GeorgeStocker's point about a good book today but maybe not tomorrow, it gets worse than just better material being in print. What happens when the 333rd edition of How to Win Friends and Influence People devotes 90% of its pages to how to use Facebook to pickup dates? What happens when the book I, or even the majority of the community, remember(s) is not the book being published when the next user clicks to see the Bestest of the Best of the Best reads on Underwater Basket Weaving?
In the end these questions can only ever be considered subjective, and therefore not a good fit for the SE format.
*See A Pattern Language for an Architecture book that made a significant impact on Software Engineering and to an extent Computer Science.
For other items, you can ask about features and specific scenarios to solicits facts to help you form your own opinion.
Instead of asking "Which sander should I buy?", you can ask What's the significance of orbit diameter in a random orbit sander?. Instead of asking "Which backpack should I buy?", you can ask What is the difference between external and internal-frame packs?
I can't see how you could do anything equivalent for books though. In the end it would still be a poll of peoples' opinions. Honestly the best thing to do would be search on Amazon and read the reviews.


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What are the best practices for playing sounds in iPhone games? Specifically, what are the best practices while playing sounds simultaneously without affecting other processing much. Is there any recommendation about how sound files must be made to suit the processing?
From Technical Note TN2199, relative to the use of OpenAL
A link with general audio tips for iPhone.
And my personal opinion:
there is a game engine named cocos2D, and it contains an audio engine named cocosdenshion. it's a three layer object oriented sound engine. you can easily select a layer and starting working with that. and it's all based on openAL, you can surly get enough ideas from cocosdension even if you don't want to use it directly. and it's under MIT License so you can use that without any worry.


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Rubio Agrees to Join Minnesota
The long-running drama of Ricky Rubio and the Minnesota Timberwolves was resolved Wednesday, with Rubio finally agreeing to join the team, which drafted him fifth over all in 2009. The agreement will take effect next season or whenever the league...
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Rubio Finally Signs With Timberwolves
The Minnesota Timberwolves finally signed 2009 draft pick Ricky Rubio Thursday
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Dallas Hopes Nowitzki Can Play Through Pain
For Dirk Nowitzki, scoring comes as naturally as breathing, but now he has to contend with a torn tendon in the middle finger of his left hand.
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Opening Statement Is Delivered Late
LeBron James scored 24 points and the Mavericks' offense went cold late as the Heat won Game 1 of the N.B.A. finals.
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Months before last summer's free agency period, the N.B.A. fined the owner Mark Cuban $100,000 for stating his desire to land LeBron James.
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Well we are just home from an amazing weekend away in Clarence New York it was a blast. We did well. Got another 1st in Pork!! 1st in Dessert! 2nd in Sidedish 5th brisket, 6th chicken for a 3rd overall out of 51 teams.
However the best part of it all was not our own results but getting to see our good friend Moe Cason from Ponderosa BBQ Des Moines Iowa, and a few other events. Moe is a big teddy bear of a guy and a real gentleman of BBQ.
The weekend was so much fun. We were blessed to be with many of our friends from all over. It was an excellent way to reconnect enjoy a few "pops" and to make some good BBQ. The weather however was brutally cold and horribly windy. We didn't get the opportunity to put up our banners but we would like to thank Hovey's Gourmet Meats, Traeger Canada and Basques Charcoal for all their support.
Here is a video we took of the weekend. There was a lot of wind.
The highlight for our weekend came at the awards ceremony.
There is a team called Can't stop Grillin'. Led by pitmaster and professional Shigger (please note I say that in jest) Tim Brown. Tim and I constantly go back and forth comparing notes, teasing each other mercilessly and competing against each other a few times a year. He and the team of Mike and Mark work their butts off practicing and doing everything they can to improve. Not only that they raise a LOT of money for cancer research and just recently did a charity cook for almost 900 people to raise money for a local project.
I had tears in my eyes watching them get their first ever US Grand Championship. So happy for them. Canadian teams winning US Grand Championships have only been achieved 5 times in the history of competition BBQ. The first time was the Butt Shredders (BC) with pitmaster Ron Shewchuk , Dizzy Pig Canada with Pitmaster Mike Kerslake in 2006 the next two times were from Diva Q, and now finally Can't Stop Grillin' . It was just a matter of time they won!!
They are terrific people and I am absolutely sure this is just the first of many US Grand Championships they will win. It was truly awesome to see them win. I am so proud of them. They rock.
Can' stop Grillin' hardware for the weekend!!
1st Sidedish 2nd Chicken 2nd Ribs 3rd Pork 10th Dessert=
Grand Champions 2010 Oinktoberfest!!
Tim Calling his wife to give her the good news!!
The reserve for the weekend went to IQue BBQ. They also came away with the coveted Empire State Championship.. They have also just recently come back from doing a James Beard dinner. Chris Hart (Jack Daniels 2009 GC Winner) is a good guy who has helped me more times than he needed to. I am grateful for his advice his sarcastic humor and his friendship. I wish them the very best defending their title at the Jack this year.
You know as much as I like to win .. there are weekends when watching friends win is just a good if not better. It was an excellent weekend of great people good bbq and making awesome memories. We are now off to the American Royal BBQ in less than 24 hours. Its a bit insane at my house right now unpacking from one trip doing laundry packing spices rubs meats and stuff and hitting the road tomorrow night. Travelling with our 3 children for an 18 hour drive will be a challenge in itself. We will drive all night long for the longest leg and to keep from hearing are we there yet so many times????????
We will be updating our facebook page and twitter accounts with our adventures on the road.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Sophomore guard Pierriá Henry and freshman forward Willie Clayton both earned spots on the 2012-13 Atlantic 10 All-Conference teams, announced by the league Tuesday afternoon.
Henry who was selected as a member of the All-Defensive team became the first player in Charlotte history to secure a spot on that team since the 49ers joined the Atlantic 10.
The Charleston, W. Va. native averaged 2.8 steals per game and recorded 83 steals which is second in the league and seventh in the nation. He has recorded at least one steal in all but two games this season. Henry also averaged 4.1 defensive rebounds a game and matched his career-high in rebounds (11) in the A-10 regular season finale against Saint Joseph's last week.
Clayton was named a member of the All-Rookie team, marking the second time that a Charlotte player has earned a spot on the All-Rookie team in consecutive seasons. Henry was an All-Rookie selection in the 2011-12 season.
Clayton, a 6'8 forward who leads the conference in field goal percentage (58.6) has averaged 8.1 points per game. The Thomasville, Ga. native has started in every game this season and recorded 13 double-digit games in scoring and four double-doubles. He leads the team in rebounds (6.2/game) which is 15th in the Atlantic 10. Clayton also ranks third in the conference in offensive rebounds per game with 3.1.
Charlotte earned the ninth seed in the Atlantic 10 Tournament and will face eighth seed Richmond in the first game of tournament on March 14 at noon at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.


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Is it correct to say "compiled an album"?
I basically want to convey the idea that I originally had a set of photographs out of which I have selected a few of them and made an album. It would also be great if anyone can suggest some other phrase to convey the same idea.


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I'm stumped on a problem. Here's my transition matrix:
$$P = \begin{bmatrix} \frac{3}{4}&\frac{1}{4}&0&0&0&0&0 \\\\ \frac{1}{2}&\frac{1}{4}&\frac{1}{4}&0&0&0&0 \\\\ \frac{1}{4}&\frac{1}{4}&\frac{1}{4}&\frac{1}{4}&0&0&0 \\\\ \frac{1}{4}&0&\frac{1}{4}&\frac{1}{4}&\frac{1}{4}&0&0 \\\\ \frac{1}{4}&0&0&\frac{1}{4}&\frac{1}{4}&\frac{1}{4}&0 \\\\ \frac{1}{4}&0&0&0&\frac{1}{4}&\frac{1}{4}&\frac{1}{4} \\\\ \frac{1}{4}&0&0&0&0&\frac{1}{4}&\frac{1}{2}\end{bmatrix}$$
where the state space is {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}. I actually have two questions, one of which I've already answered and the other I cannot figure out. Here's the one I've already answered:
Suppose the chain has been running for a long time and we start watching the chain. What is the probability that the next three states will be $4$, $5$, $0$ in that order?
For this problem, I found the invariant probability vector $\pi$. I then computed
$$\pi(4) * p(4, 5) * p(5, 0) = .013 * \frac{1}{4} * \frac{1}{4} = .0008125.$$
Did I take the right approach to this question? If not, I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.
The problem I cannot figure out reads:
Suppose the chain starts in state $1$. What is the probability that it reaches state $6$ before reaching state $0$?
I get the feeling that I will have to compute the $Q$ matrix treating $0$ as an absorbing state, but beyond that, I can't think of what I would do. Any advice?


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11 Jul 2012 8:47 AM #1
ExtJs 3.3 UML Viewing with graphics
Im looking for some plugin for extjs to do models like this:
I would like to make a request and from the json answer (or xml or array) should be build a graphic similar to the one link i post.
Is there anithing in extjs which i can use und it is compatible for 3.3 ?
11 Jul 2012 9:00 AM #2
11 Jul 2012 9:36 AM #3
Hi Scott, thank you so much but how can i mixed with ExtJs 3.3 ?
I habe many *.js Files (all extjs) which are all bounded together after compiling and as a result i get only one very big *.js file. How can i use any of this solutions in the code of extjs ? For example flowchart ?
I just need some hints or words i can search on the internet. im an amateur
11 Jul 2012 10:03 AM #4
To be honest, I have never tried this myself. You would have to bounce around the forums/net and see if anyone has created a plugin for any of these.
I would search for:
.. and any of the key words in the links I provided.
Hopefully some with experience in this matter can jump in and help.
12 Jul 2012 1:53 PM #5
so i still searching how to implement this kind of graphical view in extjs.
the perfect way would be like getting a json response and showing it as a graph. i can reproduce this response but i still dont find anything similar to show it in frontend side
i would be very grateful if someone can help me, giving me some examples becouse i didnt find anything..