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How much Electric Tone Comes from the Pickups?
Posted 12 April 2012 - 07:41 AM
Can I blame this on the pickups? I don't want to buy a more expensive electric guitar (or get the pickups changed) if the problem is me/my ears/my fingers etc especially as I play mostly acoustic.
Could the pickups be the limiting factor, or do I just have to persevere until I can find a combo of effects that sounds good?
BTW I don't have an amp - just use digital effects - would that make much of a difference? I can't help feeling that a more upmarket guitar with humbuckers would sound fatter, warmer, better tone - am I suffering from GAS or could the cheap guitar be the problem?
Posted 12 April 2012 - 08:05 AM
i hope you get some good advice as there's nothing better than the sound from a good player on an electric guitar.
Posted 12 April 2012 - 11:22 AM
I agree with Micky. Try playing through a small amp. It it still sounds bad to your ears, you may need to upgrade. Good pickups are expensive and as Micky said it could as much or more than the original price of the guitar.
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Posted 13 April 2012 - 04:00 AM
It's my experience that expensive guitars don't necessarily sound good. It's also my experience that inexpensive guitars don't necessarily sound bad. So what you have there might sound either good or bad, depending who is listening, and that leads on to the next step. If you want to know if it can sound good, take it to that guitar shop you used to go to. You know, the one with the helpful sales assistant. Ask him to play it through a couple of his amps, just to get a feeling about what you should buy next. (Wink, nudge.) Of course he'll do it for you, and in the process he'll tell you what you have to do to get a good sound. Over here in Oz, the sales people are all enthusiasts who don't mind a bit of idle chat about what you have, what you need, and how much it'll cost to get you there. I reckon he'll make it sound good. I'm of the opinion that your pickups are probably middle of the road and through the right amp will sound fine. Let's face it, there's not much in a pickup that an amp can't straighten out.
A while ago I restored an old Yamaha electric and loaded it with some cheap pickups, mainly because I didn't need to try for any particular sound. It sat here for a while unused until a bloke I know played it. He loved it! Couldn't get enough of it! To his ear it was exactly what an electric should sound like. To me ... well it was just something I painted up to look good.
So the approval of the sound will be in your own ears.
I think I agree with Micky and Mike and Allthumbs though. Get it road tested through an amp or a few amps before you condemn it or spend money on it.
Posted 13 April 2012 - 05:58 PM
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Posted 14 April 2012 - 01:57 AM
How much diff does a physical amp make when I have dozens of tweakable amp simulations, condensers, mixers, effects etc on the podfarm plugin? I have no need of a physical amp for performance and would mostly be using it with headphones plugged in - I don't need an amp unless it will make a big difference to the sound.....I'd rather spend the money on a new guitar.
pHTGRSpider: I think I might be an LP or an Epiphone semi-hollow sort of gal (using the term loosely) - which is part of the problem, I don't want to spend money on a better guitar.... unless it is absolutely necessary.
i have to pick you up on one point, though - never take your credit card on a rechy trip - much too dangerous. That's the theory anyway. If you can't bring yourself to do that, at least leave it in the car so you have to physically leave the goodies shop, and get some fresh air and a rational perspective, before parting with any cash.
Posted 14 April 2012 - 02:24 AM
I don't want to spend money on a better guitar.... unless it is absolutely necessary.
Snap out of it Carol. Of course it's necessary. Absolutely necessary. It's always necessary!
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 09:58 PM
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Posted 15 April 2012 - 10:52 PM
What sound are looking for? Can you point us to a sample of something you've heard that could help determine what tone it is you're looking for?
Not to complicate matters....
Just an example ....... all Rickenbacker 330's sound the same from the factory. (unless custom made) But .... Tom Petty's 330 sounds different than my 330 because he has thousands of dollars of equipment, pedals, compressors, over drives, and all kinds of gear *WAY* before the signal ever gets to the amp or sound board....I can fairly well replicate some of his tone but mostly I can't get "his" tone.
Digital or Analog (tube). Two entirely different beasts in tone
Strings .... flat wound or round wound? Two totally different tones.
Strings .... light, medium, heavy.... all different tones... * and then ... getting your 5 point switch and tone control where you want them ...
It's maddening!
Respect The Music
I'll saddle up my pony so I wont be so lonely, at least I know his heart is true
Posted 16 April 2012 - 12:45 AM
Les, I find it more depressing than maddening - partly because I know my electric playing is woeful - because I hardly ever do it, and whenever I do, I'm always wondering if it's just me, or if it's the guitar, or a combination of both.
Some examples of what I'd like might be:
this video has the best sound. I know this is a Telecaster.
Or our very own Sheraton: http://www.youtube.c...eature=context
plays an Epiphone Sheraton II - a semi-hollow, slim body guitar.
From Wiki: semi-hollow body guitars were generally praised for their clean and warm tones.
Or Ry Cooder in this vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON9Cdiijbvc&feature=related
the software here won't allow me to upload this 3rd video, but that is the url for copy/pasting
Other guitars I've noticed for their tone include:
Les Paul SG (is that the same as the more expensive sounding Gibson SG?) - or LP Custom - not sure of the models
There's another one I've noticed which is very often seen in professional videos: solid (not archtop or semi-hollow) usually dark red, 4 nobs, black humbuckers and I think, double cutaways - I'm obviously no authority on electric guitars!
In fact in one of the other counting crows videos I found on yt, the guitarist is playing one of these, but you don't get a good view of him, or his sound in that video. I think it might be the Dot Epiphone but I'm not sure.
Now I'm going to have to keep my eye out until I can visually identify it.
When I have some extra time, I'll record a few demos of my strat copy guitar's sound through different effects and pickup choices (neck, bridge etc). I should do that anyway.
Posted 16 April 2012 - 01:55 AM
Here's a link to a list of gear and guitars, the guitarists in Counting Crows use, one of the ones they use is a Fender B bender Telecaster which is an interesting guitar and they have a few Gibsons too.
Here's a link to a Fender B Bender, just found it interesting.
All the best
Posted 18 April 2012 - 01:39 AM
Today I took a day off and did some audio research on my Strat copy. One of the boys has an old Johnson Bass amp in the attic, so I dug it out and plugged in.....it did sound pretty good. That amp has no effects on-board - only bass, mid, and treble, plus volume.
Then I tried GarageBand amps and effects - also not so bad as I remembered. That's when I realised I haven't installed the Podfarm Plugin on this newish Mac running Lion OSX. Luckily I'd saved my old dmg file on the old, dead Mac's ext hard drive, because there is no info or downloads or updates on this old version at Line 6 anymore - now they are trying to flog the new super-duper version 2.0.
I wasn't sure if installing Podfarm would take out my GarageBand app - that's what it did on my previous mac when I upgraded to Snow Leopard, but all is well - plugin is installed, and GB is still available.
So, fortunately/unfortunately my GAS attack seems to have passed at no cost. My recent upgrade to Mac Lion has made my audio interface redundant, so I really do have to cough up some cash to replace it. I'm going to get the M Audio FastTrack Pro ($200) - a discount price at a local DJ store and comes with Protools SE. Don't know if the software is worth bothering with, but that's the best deal I could find for a decent audio interface. Most other places sell it for around $280 -$300....so It's a real bargain.
Skinny bought one of these a couple of years back - and described it in terms of a duck's anatomy - he liked it.
I will go to a store to see how my strat copy performs on an amp.... and see if I can find a lefty of any of those humbucker pickup guitars to try out. If not I'll check out the right handers and keep watching ebay - isn't it helpful how they send you daily emails listing new items for your Saved Searches?
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A topological space is KC if every compact subspace is closed. A topological space is US if every convergent sequences has exactly one limit. Does someone know an easy example of a US space which is not KC? Thanks.
To create a counterexample X, start with the closed interval [0,1] (with the usual topology) and attach a new point z whose neighborhoods are open dense subsets of [0,1].
Observe [0,1] is a compact nonclosed subspace of X and thus X is not a KC space. However no sequence in [0,1] converges to z and in particular all convergent sequences in X have unique limits.
The finite complement topology on an infinite set does not yield a counterexample since every infinite sequence converges to every point of the space.
In general no counterexample Y can be a sequential space since if Y is a sequential space then Y is a KC space iff Y is a US space. ( Recall Y is a sequential space if every nonclosed set B contains a convergent sequence whose limit lies outside B).
Start with the one point compactification of the minimal uncountable well ordered space and then split the maximum point into two points.
I refer to COROLLARY 1 of This Article.
In COROLLARY 1 of it, $X^+$ denotes the one point compactification of the topological space $X$:
So it suffices to choose a Hausdorff space $X$, which is not $\kappa$ space. then $X^+$ is $US$ but is not $KC$.
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The 5 Most Idiotic Wars Ever Fought
Quick, what do you think is the dumbest reason anyone has gone to war? If you immediately talk about Iraq or Vietnam, well, history has a whole bunch of retarded examples for you.
As these examples prove, all of the reasons are really secondary. We just really like war.
#5. The War of the Golden Stool (1900)
Just a tip: If you show up at somebody's house and they have a piece of golden furniture, don't sit on it unless they ask you to. It's probably important.
How Did it Start?
So there was this stool. It was an actual golden stool, belonging to the Ashanti Empire (an African state on the Gold Coast, not the estate of the R&B singer). The stool was sacred, believed to house not only the authority of the chief, but also the spirit of the Ashanti nation, as well as the souls of the living, dead and yet to be born.
It's all here in this diagram.
So in 1896, the Ashanti King had been exiled, leaving the Ashanti people without a chief. Fortunately, the British Governor of the Gold Coast, Sir Frederick Hodgson, was there to help, in the way that the white man is always happy to do.
In March 1900, Hodgson entered the Ashanti capital and said that since the Ashanti lands were under the rule of the Queen, they had better fetch him this sacred Golden Stool so he could sit his ass right on it. "And probably fart on it," he might as well have added.
The locals sat there in stunned silence at this suggested ass-defiling of their heritage and custom, and when the speech finished, went home and rustled up as many weapons as they could find. Thus began the War of the Golden Stool.
What Happened Next?
The British sent some men out to look for the stool, and were surprised to find themselves under a vicious attack by a force led by Yaa Asantewaa (the mother of the exiled king).
The British column was nearly annihilated, and the survivors managed to scamper back to Kumasi and barricade themselves in their small fort on March 28th, 1900, spraying petrified fountains of poop with every step. Yaa Asantewaa laid siege to them for the next three and a half months with a force of up to 12,000 men.
The British had to bring in several thousand men, under the command of Major James Willcocks, as well as some serious pieces of hardware, to break through the cordon. They finally did on July 14, 1900. The besieged British had been trapped for three months, and had run out of food and ammunition and were in desperate need of fresh underpants.
In retaliation to the Ashanti's impertinence, Willcocks spent the remainder of the summer butchering local villages, razing towns and stealing land.
Worth it?
Who Won?
Though the Ashanti lost on the battlefield, suffered over 2,000 military casualties (plus many more civilians), were annexed, were brutally repressed and had their heads of state exiled, they still claimed to have won the war.
Why? Because through all of it, the British never got to sit on their fucking golden stool.
#4. The Flagstaff War (1845-46)
People tend to get worked up about their flags. For instance, try going to a military base with an ax and cut their flagpole down. See what they say.
How Did It Start?
In 1840, British troops were doing what they usually did, which was hang around a country that was not their own. Specifically New Zealand and, specifically, the town of Kororareka. It was a place of brothels, grog-holes and gambling dens, and was filled with people bereft of scruples and/or one or more limbs who spent their days having comical bar fights.
The British went ahead and hoisted the Union Jack over the town, figuring nobody would mind. Who doesn't love the British flag?
Meet Hone Heke, a chief of some of the natives. He rode into town and chopped down the flagpole, apparently figuring they wouldn't actually be ruled by the British as long as the flag wasn't there. Out of sight, out of mind, right?
What Happened Next?
What followed was a display of splendid idiocy. The garrison instantly erected a new flagpole, which Heke chopped down just as swiftly, and a third replaced it, only to be felled again. Then a fourth was erected, and was reinforced with iron and had an armed guard, all presumably smirking away. We like to imagine all of this taking place in the course of one lunch hour.
Back in England, the House of Commons decided that Heke and his people had no right to chop down flagpoles and live unmolested in their own country, and declared that lessons needed to be taught. Helpful missionaries carried this information to Heke, who was less than impressed.
On March 11, 1845, Heke and his tribe descended into the town with unprecedented savagery, butchering townsfolk indiscriminately. British troops tried to dig themselves in around their barracks, but probably ought to have been shooting as they were swiftly overwhelmed. As a final "fuck you," Heke chopped down that damned flagpole again.
Who Won?
The war dragged on for 10 bloody months. The British managed to quash Heke's rebellion over time, but the war can only really be called a scoreless draw.
And while the British remained in control of the territory, they didn't dare try to erect another flagpole in that spot.
#3. The Battle of Karansebes (1788)
Hey, what if a bunch of soldiers got really drunk, right in the middle of the war? And started shooting at each other, just for fun?
Let's just say things get out of hand really fast.
How Did It Start?
So, in 1788, Austria was at war with Turkey. The Austrian army was marching down to clash with an advancing Turkish army in what is now Romania. Shenanigans ensued.
What happened was the Austrians set up camp for the night, and some scouts on horseback went out to check the immediate countryside for any armed Turks. They came across a band of gypsies with a shitload of schnapps for sale, which they eagerly bought and began drinking with a gusto rarely seen outside of a frat party.
Now imagine they're shitfaced.
A load of Austrian infantry were also out and about, and came across the group of scouts. They wanted to join the drinking. The boozy scouts refused and set up makeshift fortification in what probably seemed a really funny idea at the time. Things got heated, an argument broke out and someone got too excited and fired a shot.
What Happened Next?
All Hell broke loose, infantry and scouts firing wildly at each other. The infantry, in a state of confusion, began shouting that the Turks were attacking them. The scouts, even though it was they who were attacking their infantry, suddenly believed that there actually was a huge, swarthy, mustachioed Turkish army just behind them.
Filling their snazzy cavalry pants with rapidly escaping dinners, the scouts broke ranks and piled through the ranks of infantry. The infantry took this as a sign that the Turks were definitely there. They began a panicky withdrawal, all animosity forgotten in the face of the imaginary Turkish army.
Just when the whole affair couldn't get any stupider, it did. The Austrian army was made up of soldiers from several countries and they spoke different languages. So when the German-speaking officers started shouting "Halt! Halt!" in their own language, the non-German-speakers mistook it for cries of, "Allah! Allah!"
The whole frantic group of soldiers finally arrived back at the main camp. An officer there, in a moment of slapstick brilliance, reasoned that the charging, shouting men must be a Turkish attack, and ordered an artillery strike.
Commander Hill.
The entire camp then awoke to the sound of an enormous battle and they all did what every disciplined soldier would do at a time like this: ran away in different directions, firing wildly. The situation escalated until the army was called into a general retreat from the imaginary enemy. Finally, not wanting to miss out on the fun, the leader of the whole operation, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, got knocked off his horse and landed in a stream.
Who Won?
The only real winner here was magnificent stupidity. For a more tangible result, we'll say that the points went to the Turks, who arrived at the scene two days later to find almost 10,000 dead and wounded Austrians and, after they had all had a good laugh, promptly captured the town and surrounding countryside.


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How do I downgrade Minecraft to play on a server running an older version?
With the new launcher (launcher version 1.2.5), it's really easy to decide what version of Minecraft you want to use. Let's say I'm playing on a server that for some reason is still running Minecraft Beta 1.7.3, for that old Minecraft nostalgic feel.
In the new launcher, you're going to want to select "New Profile". In this case, we want the "Allow old beta" checked. Normally, you won't want this, but in this random case, you will. Normally, the dropdown will only show release versions; if you want to be allowed to select an older or snapshot version, you will need to check the appropriate box.
And if you want to change this version later, you can select "Edit Profile" and change it manually. Note that if you have it set to "use latest version", it will always use the latest release version (or snapshot, if that option is selected).
Caution - Notch doesn't want you to do this!
You'll need to source the files for the previous version yourself and place them in
To downgrade your Minecraft, get the new launcher (http://minecraft.net/download). Log in with your account on the Log In page, unless you have done so before, where you just choose your account. Now click on New Profile. Go into the section named 'Version Selection'. Here, under Use Version, select the version that you want. Now click Save Profile, and use that profile to log in to the server you want.
The answer varies depending on what launcher version you are using. In the latest (when this post was written), you can choose whether or not you wish to update. If so, you press
If you are using an older launcher version, you would have to get the old minecraft.jar and put it in your
The minecraft.jar s can be downloaded from the link below, just change it to whatever version you would like to download. The link below will give you version 1.4.6. If you want a snapshot version, use the second link below. As you can see, that one will give you version 12w50b. Note that as fredley said, Notch disproves of this.


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Monterey, CA. – Following an attempted bank robbery in downtown Monterey, the downtown area is now secured. The suspect is in custody and being interviewed by police. The suspect's vehicle is also under investigation, in the Calle Principal Garage. Traffic from the downtown area has been diverted away from the incident area. Area businesses have been evacuated.
The Monterey County Bomb Squad is onsite and managing the situation. The bomb squad has detonated the suspicious package at Pearl and Washington; the contents are undergoing inspection.
Members of the public are being asked to stay away from the downtown area at this time.
UPDATE 3:30 pm:
The area around Washington and Pearl has been cleared and is open. The bomb squad is now at Munras and Webster, investigating a suspicious package at that location.
The cities of Marina and Seaside are providing assistance in securing the area around the Calle Principal garage.
UPDATE 3:55 pm:
A second suspicious package at Munras and Webster was detonated. This area will shortly be cleared and open.
Bomb squad is en route to Calle Principle Garage to investigate suspect's vehicle. Franklin Street is closed at Pacific until further notice.
UPDATE 4:17 pm:
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Why does the left hemisphere control the right and the right hemisphere control the left? I googled it but didn't find a good answer regarding this. Could someone explain? Does this adaptation help in the speed of transmission of nerve impulses?
Just to get the ball rolling here. This particular aspect of brain evolution is very old. The cross wiring of the hemispheres of the brain seems to be as old as the right and left hemispheres itself. It predates lizards - i.e. hundreds of millions of years ago. It possibly predates right/left dominance and the organ assymetry which puts the heart on the left side of the body.
Digging back deeper, we can see that worms have bilateral brain structure, I would guess that this means that the phenomenon is as old as bilateral symmetry itself - putting the development in the pre-cambrian era, which is the best part of billion years ago. Echinoderms (like starfish) are 'missing links' in bilateral symmetry as their larval stage has bilateral symmetry even though the adult has radial symmetry. Such wiring may be so embedded in the way most animal body plans develop that it hasn't changed in evolutionary history.
Still one might guess that the cross over of neurons in brain control is good for integrating the signals from both sides of the organism somehow. I'm sure someone else can post a better guess than this!
When I was in school it was discussed as an evolutionary survival advantage... If you are attacked from the right side, the left side of the brain is less likely to be damaged and can use the right sided limbs to fend off the attack as opposed to the right side being damaged and less responsive..
Being a keen student of game theory and behavioural sciences one reason that comes to my mind is for the opposite wiring of brain hemispheres might be that
It is simple. The brain through evolution split into two hemispheres when binocular vision was evolving. If you follow the neurons from the eye, the lateral neurons travel to the ipsilateral hemisphere. The medial neurons cross to the contralateral hemisphere. I would bet the protopathic pathways were around in evolutionary terms before binocular vision and the epicritic pathways developed after binary vision. Vision drove the hemispheres into two compartments. I could draw the diagram but unable to do so on this response
It's for control, coordination and balance. From a mathematical point of view, parallel lines won't intersect and thus line A won't affect line B unless they intersect and thus would hardly influence the other unless and an external force is applied to any of the lines.
This is also why corpus callosum connects the left and the right side of the brain.
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In response to a question from a reporter (in his year-end press conference) regarding tax reform, President Obama — after saying that the debt ceiling is "not a negotiating tool" — said that he's open to discussing other issues with Republicans:
If Congressman Ryan is interested in tax reform, let's go. If he's interested in any issue out there, I'm willing to have a constructive conversation of the sort that we just had in resolving the budget issues.
But of course, President Obama was no part of the constructive conversation about the budget because everybody in Washington, DC knows that despite all the cries of "Republican obstructionism," the most destructive force against government getting anything done (not that getting something done is necessarily or always a valid goal) is Barack Obama himself.
In fact, the deal was cemented and announced while Obama was in South Africa flirting with the Danish prime minister.
Furthermore, he has never been open to actual discussions with Republicans about actual good ideas. He sees himself more as a king than as a president. The Bush "imperial presidency" has nothing on this guy.
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From what I have read, it appears that the most efficient methods of calculating $ \pi $ are Machin-like formulae. And it is known that certain formulas are more efficient than others.
Are there any theoretical properties (rates of convergence, etc) of these formulas that make them more efficient than others?
Like, why is $$ \frac{\pi}{4} = 183\arctan\frac{1}{239} + 32\arctan\frac{1}{1023} - 68\arctan\frac{1}{5832} + 12\arctan\frac{1}{110443} - 12\arctan\frac{1}{4841182} - 100\arctan\frac{1}{6826318} $$ more efficient than $$ \frac{\pi}{4} = \arctan\frac{1}{2} + \arctan\frac{1}{3} $$ (as claimed by Wikipedia)
Or is this a purely empirical result?
I presume that the calculation of arctan is done using the Maclaurin series.


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"Best start putting first things first, cause when your hour glass runs out of sand, you can't flip it over and start again. Take every breath God gives you for what it's worth. No, don't blink. Don't blink, life goes faster than you think." - Kenny Chesney, "Don't Blink"
Sigh. I don't know where to begin. It's been just a year and a half since I returned to the paper and again, we are parting ways. I want to spend quality time with my kids because as soon as I blink, they will embark on their own lives and careers. I don't want to miss a thing.
And there are so many things I want to teach my boys. I read a list of things that every mother should make sure their boys know. Whoever compiled the list hit everything right on the head, and I'd like to share those with you.
1. Play a sport. It will teach you how to win honorably, lose gracefully, respect authority, work with others, manage your time and stay out of trouble. And maybe even throw or catch.
2. You will set the tone for the sexual relationship, so don't take something away from her that you can't give back.
3. Use careful aim when you pee. Somebody's got to clean that up.
4. Save money when you're young because you're going to need it someday.
5. Allow me to introduce you to the dishwasher, oven, washing machine, iron, vacuum, mop and broom. Now go use them.
6. Pray and be a spiritual leader.
7. Don't ever be a bully and don't ever start a fight, but if some idiot clocks you, please defend yourself.
8. Your knowledge and education are something that nobody can take away from you.
9. Treat women kindly. Forever is a long time to live alone, and it's even longer to live with somebody who hates your guts.
10. Take pride in your appearance.
11. Be strong and tender at the same time.
12. A woman can do everything that you can do.
This includes her having a successful career and you changing diapers at 3 a.m. Mutual respect is the key to a good relationship.
13. "Yes ma'am" and "yes sir" still go a long way.
14. The reason that they're called "private parts" is because they're "private." Please do not scratch them in public.
15. Peer pressure is a scary thing. Be a good leader, and others will follow.
16. Bringing her flowers for no reason is always a good idea.
17. It is better to be kind than to be right.
18. A sense of humor goes a long way in the healing process.
19. Please choose your spouse wisely. My daughter-in-law will be the gatekeeper for me spending time with you and my grandchildren.
20. Remember to call your mother because I might be missing you.
So, I am going to try my best to teach my boys these things. I may return, after my boys are both in school, if they'll have me back. But for now, I am going to spend time with them. To watch them grow and learn. To teach them all that I can.
My oldest will be starting school this fall. I want to be there to take him to his first day. I want to be a "homeroom mom" and do parties and go on field trips. Be active in his schooling.
My youngest will be doing everything for the first time. First steps, first words. I want to see it all. I don't want to miss a minute.
I will dearly miss my co-workers (most of them). I will miss those who take the time to read my words every Sunday morning. I will miss what I do, the creativity, the stress of a deadline. But I am moving ahead to the most challenging yet wonderful job I have ever had - being a mother.
I want to leave you with the words to the song I have as the ring tone on my cell phone.
"You're gonna miss this. You're gonna want this back. You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast. These are some good times, so take a good look around. You may not know it now, but you're gonna miss this." - Trace Adkins, "You're Gonna Miss This"
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Let C be a compact subset of the Euclidean plane E whose boundary is a Jordan curve J. If C tiles the plane, can J be such that it has a unique tangent line at each point and none of its sub-arcs is a straight line segment with distinct end-points? If so, can you give an example? J does not need to be convex and the tiling need not be regular. The only requirement is that the plane E be a countable union of congruent copies of C, no two of which have a common interior point.
$C = \lbrace (x,y)| sin\ x\le y\le 2\pi+sin\ x ,\ sin\ y\le x\le 2\pi+sin\ y\rbrace$.
I have a way to do it, but read my note at the bottom about why you may not find it to be valid.
Use an eye-shaped figure, but where the ends of the eyes meet at angle 0. This will allow unique tangents at the "corners".
The eyes will fit together in a standard brick pattern.
In the image, I used a sin function, but you can do it also using circle fragments. In this case, the tiling corresponds to a standard penny tiling of the plane, but apportioning the empty space to adjacent pennies in order to make the eye shapes.
Since my Jordan curves turn directly around in the opposite direction at those cusps, however, you may not consider this to be a valid example, since perhaps you regard this as two tangent lines at those points, pointing in opposite directions.
I think someone will show up and prove that you cannot do it without any cusps. I would like to know whether you can do it with only one cusp.


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Edema is swelling caused by an excess buildup of fluid in body tissues.
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If your rings get stuck because of swollen fingers, don't try to remove them until the morning. That's when there's the least amount of swelling. After you get them off, keep them off!
As if adding layers of fat all over your body weren't bad enough, your body might also begin to look bloated as it retains fluids during pregnancy. This excess water buildup can cause swelling called edema. It is most commonly noticeable in the ankles, feet, and legs, but you might also find that your rings are fitting tighter. Edema will be most obvious late in the day, in warm weather, or after standing or sitting for a long time. Remarkably, the swelling usually disappears overnight or after lying down for a few hours.
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I think this question is a bit low brow for the forum. I want to take a state vector $ \alpha |0\rangle + \beta |1\rangle $ to the two bloch angles. What's the best way? I tried to just factor out the phase from $\alpha$, but then ended up with a divide by zero when trying to compute $\phi$ from $\beta$.
You are probably dividing by $\alpha$ at some point to eliminate a global phase, leading to your divide by zero in some cases. It would be better to get the phase angles of $\alpha$ and $\beta$ with $\arg$, and set the relative phase $\phi=\arg(\beta)-\arg(\alpha)$. Angle $\theta$ is now simply extracted as $\theta = 2\cos^{-1}(|\alpha|)$ (note that the absolute value of $\alpha$ is used). This is all assuming that you want to get to
$$|\psi\rangle = \cos(\theta/2)|0\rangle + \mathrm{e}^{i\phi}\sin(\theta/2)|1\rangle\,,$$
which neglects global phase.
$\phi$ is the relative phase between $\alpha$ and $\beta$ (so the phase of $\alpha/\beta$). You will only get zero or divide-by-zero when $\alpha=0$ or $\beta=0$. But in that case, $\phi$ is arbitrary. And when $\alpha$ or $\beta$ are close to zero, you are near the poles of the Bloch sphere, and $\phi$ doesn't really matter that much.


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If one Davened an extra-long Shemoneh Esrei, and missed saying ויכולו... with the congregation, can he say it by himself? Or must he say it with someone else?
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The Avudraham says that we repeat Vayechulu because we are testifying that G-d created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th. The Halacha is that testimony must have two witnesses and be said standing, and therefore Vayechulu is said together while standing.
The Shulchan Aruch Harav, in his Kuntres Acharon to Orach Chaim 268:12, brings the opinion of the Taz that someone praying alone doesn't have to say Vayechulu standing, since it's not real testimony. Although the Rav concludes that the custom is to stand even if it is not real testimony, we see from there that he held that someone praying alone could say it.
The Shaar HaKollel brings the Tola'at Yaakov who questions the Avudraham's claim that we are giving testimony. One of the arguments brought is that it is against Halacha to give or accept testimony at night, so this isn't real testimony.
The Shaar HaKollel and Tola'at Yaakov also bring other reasons why it is important to say Vayechulu twice in the evening service (3 times with Kiddush), as does the Avudraham.
All that tells us is that one may say it alone. If however, you have easy access to someone else who can say it with you, it may still be better to say it with someone else.
He can say it by himself, but he should try to say it with another person. The reason that the mitsva here is of testimony, so reading out loud with someone else one would fulfil the mitsva of testimony, while reading alone it would simply count as you were reading any other pesukim.
The position of the Chazon Ish is that Vaychulu is part of davening, not testimony, and therefore it's preferably said alone, if one is not part of a minyan. Ask your local rabbi, or follow local norms.


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I have a dual-boot machine: Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. The computer is connected directly to the Baudtec modem by a LAN cable. The modem is connected to the phone jack. Under Windows, the internet works without any problems.
Under Ubuntu, I set up by using pppoeconf and can get online without a problem. However, after some time (about 15-20 minutes, sometimes less), the internet stops working. That is, I cannot open any website. I can still "ping 220.127.116.11", although "ping www.google.com" says "unknown host". Also, if I have gmail open in the browser, it may continue to work for some time, though I cannot load any other site. Also, my ISP continues to see me online, so there is no problem from their point of view.
The following commands do not help to restore the full connection:
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Thanks to the first reply, I found a much easier way to restore connection after a crash. Namely, I noticed that after doing "ping 184.108.40.206", I can ping my provider (i.e. the IPs in the /etc/resolv.conf before the crash) as well. So, I just do "ping 126.96.36.199" and restore /etc/resolv.conf from a backup copy and the internet works again! I do not even have to restart pppd. After some 20 minutes the problem repeats itself...


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The mathedu mailing list has a recent longish thread at
which discussed among other things whether we should teach triangles as labeled or unlabeled to high school students (this is a vast oversimplification of the thread). I have long been concerned with how we think (informally and formally) about mathematical objects, so naturally I started to consider how we think about triangles.
Consider circles. Most informal and formal descriptions involve an embedding into R^2, but they can be characterized as manifolds (even as Riemannian manifolds) of dimension 1 with specific properties, independent of any embedding. This sort of thing has turned out to be a major way to think about all sorts of spaces. So can we describe triangles in a similar way?
Unfortunately, manifolds are far removed from my usual mathematical work (category theory). What I think I understand is that there can be piecewise linear manifolds, even Riemannian ones. So perhaps we can say a triangle is a piecewise linear manifold of dimension 1 with certain properties. Now, I want to define a triangle so that it comes complete with information about the lengths of its sides and what the three angles are. Riemannian manifolds have a way to specify length and angles, and I can believe you can make the sides have specific lengths. But the angles? It seems to me that the tangent spaces (like those on a circle) result in all angles being 0 or pi, except at the corners where they don't exist. But I may not understand the situation correctly.
So my question is: Is there a known methodology that allows triangles to be characterized independent of embeddings in such a way that incorporates information about side lengths and angles?


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The Continuing "War on Religion"
A report in today's NY Times from the front lines of the continuing liberal war on religion:
WASHINGTON The House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved legislation that would allow the use of federal money to rebuild churches and synagogues damaged byHurricane Sandy, despite concern that such aid could violate the doctrine of separation of church and state.The bill, approved last week by a vote of 354 to 72, had support from Roman Catholic and Jewish organizations. It was opposed by 66 Democrats and 6 Republicans.The prospects for the bill in the Senate are uncertain. Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, said Monday that she supported the measure and was working to secure its passage in the Senate. She noted that religious institutions likeSt. Francis de Sales Catholic Churchin Belle Harbor, Queens, had provided aid to many storm victims.
The fact that the overwhelming majority of Democrats in the House supported the bill or that it is being pushed in the Senate by Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand will, I'm certain, do nothing to dispel the useful narrative that the Democrats are hostile to religion. Surely, someone will say, this bill would not even have been necessary if the Kenyan socialist Obama administration had not denied disaster aid for rebuilding houses of worship in the first place. I'm not a FEMA expert, but I spent some time this morning poking around the Federal Register, and, as far as I can tell, the Obama administration was merely following FEMA regulations put into place during the first Bush administration. The Bush regulations excluded from eligibility for federal assistance "buildings, structures and related items used primarily for religious purposes." (See 44 CFR 206.221; the language was adopted into Part 206 on January 23, 1990, see 55 FR 2297-01)The Bush administration no doubt inserted this language to avoid any Establishment Clause problems, and, per the NY Times, the ACLU is rattling its saber about the House bill. But I suspect thatif the bill passes and the question actually gets litigated, the courts will ultimately conclude thatincluding religious houses of worship within a generally applicable disaster relief program would pass Establishment Clause muster. The case is complicated by the fact that, unlike, say, school vouchers, there is no intervening individual choice that separates the government's action from the funds going to rebuild houses of worship. But disaster relief seems akin to the sorts of general governmental services, such as police and fire protection,that the state routinely and uncontroversially provides to religious institutions. At the same time, I suspect the existing carve-out is also legal under the "play in the joints" theory the Supreme Court affirmed in 2004 in Locke v. Davey, which permits states to exclude religious activities from generalized funding schemes out of a cautious desire to avoid Establishment violations. (In Locke, the issue involved a Free Exercise challenge to a state-funded scholarship that allowed students to use the scholarship for any education-related expense but prohibited students from receiving the scholarship if they were enrolled in a program of study to become a minister.) I don't think theLamb's Chapel,Rosenberger, line of cases applies here because those cases were decided under free-speech theories that seem like a poor fit in the disaster relief context.UPDATE: Here's a thorough memo by the Becket Fund outlining the Establishment Clause. I think this gets the Establishment issue right, though I disagree with its suggestion that the existing policy is (legally) invalid.
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This can't be the first disaster where church-state issues have arisen. Katrina? Hurricane Andrew? Etc. How have these earlier examples been settled?
Here's an article about FEMA funds given to a New Orleans church part of which was for repairs. (The money was misused, or so it was being claimed.)http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/01/new_orleans_church_fema_k...'s the Times-Picayune Archives for Katrina.http://www.nola.com/katrina/
Inasmuch as I don't live in an area at risk for hurricanes, I'm not familiar with this: wouldn't the churches' property insurance policies, if adequate, provide the funds to rebuild?
Jim --I don't think that churches are required to have property insurance here. The Archdiocesesan properties did badly in Katrina and some buildings did not have enough insurance to cover the damage.This question is related to the new thread on government paternalism, is it not? When should the government help under-insured churches (or should it help at all)?
If the government helps all denominations evenhandedly, strictly for repair of damage and not for original building, in what sense is it establishing any of them? Would that kind of help be available to secular societies promoting ethical values?
Any church that doesn't maintain adequate property insurance is simply courting disaster.
'adequate property insurance ??" I think most dioceses are self insured
Jim - I do have property in a storm prone area and all reasonably priced policies have exclusions related to wind and water damage. That's why so many home owners in NJ, NY, CT and LA needed so much help both from organizations like Habitat and Federal and State governments.
And how about that "liberal war on religion" whereby Obama declared for an increase in the minimum wage so that anyone who is working full time should not be poor. Is that not the essence of religious liberty "to set the captives free?"
My flood insurance is separate from the rest of my house insurance. Flood insurance is a federal program. I don't know if there are still private flood insurance programs. Insurance rates are partly determined by how high your house is off of the ground. My house is on "high" ground -- it used to be all of 4 feet above sea level, but it has sunk some since I have lived here. I didn't have any flooding in Katrina, but insurance, both for the house and the flood ins., is still very expensive. Here's a good site on flood insurance.http://www.floodsmart.gov/floodsmart/pages/residential_coverage/rc_overv...
"adequate property insurance ?? I think most dioceses are self insured."It's both. When fire gutted a portion of our church, we covered the deductible, $500. We were insured for half a million. And the archdiocese covered the overage.Jim's right. These churches should have been insured. If the arch/diocese told them less was enough, clearly that was bad advice.
The church may not need the funds but the idea of help from this Senate should be noted since they have gutted so many areas relating to THE church like busing, non reimbursement of state mandated testing and the anything looking like school vouchers/tax credits etc.
Insurance in hurricane prone areas is extremely expensive. I'm sure very poor churches can't afford full coverage.
I use to like the ACLU but they seem to have forgotten that religious freedom means that you have freedom to believe in religion too. If the government can aid private businesses whose main religion is the almighty dollar why can it not help religious structures who generally not only provide a place of worship but also a place of refuge for those exploited by private businesses.
I'm showing my ignorance, but if a church is named to the National Register of Historic Places is there any economic benefit? (I'm aware that many think the NRHP, far from being an economic advantage, actually makes life more difficult for the owners). Wikipedia's article on the Register shows a picture of an Orthodox church in Berlin, NH -- a wonderful mishmash of New England vernacular architecture and gold onion domes.And for that matter, do places like Westminster Abbey, or Lincoln Cathedral, or Chartres or Amiens get any help from the UK and France to help with upkeep?


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We would like to thank these programs for providing the grants that allowed us to fund this project," said board chair Don Bethel. "There will be a very positive impact in our county from this project and we look forward to partnering with OMEGA, the Governor's Office of Appalachia and ODOT in future endeavors as the shale industry continues to grow and develop in Harrison County."
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15 Jan 2014 8:29 AM #61
What is the best practice. Should I put the Ux.locale.Manager code inside the package directory?
EDIT: As a quick test I have set this: app.resource.paths=${app.dir}/touch/src/locale and the problem persists.
15 Jan 2014 8:39 AM #62
The correct variable was: app.classpath just like you wrote.
Sorry but it is 17:40 here and I'm quite tired so I overlooked it.
Thank you very much for your help.
I'll revert the change Ext.locale.Manager to Ux.locale.Manager as it was before.
Is the package directory the appropriate place for your code?
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15 Jan 2014 8:50 AM #64
Ok. Is there a packaged version of the locale manager?
In the end I created a directory "extensions". It seems the most appropriate to me. Polluting the packages directory doesn't seem to be a good idea.
Really, thank you for all the patience. =)
27 Jan 2014 2:34 PM #65
This component does not exist on the market. is it still being worked on? is there an alternative?..I really like it as it is the only locale manager I have found so far for extjs.
9 May 2014 4:53 AM #66
Hi,I´m new on Sencha, in fact I am finishing my first app. I have a couple of selectfields that the do not use datastorage and I would like to use Ux.locale.Manager to change the options value depending on the language selected by the user. Also I need to change the texts in doneButton and cancelButton. I´ve tried with the code provided by @armode for changing the text field in the options but no texts are shown by my selectfields.Help would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance.
12 May 2014 6:22 AM #67
You have to override the selectfield to to change the options value. I guess that the selectfield is using a store even if you set static data. So you would have to update the store's data or update your options.
Which code did you try to use to translate the buttons?
The selectfield is using Ext.picker.Picker and the buttons belong to that class. Have a look at this override: https://github.com/mitchellsimoens/U...cker/Picker.js
14 May 2014 2:52 AM #68
Thank so much for your help @armode.I´ve resolved the problem with the literals in done and cancel button reviewing the link you sent.Regarding the options in the selecfield, my level in Sencha is not enough good yet to override the selectfield class on my own but, following your advice, I´ve used a store to save the data. I´ve written the data in each language.json file and I recover the data using a proxy in the store in this way:Code:
config: { autoLoad: true, model: 'Unit', storeId: 'UnitsStore', proxy: { type: "ajax", url : 'locales/en.json', reader: { type: "json", rootProperty: "options" } }Code:
initialize: function() { var mystore = Ext.data.StoreManager.lookup ('UnitsStore'); var language = Ux.locale.Manager.getLanguage(); var myurl = "locales/" + language + '.json'; mystore.getProxy().setUrl(myurl); mystore.load(); } //end function initialize
17 Jun 2014 2:23 AM #69
Ux.locale.Manager not available in Controller launch function
My app stores the users selected language (and other settings) in Local Storage and retrieves them via the launch function of my Settings Controller. Based on the language, it then sets the store to be used (ie. either the "English" or "Chinese" store).
I have two problems:
- How do I retrieve the full name of a language from Ux.locale.Manager, as the getLanguage function only returns the abbreviation for the language (ie. "en" or "zh"), but I would like to get the full name (ie. "English" or "Chinese")? I need this so that I can set the store to either "English" or "Chinese" and remove the hard coding I have at the moment (and therefore be able to support additional languages without coding changes).
- I need to set the badgeText for a tab based on another setting retrieved from Local Storage and this text needs to be in the selected language. I have tried doing this via the get function, however it seems that Ux.locale.Manager isn't operational when my launch function runs, as the isLoaded function always returns false. When I use the get function to do the same thing outside my launch function it works fine and isLoaded returns true.
23 Jun 2014 3:40 AM #70
Using getAvailable to get the "full name" of a language
I have solved problem number 1 - how to get the "full name" of a language.
The function getAvailable returns an array of objects, with each object containing "abbr" & "text" value pairs for each language. So I can search through the array until I find the matching "abbr" and retrieve the corresponding "text".
Here is the code:
var languages = Ux.locale.Manager.getAvailable(true), l = 0, lNum = languages.length; for (; l <lNum; l++) { if (languages[l].abbr == value) { ... do whatever ... ; break; } };
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