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I recently upgraded my phone to an LG Motion 4G (Android 4 ICS). I see that the sdcard is mounted at
/sdcard/external_sd. I also noticed that this appears to be the same with some other newer models. Apps expect the sdcard to be at
/sdcard. I assume the manufacturers want to include a lot of internal storage, but why mount internal storage at
/sdcard? Shouldn't this be against some form of Android specification standard?
I recently upgraded my phone to an LG Motion 4G (Android 4 ICS). I see that the sdcard is mounted at
The reason is the history of Android: The first generation of Android devices only had a small amount of internal storage (around 100-400MiB) which was mounted under
Next, devices with a, at that time external, SD-card came out. The SD card was mounted under
After that, devices with large internal storage came on the market. This storage was portioned, because
This situation was improved with Android 3.0:
Now we come to the answer if your question: Since
The API call
Forcing external SD mount away from
There is no reason why applications have to find a way to locate the external card when
Android app binaries are tiny, phones with 1-2 Gigs of internal memory should have way more than enough space for hundreds of apps, and all the large data could be safely tucked way on an external SD card. But then vendors realized they had to have a way to differentiate their higher end product, and claiming a higher internal memory become part of that scheme and crippling the usefulness of external memory is the other integrated part this scheme required for this to work fully hence the less helpful API to find external sd cards and the unstandardized mounting points.
So: No, mounting SD card at a place other than
Also has everyone also noticed the absence of external SD support from current crop of "Google" branded android devices? This trend will keep expanding in "top tier" Android devices. External SD card support was a key differentiation for Android devices to overtake iPhone's dominance in mobile market. Now with Android ruling supreme in the numbers game, there's little need for this profit sapping practice to be up kept for much longer.
I won't be surprised by Android 5.0, the external SD card support would be a thing of the past. Because if it's hard to apps to find externals SD card, then most program will just simply use the known
You should be aware (if rooted) you can go into /system/etc/vold.fstab and swap the mount points for /sdcard and /mnt/external_sd....this will allow your sdcard to be on /sdcard as you expect and the remaining "internal storage" will be mounted on /mnt/external_sd or if you prefer /sdcard/external_sd/


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I need to evaluate
before I can use functions such as
GraphPath[]. When I do so, some functions get colored red, but still work.
Why does this happen and can I change this?
I need to evaluate
before I can use functions such as
Why does this happen and can I change this?
The red colouring indicates shadowing — i.e., when a symbol originally in a particular context, is exposed to the current context path, thereby clashing with another symbol of the same name in a different context, also on the context path.
Example of shadowing:
Here is a short example that demonstrates this. Try it out in a fresh kernel (call
So far, all's well and you see the symbols coloured the way you're used to. Now expose
You'll now notice that both the
For more information on this, you can read about shadowing in the documentation and also this article by David Wagner in the Mathematica journal.
Which definition is used in case of a conflict?
The definition that is used first, in the case of shadowing, is the one belonging to the context that appears first in
In the above example, I used
Now quit your kernel and do the same, except now you place the new context at the end. You can see that the definition used is that of
Incidentally, it is also possible to trigger this shadowing warning (red colour) even if there isn't a real conflict. This can occur if the same context appears at different positions in
Changing the colour of the warning
To change the colour from red to your favourite, go to
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I have a MacBook Pro that I travel with a lot. I also have a NAS for my home network. Many timesI use my MacBook in areas where I do not have Internet access. I'd like to have copies of some of my folders while I travel and sync up when I return back home. Is there anything like the Microsoft 'Offline Files' feature present in the MacOS, or do I need to script something like this myself?
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SpiderOak's sync feature actually works very well. It also encrypt's everything on your machine, so plain data never gets transmitted. I use this for important files I like to keep sync'ed. I do agree though, that Dropbox works very well. I have also been a ChronoSync user for a couple of years, and it's sync features are great as well.
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19 Jul 2013 4:21 AM #21
Agree to many of the sentiments in this thread.
Fixes need to come faster, and there needs to be more pride in the quality that is put out.
If that means writing a full blown application to test with then so be it; using the examples for smoke testing is not good neough.
Still on 4.1.3 here, mainly due to showstoppers in the 4.2 releases I have tried, and partly due to the change to Sencha Cmd imposing changes to how themes are laid out not fitting at all well with how our products and shared repos are structured.
Hope to upgrade at some point, but way down the list at the moment...
19 Jul 2013 5:38 AM #22
Having had bad experiences recently myself I of course noticed this thread.
Regarding "pride" in work. I'm sure many individual developers take quite of bit of pride in their work at Sencha. But they have multiple large teams no doubt. In a situation like this the fault lies on the management. And I fault Sencha deeply on that front. No single developer can overcome weak management insight into quality, bad process, misplaced priorities, lack of serious automated testing, etc, etc. All those are necessary to maintain quality when software and teams get big. If the ethos is missing in the organization then it's impossible for any single developer, tester, or support person, to remedy it. No amount of bug filing or maintenance releases will help. Everyone suffers - including, customers and the user's of their products as a result. Chronic quality problems with individual developers are easy to deal with - you fire them. The chronic issues at Sencha appear organizational. The management don't care about quality. These analysis are best left simple and IMO that is all there is to it - Sencha management don't care. If they say they do and try hard to convince you of that without demonstrating real change then we have only to consider the evidence before us to conclude that they must be incompetent. The only other explanation would be a hidden agenda. Competent management would recognize this situation, respond seriously, communicate their response, and there would be improvement.
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19 Jul 2013 6:18 AM #24
I don't believe they have a full blown application that they test with at least, which I think they should.
19 Jul 2013 6:28 AM #25
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The problem with fullblown applications, like also mine, is that it is full of patches since I started with version ExtJs 2.
Often these previous bugfixes cause problems as well with new releases. These full blown applications are full of history. I can imagine these examples are clean of that.
But the input of customers should avoid these problems. I still think that version 18.104.22.168+ was released too quickly. The 1.7th was then still in BETA.
19 Jul 2013 6:41 AM #26
Yeah, true.
We have many overrides too, although our latest app started like with Ext 4 developer preview 1.
Our old Ext 2 apps are staying on that!
To help with the issue of finding stuff that you have either overridden or copied from src and tweaked (since sometimes you just have to) I wrote a simple function to help:
/** * Function that logs a warning in the console if the lastCheckedVersion of a function * is less than the current Extx version. * Should be wrapped in <debug> tags. * @param {String|Number} lastCheckedVersion The version to check against the current Ext version. * @param {Function} func The function that we are being called from. */ Altus.warnIfExtVersionUpdated = function(lastCheckedVersion) { var currentExtVersion = Ext.getVersion('extjs'); if (!currentExtVersion.match(lastCheckedVersion)) { if (Altus.Logging) { Altus.Logging.warn(arguments.callee.caller, 'Method is an override that duplicates code in the framework, so needs checking.', 'Last checked version: ' + lastCheckedVersion, 'Current version: ' + currentExtVersion); } else { // Wait for Altus.Logging to be loaded... Ext.Function.defer(arguments.callee, 10, this, arguments); } } };
Then use it either at the start of the function where parts of the src have been copied, or in the callback from define, e.g.
Ext.define('Altus.overrides.button.Button', { override: 'Ext.button.Button', /** * Avoid using the horrendous button layout. * See here: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?243089 * @type {String} */ componentLayout: 'autocomponent' }, function() { // <debug> Altus.warnIfExtVersionUpdated('4.1.3'); // </debug> });
PS: Good to be back; not posted on the forums in months!
19 Jul 2013 10:57 AM #27
A full test app is useful. It is an integration test. It comes at the end of the process. I suspect there are fundamental absences at the beginning of the process.
A proper set of regression tests will test individual components from the bottom up. Ideally it produces some coverage information. Although that's tougher to gather in javascript. Good tests will cover all failure cases, all expected corner and edge cases, and will include coverage of every error and exception that can be raised by a module. A big framework like Ext of Touch would have thousands of individual tests.
When it gets to browser layouts and ui components, you add headless testing techniques.
When the tests are doing their job they become the place you go to reproduce bugs. The question being not "where in my code is the bug happening" but "how did my tests miss this". Duplicate the bug in a test. Then fix it. The test remains to ensure it stays fixed. It takes some discipline but it pays off big time in software quality dividends. There is no alternative and little middle ground. Where it is embraced quality is great and stays great. Where it is rejected, or ignored, quality enters a tail spin. There is a night and day difference.
Your QC staff - at the end of the process are making sure the pieces are hanging together as an integrated system. Making sure you are meeting your requirements. Making sure the quality that should be there is there and when it isn't getting down to the root causes to answer why not. They aren't crap rejectors trying to stop junk from hitting the world. That's not QC, that's baby sitting the developers. They aren't controlling quality at that point because there was no quality there to control to begin with. My guess is the most of what I described above is absent at Sencha. That there are QC roles filled somewhere in Sencha, but those individuals are no more than crap detectors who struggle as best they can to keep junk from escaping. But it's an impossible job and it won't produce quality software.
22 Jul 2013 8:19 AM #28
new version.....new bugs.....
I saw those problem related to toggle buttons and tooltip component..... but
what about infinite grid component.
In 4.1.3. it works without problem ( with a quick fix ).
In 4.2.1., o my god ...... full of bugs and also Sencha remove a lot of features (add row into a buffer store for examples).
About the removal of the features, let say it is ok....... but.... about the infinite scrolling bugs.
I don't understand how this bugs were left in the framework, I mean
: reload grid function, grid will not work if they are not data to retrive, scroll problem ( I broke their example application ) ..... I mean common.....
22 Jul 2013 10:14 AM #29
I'm in vehement agreement.
I didn't try the buffered store / infinite grid until 4.2.0 so I don't know if they worked before or not. If they did work in prior release then I take that as evidence that there is no automated testing. Automated testing of lower level libraries, e.g. basic io and a buffering algorithm, is fairly simple. New code shouldn't appear without test coverage and modifications shouldn't appear with out passing the existing tests. Fiddling around manually with example code is absolutely not a substitute.
If Sencha are trying to maintain their code without a great suite of automated tests then expect more problems. The evidence suggests that they work without that discipline.
I would have more sympathy if it were some subtle issue of layout or styling or similar in an odd flavour of some old browser that resists test automation. But I have pretty much zero sympathy for what I see here.
I'm doubly agitated because I have my own exhaustively tested layer of caching underneath all my Ext code and don't even need a buffered store! The grid scrolling would be enough, but by design they appear to have them tightly coupled... (poor design - a whole separate discussion!).
24 Jul 2013 4:29 AM #30
I fully agree on jptrainor on this one, i`ve been involved since 2.x and what scares me the most is the fact that I havent seen a test suite bundled together with the ExtJS or Touch framework whatsoever. For me thats a sign that test suites are absent all together.I`m from Holland!
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In my local repository see below, I have many versions of same packages downloaded and stored in deb package directory. As Ubuntu always prefer to use the highest version, I don't need the earlier versions downloaded and used. (All are in a same folder).
How can I delete the earlier versions of packages from my local deb's folder ? It is not a feasible solution to delete them manually. (You can't examine the versions in thousands of files)
Any ideas?!!
Maybe a script that checks the version of each package keeping the newer version and deletind older ones can solve this issue.
I am seeking for such script or if some software is founded would be great
I have made my local repository following this how to tutorial.
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I manage a wordpress installation that handles quite a bit of traffic. We use WP-Cache and WP Thread Comment and recently, the owner noticed there was 250 comments on 1 post, but only one comment was showing. Here is a screenshot: http://cl.ly/3rtk
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If the sequence $x_1,x_2,\dots$ is periodic, the unweighted averages $(\sum_{i=1}^n x_i)/n$ converge to the asymptotic average of the $x_n$'s with error $O(1/n)$, but the weighted averages $(\sum_{i=1}^n i(n+1-i)x_i)/(n(n+1)(n+2)/6))$ converge even more quickly, with error $O(1/n^2)$.
This fact is easy to prove (e.g. first prove it for $(x_n) = (\zeta^n)$ with $\zeta$ an arbitrary root of unity and then appeal to linearity), but it's something I stumbled upon on my own, and I don't really understand what's going on. Can anyone provide a context for this fact? My guess is that it must be well-known to people who study series-convergence (and acceleration thereof), and also well-known to Fourier analysts, though possibly in disguised form. (Speaking of disguises: This question is related to my earlier question A specific Dedekind-esque sum ; in my earlier post, the relevant sequence is almost-periodic rather than periodic, and the discrepancy goes down like $O((\log n)/n^2)$ rather than $O(1/n^2)$.)
I suspect that $O(1/n^2)$ is the end of the line, in the sense that no weighted average of $x_1,\dots,x_n$ with fixed coefficients will differ from the asymptotic average of the $x_n$'s by $O(1/n^c)$ for any $c>2$, and I might even try to give a proof using the geometry of numbers, but I suspect this is old stuff and would appreciate some pointers.
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I would like to draw an octahedral diagram in my paper; I would prefer to present it as the 'upper hat' + the 'lower hat' (as it is common in the texts on triangulated categories). Could anyone tell me where I can find this diagram (certainly, the 'upper hat part' is sufficient) written down in latex. Maybe, someone could just share with me his own latex realization of this diagram (so that I could replace the original names of objects and morphisms by the ones I need)?
Here's an upper cap in xy-pic
\xymatrix{ X'\ar[rd]^{[1]}\ar[dd]^{[1]} & & Z\ar[ll] \\ & Y\ar[ru]\ar[ld] & \\ Z'\ar[rr]^{[1]} & & X\ar[lu]\ar[uu] }
at least it's enough of one to get you started. Note that I didn't construct it by hand. I have a script for building these kinds of diagrams visually:
If it's useful to you, help yourself.
I think that this is an easy exercise in xy-pic. The exact diagram you want may not be in this user's guide, but the basics of xy-pic are easy enough that you should be able to create what you want.
The same example given in xy-pic done in Tikz: More examples and code are at http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/ and the manual http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base/doc/generic/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf
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I have been pretty casual about my blog for a while now, but I would love to get more subscribers and viewers. Any tips on building my audience? Please advise.
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Blog hops and week-long blog parties. I do both and I have greatly increased my readership. In my right-hand side bar I have about 40 or so blog hops that I participate in at one point or another...I also host a blog hop each Friday called Mommy Teaches. www.littlerandr.org. The trick is, though - when you link up your blog post you ought to visit at least 1 or 2 other linked up blogs and leave a comment. Twitter is also a great resource.
Can you please tell me what blog hops are? How do they work?
Absolutely! A blog hop is where a blogger's post allows other bloggers to link up a post from their blog. If you go to the bottom of my post here you'll see that several bloggers have linked up their post.
You'll see below their pictures bold blue font that says, "Click Here to Enter" - you click on that and it will walk you through.
Some blog hops are for specific types of posts: recipes, DIY projects, photos, homeschooling, spiritual themes...some are general (like mine) and allow for any topic. Be sure to read their instructions before posting. For example, I allow a blogger to link up as many posts at they want on an G-rated topic - but no giveaways. Some bloggers are very strict and will actually delete posts that do not comply. I'm more lenient and will let it slide - as long as one blogger doesn't do it consistently.
I hope this helps. :) My blog hop is still going on until Thursday - link up with me! :) If you need more help, let me know. Also, my right sidebar has links to all the blog hops I participate in. So, be sure to click on some of them this week, too.
Thanks so much for this reply! I would love more help and will ping you directly for it. I am pretty much having the same issue: I dont know how to move beyond my immediate circle of people i know for more readership.
Looking forward to chatting with you about blog stuff :)
That's the same problem I was having. When I started blog hopping I began to "meet" some really wonderful people...we are all each other's faithful readers now. :) It really does work.
Just linked up to your blog hop. Yaay! My first ever. Thanks so much.
Awesome!!! I can't wait to read your post and visit your blog. :) Did you see the blog hop buttons on my right side bar? There are hops from Monday through Friday. :) Eat your heart out! haha! It is a lot of fun. I look forward to blog hopping every week.
I am following you now. <3
i would love more readers as well. lets network together!
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I've been playing Guitar Hero 4 Warriors of Rock on XBox 360 for a bit of time now, and have recently upgraded to Guitar Hero 5. Although I am kinda happy with the game overall, there are a couple of handy features from GH4 that appear to be missing, or maybe I just haven't found how to activate them yet (I've been browsing the options a couple of times, but it didn't help).
The features I'm missing most are :
being able to restart a song immediately after it ended by pressing the yellow button
getting the song selection cursor to stay in position after a song ends, instead of winding back to the beginning of the song list
alternating between the score and difficulty tabs in the song selection screen
jumping through the song selection screen using the yellow button (besides, screen-by-screen navigation using yellow+up/down is a pain to use with the drums since it means I have to reach for the D-pad, which is quite uncomfortable to do while holding the sticks)
Is there any way to activate any of these features in guitar hero 5 ?
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I admit it - I am a sucker for the Olympic games. It doesn't matter if it's winter or summer. I will spend hours watching sports I'd never watch at any other time in the four years between their moments in the sun. I mean, really, when else do you get to watch the cross country skiing and shooting spectacle that is biathlon?
It could be argued that, with so many more international competitions these days, the Olympics have lost their value. You might wonder how there is any sense of national identity when so many athletes train in the U.S. or other countries outside their own. But as I watched the competition unfold, I felt a sense the Olympic spirit was alive and well and that athletes really do continue to hold the Olympics on a different level. During the opening ceremonies, you heard former Olympians describe how the experience made them feel that were competing for something larger than themselves and their sport. Sure, they said, there are other world championships, but the Olympics truly made them feel they were representing their country.
As for the Olympic spirit, you could see it when the silver and bronze medalists in one event lifted the gold medal winner atop their shoulders for a victory march before the crowd. Norweigian cross country skiers embraced and dedicated their medals to a teammates' brother, who died suddenly. Competitors in the women's slope style rushed to embrace an opponent who suffered a frightening crash yet still insisted on continuing to the bottom of the hill under her own power. Team figure skating gave us a new level of interaction among the athletes in arguably one of the games' most popular competitions. And you need only see the tears in the athletes' eyes as their nation's anthem plays and their flag is raised to know that the gold medal is truly special.
I love the Olympics for an opportunity to see the world come together in a way that happens only once every two years (summer/winter). In this era when technology and modern transportation can make the world can seem so small, it's nice to see it translated with a human touch.


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2 Apr 2012 8:42 PM #1
[RC1] Grid group headers with sub-column flex
Should a group header in a grid header setup span the width of the component when the sub-columns are config'd with flex 1?
I'm seeing each sub column at 39 px in IE and Chrome.
Ext.widget('viewport', { layout: 'fit' , items: [{ xtype: 'gridpanel' , title: 'Title' , columns: [{ text: 'Header' , columns: [{ text: 'Name' , dataIndex: 'name' , flex: 1 }, { text: 'Name' , dataIndex: 'name' , flex: 1 }] }] , store: { fields: ['name'] , data: [{ name: 'Bob' }, { name: 'Carl' }, { name: 'Bob' }] } }] });
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3 Apr 2012 1:57 PM #3
I believe that 4.07 sub column did not support flex.
It defaults to width provided by Extjs (200px) as show in your pic.
If you take your code and remove the flex in 4.1 you will get the same result.
When using flex, you outer container needs to have a width for flex to behave properly.
3 Apr 2012 2:20 PM #4
[RC2] Update with RC2 + screenshot
I that case it sounds like it's not possible to have a header flex to the width of the grid if it has a grouped header since the grouping header gets its width from the sum of the child widths. Is that correct?
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3 Apr 2012 6:35 PM #6
Gotcha. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't something I was doing/not doing in the config somewhere.
13 Mar 2013 10:50 AM #7
It would be really nice if ExtJS supported flex widths when using grouped headers. In big apps it's very common to use grouped headers. And when you have grouped headers that usually means you have many columns... which makes usage of flex even more important.
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How are you expecting this to work? What is problematic is that you need to be able to set widths at the lowest level (leaves). Would the flex be configured on the outermost or innermost coumns?Evan Trimboli
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13 Mar 2013 3:46 PM #9
That's a good question. I see one clear use case:
I would set flex on both the group level and the child column level. The top level flex would define the first "container". Within each "group container" the children would be flex'd inside the context of their container. Example:
Current grid width = 400px Group a: flex 3 Child a1: flex 1 Child a2: flex 1 Child a3: flex 2 Group b: flex 1 Child b1: flex 1 Child b2: flex 2 Child b3: flex 1
Within Group a, the children would be restricted to 300px total. This means Child a1 would be 75px, a2 75px and a3 150px. That totals 300px, the total width Group a can be because it has a flex of 3 and the grid's current width is 400px.
This means Group b would have 100px to work with. Child b1 would be 25px wide, Child b2 at 50px and Child b3 gets the last 25px. This totals 100px.
So the key is that each column level is calculated from the top down. Each column and/or group lives within the context of it's optional parent. Flex applies only to the most immediate parent, be that a group or the grid container itself.
Hopefully this assists your dev plans. Thanks for the reply.
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I think mcouillard's suggestion for nested flex layouts sounds logical and extremely helpful. Does Sencha have a way of voting up feature requests?


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Hypocrisy. There's no other word for it. Yes, there is. Fiendishly brilliant planning, straight out of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals." Make the "conversation" about your opponent and deflect attention from your own inadequacies.
The president's campaign has the nerve to demand 12 years of tax returns from Mitt Romney, when other candidates, including Romney, made public the customary number of years. What about the president's records? Occidental College Records - sealed. Columbia College records - sealed. Columbia thesis paper - sealed. Harvard College records - sealed. Selective Service registration - sealed. Medical records - sealed. Illinois State Senate schedule - sealed. Illinois State Senate records - sealed. Law practice client list - sealed. Certified copy of original birth certificate - sealed. Signed embossed certification of live birth - sealed. Social Security card - from a state (Connecticut) he never lived in. The president's people have spent millions sealing those records. Could they be hiding something? How can the mainstream press be so uninterested in the president's background? What does it say about the press and, more important, about the political class of this nation, and what does this mean for us? Doesn't anyone care? Just who is this guy anyway?
The election is about whether the American people re-elect the president or not. We need to focus on his record. For one example, from a myriad of problems, he is causing, how do you like his war on coal? This is what he said on Jan. 17, 2008: "If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can, it's just that it will bankrupt them ... under my plan of cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."
It's scary what he could do without having to worry about another election, considering what he's done so far. Romney's tax returns are a sideshow. Don't be gullible and take the bait, on this and future distractions. They're counting on us being distracted or just plain stupid.
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COURSE TITLE: Intermediate Band M
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
SUGGESTED PREPARATION: Beginning Band M
Major Concepts/Content: The intermediate band course is designed to acquaint students with intermediate to advanced instrumental music skills which include, but will not be limited to, the following content: intermediate to advanced level sight-reading skills; discrimination of pitch; absolute essentials for playing in tune; intermediate to advanced rhythm concepts and patterns; techniques for achieving the essentials of unity, balance, and contrast in performing instrumental music; the study of all major and minor scales; the opportunity of performing a variety of good musical repertoire; and listening skills development.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities will include, but not limit in scope, the following processes: demonstrating melodic and rhythmic sight-reading patterns; playing, at sight and independently, musical passages in low, middle, and upper registers; demonstrating knowledge in the use and care of the instrument; demonstrating playing in tune; performing duple and triple meter music, emphasizing measure unit with accent; following critical markings of musical scores: performing independently all major and minor scales; and responding correctly to melodic and rhythmic aural dictation exercises.
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I get it. I say Windows Phone, you laugh. I say Microsoft loves web standards, you look at me with that "You're bad and you should feel bad" look. Trust me, I've seen it all. Well, in this event, we will change the way you look and think about Microsoft, Windows Phone and building web standards-based mobile experiences that look awesome on Windows Phone. But first, you need to know what the Windows Phone platform has to offer. That's where this session comes in. Get ready for a whirlwind tour of Windows Phone.
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Looking forward to what the Windows Phone Team are going to tell us at Build, next week. They have been very quiet of late, and got the impression that Microsoft team were giving up on the platform for Indie Developers, after 'depreciating' XNA. Which kinda explains why the WP8 Apps Marketplace has become stalled of late.
We are seeing what they announce at Build, before we decide to renew our developer subscription this time around. We seeing better results on unified Android for Phones and Tablets, using Mono game.
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when the sound barrier is broken, a series of concentric waves of sound is produced.Does it mean when the speed of light barrier is broken, a ripple of photons are created in the space-time fabric?
The light barrier cannot be broken in vacuum as you should know by now. c is the velocity of light in vacuum.
But, within a medium light can have a lower phase velocity in the medium, depending on the index of refraction of the medium. There the barrier phenomenon can appear and it is called Cherenkov radiation.
This phenomenon has practical applications as in particle detectors etc.
Speed of light in the vacuum cannot be exceeded by matter, so the barrier cannot be broken.
Speed of light in medium, however, may be surpassed by a charged particle also moving in that medium, resulting in Cherenkov radiation. But it is hardly something as "ripple in the space-time fabric".
For particles to go faster than the speed of light requires that Lorentz invariance must be broken. It is possible to formulate theories that violate Lorentz invariance, and such theories do indeed predict that particles going faster than the speed of light will emit radiation and lose energy as a result. This effect was invoked by Andrew Cohen and Sheldon Glashow in this article to show that the results of the OPERA experiments that appeared to show that neutrinos had been observed travelling faster than light, could not be correct. The energy distribution of the neutrino beam at the detection point would have had to be affected by this energy loss but this was not observed.


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A 34-year-old Gray resident broke into his estranged wife's St. Tammany Parish home Monday and threatened to hurt her, the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office said.
Donny Paul Henry Jr., of 213 North Terrebonne Drive, forced his way into his wife's house in a suicidal state, Sheriff's Office Maj. Malcolm Wolfe said. He allegedly warned her he would harm her and left.
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OpenOffice.org will open .docx and export to PDF. It runs on Linux and Windows.
If you are using MS Office 2007 to create the DOCX files that you wish to convert to PDFs, then I would definitely recommend using the native conversion feature. If you cannot already Save As PDF, then download the plug-in from Microsoft here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4d951911-3e7e-4ae6-b059-a2e79ed87041&displaylang=en
If you are looking to do this in Linux, or to perform the conversion in the same manner on both Windows and Linux, OpenOffice.org is a great program for this. It is a full-featured office suite that has included the Export to PDF feature for quite some time: notspam-http://www.openoffice.org/
If you are looking to do this as a batch, it looks like you're in the realm of commercial software specifically for this purpose. One list to look at: notspam-http://www.fileguru.com/downloads/docx_to_pdf
Check this one http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2333459/convert-a-docx-document-to-pdf-as-a-service
Not sure if you are looking for a programmatic approach, but if you are then you may want to have a look at this PDF Conversion Web Service that can be used from any Web Services capable environment including Java and .NET. It supports watermarking as well.
Note that I worked on this project so the usual disclaimers apply.
Try one of those:
You can use http://www.bullzip.com/ PDFPrinter to print the docx file from MS Word to a PDF File.
You can use openoffice 3 (on Windows and Linux) or Microsoft office 2007 (Windows) or later. Openoffice also comes up with pyuno bridge which helps you to automate the conversion.
Are you looking for a quick tool or automated process to do it for you? Or are you actually looking for some code to achieve it?
If you are looking for a tool, then this google search is quite enlightening. If you are looking for code then you are going to have to be more detailed - don't just ask for the code because this is not rent-a-coder.


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I got this TV about 2 weeks ago for $380 at Best Buy on clearance, the edge lighting is obvious at high brightness but at low/normal brightness its not noticeable. Sound is adequate and the slimness of it is pretty impressive for the price.
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Im currently tasked with finding a way to deploy wfs services to a number of clients. The services could be consumed by both desktop GIS software eg. MapInfo/ArcGis or by WebGis solutions.
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Ok, I am stumped by this question:
In the system in the diagram below, block M (15.7 kg) is initially moving to the left. A force F , with magnitude 60.5 N, acts on it directed at an angle of 35.0 degrees above the horizontal as shown. The mass m is 8.2 kg. There is no friction and the pulley and string are massless.
- What is the normal force (N) on M ?
- What is the tension (N) in the string?
- What is the acceleration (m/s2) of M (positive is to the right)?
I tried and got the following:
Got the X component of the force F: F * Cos (35) = 49.55869868 N
Got the Y component of the force F: F * Sin (35) = 34.7013744 N
Got the force of m on M: 8.2 * 9.8 = 80.36 N (which is what I assumed the tension on the string was)
I got the acceleration of M caused by m = -5.118471338
Then I got the acceleration of M cause by F = 3.156605011
Putting it all together I got the following answers:
- -1.96 m/s^2
I (obviously) got all three wrong. The correct answers are:
- -1.29 m/s^2
So, I'm stuck. There is something missing that is causing my string tension to be off. If I would have gotten the right string tension, all the other answers would have been correct. I know that is where the problem is, so if someone could point out my mistake, that would be wonderful!


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I was wondering how I can retrieve places near a given location?
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- How could I "visualize" what happens to such a vector?
- Is it related somehow to the characteristic polynomial? What is the meaning of the characteristic polynomial, beside giving us the eigenvalues at the intersections with the $x$-axis?


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"During my first two years in Congress we have maintained a solid Kansas presence," Congressman Huelskamp told the audience. "I held town halls in each of the Big First's 69 counties in 2011 and again in 2012 -- 140 town halls in total. Staff have held satellite office hours in every county as well. We hosted telephone town halls nearly every month, and most importantly, I have come back to Kansas every weekend. I tell you this to say that our priorities in Washington are set by the thousands of Kansans who have given their views to my staff and me. The addition of this satellite office will continue this tradition."
Congressman Huelskamp continued: "Our staff currently serving Salina will travel to Riley and Pottawatomie Counties several days a week to provide in-person constituent services at an office here in town. Of course technology allows us the ability to do much of it without being face-to-face, but nonetheless it is important for this thriving region to have regular access to our team."
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Betty Ann Robinson, Kingman, Ariz., passed away after a very short illness on September 27, 2012.
Betty was born June 5, 1935 in Springdale, Kan., daughter of Elsie (Schwinn) Farrell and Eugene Farrell, one of five children.
She married Ralph R. Robinson in 1951 and moved to California in 1957.
She worked for the Glendale School District in California for 30 years. Betty & Ralph retired to Henderson, Nev., in 1995.
She had lived in Kingman, Ariz., for the past 5 years.
Betty leaves behind her son, Richard (Terri) Robinson of California and her daughter, Beverly (Jim) Tatman of Kingman.
She also leaves her beloved grandchildren, James C. (Raquel) Tatman, Eric (Kimberly) Tatman of California, Wesley (Kim) Robinson of Colorado, Bonnie (Bill) Stewart of California and Brad Tatman of Kingman; and her five great-grandchildren, Megan, Lily, Noah, Camille and Penelope.
She also leaves two sisters, Donna Hunter of Kingman, Bonnie (Moore) Poirier & Husband Bill Poirier of Leavenworth, Kan. Many nieces and nephews will also miss her so very much.
Betty was preceded in death by her husband Ralph Robinson Jr.; parents Eugene & Elsie; brother Charles Farrell and sister Jean Marie Bogle.
Betty was a wonderful mom, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend to so many who will never forget her beautiful smile and the love she had for her family.
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It's been eight weeks since Rico, a tri-colored Chihuahua arrived at the Green River Correctional Complex for the Death Row Dogs training program. Now his handlers are preparing to give him up.
John Smithers says: "It's going to be difficult. That's one thing you have to try to prepare yourself for. You can't fully prepare for it. But you have to try. And as long as you understand he goes to a good family, then that helps a lot."
Meanwhile, 60 miles away, George and Diane Sutton are waiting to adopt Rico. The retired couple lost their beloved dog Woo Woo in January.
Diane says: "We had her since she was three and we had her nine years."
George says: "We were not ready to adopt another dog. But only a couple weeks later we decided we just couldn't. We needed a dog."
That's when the couple's daughter e-mailed them a picture of Rico. Diane and George next talked with the director of the humane society about Rico. She urged them to go visit him. They did and now they are anxiously awaiting his arrival.
Diane says: "George brought me a book home from the library on owning a Chihuahua and I wrote down all the stuff."
George says: "When he gets out on parole, we'll be happy to have him."
Back in the prison John is reflecting on how much the Death Row Dogs program has taught him.
John says: "Caring a lot more. Before, kinda you learn not to care about anything. It's like you teach yourself not to care. And once you see these little guys you just can't help it. Your heart melts for them."
John says even though he's in prison he's gained a great since of accomplishment by training Rico.
John says: "There's not much I've done good in my life. And now I see what it's like to make a change and do something good and it feels great."
The Death Row Dogs graduation is March 16 at the Green River Correctional Complex. There are still some dogs looking for homes.
If you are interested in adopting one of the Death Row Dogs call the Muhlenberg County Humane Society at (270)338-6940.


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I'm having a question rounding my mind. It's better to create one table and store a lot of rows there or create various tables and have a few rows on them? What's the performance and the I/O saved at physical level? How many space will use many tables instead of one table? I'm thinking in how Wordpress handling the multiblog feature because I'm starting a new project and I'm looking for the best approach.
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Assuming that you are talking about tables containing the same kinds of entities, you typically want to have one table.
You would not have any performance differences and a whole lot of management differences between the two approaches, with the single table being easier to manage. Typically large tables do not have performance overheads compared to smaller versions of the same when properly indexed, since the index seek time grows slowly compared to the row growth.
In a normalized design, you will have different tables for different entities or relations, but as far as partitioning (either supported with a DBMS feature or manually with separate tables), that usually is necessary when you have certain requirements, like granularity of backup or data loading/unloading on a partition basis.
It's not clear why these two setups would be equivalent. Normally, you would store all data for one kind of entity in one table. Perhaps the "one table" is storing some type of entity and there's a field that indicates a form of variance for that entity (such as "colour" for a table that stores information on vehicles). You could create views that look like the "many tables storing few rows" that are backed by the "one table with many rows". I'm not 100% sure I understand your problem, but if I do, I think this is the normal approach to solving it.
I think the concept you mentioned: multiple tables with fewer rows and few tables with multiple rows are mapping to the trade off between normalize and de-normailize. there is no certain things like which is better, it purely depends on application scenarios.
for applications like you mentioned wordpress, there won't be that much data, so the balance between normalize and de-normalize for me I will tend to de-normalize the schema design.
WordPress has the drawback that it creates a dozen or so tables for each "user". This bloats the one database (directory) it uses. A hundred users is no problem; a thousand is risking OS sluggishness because of the number of files in a directory.